Are you being unpatriotic if you don't like GAA. Keep it clean please.

Super-Rush

With the All Ireland championships on again the clubs and pubs are becoming infested with people who want you to say 'Up the Deise' or 'Come on the Rebels' followed by 'will you play Galway Girl'. When i refuse to do this and tell them i hate GAA i am met with 'And you call yourself an Irishman?'

WTF

I used to love GAA and had a short but successful playing stint back in the day but the politics made me quit.

So apparently because i dont like GAA it means I'm now not a true Irishman?

So what if i don't like running around on a wet Sunday morning getting the sh1te hammered out of me then go home and kick the crap out of my brother because i'll never be as good as my father/uncles.

Get back in your tractor and fcuk off away from me.

sidneykidney

I dislike the GAA. If that makes me unpartiotic then so be it,not like i care tbh.:rolleyes:

My name is URL

Is it unpatriotic to not support the IRA?

The only difference is one group is incompetent with explosives

mandaiben

A conservative would see it as unpatriotic. Sadly there's a lot of them.

anonymous_joe

I'm not really from Gah country, but I quite like the sports (though I played rugby in my youth) although I'd not be a big fan of the organisation.

Killaqueen!!!

It's not as black and white as if you like GAA ur patriotic and if you don't then you're not.

But take a rugbyhead and take a GAA man and who do you thinks going to be more patriotic?

mental07

No, it's not unpatriotic. If you don't like a sport, you don't like a sport, end of. Nobody's patriotism should be judged on whether or not they enjoy pucking a tiny ball around a field.

MIN2511

As a foreigner, i love GAA. I watched my first match nearly two months ago and i fell in love.
I also watched the Dublin vs Meath game last week and i will probably watch the Wexford game as well.
The sport is fantastic, the lads that play it are very good for playing it for 'free'.
I don't know how politics has gotten into GAA, and maybe AH isn't the forum to find out but i believe we should support our counties.

If you don't watch it then fair enough, but i think it's part of the Irish history and it should be preserved.


btw, what's the story: i noticed the people who follow Rugby don't follow GAA....

I like both...

Four-Percent

Killaqueen!!! wrote: »

It's not as black and white as if you like GAA ur patriotic and if you don't then you're not.

But take a rugbyhead and take a GAA man and who do you thinks going to be more patriotic?

oh, the GAA man definitely.Everyone knows you can't love both rugby and Ireland :rolleyes:

soccymonster

Just think to yourself when some gaa fanatic says crap to you again.. 'Id rather be unpatriotic than be like him!".. Although i am a huge fanatic of the sport myself but i would never say crap like that to anyone..

anonymous_joe

Killaqueen!!! wrote: »

It's not as black and white as if you like GAA ur patriotic and if you don't then you're not.

But take a rugbyhead and take a GAA man and who do you thinks going to be more patriotic?

Yeah, we salute the Union Jack every night. :rolleyes:

Affluence

Its not so much the sport I disagree with its more the type of people who the sport based it roots on. Boggers.

K4t

Killaqueen!!! wrote: »

But take a rugbyhead and take a GAA man and who do you thinks going to be more patriotic?

Rugby is just a load of ****e tbh. You're not patriotic if you watch it, just trying to be one of the boys or a rich.

Hurling is one of the most skilful and fastest field games in the world. I love watching it.

Gaelic football is alright, nowhere near as enjoyable to watch as hurling but I'd still watch it if it was on.

Affluence

K4t wrote: »

Rugby is just a load of ****e tbh. You're not patriotic if you watch it, just trying to be one of the boys or a rich prick.

Is there something wrong with being rich? You seem bitter for your own shortcomings in life making comments like that.

chughes

There are narrow minded people in this country who think that unless you conform to their view of Irishness then you are not really Irish. I went to a Christian Brothers school in the 60's and, as they were mostly from outside Dublin, they used to call us Dublin kids Sassanachs. Playing soccer was banned in the school and the GAA was everything to them. This whole experience left me with an indifference to GAA as a sport. To this day, my feelings haven't changed. I was born and raised in this country, I was educated in this country, I have married and raised a family in this country, I have paid my taxes in this country. If someone tried to tell me that because I don't follow GAA I'm not really Irish, they can take their prejudices and shove them sideways up where the sun don't shine.

Wishbone Ash

super-rush wrote: »

'will you play Galway Girl'. When i refuse to do this and tell them i hate GAA

What has 'Galway Girl' got to do with the GAA?

And you could be more diplomatic rather than saying 'I hate GAA'.

Affluence

super-rush wrote: »

With the All Ireland championships on again the clubs and pubs are becoming infested with people who want you to say 'Up the Deise' or 'Come on the Rebels' followed by 'will you play Galway Girl'.

