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I don't watch rugby, I used to follow soccer but not anymore. I imagine the people who attend games at Kingspan are those types with the posh accents that are becoming very common even in the rural Catholic areas.
If they have to use a GAA ground I would prefer they used Healy Park.

PattyONeill (Derry) - Posts: 263 - 19/08/2023 16:50:37    2501336

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  "It's the British taxpayers ( many of them rugby and soccer fans and players), who are paying for the redevelopment of Casement Park. Instead of castigating them, you should be thanking them."
It is the least they can do given what problems they have caused our people over the past 400 years. Plus didn't the army use Casement park as some sort of base during the troubles? They probably left it in a mess.

PattyONeill (Derry) - Posts: 263 - 19/08/2023 16:56:30    2501337

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "No interest in rugger myself but Barney and one or 2 others need to realise were living in 2023 not 1923."
That is a silly thing to say given that half the clubs in your county are probably named after men from the 1800s or 1920s. Maybe Croke Park should change its name now.

PattyONeill (Derry) - Posts: 263 - 19/08/2023 17:07:10    2501340

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Replying To PattyONeill:  "I don't watch rugby, I used to follow soccer but not anymore. I imagine the people who attend games at Kingspan are those types with the posh accents that are becoming very common even in the rural Catholic areas.
If they have to use a GAA ground I would prefer they used Healy Park."
Aye right, Celtic Park would suit better as the home of GAA in Derry is South Derry.

Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2289 - 19/08/2023 17:12:53    2501341

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Replying To PattyONeill:  "That is a silly thing to say given that half the clubs in your county are probably named after men from the 1800s or 1920s. Maybe Croke Park should change its name now."
Remember the past but live in the present .
As a matter of interest we have 2 Clubs named after Patriots - Glaveys and Pearses. Tulsk's full name is Tulsk Lord Edwards but always called just Tulsk and there's Éire Óg.
I think it's 5 Gaels, 9 or 10 Saints the rest just called after their home town/parish.

Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 2292 - 19/08/2023 17:42:53    2501347

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Does anyone else remember when the plan was to build an all purpose multi-sport stadium to be used by everyone ?

https://www.e-architect.com/ireland/maze-stadium

Unionists feared it would become some sort of "shrine" to IRA prisoners.

I can't help wondering how that would have turned out. At the very least we wouldn't be discussing this topic today.

Suas Sios (None) - Posts: 1558 - 19/08/2023 17:54:53    2501350

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Replying To PattyONeill:  "I don't watch rugby, I used to follow soccer but not anymore. I imagine the people who attend games at Kingspan are those types with the posh accents that are becoming very common even in the rural Catholic areas.
If they have to use a GAA ground I would prefer they used Healy Park."
You really dont know much then.
what is a posh accent in your opinion anyway?

KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3755 - 21/08/2023 10:47:20    2501538

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Replying To KillingFields:  "You really dont know much then.
what is a posh accent in your opinion anyway?"
The Ennis Road accent?

thelongridge (Offaly) - Posts: 1879 - 21/08/2023 11:11:48    2501541

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "Remember the past but live in the present .
As a matter of interest we have 2 Clubs named after Patriots - Glaveys and Pearses. Tulsk's full name is Tulsk Lord Edwards but always called just Tulsk and there's Éire Óg.
I think it's 5 Gaels, 9 or 10 Saints the rest just called after their home town/parish."
Good job we were not depending on the Rossies so :-)

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3512 - 21/08/2023 11:18:21    2501545

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "Good job we were not depending on the Rossies so :-)"
Who's "we" and what do ye want depending on for?
To stop rugby being played on GAA pitches?
Or is it to stop the 21st Century?

Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 2292 - 21/08/2023 12:23:37    2501571

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As always anytime something about Rugby comes up the "true Gaels" get triggered

DuhallowRed (Cork) - Posts: 310 - 21/08/2023 13:08:58    2501588

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Replying To DuhallowRed:  "As always anytime something about Rugby comes up the "true Gaels" get triggered"
tis awful funny and predictable.
its why its a great shame the other sports forum was removed.

KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3755 - 21/08/2023 16:13:11    2501643

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "Good job we were not depending on the Rossies so :-)"
We are doing OK Barney.

There are GAA tops worn commonplace in areas you'd never have seen them 15/20 years ago. Things are good, society evolves and moves with the times. Lots of kids try their hand at all sports and rugby in ulster for the large part welcomes players of all ages from GAA backgrounds with open arms. By the same token there are lots of kids from mixed marriages who don't identify as catholics playing GAA and some bring their protestant friends along too. It's definitely a thing in some underage clubs and should be encouraged.

We'll be OK without your input, but thanks for your concern and passion all the same! Try to get out a bit more.

oso (Antrim) - Posts: 168 - 21/08/2023 17:37:18    2501671

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Replying To DuhallowRed:  "As always anytime something about Rugby comes up the "true Gaels" get triggered"
A gas lot I must say... thank god they're in the minority.

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1301 - 21/08/2023 19:51:06    2501687

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Replying To oso:  "We are doing OK Barney.

There are GAA tops worn commonplace in areas you'd never have seen them 15/20 years ago. Things are good, society evolves and moves with the times. Lots of kids try their hand at all sports and rugby in ulster for the large part welcomes players of all ages from GAA backgrounds with open arms. By the same token there are lots of kids from mixed marriages who don't identify as catholics playing GAA and some bring their protestant friends along too. It's definitely a thing in some underage clubs and should be encouraged.

We'll be OK without your input, but thanks for your concern and passion all the same! Try to get out a bit more."
You say things are good, for who. Not long ago on holidays in a bar I was wearing a Tyrone t-shirt and was talking away to a mucker from Belfast, talked away 10 to the dozen. Things changed when he sat down and his mates let him know it wasn't an Ulster top. Ignored the next time we crossed paths. Soccer and rugby are minority sports and long may it continue.

Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2289 - 22/08/2023 12:28:41    2501758

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Replying To Saynothing:  "You say things are good, for who. Not long ago on holidays in a bar I was wearing a Tyrone t-shirt and was talking away to a mucker from Belfast, talked away 10 to the dozen. Things changed when he sat down and his mates let him know it wasn't an Ulster top. Ignored the next time we crossed paths. Soccer and rugby are minority sports and long may it continue."
I do believe he or she thought I was referring to O'Donovan Rossas rather than the Rossies of Roscommon!

He needs to read more,

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3512 - 22/08/2023 14:52:47    2501784

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Replying To Saynothing:  "You say things are good, for who. Not long ago on holidays in a bar I was wearing a Tyrone t-shirt and was talking away to a mucker from Belfast, talked away 10 to the dozen. Things changed when he sat down and his mates let him know it wasn't an Ulster top. Ignored the next time we crossed paths. Soccer and rugby are minority sports and long may it continue."
wow thats bitter, sad and pathetic. why be so obsessed...

KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3755 - 22/08/2023 16:21:24    2501809

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Replying To Saynothing:  "You say things are good, for who. Not long ago on holidays in a bar I was wearing a Tyrone t-shirt and was talking away to a mucker from Belfast, talked away 10 to the dozen. Things changed when he sat down and his mates let him know it wasn't an Ulster top. Ignored the next time we crossed paths. Soccer and rugby are minority sports and long may it continue."
Sure that's nothing to do with Rugby or sectatianisim. Being from Donegal I wouldn't speak to someone wearing a Tyrone jersey either.

Probably ignored you as your as big a dose in the pub as you are on here

himachechy (Donegal) - Posts: 293 - 22/08/2023 17:31:42    2501819

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  "It's the British taxpayers ( many of them rugby and soccer fans and players), who are paying for the redevelopment of Casement Park. Instead of castigating them, you should be thanking them."
You are correct in that the British taxpayers (BT) will fund- but only a part off!). BT also funded other elements of society in that part of our country over the past 100+years which even you should not be proud off. Now I do support giving rugby the use of a pitch while they are developing their own and I think we are big enough to do that.

browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 22/08/2023 17:50:44    2501824

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