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Do the foreign nationals that live in Ireland play and attend GAA games ? Redhot (Cork) - Posts: 697 - 22/09/2014 11:49:53 1655156 Link 0 |
En general no, unless they have kids involved, which is more and more common. Theres foreigners here years who've no idea about the GAA, very insular a lot of them flack (Dublin) - Posts: 1054 - 22/09/2014 12:01:42 1655176 Link 0 |
unlike the irish when we go abroad.. we set up GAA clubs everywhere. nothing insular about us Irish. s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 22/09/2014 12:06:47 1655181 Link 0 |
s goldrick Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 22/09/2014 12:33:45 1655221 Link 0 |
I'm English and live in Dublin. I attened everyone of Dublin's home matches for the league and championship last year and purchased a season ticket for this year. CaptainBrooksie (UK) - Posts: 34 - 22/09/2014 12:44:16 1655236 Link 0 |
There is some truth in goldricks comment though. I mean do the irish lads living in England take up cricket? It isn't fair to label foreign nationals, we are no different ourselves. TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 22/09/2014 12:44:36 1655237 Link 0 |
TheMaster Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 22/09/2014 13:00:07 1655264 Link 0 |
for the foreign nationals in Ireland , GAA is very hard to take up if you haven't played it as a kid so you won't find many of them actually playing it, its obviously going to be different if they move to Ireland at a young age. Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 22/09/2014 13:57:59 1655331 Link 0 |
The secretary of the European county board from Serbia how strange . Redhot (Cork) - Posts: 697 - 22/09/2014 14:20:41 1655351 Link 0 |
TheMaster Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2419 - 22/09/2014 14:27:48 1655356 Link 0 |
Jason Sherlock, Lee Chin, Craig Dias TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 22/09/2014 14:31:53 1655363 Link 0 |
Adults usually don't but their kids do as they grow up.Heard one Polish woman say some time back that her kids love playing hurling even though they pick up the odd injury. She says it's a great way of integrating them with the natives and teaches them discipline and teamwork. She went onto say that if they stick at it, she reckons it would increase their job chances as well. jerryp (Cork) - Posts: 104 - 22/09/2014 14:32:45 1655365 Link 0 |
There was a player on the Leitrim hurling team from Iraq called Zak Moradi. Grey_Wolf (Leitrim) - Posts: 235 - 22/09/2014 14:42:16 1655371 Link 0 |
TheMaster Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 22/09/2014 16:00:17 1655474 Link 0 |
Redhot Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 22/09/2014 16:04:42 1655478 Link 0 |
unlike the irish when we go abroad.. we set up GAA clubs everywhere. nothing insular about us Irish. zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1791 - 22/09/2014 16:10:47 1655488 Link 0 |
Theres no need to be so defensive goldrick. I used to go out with an Italian girl who worked in Dublin, and so socialised a bit with a lot of foreigners, while they were all aware of the 'official' face of Irish culture (riverdance, u2, corny light ballad bands, rugby(!), etc), very few had any knowledge at all of anything more profound, including GAA. I used to ask what did they think all those people in county colors around croker were up to. No clue. If you try asking your local Italian chipper or Chinese restaurant worker about GAA you'll see. As I said, if they have kids, the kids generally spark the parents interest a bit flack (Dublin) - Posts: 1054 - 22/09/2014 17:43:14 1655548 Link 0 |
gosh. i am being accused of being defensive, of not knowing about the subject in question and being told about all the europeans abroad who are involved in the GAA. s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 23/09/2014 10:39:25 1655766 Link 0 |
zinny s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 23/09/2014 10:41:12 1655767 Link 0 |
Who cares whether they do or not? I'd be more worried about some of the other things they get up to. hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 23/09/2014 11:14:11 1655786 Link 0 |