Stupid phone won't or too slow to access, have to wait to get home.
Bet it contains Pog Mo Thoin though
Surprisingly no it doesn't! It's brilliant though!
Gaelic in its pseudo political guise has been the kiss of death to soccer and other sports in the Republic which are laughingly referred to as "Foreign Games". Sounds like something from Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, FFS. If the Gaelic establishment really want to help sport in Ireland and lift the profile of the country internationally they should renounce the special favoured position they enjoy(eg. being the ONLY team sport offered in certain RC schools)and concentrate on the worthwhile business of preserving Irish Culture including those cultural characteristics which have prompted others to view us as a tolerant, fairminded people rather than political extremists and bigots.
Reiver I'll take it you didn't understand what they were saying? I find it funny cause had a teacher back when I started in school that wouldn't let you go to the jacks without repeating that perfectly! Many a kid pished themselves in that classroom
I was laughing more at Reiver's pile of Shiite than the clip
IGOR:
Didnt think you were capable of watching, reading and laughing all at the same time Igor. My things are improving!
Have to agree with Reiver there! It was and still is wrong the way young kids are forced to play GAA in certain schools! Is it still.the case that "Soccer" still isnt played in primary schools in this country!
Soccer
Where did put my Hur
Or "Saccer" as my bog trotting Gaa loving teachers used to call it! Shower of prricks they were! All i wanted to do was kick my Texaco Spain 82 football around pretending i was Liam Brady and they wanted me to pretend i was Jimmy Barry Murphy!
I've a feeling we're close in age!
I'm 39 years young Igor! Think its too late to be called up by Trapps! Still as long as he's picking the likes of Mc Shane and Green who knows!
I could done a job
Kicked a few of their overpaid backsides up and down the touch line .
46 but no sweat
The good thing about being "old" Igor is we can remember things like the old Engljsh First Division and of course Euro 88 and Italia 90!
I'm only 17 but my younger sister is still in primary school and our National School only offers hurling and gaelic football to the youngsters. Even in my secondary school, football is played but in my opinion is discriminated against. They do end of year awars for every team in every sport(GAA, hurling, rugby, athletics, even badminton!) but no awards are handed out for football. The vice principal strongly dislikes the sport, and the fact that all the messers in school are the best players doesn't help....
Ha ha Great wall thats the thing the best Footballers are always the biggest messers! If the Fai were any good they would do more to promote the games in schooks. Its still primarily an urban sport.
Soccer/football was called "Peil Luther" (Lutheran football) in my school.
COLEMAN:
With all this institutionalised support of GAA, what chance has soccer and the other international sports of doing well? Now, Ive nothing against Gaelic football and I freely acknowledge its place in the Irish cultural heritage. However, its never going to catch on internationally. Its too much "hands,knees and bumps a daisy" for the average bloke. If it were going to catch on it would have already done so by now. Hurling, I feel is in a similar situation, but has the added disadvantage of being potentially quite dangerous, especially from a parent's point of view. This means that as regards competing on the international stage and bringing glory to the country you're looking at endless matches against the NYPD and modified Aussie rules teams. The World doesnt give a toss about these matches = no glory for Ireland if they win! This institutionalised funneling of the majority of Irish youth into sports which have basically no international relevance or following, means that the chances of Irish sportsmen bringing international glory to Ireland are greatly diminished.
In the circumstances, considering the odds cynically stacked against them by the church and state, it has to be said that some Irish sports people have managed to do remarkably well and bring glory to the country by proving they are World champions,especially in boxing(eg.McGuigan, McAuley, McCullough, Monaghan, Caldwell; Carruth); Snooker(Higgins,Taylor); Athletics(Sonia O'Sullivan, Coughlan); Motorsport(Adam Carrol, Ralph Bryans, Joey Dunlop, Eddie Irvine); golf(McIlroy, Daly, Clarke, McDowell, Harrington); Soccer(Best, Brady, Blanchflower, Keane).
How many more sports people could we have added to this illustrious list if it hadnt been for the millions cynically siphoned off into the "Deadend Street" of Gaelic games which is as much of a pseudo political organisation as it is a sports body? Those Protestants like Sam Maguire who first set up the GAA really have a lot to answer for! As a nominal "Prod" myself, I hang my head in shame!
If you're a Prod, does that make me a
The G.A.A. , a self delusional, xenophobic, selfish organisation, happily wallowing in all that, plus a stultifying insecurity, a toxic cocktail that is as unpalatable as it is is predictable when it rears it's ugly head.Speaking of cocktails, ta se de h-aoine agus nil aon gloine no deoch agamsa, agus mar sin taim amuigh, oiche shona dibh go leir.
That sounds a pretty potent cocktail there MILLTOWN!
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posted on 21/6/12
Excellent!
posted on 21/6/12
Stupid phone won't or too slow to access, have to wait to get home.
