Only one in Derry city is a prob bar but the barman is from the bogside so always puts it on for me. Love hearing the grumbles in the backround from other customers

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 12/08/2015 14:55:03    1768856

Will be interesting this weekend with the OP pub in question-McGettigans, will they have the volumne up for Man City v Chelsea or the All Ireland Semi final between their local team Galway against Tipp.

Can somebody enlighten us on Monday?

Watched five English soccer matches at the weekend and they were all guff. What do you even need the commentary for anyways. Nothing happens for most of the match anyways. Surely in most pubs you can have alcoves too with both matches getting a bit of volume as opposed to pumping the soccer commentary right through the loudspeaker.

Not a fan of Premier League soccer but know I'm in a minority. Always a shame too when our biggest games eg semi finals and final normally clash with super sunday and drag eyes away from our national sport. Traitors you might say but I remember Donegal playing Dublin in 2011 clashing with Man Utd v Arsenal(nearly had as many scores that day)

The All Ireland final normally goes up against a big premier league match too. This year it looks like Utd and Liverpool both playing at 4pm on All Ireland final day but not against each other.

shaggykev (Donegal) - Posts: 370 - 12/08/2015 15:53:13    1768909

Hill16 the GAA is not the biggest sporting organisation in Ireland ,there are more registered soccer players in the Republic than there are GAA players in the whole of Ireland (I am not sure of the number of registered soccer players in the North ) you are mixing up biggest with wealthiest

tinrylandman (Carlow) - Posts: 387 - 12/08/2015 16:03:49    1768922

only noticing now that mcgettigns is the same pub I was talking about in limerick
where they have the bar in an oval shape yet I waited for most of the first half and still didnt get served
at the side of the bar where they showed the gaa on only one of their 20 odd screens

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 12/08/2015 16:11:15    1768929

tinrylandman - The GAA is the most followed then. You only got to look at the crowds that go to GAA games league and championship compared to soccer or Rugby club games. In rural Ireland the GAA is still the heart of the community and that is a fact.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11648 - 12/08/2015 16:20:33    1768937

shaggykev
County: Donegal
Posts: 127

Watched five English soccer matches at the weekend and they were all guff.

Not a fan of Premier League soccer but know I'm in a minority.

Slightly odd to watch five matches unless they were all lower league ones then no?

if_in_doubt (Kildare) - Posts: 3691 - 12/08/2015 16:20:37    1768938

i work in a pub in a town in Galway, whenever the GAA clashes with soccer or any sport for that matter, I always want to have the GAA on so that I can watch it myself but the reality is that you have to listen to the customer, if the customer came in and asked me to put on Liverpool, I have to.. otherwise pubs are driving them away and maybe they would by 3 or 4 pints during the game. Pubs need that business.

onionbag123 (Galway) - Posts: 44 - 12/08/2015 16:20:58    1768940

tinrylandman
County: Carlow
Posts: 374

1768922
Hill16 the GAA is not the biggest sporting organisation in Ireland ,there are more registered soccer players in the Republic than there are GAA players in the whole of Ireland (I am not sure of the number of registered soccer players in the North ) you are mixing up biggest with wealthiest

its easy to over register in soccer
as for one you dont need to transfer to play for clubs
I played for two in one year whenever I didnt have a gaa game last year.
plus 5 aside astro is also counted in registered players
that aint serious players thats a kick about with a few mates.
the amount of people registered anyway is only one elemant
what about attendances?
what about tv viewing figures?
overall the gaa is definatly the biggest sports in ireland

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 12/08/2015 16:24:57    1768944

onionbag123
County: Galway
Posts: 43

1768940
i work in a pub in a town in Galway, whenever the GAA clashes with soccer or any sport for that matter, I always want to have the GAA on so that I can watch it myself but the reality is that you have to listen to the customer, if the customer came in and asked me to put on Liverpool, I have to.. otherwise pubs are driving them away and maybe they would by 3 or 4 pints during the game. Pubs need that business.

does the pub not have more than one tv to cater for customers?
what if there was so many customers wanting to see the two games
would make sense to show both matches on different screens

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 12/08/2015 16:26:59    1768946

onionbag123,

That's a fair point. The pubs have to do what will draw in the most customers. It's the herd mentality of the customers I find strange. Undying loyalty to a random English soccer team to the extent that they would back them against their local team if they ever clashed. People make out that it is the Irish connection but if Aston Villa fielded 11 Irish men against a Man U team without a single Irish man the Irish Man U fan will back Man U all the way.

