If lads came into my local wearing Kildare or Meath jerseys they would be thrown out. We don't want scum like that in our local.

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 30/05/2012 18:37:04    1183973

I'd say your local is an interesting place clondalkin! Lol

TheGateKeeper (Tyrone) - Posts: 2843 - 30/05/2012 18:55:34    1183986

clondalkindub
County: Dublin
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If lads came into my local wearing Kildare or Meath jerseys they would be thrown out. We don't want scum like that in our local.

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Rancid bait!!! You need to be more subtle to get some big fishy's with that one. The stuff you wrote only works at the weekends when drink has been taken.

Come on...up you game the League is over the Championship has started!!!

witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 30/05/2012 18:57:57    1183987

Up yer game lad! Lol

TheGateKeeper (Tyrone) - Posts: 2843 - 30/05/2012 19:02:19    1183989

I went to see meath play in navan one saturday night a while back all decked out in me meath shirt and
I was refused entry a nightclub in town. I was disgusted, but there loss was definitely the other nightclubs gain as i tip
across the road and proceeded to rip up the dance floor with some of the freshest moves seen since
saturday night fever

atta (Meath) - Posts: 705 - 30/05/2012 19:02:26    1183990

If lads came into my local wearing Kildare or Meath jerseys they would be thrown out. We don't want scum like that in our local.

Often went for a few pints in Clondalkin after coming back from matches in Croke Park when I lived there and the only thing I got was locals talking to me about the match. No one ever threw me out!

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 30/05/2012 19:10:02    1183999

Cannot believe that this type of bigotry is still so blatent. Surely this is illegal.

mod (Mayo) - Posts: 859 - 30/05/2012 20:01:40    1184040

nobody died ulsterman........move on and stop living your life for stories like this to emerge................the world is a big place with no shortage of places for people to wear their gaa attire

Gammy_Knee (USA) - Posts: 1482 - 30/05/2012 20:19:18    1184053

Hardly a story, those Belfast boyos have always been jealous of the Dubs

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4649 - 30/05/2012 20:24:40    1184057

Doublehop clondalkin is a big place and trust me where my local is you were not in. In my local on the door it says 'no Kildare no Meath no dogs'.

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 30/05/2012 21:11:50    1184101

Funny how badmonkey and Gammyknee always turn up together to take the different view.....and from the US of A; mmmmm......yeh! As some posters have pointed out the double standards of this bar and the Northern media stinks to the high heavens. The bar has shown Northern Ireland games with Northern Ireland and Irish League tops worn with no one being asked to leave AND English Premiership and Champions League games with soccer shirts everywhere but a GAA top still offends the swanky bigots. If this was a negative story against the GAA you could bet the BBC, UTV and probably the Indo would be all over it but because it's the GAA who is sinned against it's ignored by all and sundry except the Irish News. No Gammyhead I will never ignore bigotry and sectarianism just to suit the hypocrites; I will challenge it always. I hope to see Croke Park or RTE ask the right questions here but won't hold my breath; they are probably too busy organising Lizzy Windsor Diamond Jubilee parties.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9817 - 30/05/2012 21:42:19    1184127

A few days ago I started a thread about the anti-GAA stance at Ulster rugby home games and a hung jury ensued on the matter, with both arguments presented plainly and positively... this is a similar thread

I would like to add my two cents... was it not in the news not too long ago how customers is a Belfast Tescos complained that the bag packers were youths representing a GAA club...

Unfortunately I found myself in a similar situation a few years back when I was in said drinking establishment with some friends after the marathon and I had ran said marathon..and i wore my county jersey in said marathon... now all i wanted was a few pints to celebrate not dying on the 26 mile trip...but NO, I was making a woman who didnt want to be named uncomfortable (that was the excuse) and asked to leave.... I enquired as to who it was and could I buy them a drink but NO I should cover up or leave... And after telling all my friends why I left quietly and so did they... Unsurprisingly we were told we could stay...Business always trumps morals...

as for the current bigotry level in Belfast..it works both ways, there are no go areas for Celtic/Rangers/Ulster/GAA tops and THERE ALWAYS WILL BE!!

I live on the Upper Lisburn road, and I often wear my Gaelic top out and about and never have I been the subject of revulsion, at least not to my face (but then I walk with my head up high and am physically capable of defending myself)

The best way to deal with places like this is BOYCOTT, but organised boycott, and on a day when PROFITS will be affected. Then let them know why...

ballyoisin_bomb (Monaghan) - Posts: 183 - 30/05/2012 21:51:03    1184140

Well said ballyoisin_bomb BOYCOTT is the only way for bars that trade in this matter.
One post said he was asked to leave an establishment for wearing and O'Neills jacket, I wonder does the landlord know that O'Neills is not exclusively GAA wear. They could in fact have been asking a hockey coach to leave.
Though shame on the establishment, common sense should have prevailed.

ArmaghGael27 (Armagh) - Posts: 77 - 31/05/2012 08:49:34    1184168

This post is extremely one sided, and as pointed out by ballyoisin_bomb there are plenty of establishments in the North & South where you would not be allowed to wear a Linfield top, Rangers top and possibly even a Northern Ireland football jersey. We always like to take the high moral ground in this country and in particular in the North, when the fact of the matter is that a large percentage of nationalists in the North are every bit as sectarian as their Unionist brethren, but as this is a GAA website we only ever get to hear the Nationalist viewpoint. Yes its wrong that this establishment would not allow this gentleman to wear a GAA top, but please stop trying to make out that this is yet another attempt by Unionists to put the poor down trodden nationalists of the North back in their box.

gilly0512 (Galway) - Posts: 1176 - 31/05/2012 09:31:29    1184188

Lads this is quite easy to solve; email Wine Inns and let them know how ****** off we are about this nonsense, dont forget they also own Bar Twelve, Metro, Eg Bar, M Club, the Elk, Parlour, Four Winds, Empire and Robinsons. If you google the company you get an email address so let them know :-)
The Four Winds in particular is in a very middle class GAA catchment area and thats not good for business

bigtomsbreeks (Down) - Posts: 130 - 31/05/2012 09:43:44    1184198

Rugby only jersies bar. By God the conversation there must be quite boring.

Real Kerry Fan (None) - Posts: 2957 - 31/05/2012 09:51:23    1184204

Its like I said gilly2308, its a non-story, obviously a slow news day down at the Irish News!

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 31/05/2012 09:53:57    1184207

Linfield, Rangers and Northern Ireland now there's an unholy trinity? The problem is the Irish Government and tax payers pay for and market Northern Ireland - I for one want this ended like the Bertie motorway. There is a huge difference between Nightclubs insisting on a dress code and what happened in that bar in Belfast - we all know this, there is no excuse end off.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4953 - 31/05/2012 10:02:16    1184212

Should have pointed out:
http://www.belfastbar.co.uk/cutters-wharf-review.htm

Have a read of some of the bar "reviews" I think throwing out tourists for offending their "clientele" is the very least of thier worries.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4953 - 31/05/2012 10:17:24    1184223

atta
County: Meath
Posts: 473

1183990 I went to see meath play in navan one saturday night a while back all decked out in me meath shirt and
I was refused entry a nightclub in town. I was disgusted,

Say they were too if all you were wearing was the shirt. ( wearing pants helps especially nightclubs,ye know what there like.)

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 31/05/2012 10:50:11    1184243