Cant think off top of my head now...but there has been many. Whether it be an old woman abusing a ref, someone elses misfortune or whatever it is, please share your funniest ever memory at a GAA match, I will get back with mine once I can think of it!

Rattler2010 (Kildare) - Posts: 117 - 29/07/2010 14:37:53    728312

do u mean gaa pitch or gaa match? because there was a really funny thing a few years back when a dog ran onto the pitch during an international rules match.
if thats not counted then at a match i was playing in the ref gave a free to my team and as the lad was taking it the ref was about 5 metres away and running away to follow where it was going and it hit him in the back of the head and knocked him clean to the ground. he went down like a sack of spuds. hilarious!

galballygael23 (Tyrone) - Posts: 235 - 29/07/2010 14:49:14    728339

Can't remember the year or who we were playing, think it was Meath Laois in portlaoise. Drunken meath fan on the pitch taking penalties with a spare ball that had been left out, 5 gaurds standing on the sideline watching and laughing at him as the crowd cheered him on.

miteymeath (Meath) - Posts: 98 - 29/07/2010 14:58:32    728353

I remember a funny thing a while ago. This meath guy scored a touchdown & all the louth fans thought it was sooo funny they had a laugh with the ref!

blu (Down) - Posts: 1240 - 29/07/2010 15:08:37    728372

Miteymeath.... - Brilliant!! Keep them coming....

Rattler2010 (Kildare) - Posts: 117 - 29/07/2010 15:12:44    728380

It will take a good story to top this one:

I was about 10 and I went down to visit my cousins in Kilkenny for a few days. They being big hurling people, we were bundled into the car and brought off to watch a hurling championship match: Gowran against Glenmore. The famous Christy Heffernan was playing for Glenmore and I think Charlie Carter for Gowran. Not sure about DJ. The game wasnt in Nowlan Park - it was in a club ground, maybe Thomastown.

Anyway, sometime in the second half, this fella runs onto the pitch naked and starts doing loops around the middle of the pitch. the thing was that no-one was interested in catching him so he did a few loops unhindered. but he ran by Christy Heffernan and Christy (in his late 30s) hit him a whack on his arse as he ran by.

That was the biggest cheer that was risen during the entire game. The fella finally left the field mortified.

wingwonder (UK) - Posts: 535 - 29/07/2010 15:12:59    728382

Ladies u.16 final in monaghan about 10years ago - full forward rounds the keeper about 20yards out and sends a weak shot trickling towards the empty net when the umpire (a man from the other club) leaves his spot and boots the ball before it crosses the line (Mick McCarthy style). He then calmly takes off his umpire jacket and makes his way out through the back gate. The ref shows him a red card as he walks away - the crowd is going mental and the ref has to hop the ball on the 20yard line which is cleared. I have all of this on cam-corder!!

Brolly (Monaghan) - Posts: 4472 - 29/07/2010 16:00:17    728442

Thats a good one! Brolly who ended up winning the game?

spiderpig123 (Down) - Posts: 175 - 29/07/2010 16:22:06    728468

Very funny one. Was at a ladies final in Westmeath 2 years ago . At the end of a pulsating game both players were drained emotionally and physically and much to the delight of the male contingent in the crowd proceeded to swap jerseys.

Hanley2 (Longford) - Posts: 420 - 29/07/2010 16:22:54    728470

Ladies u.16 final in monaghan about 10years ago - full forward rounds the keeper about 20yards out and sends a weak shot trickling towards the empty net when the umpire (a man from the other club) leaves his spot and boots the ball before it crosses the line (Mick McCarthy style). He then calmly takes off his umpire jacket and makes his way out through the back gate. The ref shows him a red card as he walks away - the crowd is going mental and the ref has to hop the ball on the 20yard line which is cleared. I have all of this on cam-corder!!


put that on youtube or we cant believe you!

Rhodejim (Offaly) - Posts: 2888 - 29/07/2010 16:26:29    728481

The releasing of a chicken onto the pitch a few years ago for a Kildare-Laois derby in O Moore park. Classic!

Daith (Kildare) - Posts: 1172 - 29/07/2010 16:33:08    728503

That's gonna be hard to top Brolly.

I was at a club match once and a brawl broke out on the pitch between the 2 teams. Next thing, away to the left, we spotted the 2 umpires at one goal (1 from each club) in each others faces arguing. Within a few minutes the 2 of them were rolling around on the ground brawling (white coats and all) and some of the players ended up running over to seperate them. Naturally, the ref walked off the pitch and refused to continue with the game. I don't know what a foreigner would have thought of the scene.

Also worth a mention is an underage player I once saw catching the ball from the throw-in at the start of the 2nd half, soloing straight up the centre of the pitch and kicking a beauty of a point. The only problem was he had forgotten which way he was playing. He got some abuse from his manager and his teammates. The players from the other team were doubled over laughing at him. It was a pretty close game too but luckily for him his team shaded it in the end.

lessbull (Kerry) - Posts: 177 - 29/07/2010 16:38:06    728514

Brolly
County: Monaghan
Posts: 1610

728442 Ladies u.16 final in monaghan about 10years ago - full forward rounds the keeper about 20yards out and sends a weak shot trickling towards the empty net when the umpire (a man from the other club) leaves his spot and boots the ball before it crosses the line (Mick McCarthy style). He then calmly takes off his umpire jacket and makes his way out through the back gate. The ref shows him a red card as he walks away - the crowd is going mental and the ref has to hop the ball on the 20yard line which is cleared. I have all of this on cam-corder!!


Classic...Have you got it up on You Tube? I'd say plenty would like to get a look at that.

redandblackgaa (Tyrone) - Posts: 251 - 29/07/2010 16:46:02    728536

Hanley2
County: Longford
Posts: 142

728470 Very funny one. Was at a ladies final in Westmeath 2 years ago . At the end of a pulsating game both players were drained emotionally and physically and much to the delight of the male contingent in the crowd proceeded to swap jerseys.

Did you by any chance get that one on camcorder?

lessbull (Kerry) - Posts: 177 - 29/07/2010 16:54:29    728554

Brolly add it to Youtube hahah

Orlaith (Derry) - Posts: 4282 - 29/07/2010 17:02:59    728568

My cousin has it on an old video tape - how could i upload?? The team that were denied the goal actually went on to win i think. Its v funny - clones vs muckno i think!

Brolly (Monaghan) - Posts: 4472 - 29/07/2010 17:12:30    728581

One of my fondest/strangest memories from a GAA match was a couple of years ago in Croke Park when Meath were playing Kildare when a fairly elderly man sitting a few rows in front of me was eating a Sunday dinner out of a see through plastic bag! Potatoes, carrots, roast beef and best of all covered in gravy! But kept trying to do it discreetly by putting his head down into the bag everytime!

Post_Splitter (Meath) - Posts: 51 - 29/07/2010 17:36:58    728634

One of my fondest/strangest memories from a GAA match was a couple of years ago in Croke Park when Meath were playing Kildare when a fairly elderly man sitting a few rows in front of me was eating a Sunday dinner out of a see through plastic bag! Potatoes, carrots, roast beef and best of all covered in gravy! But kept trying to do it discreetly by putting his head down into the bag everytime!


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Only get that in the GAA lol !!

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13659 - 29/07/2010 17:52:15    728672

dublin v kerry last year in the q finals

samforall (Dublin) - Posts: 36 - 29/07/2010 17:57:58    728682

Daith
County: Kildare
Posts: 381

728503 The releasing of a chicken onto the pitch a few years ago for a Kildare-Laois derby in O Moore park. Classic!

jungle joe

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 29/07/2010 18:07:04    728701