Replying To updwell:  "Looks like the Meath lads don't want the championship to go ahead"

Replying To Furlong1949:  "Absolute disaster has been county finals in gaa.

1 A club in Armagh won county final, 31 out of 33 of the panel had covid afterwards and 100 people in surrounding village also.
2 Moycullen in Galway won first ever senior county title. Afterwards massive outbreak in panel which has spilled over into local area
3 Ballivor and Rataoth won county titles in Meath. Afterward many players tested positive and both Ballivor and Rataoth have huge numbers of cases in the town.
4 Outbreaks in Cavan and Wexford and kildare have also being linked to county finals
One of the things that happened was players filled the cup up with drink and all drank from the same cup afterwards and then preceded to visit all the local pubs and many local houses in the parish. GAA response to this, we should have took the cup off the winning team after the ceremony, just after the match.
I also know today of a kildare town, where the local GAA club were in the couty final recently. And 10 players were tested with the virus afterwards. And their teenage sisters and brothers have been also being effected from close contact with these players and so now the virus has spread to local secondary chool. Talking to one teacher today she says 4 students in her class have the virus all got from close contact with 10 gaa players who picked it up after county final. There is many many more examples across country we are not hearing of.
Then you had
4 The scenes in Blackrock Cork after the County final.win when the team and supporters marched through the town with the cup like a st patricks day parade. No social distancing at matchs as crowds all atop of each other and more then 200 people at county finals.
5 An ex county player resigned from management of Offaly club team as he was not happy with issues over a case
6 In Waterford hurling final, player was waiting for test yet he was allowed to play in final. His later test proved he had the virus.
7 A minor player was waiting on a test he was allowed to travel on packed bus with rest of panel to county final he was tested positive
8 Donegal, Fermanagh and Armagh have had to cancel matchs and training as players in all 3 counties have got the virus. Fermamagh are playing Clare at weekend and so many Fermanagh players have the virus they might not
be able to field a team.
9 6 Wexford GAA players have been tested positive for the virus in the last few days.


There are some of the known cases whats happenned in GAA, its pretty certain there is many more cases like the above not being reported in GAA. We have seen with the soccer team how quickly with sportspeople how they can get afftected. Yet in the next 2 weeks 32 counties in the island will engage in a national competition, (basically amateur players many of them frontline workers )will be on packed buses and criss cross the country and criss crossing the border, which happens to be one of the areas with the worst effected cases in Europe. Yet starting at the weekend, this is only starting. It reminds me of what a once great gaa president from Mayo who was also a doctor said when he talked about the scourge of drink on Irish society. He wrote a book called "No one shouted stop". I think that title of that book is apt now, No one shouted stop.

What the hell are the GAA at, an amateur organistion having a national competition in two jurisdictions, one of which has highest number of cases in Europe, what are they at, having an All Ireland championship as a world wide pandemic is its second wave as cases explode across the island. You couldnt think of a worst 2 months then November and December to have the championship as the second waves peaks. Will anyone in the GAA hierachy shout stop? It really looks like an amateur association acting like amateurs. In March the GAA did excellent work now they will have PR disaster on there hands at the very least, just because in the words of great late Eugene McGee who once said every decision the GAA makes goes back to money. You take the Sky deal, the super 8s and now the championship going ahead. Its all to do with money, games played means the GAA will get money from broadcasters. Its totally against what GAA should stand for. Just when the GAA should be showing example and leadership to young people, to everyone they are doing the opposite and if anything are super spreaders in terms of cases currently. I can see the championship starting but there is not a hope in hell , zero chance of it finishing. Other organisation like hockey and basketball have stopped all adult competitons on the island. But the issues, the growing rate of numbers will increase and the GAA will have played an helping hand in that. It really is crazy when you sit down and think of it. Call of the All Ireland championship and play them when it is safe to do so. Its very simple. But where is the leadership in the GAA. No where to be seen."

Replying To moc.dna:  "First decent post here. There is an inherent greed within the Association, some will walk all over everything just to get what they want, it varies from power, media, money to glory hunters, in the last few decades it has become a monster at all levels within the Association, which has lost its main purpose. No longer is it an Association of we are all in it together, it's now all about what can I get out of it.

