GAA need to step up

So again, outline how you want to do this?

the song is a celebration of irishness, a patriot and culture song.

integral to the very being of this country and it's rebellious fighting nature.

Cheers for that.

I see no practical way forward here only an acceptance that people be allowed to remember with respect.

And the same goes with commemoration and celebration.

Work away, but don’t target other communities with it.

That goes for all, republican, loyalist, Unionist, Nationalist, FGer, FFer, DUPer SFer etc.

The parades Commission in fairness is proof that it can be done, the 12th day itself more and more peaceful. QED

Kudos for cleaning up NI football, it was sectarian from the top down. Everyone remembers that night in Winsdor Park with Jack Charlton, even if you have airbrushed the viciousness of it from your memory.

The GAA is not sectarian in any way organisationally, and is an open and inclusive organisationa which has people of all sorts as members, including those who believe Sean South was a patriot and those who think Sean South is a good old tune.

It would be good now if the same thing could be done with the 11th night viciousness and sectarianism as was done for the public face of NI football

What a load of utter shoite!! Keyboard warrior shoite.

I don't think any modern sport organisation would survive without diversification and government subsidy, certainly not one as widespread and multi pronged as the GAA. From hurling to Scór it really is a massive organisation in an Irish context.

Maybe open a separate thread.

no irish culture.

The north is full of monuments to the British and Unionism, in public and the public walk past them everyday of the week. Would you ever wake up and smell the coffee?

The fight against the British was not 'sectarian'. If you want to give it that moniker then every war/conflict is 'sectarian'. It was an attack on the RUC - an arm of the British state.

You either accept that or you don't.

What happens when we commemorate somebody like Pearse or Connolly who also attacked the british state presence here? Will you demand we don't do that too? Arlene Foster still hasn't come to terms with 1916, so I presume you will.

You need to accept that there are two communities on this divided island. No one side gets to call the shots on who is or isn't remembered.

If you want people to stop singing songs about that struggle because you find them offensive then you have to be prepared for triumphalism and anti-Catholic displays, offensive statues and monuments and offensive flags to be binned as well.

The alternative is to agree to live and let live and stop looking to be offended.

I won't lower myself to type a list of atrocities committed on the other community.

Suffice to say, unionists like yourself have a road to travel yet,

Two communties, two histories....do you want to get rid of all references or find a way to live with each other and respecting what happened to each community.

You just want to indulge your victimhood and have no interest in finding ways to live together. You are part of the problem and not the solution which is why belligerent Unionism keeps getting left behind.