I shudder at the thought of sharing the same nationality as these 'people'. They really bring Ireland down. If they love the IRA so much then I really wish they'd **** off up north and get killed. One less embarrasment.

Affluence

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

What has 'Galway Girl' got to do with the GAA?

Everything and you know it.

Super-Rush

What has 'Galway Girl' got to do with the GAA?

I found it ironic that i was being asked to 'Big Up' one county and then play a song about another county and this happened 3 times last night.

And you could be more diplomatic rather than saying 'I hate GAA'.

You try to be diplomatic with a drunk guy in a club.

stovelid

I quite like hurling, but I hate football, and I dislike the GAA generally. Couldn't care less if some silage-head thinks I'm not patriotic.Who gives a shit?

sofia11

The bit thats really irritates me is when some people, adults and children thinks its ok to have practise hurling sessions on the BEACH while the rest of us are there with our young children. And no, they haven't got control over where that sliotar goes, its scary. I saw a young boy who was struck by a sliotar on the side of his head and now he's paralysed on one side. If you say anything you are the worst in the world. If you want practise find a playing field or an area a safe distance away from other people and their cars! Thanks.

Wishbone Ash

super-rush wrote: »

You try to be diplomatic with a drunk guy in a club.

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

Stev_o

K4t wrote: »

Rugby is just a load of ****e tbh. You're not patriotic if you watch it, just trying to be one of the boys or a rich.

Hurling is one of the most skilful and fastest field games in the world. I love watching it.

Gaelic football is alright, nowhere near as enjoyable to watch as hurling but I'd still watch it if it was on.

Nice wumming. Sure we all know that GAA followers and players are forced to eat raw potatoes due to lack of finances don't you know :rolleyes:

Super-Rush

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

whats that got to do with saying i hate the GAA??

stovelid

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: FUCK OFF

FYP :pac:

Affluence

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Drunk Person: Could you play Galway Girl?

Diplomatic DJ: Sorry, I don't have it.

Drunk Person : Could you play Galway Girl

DJ : How the **** did you get in here?

Where I go.

illiop

K4t wrote: »

Rugby is just a load of ****e tbh. You're not patriotic if you watch it, just trying to be one of the boys or a rich.

Even if you're cheering for Ireland?
The GAA is corrupt, has been almost since it's creation and everybody knows it hence why my parents never allowed me or my brother to play and why I understand very little of either game although i do find hurling very immpressive. Disliking them is just the same as disliking any sport..it's a matter of taste and does not mesure how much you love Ireland.

PrivateEye

To me, 'the gah' is lumped in there with parish priests, Fianna Fail, gombeenism and crap local 'arts festivals' Seeing that idiot in Munster become an M.E.P purely on the back of 'the gah' just summed it up perfectly for me*, its been made a cornerstone of the typical rural community and maybe its the great rural-urban divide but god I really h ate Jacky Healy Rae Ireland and everything about it.

I'm a League of Ireland man anyway.

I speak the Irish language, am studying mainly Irish History and am a keen lover of Irish traditional music, I'm not some "West Brit gah hater" as some might say, but I can't stand them. They'd play the national anthem before taking a sh/te.

Also, what has it got to do with peoples attitude to the North of Ireland? Nothing.One of my best mates is a republican socialist and he agrees its a pile of sh/te that falls beteen Killinascully and Father Ted.

they used to call us Dublin kids Sassanachs

I normally just respond by asking them where they were in 1916

Remember these are the kind of people (see Roscommon if I remember right) that returned as many/if not more Fianna Fail cllrs.recently. Sure Granddad didn't fight for Enda Kenny.


*In relation to 'that idiot', the cancer has spread to FG. The 'gah' is not your entry to politics!

Shacklebolt

Affluence wrote: »

Is there something wrong with being rich? You seem bitter for your own shortcomings in life making comments like that.

Hows shouting your username at northsiders going for you?

July

I love the GAA and I can't stand this 'east of country' referall to the G.A.A. as 'gah'. GAA is something that's in the blood or not and if you have it it's wonderful.

I actually nearly started a thread earlier in LL while I watched the hurling match just to say aren't the GAA boys great? isn't it wonderful that championship season is in full swing? don't ya just love the whole thing? It doesn't have to be an inter-county match, I love going down to the pitch and watching the lads, listening to/having the banter on the sideline and watching people playing a sport for the love of the game, the pride of the parish.

I can understand though that if someone doesn't have that sense of belonging, the sense of community, the sense that your ancestors battled it out on the very same playing field then they surely can't understand what it means to people.

I blame soccer and the English and Sky Sports for these negative attitudes. And as for bringing in foreign sports to the sacred ground....

Ok the last bit was said in jest but for God's sake, haven't you all seen the AIB ad on TV. You know the little fella talking about how many sandwiches the old lady has made or how the aul fella lines the field. PRIDE OF PLACE. SENSE OF BELONGING. COMMUNITY.