Bet it contains Pog Mo Thoin though
posted on 21/6/12
Surprisingly no it doesn't! It's brilliant though!
posted on 21/6/12
Gaelic in its pseudo political guise has been the kiss of death to soccer and other sports in the Republic which are laughingly referred to as "Foreign Games". Sounds like something from Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, FFS. If the Gaelic establishment really want to help sport in Ireland and lift the profile of the country internationally they should renounce the special favoured position they enjoy(eg. being the ONLY team sport offered in certain RC schools)and concentrate on the worthwhile business of preserving Irish Culture including those cultural characteristics which have prompted others to view us as a tolerant, fairminded people rather than political extremists and bigots.
posted on 21/6/12
with ter.
posted on 21/6/12
Reiver I'll take it you didn't understand what they were saying? I find it funny cause had a teacher back when I started in school that wouldn't let you go to the jacks without repeating that perfectly! Many a kid pished themselves in that classroom
posted on 21/6/12
I was laughing more at Reiver's pile of Shiite than the clip
posted on 21/6/12
IGOR:
Didnt think you were capable of watching, reading and laughing all at the same time Igor. My things are improving!
posted on 21/6/12
Have to agree with Reiver there! It was and still is wrong the way young kids are forced to play GAA in certain schools! Is it still.the case that "Soccer" still isnt played in primary schools in this country!
posted on 21/6/12
Soccer
Where did put my Hur
posted on 22/6/12
l
posted on 22/6/12
Or "Saccer" as my bog trotting Gaa loving teachers used to call it! Shower of prricks they were! All i wanted to do was kick my Texaco Spain 82 football around pretending i was Liam Brady and they wanted me to pretend i was Jimmy Barry Murphy!
posted on 22/6/12
I've a feeling we're close in age!
posted on 22/6/12
I'm 39 years young Igor! Think its too late to be called up by Trapps! Still as long as he's picking the likes of Mc Shane and Green who knows!
posted on 22/6/12
I could done a job
Kicked a few of their overpaid backsides up and down the touch line .
46 but no sweat
posted on 22/6/12
The good thing about being "old" Igor is we can remember things like the old Engljsh First Division and of course Euro 88 and Italia 90!
posted on 22/6/12
I'm only 17 but my younger sister is still in primary school and our National School only offers hurling and gaelic football to the youngsters. Even in my secondary school, football is played but in my opinion is discriminated against. They do end of year awars for every team in every sport(GAA, hurling, rugby, athletics, even badminton!) but no awards are handed out for football. The vice principal strongly dislikes the sport, and the fact that all the messers in school are the best players doesn't help....
posted on 22/6/12
"end of year awards"
posted on 22/6/12
Stand in the corner boy
posted on 22/6/12
Ha ha Great wall thats the thing the best Footballers are always the biggest messers! If the Fai were any good they would do more to promote the games in schooks. Its still primarily an urban sport.
posted on 22/6/12
Soccer/football was called "Peil Luther" (Lutheran football) in my school.
posted on 22/6/12
COLEMAN:
With all this institutionalised support of GAA, what chance has soccer and the other international sports of doing well? Now, Ive nothing against Gaelic football and I freely acknowledge its place in the Irish cultural heritage. However, its never going to catch on internationally. Its too much "hands,knees and bumps a daisy" for the average bloke. If it were going to catch on it would have already done so by now. Hurling, I feel is in a similar situation, but has the added disadvantage of being potentially quite dangerous, especially from a parent's point of view. This means that as regards competing on the international stage and bringing glory to the country you're looking at endless matches against the NYPD and modified Aussie rules teams. The World doesnt give a toss about these matches = no glory for Ireland if they win! This institutionalised funneling of the majority of Irish youth into sports which have basically no international relevance or following, means that the chances of Irish sportsmen bringing international glory to Ireland are greatly diminished.
In the circumstances, considering the odds cynically stacked against them by the church and state, it has to be said that some Irish sports people have managed to do remarkably well and bring glory to the country by proving they are World champions,especially in boxing(eg.McGuigan, McAuley, McCullough, Monaghan, Caldwell; Carruth); Snooker(Higgins,Taylor); Athletics(Sonia O'Sullivan, Coughlan); Motorsport(Adam Carrol, Ralph Bryans, Joey Dunlop, Eddie Irvine); golf(McIlroy, Daly, Clarke, McDowell, Harrington); Soccer(Best, Brady, Blanchflower, Keane).
How many more sports people could we have added to this illustrious list if it hadnt been for the millions cynically siphoned off into the "Deadend Street" of Gaelic games which is as much of a pseudo political organisation as it is a sports body? Those Protestants like Sam Maguire who first set up the GAA really have a lot to answer for! As a nominal "Prod" myself, I hang my head in shame!
posted on 22/6/12
If you're a Prod, does that make me a
posted on 22/6/12
The G.A.A. , a self delusional, xenophobic, selfish organisation, happily wallowing in all that, plus a stultifying insecurity, a toxic cocktail that is as unpalatable as it is is predictable when it rears it's ugly head.Speaking of cocktails, ta se de h-aoine agus nil aon gloine no deoch agamsa, agus mar sin taim amuigh, oiche shona dibh go leir.
posted on 23/6/12
That sounds a pretty potent cocktail there MILLTOWN!
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