HandballRef (Donegal) - Posts: 520 - 09/06/2016 14:34:40    1864270

I would hope to think people from Connacht would support an Ulster team quicker than the Munster and Leinster crowd. Ulster and Connaught have a bit of an affiliation in that we've won the least. I would always support a Connacht team over Kerry, Dublin etc Plus I like to go to Sligo, Doolin and Westport on my holidays...

cacsmckilly (Tyrone) - Posts: 1294 - 09/06/2016 14:41:03    1864275

TheRightStuff (Donegal) - Posts: 1688 - 09/06/2016 14:45:43    1864279

As a Cavan man living in Dublin I find myself shouting for anyone bar Monaghan, Meath and Dublin.

If we don't win ulster, I want Donegal to win it, and would probably call them my 2nd team in Ulster - few relations going back a couple of generations.

I'd probably base my like/dislike for a team on past experiences with their fans. Never had a bad run-in with a Monaghan fan - it's just the local rivalry that gets in the way there!

cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5012 - 09/06/2016 14:46:16    1864280

I think there is a situation whereby we don't like success in others so when teams start doing well we shout against them (apart from our own obviously). traditionally, I always supported the ulster champions when they got to the semis or all-ireland final and I think I still do. It is different now though as sometimes you have more than one representitive from a particular province playing in the knockout stages so it's not as simple as it used to be. I was delighted to see :armagh,Tyrone,derry,Down and Donegal winning their All-irelands and believe it or not I would also cheer for Monaghan if they ever got that far. I must admit that I got really cheesed off with the style of play Donegal perfected recently , especially in the early days. It was painful to watch. Likewise my own county played dire football for a few years (thankfully we seem to have come out of that phase). I do like to watch great teams play though and I love the current Dublin team . I would go to see them just for the enjoyment. I also must admit that I didn't particularly like Meath during the Boylan era . so as a "fee-stater" from "ulster" I would cheer for all ulster teams.

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 09/06/2016 14:55:13    1864283

Once Dubs and Limerick are out, i dont care who wins
except Meath.........

Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 09/06/2016 15:17:21    1864297

cuederocket (Dublin) - Posts: 5084 - 09/06/2016 15:24:47    1864303

I will cheer on the underdog everytime except when it comes to Tyrone.
Can't stand those Strabane boys........

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 09/06/2016 15:50:16    1864318

paddyogall (Mayo) - Posts: 5110 - 09/06/2016 15:53:18    1864322

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4624 - 09/06/2016 16:07:41    1864333

Good to see that most people have no regimented
bias. Some Northern Gaels are paranoid that 26
county people instinctively hate Northern teams.

I love Ireland and I like the GAA because it gives
you the chance/ reason to travel around the
country etc. Like Derry is in the North but it
Is a place I never would have visited but for
the GAA.

I do not recognise any artificial line on a map
imposed against the wishes of the overwhelming
majority of the Irish people.

REDANDBLACK30 (Down) - Posts: 1617 - 09/06/2016 16:23:20    1864339

From a Donegal perspective, I've always shouted for Ulster teams. It has always meant more to see neighbours Derry and Tyrone do well, Fermanagh too. Seeing Tyrone lift Sam 3 times was magical initially but I have felt that in the years since that, where Donegal have had successes, that the goodwill extended to Tyrone by many Donegal people in the 00's wasnt reciprocated! The lack of respect in 2013 in Omagh during the league game was shocking and it has turned off me shouting for Tyrone when they've been in All-Ireland Semi Finals or latter stages of championship. I think when we became the 'noisy neighbours' who woke up and started winning titles, then it wasn't well received. That said, I realise that many Tyrone people also wished Donegal well but I'm just talking about my experiences of the thing. Sligo's run in 2002 was memorable as they're also a neighbouring county.

Donegal_abroad (Donegal) - Posts: 1321 - 09/06/2016 16:31:34    1864342

REDANDBLACK30 (Down) - Posts: 1617 - 09/06/2016 16:31:35    1864343

Generally I like to see the six county sides do well - as others have already mentioned on this thread it's an underdog thing and when you have 50% of a community actively hostile to the sport it makes any success all the more laudable. That's my view anyway. I wouldn't be screaming for any of them as a neutral watching the latter stages, doesn't go that far but in most cases I'd want them to win through.

Having said all that, putting my Wexford hat on I want Donegal to turn Fermanagh over as I feel we'd have no chance against Donegal in a qualifier. No disrespect to Fermanagh in saying that, I'm sure Wexford away wouldn't exactly have the Fermanagh players and supporters quaking in their boots either but I do feel it's a winnable game (as Down was last year)

MedwayIrish (Wexford) - Posts: 2324 - 09/06/2016 16:49:00    1864354

Unfortunately there are some people in Ireland who
have never broken free of the shackles of colonialism.
I always remember Ryan Tubridy cringing when asking
Gerry Adams if he had blood on his hands and then
Adams replied that his grandfather had blood on his
hands. The girl who asked Martin McGuiness why he
had come down to "this country" to then be told
that Derry, Down, Antrim, Tyrone, Fermanagh and
Armagh are as Irish as Cork, Kerry, Galway or
anywhere else. Its on You Tube.

Its good that the GAA on the whole is above these
sort of attitudes.

REDANDBLACK30 (Down) - Posts: 1617 - 09/06/2016 16:49:22    1864355

bumpernut (Antrim) - Posts: 1852 - 09/06/2016 16:51:59    1864357

Ah rite Bumpernut the colonial brigade never
really understood them. The ironic thing is
that there are Northern players in the
Ireland team so if he supports them does
he boo when James McClean etc touches the ball
lol.

REDANDBLACK30 (Down) - Posts: 1617 - 09/06/2016 17:22:50    1864373

Tacaí Liatroma (Leitrim) - Posts: 1032 - 09/06/2016 18:06:51    1864392

GaryMc82 (Derry) - Posts: 3017 - 09/06/2016 18:11:11    1864397

REDANDBLACK30 (Down) - Posts: 1617 - 09/06/2016 18:16:48    1864401