Cricket in Irish Schools?

deman

While reading the Digital Version of Donegal News, up came the question in VoxBox, "Should Cricket Be Taught in Schools?"

The second reply was one that amazed me.

"No it shouldn't be taught to kids because it's not an Irish sport, but I obviously agree with teaching national sports such as Hurling and Gaelic. They're not going to bring baseball over here so why cricket? It's a different country's sport and I hate it anyway." - Wayne Cantwell, Letterkenny

So according to Mr Cantwell, we should only have Gaelic sports in schools. Does this mean that sports such as Soccer, Basketball, Rugby, Volleyball, Badminton, Tennis, Hockey, Athletics and other non-Irish sports should be dropped? Ireland would become the laughing stock of the whole sporting world as we'd be crap at every sport we tried.

A recent survey showed that Ireland had the 2nd worst allotted time for Physical Education in Europe (Britain was worst). If anything, we should be broadening the scope of sports we can participate in at school. It doesn't have to be cricket but it's not a bad choice. I think it should be there a voluntary sport. Why not? I've followed cricket all my life, but never had the opportunity to play. Why deprive other generations of the same opportunity?

DMC

deman wrote:

"No it shouldn't be taught to kids because it's not an Irish sport, but I obviously agree with teaching national sports such as Hurling and Gaelic. They're not going to bring baseball over here so why cricket? It's a different country's sport and I hate it anyway." - Wayne Cantwell, Letterkenny

A lot done, more to do.

Zeuz

The attitue of alot of the people in Ireland to do with forign sports being played here is PATHETIC to say the least!

Soccer is Not Irish?
Nor is Rugby
Squash isint
Tennis isint,
Hocky isint
Basketball isint

So what Is cricket just puching the boundries that LITTLE bit to far??
(excuse the pun)

man Some people!

RuggieBear

Sometimes i ****ing despair for this country.

TrueDub

deman wrote:

While reading the Digital Version of Donegal News, up came the question in VoxBox, "Should Cricket Be Taught in Schools?"

The second reply was one that amazed me.

"No it shouldn't be taught to kids because it's not an Irish sport, but I obviously agree with teaching national sports such as Hurling and Gaelic. They're not going to bring baseball over here so why cricket? It's a different country's sport and I hate it anyway." - Wayne Cantwell, Letterkenny

Lads, there's idiots everywhere. I can guarantee somewhere in Ireland someone doesn't approve of gaelic football because it interferes with people playing hurling.

Let these people stew in their own ignorance, don't give them the oxygen of publicity (or the oxygen of oxygen, for that matter).

mike65

Boggers are what boggers are. Ask the same question in Dún Laoghaire and you'll proberly get a slightly less hostile reply.

Cricket will never ever be mainstream if only cos its relatively complicated and even a very limited overs format is a full afternoon long.

Mike.

legspin

mike65 wrote:

Boggers are what boggers are. Ask the same question in Dún Laoghaire and you'll proberly get a slightly less hostile reply.

Cricket will never ever be mainstream if only cos its relatively complicated and even a very limited overs format is a full afternoon long.

Mike.

And comments like that are exactly what us country people object to in the average d4 dickhead.
Keep the bigotry out of here.

TrueDub

mike65 wrote:

Boggers are what boggers are. Ask the same question in Dún Laoghaire and you'll proberly get a slightly less hostile reply.

I disagree completely - you're as likely to get the same reply in South Dublin as you are in South Kerry. Some of the best cricket followers/players come from outside the Pale, so I wouldn't alienate any area of the country, if I were you...

The one thing I can say with certainty is that there are many, many closet cricket fans around the country, and hopefully our world cup success will bring a few of them into the open.

mike65

legspin Don't read me too literally.

Mike.

DMC

Just another one of Mike's trademarked self-depreciating posts