Hurley Fight In Dublin City

geeky

The best arguments are still entertaining when it's hard to work out exactly what the two people concerned are rowing about. See above.

SEPT 23 1989

IrishAm wrote: »

Make a great GAA stadium.

Love the seats. The fans collection from away trips.

I think the GAA have enough

stovelid

The mullah ball does seem popular in Dublin alright. Especially during the championship. Never sure if it's down to all the muldoon blood in Dublin. Many otherwise normal people are of mullah descent. All the more reason to ban it and only allow British-descended sports in the cities. Yeoman sports can left to flourish in The Silage Zone.

IrishAm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I think the GAA have enough

It will be a GAA stadium.

The homeless will fuck it up for themselves.

An awful lot of people are waiting in the long grass.

One major fuck up is all it will take.

dfx-

stovelid wrote: »

I love everybody although I think Dubliners should be expelled from the city for playing turf muncher sports. Association football and maybe a bit of rugby provide a more acceptable sporting diet for our youth.

Indeed, a spot of cricket too. All those pitches across the country would be great place to set up a wicket, a few stumps and put them to some use.

stovelid

Fetching cricket balls and providing drinks would also provide rural jobs and keep them out of urban areas. They would even get paid over the table unlike the "volunteer" work in the mullah ball clubhouses.

Win-win, really.

dfx-

Cricket bats manufactured in the shires wouldn't break so easily too. Weapon of choice should discipline be required..

IrishAm

When the GAA take rightful ownership of South Dublin County Council Stadium, after Homeless FC revert to type, run amok and kick some poor kid half to death, I propose we build a massive 100 foot statue to the late great Mr Kilcoyne.

It would provide many badly needed construction jobs too.

Maybe rename the stadium in his honour too.

A great man.

stovelid

Then we can see manly and senseless violence restored to its rightful place: on the pitch.

IrishAm

stovelid wrote: »

Then we can see manly and senseless violence restored to its rightful place: on the pitch.

Better than on the LUAS lines.

Dyr

stovelid wrote: »

Then we can see manly and senseless violence restored to its rightful place: on the pitch.

If only our skanger population took their inspiration from soccer players we'd see a lot less of this violence. The ambulance service would be run off their feet though

dfx-

stovelid wrote: »

The mullah ball does seem popular in Dublin alright. Especially during the championship. Never sure if it's down to all the muldoon blood in Dublin.

I've always thought Roscommon or Ballinasloe is where that competition should be held. I nearly missed an association football match last Summer due to traffic caused by it.

xflyer

Jolly good show, stovelid and dfx. It's just not cricket to use hurleys.

Joking aside, that's what struck me as odd about the video in the first place, Dubs fighting with hurleys? Well I never. Baseball bats, guns, knives all par for the course. They must have misappropriated them from some passing country fellows.

Actually I don't know why there is such a fuss about this minor affray. This stuff is normal entertainment in any town across Ireland on any weekend and has been going on for centuries. I think the traditional term is 'Donnybrook'.

It's not just a Dublin thing.

What many non Dubs don't realise that in an around O'Connell street is where all the 'townies' live. O'Connell street is just their main street where they go to rob tourists and fight each other. People like to style Dublin a 'modern European capital'. Really it's just a big village, Longford on steroids.

I lived most of my life in Dublin but the first time I saw a good old street fight was in Galway. Galwegians would have you believe it never happens there. Although I will say it was a lot more lively than the one in the video. The Guards really got stuck in. No hurleys either.

IrishAm

dfx- wrote: »

I've always thought Roscommon or Ballinasloe is where that competition should be held. I nearly missed an association football match last Summer due to traffic caused by it.

The route to Ballingobackwards would take more people towards south west Dublin than the route to Croker.

Not the brightest, the homeless.

Nodin

xflyer wrote: »

.........
I lived most of my life in Dublin but the first time I saw a good old street fight was in Galway. Galwegians would have you believe it never happens there. Although I will say it was a lot more lively than the one in the video. The Guards really got stuck in. No hurleys either.

...they have them fancy flick hurleys now.

mikeystipey

close your eyes for the first 5 seconds of the clip and its like listening to a tennis match

Nodin

mikeystipey wrote: »

close your eyes for the first 5 seconds of the clip and its like listening to a tennis match

....bit like the one in Australia a few years back where the Croat and Serb ex-pats in the crowd went at it.

dfx-

IrishAm wrote: »

The route to Ballingobackwards would take more people towards south west Dublin than the route to Croker.

Not the brightest, the homeless.

The sporting occasion I was attending wasn't in south west Dublin, it's an area largely free from such native hindrances.

Forest Demon

Its time to start arming the Guards. They should be going around mad max style and doing a cull of these scummers. Scummers are much worse then Kangaroos and not half as cute.

IrishAm

dfx- wrote: »

The sporting occasion I was attending wasn't in south west Dublin, it's an area largely free from such native hindrances.

I know you lot have played your "home" games all over the country(even Cork lol) but your current temporary accommodation is based in south west Dublin.

stovelid

Got to laugh at the thought of TD being eventual anchor tenants in Tallaght. Seeing as most of the stadium would have to be demolished to accommodate senior Gaelic sports and the small matter of taking and losing a court case against the owners (and AFAIK still not ponying up the costs),I would hazard a guess the lease won't be winging its way any time soon.

stovelid

xflyer wrote: »

Jolly good show, stovelid and dfx. It's just not cricket to use hurleys.

