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A flag is a piece of cloth, nothing more. An anthem is a nostalgic historical song, nothing more than that. Don't respect pointless symbols. NAIL_BAR (Meath) - Posts: 457 - 02/12/2016 21:54:56 1938104 Link 4 |
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Well said my friend, well said.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 03/12/2016 00:26:24 1938117 Link 1 |
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I see Mr. Brolly & I share the same views on this topic. Good to see he knows a bit about music at least. keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 04/12/2016 14:06:09 1938245 Link 0 |
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Fair play to brolly. I've never seen a lad writing about so many non issues and have people call him a great lad on twitter. realman2 (Kildare) - Posts: 464 - 04/12/2016 16:11:58 1938263 Link 1 |
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Was never at a rugby match although i watched a few Irish matches on t.v. ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 04/12/2016 18:01:16 1938277 Link 0 |
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Well said Bumpernot and Tom16 The national flag of Ireland is the Tricolour, and I'm talking about the 32 counties. We must keep the flag flying at games , we must continue to play the national anthem at games. If the president of the GAA thinks different let him take a long walk. When I was young 15 to 17 years of age , just before I emigrated I went to see Donegal play games in the six counties and loved hearing the national anthem being played before games. It was illegal to fly the tricolour in the six counties at that time and Gaelic games were frowned on I understand that people down south and away from border counties will have a different opinion from the six county/ border county people but if you grew up around the border areas that border was a sore to a lot of people We keep the GAA as it is , the GAA was almost split over the hunger strike , try to remove the flag and stop playing the National anthem and we could well be on our way to a big burst up within the organisation SamOnErrigal (Donegal) - Posts: 1427 - 04/12/2016 20:42:26 1938297 Link 3 |
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The rich meath farmers, John Burton be so proud of you, he the meath man who thinks 1916 a joke! !! The gaa going down a tricky PC road here and would want to be very carefull! !!! Not a Joe brolly fan but today's article in indo was excellent tonydoranfan (Wexford) - Posts: 550 - 04/12/2016 21:48:02 1938313 Link 2 |
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Excellent article by Brolly- Its strange how quick some folk forget where the came from. Every country has a national anthem and a flag. It is obvious that some folk don't appear to know the meaning of our green white and orange flag. browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 04/12/2016 22:07:22 1938318 Link 5 |
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Excellent article from brolly. Sure if the chattering asses of the gaa had their way we would end up appeasing the bigots. Why reach out to people who detest our games. I come from a club who continually had the posts chopped down and changing rooms petrol bombed. Do you honestly think these people have any time for our games? mayotyroneman (Tyrone) - Posts: 1821 - 04/12/2016 22:36:30 1938324 Link 3 |
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Joe Brolly, the only man within the Gaa willing to call things as they are, spot on article. Maith thú Joe, he is the only high profile Gaa man speaking for the majority. Aoghain O Fearghail should clarify if he is entering politics, if not he should stand down as President of the Association as he no longer represents the views of the majority. He has overseen the deal with Sky & the handing over of 15% of the GAA's commercial revenue to the GPA, now he wants us to give up our identity, flag & anthem. It's obvious when you see how he has overseen these moves where his priorities lie, meanwhile the club game which makes up 99% of the m'ship he is supposed to represent suffers from chronic fixture schedules, shameful. moc.dna (Galway) - Posts: 1212 - 05/12/2016 10:21:16 1938352 Link 1 |
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I very seldom agree with Brolly but on this I do. However Brolly has to go after SKY, GPA and another ex-Armagh player ...his pets hates..and so makes the article petty, as usual. witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 05/12/2016 11:32:33 1938374 Link 1 |
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I disagree with that. I think Joe Brolly represents a minority. Hes gives a one sided republican/northern view on things. How does that represent the silent majority?
bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 05/12/2016 11:34:27 1938375 Link 0 |
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It's bizarre, no one gave 2 hoots about the issue of the GAA losing its Irish nationalist identity a week ago. Then Aodan O'fearghail comes out with a vague, non-commital politically correct comment about it during the week and Brolly has created a complete sh*tstorm where half of twitter is reaching for the green flag to wrap around them. Brolly has an incredible gift for creating controversy. realman2 (Kildare) - Posts: 464 - 05/12/2016 12:41:27 1938393 Link 0 |
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Nothing petty about the article - 100% agree with him . Uachtarán CLG has obviously got a career in politics in mind - wouldn't get my vote !
Finsceal (None) - Posts: 559 - 05/12/2016 12:51:34 1938396 Link 2 |
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The minority ?As opposed to what ? - your southern/unionist view ? Is that the majority ? Just asking Finsceal (None) - Posts: 559 - 05/12/2016 12:58:57 1938397 Link 4 |
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A brilliant article by Joe brolly yet again. There is an unbelievable ignorance by a large number of people in Ireland,who are apologetic about our culture and history. We have nothing to be ashamed of we should be proud of our flag and our national anthem. For any person that doesn't understand why the gaa was set up, should google it. shaggylegend (Monaghan) - Posts: 1928 - 05/12/2016 13:20:00 1938403 Link 3 |
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We know plenty about it, most of us just don't feel the need to go on about it all the time and prefer to live in the present and plan for the future.
realman2 (Kildare) - Posts: 464 - 05/12/2016 13:54:01 1938412 Link 0 |
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Nobody is talking about shame or lack of pride. This isn't about the founding principles of the GAA. This is talking about a hypothetical situation where the Country is on the verge of becoming Unified again. Are people suggesting in that situation they would not support such a move if there was to be a new Anthem and Flag or would they demand that the GAA keeps the existing Anthem and Flag in this new Ireland with its new Anthem and Flag? Remembering before you answer that the GAA was founded before Flag flew from the GPO and before the Anthem was penned!!
Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 05/12/2016 14:42:07 1938425 Link 0 |
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Why is anyone even talking about this hypothetical situation? Is there any suggestion this could even come about in the near future?
keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 05/12/2016 15:19:44 1938440 Link 2 |
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No, its a complete storm in a teacup. Amazing that Brolly has managed to mobilise such angst about a complete non-issue.
realman2 (Kildare) - Posts: 464 - 05/12/2016 15:27:42 1938442 Link 0 |