Replying To CCFabu:  "I think your last sentence gets to the crux of it really, but what I find frustrating is if I say that this is not reflecting my values as a GAA member, I am called a virtue signalling woke hypocrite. I find that attitude nauseating and arrogant, as if I'm some cynical lazy person looking for a pat on the head rather than feeling strongly about an issue. People who spout that nonsense seem very content in their own lives to hurl from the ditch and the status quo is fine and all the rest of it. I can't stand it - they'll happily say what's happening in Gaza is terrible and then criticise me for speaking about it, for going to a protest, for trying to make changes in my own community about it?

At the end of the day it is an issue for me and I'm saying what I believe the GAA should do about it, I will advocate for that and someone like yourself has made reasonable points about how complicated the whole issue is with the bonds and Allianz, that's all fair argument in my view. As I've said many times here I know this is a complicated situation for the GAA to navigate but I still think that they have choices to make between accepting sponsorship money and using products and services. Letting Allianz wrap themselves in the GAA coat and say how great they are for sponsoring the GAA is using our associations good image and standing in Ireland to help their own image. That's how sponsorship works and anyone who refuses to acknowledge that just isn't being honest in this debate in my opinion.

If you accept that's how sponsorship works, the question then becomes - do we want the GAA to give their good image over to companies with links that we find morally questionable (being generous)? And that's the complication like you say with PIMCO and all the rest - but the GAA are more than capable of making difficult choices from complex situations. It is still a choice to accept Allianz's money and I don't like the attitude from some areas on this that it's all just an inevitable situation that nobody, literally not one person, can do anything about. We all just have to accept things as they are and that's that?"

Replying To zinny:  "Look I don't have an issue with people protesting and it is genuine GAA people who are not happy rather than it being used as another stick to beat the GAA from distractors outside of it. I think the GAA has done the best they can here and there is enough distance between what happens and PIMCO and Allianz that continuing with them as sponsor is justified. If it was found that Musgraves continued to import goods from Israel to sell in their shops, I would take a very different view and yet I don't believe they have given that commitment. People may take the view that its an individuals responsibility to check if they are buying them or not - I would not take that stand. While I personally always check where good come from, a lot of people don't and it is at times well hidden.
However I think you may have missed one important point and I will use an example. Two major tech companies named in the report are big corporation tax payers in Ireland and for that matter another one is the biggest trading corporate with Israel who also pays a lot of corporation tax. We use their products daily as well. We personally or indirectly through our governments tax take and distribution of that tax are already morally compromised. Complaining then that the GAA is taking money from Allianz while not recognizing that we also do the same is where I have the issue. As I said if we were to recognize our own failings and understand the nature of what the complaint is against Allianz then I believe there is no issue."