Edit: To answer the OP's question. No, you're not unpatriotic if you don't like the GAA. But I think there's something intrinsicly Irish missing in the genetic make-up of someone who doesn't love it.* Maybe it's just the culchie gene that's missing. Now that's another thread entirely 'isn't it wonderful to be a culchie? can you imagine life if you weren't a culchie?' Maybe tomorrow.. :-)

* has no scientific basis, purely personal opinion

fifth

I love rugby, more than GAA, much more, I follow Leinster and Ireland. Doesn't make me unpatriotic!

I certainly didn't feel unpatriotic when we were playing England this year or when we beat them in '07.. I think the overall declining standard of skill in GAA , especially football has hastened my disinterest in GAA..

I'm a very patriotic person, (even though it doesn't mean that much on the grand scale as we can't choose where we are born)!

fryup

The GAA is the sport and leisure wing of Sinn Fein

Bonavox

I don't like GAA, but it doesn't make me an unpatriotic. Quite the opposite actually. We live in a country where we have the right to choose what we like and what we don't like. I hapen to be going to Croke Park next month, to see the greatest thing Ireland ever produced. No, its not GAA, its U2

chughes

July wrote: »

I love the GAA and I can't stand this 'east of country' referall to the G.A.A. as 'gah'. GAA is something that's in the blood or not and if you have it it's wonderful.

I actually nearly started a thread earlier in LL while I watched the hurling match just to say aren't the GAA boys great? isn't it wonderful that championship season is in full swing? don't ya just love the whole thing? It doesn't have to be an inter-county match, I love going down to the pitch and watching the lads, listening to/having the banter on the sideline and watching people playing a sport for the love of the game, the pride of the parish.

I can understand though that if someone doesn't have that sense of belonging, the sense of community, the sense that your ancestors battled it out on the very same playing field then they surely can't understand what it means to people.

I blame soccer and the English and Sky Sports for these negative attitudes. And as for bringing in foreign sports to the sacred ground....

Ok the last bit was said in jest but for God's sake, haven't you all seen the AIB ad on TV. You know the little fella talking about how many sandwiches the old lady has made or how the aul fella lines the field. PRIDE OF PLACE. SENSE OF BELONGING. COMMUNITY.

July, can I clarify something ? Are you saying that if you are not a GAA follower you don't have pride of place or a sense of belonging ? You may blame soccer and the English but I blame the Christian Brothers.

4zn76tysfajdxp

I'm completely indifferent to all sports. What does that make me?

Dyr

I'd watch hurling, skill and speed required.

Can't handle GAA anymore, Them UK based teams from up north ruined it.
It's only a bunch of angry muckers pushing each other around and scowling. Unless dublin are playing, then its angry muckers vs angry guards

Rugby is just big bulky f***kers running into each other. But If you love your country corporate sponsored all island sporting entity I'm sure its great.

mother_rucker

The thing is most people who claim to hate the GAA only do it to emphasise their own self-inflated notions of class. In Dublin especially sport is just another arena for the class divide to play itself out in.
If you really hate the sport then fair enough but if you're just saying stuff like this to play billy-big-willy with the northsiders then get over yourself.
As to the "politics" in GAA, everyone outside of Dublin knows the situation is 100 times worse in rugby.

July

chughes wrote: »

July, can I clarify something ? Are you saying that if you are not a GAA follower you don't have pride of place or a sense of belonging ? You may blame soccer and the English but I blame the Christian Brothers.

Christian Brothers aside...

I think that nothing permeates the community in Ireland in such a positive way and brings it together as much as the GAA does.

O.A.P

MIN2511 wrote: »

As a foreigner, i love GAA. I watched my first match nearly two months ago and i fell in love.
I also watched the Dublin vs Meath game last week and i will probably watch the Wexford game as well.
The sport is fantastic, the lads that play it are very good for playing it for 'free'.

Are you an eskimoo or what? allthough a snowball fight would be much more enteraining than the Dublin v Meath match. Wexford v Kildare was better and Kildare are my favourite for the Leinster title but it was a poor match. I love both football and hurling I never realised it was so easy to sell to foreigners. I hope you continue follow it though because we are gauranteed a few great matches every year.

dresden8

super-rush wrote: »

With the All Ireland championships on again the clubs and pubs are becoming infested with people who want you to say 'Up the Deise' or 'Come on the Rebels' followed by 'will you play Galway Girl'. When i refuse to do this and tell them i hate GAA i am met with 'And you call yourself an Irishman?'

WTF

I used to love GAA and had a short but successful playing stint back in the day but the politics made me quit.

So apparently because i dont like GAA it means I'm now not a true Irishman?

