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Sky Sports and Link to London Footballers piece

11/07/2011 21:50:53
urizen
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Does anybody have a link to the piece Sky did on the London footballers last week??

Administrator (None) - Posts: 2275 - 12/07/2011 10:38:59    981751

typical Dub comment, I think you'll find there is a very large Irish population in the UK (and growing weekly thanks to the situation back home)and would love to be able to watch some GAA over here without having to pay for it. I guess Setanta and now Premier Sports have always held the rights for the GAA coverage in the UK, hence Sky have never shown it, Its disppoint that they don't have a highlights game liek you used to be able to see on Channel 4.
As for a fix for London, I doubt that very much, GAA in not just London but the GAA in the UK and worldwide has never really been promoted as well as it can, always has seemed that the GAA are happy to keep thing as they are instead of developing the game abroad. The development of the GAA in foreign countries has been more to do with teh individuals involved rather than a conserted effort by Croke Park. Admittedly things have improved slightly with Joe McDonagh being appointed to head up oversea's development.

Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 12/07/2011 11:37:07    981841

does rte cover county cricket in england? then way should sky show the gaa? its a perfect example of the inferiority complex of gaa people when they have to strat a thread when they get a mention on a 24 hour news station- says it all really. london beat fermanagh, an average club team would beat fermanagh so i dont know what anyone is harping on about the success of london- if celebrationg failure is a good thing well then so be it

liathroidboy (Mayo) - Posts: 4921 - 12/07/2011 11:46:39    981861

NO IM BEING HONEST GAA IS AN IRISH SPORT.
its a farce having new york in the championship i wont say london because they do travel to ireland to play but what exactly is the purpose of new york in the championship they play one match for the entire year.they dont play league matches and sure therees nobody for them to play challenge matches against so why do they play in the championship to give 1 referee a holiday each year.its not going to take off in any other country because there quite simply ireland does not have any media outlets in other countrys to promote it.they would have to invade the uk and make them speak irish and force them to play our sports to get it to work.
all sounds familiar doesnt it

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 12/07/2011 12:03:58    981892

my God are some people embarassed that we have two of the best sports in the world, they are sports we should be trying to promote and have more people watching/playing, I play Gaelic and Aussie Rules in London and you'll find the aussie guys love watching the Gaelic. Also you will find a poster on Hoganstand called Tongo, who has no Irish connections but fell in love with the game and watches all the games and travels quite a distance to Ruislip most weekends to watch games. Maybe too you should read up on St Pauls academy in South London, who backboned the South London team that one one of the Feile Leagues a couple of years back, most of their team are from non Irish descent. Mickey Harte is a patron for that school and has been over a number of times to see them and he cannot speak highly enough about how the are promoting the game in teh non Irish community (liek Peter Canavan)
I am sure if there were enough people in Ireland interested in cricket RTE would give it some coverage (I do believe you will find teh cricket results in the Indo etc), likewise there are enough people in the UK interested in the GAA for SKY to be showing some small amount of coverage, maybe if they did then the interest in the games by more non Irish descent people may grow.
People should also remember some of the people who have plied there trade over here in the UK playing GAA, Michael Collins, Sam Maguire, Jason Ryan, Darren O'Sullivan to name a few. Finally I think you will find Londons roll of honour is more impressive than many counties back home, 1 All Ireland Hurling title, 3 Senior B, 5 aLL Ireland Junior Hurling, 2 Rackard Cups, 6 All Ireland Junior football titles, 2 Ladies Juniors titles. Robert Emmets also won All Ireland Intermediate Hurling Club title.

Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 12/07/2011 16:20:04    982348

Well said Rosinieri

Great to see London doing well.

bennybunny (Cork) - Posts: 3917 - 12/07/2011 17:06:20    982424

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Well said Rosinieri

Great to see London doing well.

yes beenbunny great to see people leaving ireland for a land that invaded us and i a time when ireland is in trouble they all get out wonderfull news

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 14/07/2011 11:34:59    983956

I agree I don't think you should be allowed to play GAA unless you can trace your ancestory back too before the British invasion or Ireland, we don't want any undesirables playing our games!!! Also I think all posts on her should be as gaeilge rather in this foreign tongue that has been forced upon us.

Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 14/07/2011 13:41:19    984139

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I agree I don't think you should be allowed to play GAA unless you can trace your ancestory back too before the British invasion or Ireland, we don't want any undesirables playing our games!!! Also I think all posts on her should be as gaeilge rather in this foreign tongue that has been forced upon us.

Great to see you have managed to live and id imagine find work in the UK tho.

09KY36 (Kerry) - Posts: 329 - 21/07/2011 13:15:18    991094

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Rosineri1
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I agree I don't think you should be allowed to play GAA unless you can trace your ancestory back too before the British invasion or Ireland, we don't want any undesirables playing our games!!! Also I think all posts on her should be as gaeilge rather in this foreign tongue that has been forced upon us.

Great to see you have managed to live and id imagine find work in the UK tho.

Massive apologies didnt read your earlier comments, or detect the sarcasm in the above comment, sorry!

09KY36 (Kerry) - Posts: 329 - 21/07/2011 13:28:17    991109

Hill16no1 you clearly have never lived a long way from home. The GAAs pride is in bridging that gap

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4649 - 21/07/2011 13:37:10    991120

doesnt mean you have to beg for attention off sky sports

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 23/07/2011 11:35:48    992628

No one was begging you simpleton. It's not long ago the Dublin footballers were over here for a training weekend, and played a challenge game at Ruislip. Maybe you're annoyed Sky Sports News didn't come out that day. Ever heard the saying 'any publicity is good publicity'? London GAA needs all the help it can get, so enough of the negativity.

scruff (UK) - Posts: 467 - 23/07/2011 13:41:43    992748

ye are who cares about british media covering irish sports its irish media that they ned to crack first as it covers far too much forign soccer then any sports here

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 23/07/2011 14:11:30    992772

We want to promote the GAA abroad so this is obviously a good thing. People are moaning about it just because Sky is British. Get over it

JulianstownBoyo (Meath) - Posts: 196 - 23/07/2011 15:13:41    992806