Having witnessed people tripping over each other to post images of themselves carrying in shopping to people & then putting it all over social media platforms, to then witnessing some of the very same people bushing with large groups of young people & others drinking at bars where guidelines were flaunted, it's all double standards.
Just like the GAA hierarchy insisting that the Deputy CMO come & explain himself as to why they couldn't have bigger crowds at club matches, yet the GAA couldn't control their members on their pitches, their supporters in their stands & their club units from having massive post match celebrations, which are now resulting in massive spikes.

I wonder will certain management teams be exposed for exerting pressure on very young men to hide the fact they are close contacts & should not be playing due to the protocols. Some lads being told to remove themselves from social media, huge pressures being exerted, absolutely disgusting. We will see the contact tracing teams expose these facts over the next two weeks.

The post by Furlong1949 who is a really knowledgable GAA man encapsulates exactly everything going on at the moment within the Association & fair play for going against the grain here where group think prevails & having the courage of his convictions to call it as it is, no doubt he will be slated by people on here who haven't a tenth of the experience of the Association he has. The GAA hierarchy would also do well to take on board his points."

Replying To galwayford:  "Where is the proof in what you post. Where are the links. It is all just hearsay and fake news until I see the links. Sometimes I think you have a deep grudge against the GAA."

Replying To galwayford:  "Where is the proof in what you post. Where are the links. It is all just hearsay and fake news until I see the links. Sometimes I think you have a deep grudge against the GAA."

Replying To galwayford:  "Where is the proof in what you post. Where are the links. It is all just hearsay and fake news until I see the links. Sometimes I think you have a deep grudge against the GAA."

Replying To galwayford:  "Where is the proof in what you post. Where are the links. It is all just hearsay and fake news until I see the links. Sometimes I think you have a deep grudge against the GAA."

Replying To Saynothing:  "Seen link earlier but no word of 31 out of 33 testing positive. Going on like a unionist slagging GAA. No proof what so ever against the Armagh club. There's enough up here against everything Irish without him and his like sticking the boot in."

Replying To FoolsGold:  "He's there is. Stop trying to to be in denial because its Gaa.

There was a break outbreak in Cavan after the local club finals. Players drinking out of the cup among other things."

Replying To moc.dna:  "Have a nice day Walter."

Replying To FoolsGold:  "He's there is. Stop trying to to be in denial because its Gaa.

There was a break outbreak in Cavan after the local club finals. Players drinking out of the cup among other things."

Replying To galwayford:  "Where is the proof in what you post. Where are the links. It is all just hearsay and fake news until I see the links. Sometimes I think you have a deep grudge against the GAA."

Replying To zinny:  "I have been critical of the GAA over many things to do with COVID however we are now stretching things. Saying that the GAA are to blame because of the celebrations or drowning ones sorrows after games is like saying Guinness is to blame for lads going out on the piss. People who never wanted the games played because it would cause a rapid spread of the virus are now jumping on the last chance they have to justify their earlier opposition to the games being played. Lads getting pissed up in the pub has noting to do with the GAA, the GAA has as an organization done more than any other sports organization to try and distance itself from alcohol and other forms of addictive behavior. All the naysayers now want the GAA to police what happens in pubs - seriously can people get a grip on reality. This has nothing to do with the GAA. Not so long ago it was the church and being told to cancel communions and confirmations because people were having parties in their houses after. Some people in the country have lost the run of themselves all together. When will people stop blaming the organizations and put the blame where it should be on individuals. I saw today the post of the team for the Wexford minor football team who were do to play Louth in the Championship on Facebook and you had people coming on and saying it was a disgrace that they were playing and that the kids should be ashamed of themselves. There are a lot of idiots in the world and Ireland has its fair share of them too. Begrudges all of them, playing the club Championship brought a huge boost to the country and the people but you cannot see beyond your narrow view of the world."

Replying To FoolsGold:  "He's there is. Stop trying to to be in denial because its Gaa.

There was a break outbreak in Cavan after the local club finals. Players drinking out of the cup among other things."

Replying To Sligoman1234:  "I see Leitrim have pulled the plug on their game with Down at the very last minute. To be honest I think there's something at play here rather than a rally cry against COVID. Ensuring that no score difference can be used works in favour of Leitrim. Surely they knew before this morning that they wouldn't be in a position to field? It's not as if it's a Junior B club game where you're already at slim pickings."

Replying To Saynothing:  "I'm not in denial because it's GAA. I want to see the figures where there were 31 out of 33 from a club panel testing positive. I've went through links but no mention of these figures. Furlong bad mouthing a GAA club and no questions asked."