No problem with the pubs. Business is business. Many Irish people just have a strange take on loyalty. I have a couple of English friends and they do be tickled by how you could have 2 old lads in a pub in West Cork not talking to each other over some dispute between Man U and Liverpool

dahayeser (Cork) - Posts: 378 - 12/08/2015 16:49:10    1768967

http://www.the42.ie/ireland-spain-tv-viewing-2-million-rte-gdansk-ratings-watched-488371-Jun2012/ when Ireland played in the Euros 2 million people tuned in to the first game thats nearly twice as many as watch the AI football final and 5 a side players do not count as registered players .

tinrylandman (Carlow) - Posts: 387 - 12/08/2015 16:59:24    1768977

dahayser

I remember heading out one night and watched a celtic v man utd champions league game in a bar before hand
90% of the pub were all up for man utd
and the so called irish connection dont come any bigger than celtic.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 12/08/2015 17:04:18    1768980

hill16no1man,

Yep the irish connection is just an excuse, an actual Irish team would be further down the pecking order that Celtic again.

tinrylandman,

Not a fair comparison there, you'd get a huge viewership when an Irish athlete is in the runnning for an Olympic medal too, regardless of the sport. Possible success for Ireland interests the whole country, you only have 2 counties fully invested in an All Ireland final

dahayeser (Cork) - Posts: 378 - 12/08/2015 17:15:09    1768992

was in Amsterdam once for a weekend and heading to an Irish pub to watch Galway v Cavan in the AI U21, lad behind the bar puts the game on for me, about 15 mins later about 15 lads come in asking to watch the Man U v Arsenal game or something similar, and he told them he couldn't put it on as he had me in watching the gaelic, once they left he told me he had a second tv down the back he could have put in on but couldn't be bothered. Needless to say if ever I am in Amsterdam I pop in for a few jars, and the bar man was a dub with absolutely no interest in GAA.
As far as I am aware McGettigans is a Donegal owned pub group with bars in various spots round eth world and they also sponsor Shane Lowry, also main sponsors of the GAA out in Dubai.

Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 12/08/2015 17:18:20    1768997

tinrylandman
that is one game in how many years haha
what about their other games for the last decade
they dont get the supporters going to the aviva even anymore

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 12/08/2015 17:24:33    1769004

My local recently in fairness big enough pub has a few SKY boxes , recently one broke and we were left in no doubt as to the pecking order .
Soccer
Horse Racing
Gaa missed out , now I cant say what would have happened had Dublin been playing .

Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 12/08/2015 17:25:29    1769005

Rosineri1

Have to say that mcgettigans is a big dissapointment
only been to the limerick one
but the set up of the place is impressive
loads of screens , oval shaped bar to serve every angle and they do a tax free tuesday
where you dont pay the tax and drink or food.
all sounds great only problem being
food is terrible, nightmare trying to get served in the place
and of all the screens they only show one thing generally haha
its like somebody set the place up perfectly
but left it to the rong people to run it

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 12/08/2015 17:29:30    1769007

Well did English Premier League rule the TV screens again at the weekend?

I am guessing it did in Cork anyway so I took no chances and watched the Tipp v Galway at home.

dahayeser (Cork) - Posts: 378 - 17/08/2015 13:16:21    1771371

One of my locals in town here yesterday (surprisingly) put on the hurling on 2 TVs with sound up - everyone glued to it. Big screen down the back with City V Chelsea (muted) & noone watching it.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 17/08/2015 14:37:06    1771450

12/08/2015 16:24:57 hill16no1man
its easy to over register in soccer as for one you dont need to transfer to play for clubs
I played for two in one year whenever I didnt have a gaa game last year. plus 5 aside astro is also counted in registered players
that aint serious players thats a kick about with a few mates. the amount of people registered anyway is only one elemant
what about attendances? what about tv viewing figures?
overall the gaa is definatly the biggest sports in ireland The GAA cant be considered biggest sport. Gaelic yes but the GAA is a grouping of several sports.
Where is the evidence 5 a side astro etc are included in counting the number of registered players?

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 17/08/2015 15:27:58    1771500