Joking aside, that's what struck me as odd about the video in the first place, Dubs fighting with hurleys? Well I never. Baseball bats, guns, knives all par for the course. They must have misappropriated them from some passing country fellows.

Actually I don't know why there is such a fuss about this minor affray. This stuff is normal entertainment in any town across Ireland on any weekend and has been going on for centuries. I think the traditional term is 'Donnybrook'.

It's not just a Dublin thing.

What many non Dubs don't realise that in an around O'Connell street is where all the 'townies' live. O'Connell street is just their main street where they go to rob tourists and fight each other. People like to style Dublin a 'modern European capital'. Really it's just a big village, Longford on steroids.

I lived most of my life in Dublin but the first time I saw a good old street fight was in Galway. Galwegians would have you believe it never happens there. Although I will say it was a lot more lively than the one in the video. The Guards really got stuck in. No hurleys either.

I assume you can't get nabbed for having a Hurley or baseball bat unless you hit somebody with it..

IrishAm

stovelid wrote: »

Got to laugh at the thought of TD being eventual anchor tenants in Tallaght. Seeing as most of the stadium would have to be demolished to accommodate senior Gaelic sports and the small matter of taking and losing a court case against the owners (and AFAIK still not ponying up the costs),I would hazard a guess the lease won't be winging its way any time soon.

Who said anything about TD becoming tenants?

When you eventually get evicted, SDCC will have a nice piece of real estate with no available tenant.

Prices are getting cheap.

The GAA never lose. All about the waiting game, kid.

geeky

xflyer wrote: »

Joking aside, that's what struck me as odd about the video in the first place, Dubs fighting with hurleys? Well I never. Baseball bats, guns, knives all par for the course. They must have misappropriated them from some passing country fellows.

Apparently two innocent young fellahs were going by with hurleys, and some of the fighters just grabbed them of 'em. Poor kids, imagine explaining that to your mammy.

rKossi

Right outside the tourism office LOVE IT

mike65

Why are that lot not where they should be?























Australia!

Pottler

nutty, headwrecking thread. Just can't follow wtf anyone is on about. Did ye all get a belt of a hurley??

dublinman1990

The Gardai are doing something by studying the CCTV footage. This should be done more quickly and effectively IMO.

http://www.herald.ie/news/cctv-reveals-the-full-horror-on-henry-street-3117876.html

I have noticed a fist fight near Parnell Street sometime last year. It was a nasty experience to watch.

conor.hogan.2

Hurl. A hurl, we call it a Hurl in Dublin. You play hurling with a hurl.

Fighting Irish

dublinman1990 wrote: »

The Gardai are doing something by studying the CCTV footage. This should be done more quickly and effectively IMO.

http://www.herald.ie/news/cctv-reveals-the-full-horror-on-henry-street-3117876.html

I have noticed a fist fight near Parnell Street sometime last year. It was a nasty experience to watch.

What?

nudger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ZvAq7Iz8Q

Boosting our tourist industry, Aaaaaaaagh.:)

Liam90

HALF AN HOUR BRAWL!?!?!?

If this happened in another country it would of been over in minutes by the police, especially in a city centre.

The Gardai are incompetent to say the least....

mike65

Sure they had to find O'Connell street! Oh wait its full of fast food joints so they really should have already been in the immediate vicinity.

Gummy Panda

Liam90 wrote: »

The Gardai are incompetent to say the least....

Nothing new in city centre

**Vai**

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Hurl. A hurl, we call it a Hurl in Dublin. You play hurling with a hurl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurley_(stick)

Nevermind that, we can all agree it should be called a camán.

geeky

IrishAm wrote: »

Who said anything about TD becoming tenants?

When you eventually get evicted, SDCC will have a nice piece of real estate with no available tenant.

Prices are getting cheap.

The GAA never lose. All about the waiting game, kid.

Jaysus - speaks volumes that some people are actively hoping for Shamrock Rovers (or the hoopy brethren, as they're called here) to get booted out of an excellent stadium. I've only started going this season with the young fellah and it's an excellent, family-friendly set-up. To want that all gone out of a cocktail of malice and prejudice is just pathetic.

Oh, and before anyone says I'm a GAA-basher, I was turning that over on the sidelines of the young 'uns match in Ringsend this morning. Though mixing 'bogball' with 'foreign games' gets some peoples' backs up... :rolleyes:

IrishAm

geeky wrote: »

Oh, and before anyone says I'm a GAA-basher, I was turning that over on the sidelines of the young 'uns match in Ringsend this morning. Though mixing 'bogball' with 'foreign games' gets some peoples' backs up... :rolleyes:

I am a football fan, a Dublin GAA fan and I attend LoI games regularly enough.

Hating Homeless FC is not prejudice, its basic common sense.

Bipolar Joe

Shut up with the sport rubbish you bunch of mooks.

Nodin

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Shut up with the sport rubbish you bunch of mooks.

What the fuck is a mook?

Johro

Missed your chance to say 'what the fook'.

Bipolar Joe

An arsehole.

nxbyveromdwjpg

Anyone got a link to the video? Its been removed from youtube

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if that was in Lee Side he would have had hes head taken off with that swing.

No Wonder Dublin dont win any championship

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If that was on Lee side they would have gone on strike first

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