This refers to Ballyragget, if you haven't heard (where have you been), 2 strippers turned up at a pub on Tuesday, there happened to be a few lads still celebrating a county final win, they happened to still have the cup with them. Cue hysteria.....
Firstly strippers are not my thing, its total cringe. It shouldn't have happened blah blah blah. Of course the conversation is - "this is not what the GAA is supposed to be about", "its a disgraceful example to kids". I wasn't bothered enough to write about this until I now see Ruhama are onto the Guards about it - I'm flabbergasted, are they just trolling for cheap publicity or what??
Its unfortunate there was a GAA trophy present but other than that it has nothing to do with the GAA. What happened there was, to the best of my knowledge, not illegal. The ladies involved seemed to be willing participants, were above the age of consent (by many decades) - if even consent were needed for what may or may not have happened.
I'm sick of headlines of the flavour "GAA star in dog fouling disgrace". So you read on and Johhny Mac (who you never heard of) failed to pick up after his dog. By the way, he used to play a bit of Junior B in goals when they were stuck. So is this what the GAA represents??, what does the GAA have against public health initiatives like cleaning up after your dog??, are they doing enough??, should sports grants be withdrawn???
Have the PC lynch mob moved on from Hook to the likes of this?
The most obvious example of what I'm talking about relates to alcohol. Rugby can have its competitions known by alcohol brands, it can be served throughout the game and not a peep. Then the GAA gets slated for far less entanglement. Colm Cooper stages a private event, again people are not having it (admittedly a good chunk of 'GAA people' don't agree), but what gets on my goat is people who know zero about it still think they should be on radio and TV having their cut.
I'd say St Peter himself would baulk at the standards to which the GAA must be judged.
Firstly strippers are not my thing, its total cringe. It shouldn't have happened blah blah blah. Of course the conversation is - "this is not what the GAA is supposed to be about", "its a disgraceful example to kids". I wasn't bothered enough to write about this until I now see Ruhama are onto the Guards about it - I'm flabbergasted, are they just trolling for cheap publicity or what??
Its unfortunate there was a GAA trophy present but other than that it has nothing to do with the GAA. What happened there was, to the best of my knowledge, not illegal. The ladies involved seemed to be willing participants, were above the age of consent (by many decades) - if even consent were needed for what may or may not have happened.
I'm sick of headlines of the flavour "GAA star in dog fouling disgrace". So you read on and Johhny Mac (who you never heard of) failed to pick up after his dog. By the way, he used to play a bit of Junior B in goals when they were stuck. So is this what the GAA represents??, what does the GAA have against public health initiatives like cleaning up after your dog??, are they doing enough??, should sports grants be withdrawn???
Have the PC lynch mob moved on from Hook to the likes of this?
The most obvious example of what I'm talking about relates to alcohol. Rugby can have its competitions known by alcohol brands, it can be served throughout the game and not a peep. Then the GAA gets slated for far less entanglement. Colm Cooper stages a private event, again people are not having it (admittedly a good chunk of 'GAA people' don't agree), but what gets on my goat is people who know zero about it still think they should be on radio and TV having their cut.
I'd say St Peter himself would baulk at the standards to which the GAA must be judged.