So what if i don't like running around on a wet Sunday morning getting the sh1te hammered out of me then go home and kick the crap out of my brother because i'll never be as good as my father/uncles.

Get back in your tractor and fcuk off away from me.

The world is full of assholes.

You should inform them of their status.

achtungbarry

Killaqueen!!! wrote: »

But take a rugbyhead and take a GAA man and who do you thinks going to be more patriotic?

http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz_images/sport2009/rugby/ireland_nations_celeb_2.jpg

chughes

July wrote: »

Christian Brothers aside...

I think that nothing permeates the community in Ireland in such a positive way and brings it together as much as the GAA does.

July, that doesn't really answer my question. I'm not a GAA follower so does this mean that I don't have a pride of place and a sense of belonging ? A simple "Yes" or "No" will do.

fryup

July wrote: »

I think that nothing permeates the community in Ireland in such a positive way and brings it together as much as the GAA does.

not at all .......its drink!! that brings the irish together:pac:

It's all up to people's tastes I don't have an interest in GAA but it is just a sport at the end of the day. It'd be different if I didn't have an interest in the country as a whole.

Dyr

achtungbarry wrote: »

http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz_images/sport2009/rugby/ireland_nations_celeb_2.jpg

Have they not found a non sectarian flag that the whole rogby community on the island of ireland could get behind?? like some sort of visual Irelands call?

Maybe something like this:

http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/includes/news/guardianadd/flag.jpg

July

chughes wrote: »

July, that doesn't really answer my question. I'm not a GAA follower so does this mean that I don't have a pride of place and a sense of belonging ? A simple "Yes" or "No" will do.

Maybe you do, maybe you don't, how am I supposed to know how you feel?

I'm talking generalisations. You are a specific person. In general, in most parishes in this country, GAA is 'the' central thing that binds the community, the corner stone of the activites of the place. Your community may be different but I don't know where you're from.

July

fryup wrote: »

not at all .......its drink!! that brings the irish together:pac:

Ah ya! I knew there was something I couldn't think of!

K-9

Hurling at its best is the game of the Gods, but Gaelic is getting more and more like Rugby, unfortunately.

Unpatriotic? Well the only people who could in anyway claim that, would be people from the 6 counties who went through hell to just get to play the game for years. Even then it doesn't make you less Irish or something like that.

Ah well, some twats follow GAA, Rugby, Soccer, Cricket etc.

Dyr

July wrote: »

I'm talking generalisations. You are a specific person. In general, in most parishes in this country, GAA is 'the' central thing that binds the community, the corner stone of the activites of the place. Your community may be different but I don't know where you're from.

Ye see here's the thing, it's really only the arse end of beyond places in this country that call themselves parishes. It's not really surprising that GAA is the biggest thing going in a parish, it's not like theres much else to do except go to mass/shoot the neighbours dog/scowl out your window

stovelid

July wrote: »

I love the GAA and I can't stand this 'east of country' referall to the G.A.A. as 'gah'. GAA is something that's in the blood or not and if you have it it's wonderful.

I actually nearly started a thread earlier in LL while I watched the hurling match just to say aren't the GAA boys great? isn't it wonderful that championship season is in full swing? don't ya just love the whole thing? It doesn't have to be an inter-county match, I love going down to the pitch and watching the lads, listening to/having the banter on the sideline and watching people playing a sport for the love of the game, the pride of the parish.

I can understand though that if someone doesn't have that sense of belonging, the sense of community, the sense that your ancestors battled it out on the very same playing field then they surely can't understand what it means to people.

I blame soccer and the English and Sky Sports for these negative attitudes. And as for bringing in foreign sports to the sacred ground....

Ok the last bit was said in jest but for God's sake, haven't you all seen the AIB ad on TV. You know the little fella talking about how many sandwiches the old lady has made or how the aul fella lines the field. PRIDE OF PLACE. SENSE OF BELONGING. COMMUNITY.

Edit: To answer the OP's question. No, you're not unpatriotic if you don't like the GAA. But I think there's something intrinsicly Irish missing in the genetic make-up of someone who doesn't love it.* Maybe it's just the culchie gene that's missing. Now that's another thread entirely 'isn't it wonderful to be a culchie? can you imagine life if you weren't a culchie?' Maybe tomorrow.. :-)

* has no scientific basis, purely personal opinion

What makes you think this is specific to the GAA? It could be any sport - even the dirty, foreign tan ones.

July

Bambi wrote: »

Ye see here's the thing, it's really only the arse end of beyond places in this country that call themselves parishes. It's not really surprising that GAA is the biggest thing going in a parish, it's not like theres much else to do except go to mass/shoot the neighbours dog/scowl out your window

I fail to see your point..

GAA catchment areas are determined by parish boundaries so you can't talk about GAA without mentioning parishes. The grass-roots of GAA is at parish level.