Gaa brawls

[stan ogden]

The GAA has more than its fair share of coverage. Saying that if newstalk can cover rugby, football, golf, athletics, and the rest of it they’ll do it as these sports have more sizzle and at least the participants can string a sentence together. Who outside of boggers wants to hear a constant stream of ‘look it’s and shurs’ on the public airwaves. Davey Fitzgerald a case in point.

Patrick Kavanagh put it beautifully as the ‘thick tongued mumble’.

 

[BettyDoesMallow]

There was a discussion on newstalk earlier about GAA brawls,
The video of the brawl in Laois at the weekend has gone viral,
The presenter said if similar scenes happened on the street it woud
be deemed assault and gardai would be involved, The presenter also
mentioned the fact the club hardman is held up as some sort of legend,
Only stronger suspensions can help to put an end to this carry on,

I never understand this rhetoric when referring to violence in the sporting arena.
If someone is running down the street, it would be assault to wrap your arms around them and knock them to the floor, but it's Ok in rugby.
It's OK in baseball to aim to throw something at 90mph, a foot from someone's torso but hit the person instead (player gets to 1st base mind) or to smash into the catcher when running for home plate but both are illegal on the street.
Or run at full speed and hit someone square in the shoulder, flattening them to the ground, etc.

 

[stan ogden]

Stony Grey Soil

Patrick Kavanagh

O stony grey soil of Monaghan
The laugh from my love you thieved;
You took the gay child of my passion
And gave me your clod-conceived.

You clogged the feet of my boyhood
And I believed that my stumble
Had the poise and stride of Apollo
And his voice my thick tongued mumble.

You told me the plough was immortal!
O green-life conquering plough!
The mandril stained, your coulter blunted
In the smooth lea-field of my brow.

You sang on steaming dunghills
A song of cowards' brood,
You perfumed my clothes with weasel itch,
You fed me on swinish food

You flung a ditch on my vision
Of beauty, love and truth.
O stony grey soil of Monaghan
You burgled my bank of youth!

Lost the long hours of pleasure
All the women that love young men.
O can I stilll stroke the monster's back
Or write with unpoisoned pen.

His name in these lonely verses
Or mention the dark fields where
The first gay flight of my lyric
Got caught in a peasant's prayer.

Mullahinsa, Drummeril, Black Shanco-
Wherever I turn I see
In the stony grey soil of Monaghan
Dead loves that were born for me.

 

[bluesball]

Totally agree Podsy the IRFU and i admire them for doing it are way ahead of the GAA when it comes to the Media.

 

[bluesball]

DidD i say it didnt cover gaa.?

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

Totally agree Podsy the IRFU and i admire them for doing it are way ahead of the GAA when it comes to the Media.

?
Always have been.

 

[bluesball]

What went on in Laois is more like last call in Coughlans on a Saturday night.

 

[Pontipine]

There was a discussion on newstalk earlier about GAA brawls,
The video of the brawl in Laois at the weekend has gone viral,
The presenter said if similar scenes happened on the street it woud
be deemed assault and gardai would be involved, The presenter also
mentioned the fact the club hardman is held up as some sort of legend,
Only stronger suspensions can help to put an end to this carry on,

The gardai probably were involved...?

 

[jimmym]

the gardai probably were involved...?

lol

 

[jimmym]

And a priest ;-)

Fr Iggy Clarke?