I never watch Fair City or most of the garbage RTE produce but I certainly don't pay my TV Licence to watch even more GAA matches.
Show me a sporting organisation that doesn't seek to maximise their income?
I would rather RTE spend the money showing my local rugby team and other Irish rugby teams in the URC instead of having most of the matches shown in a language I can't understand. I'd also like them to show Irish teams in the European Champions Cup instead of showing English soccer teams in the Champions League but more Irish people are interested in supporting teams from their former colonial masters than local teams. So that's what RTE pay for.
. English Soccer,or football as they call it , is the most popular sport in Ireland , whether you,or I , like it or not. If RTE want to pay for that fine with me. At least many people can look at something they like.. while paying for it with their license fee....1. I don't care if the commentary is in Urdu or Greek and am pleased that RTE, TG4, Virgin show so much rugby. It was only when I left secondary school (to work in the UK) that I learnt to appreciate the Irish language and took lessons in Bedfordshire from an Irish native speaker where I discovered that school Irish and Irish as spoken in Gaeltacht areas is not one and same. I became an instant fan and after I returned to Ireland I took more classes and visited Gaeltacht areas more. Unlike some, I never shoved the language down anybody's throat and spoke Irish only when I knew the other enjoyed speaking the language too. If Peig Sayers had died in her infancy my passage through secondary school would have been much more pleasant.
How did you only realise that now? Have you not read any of my posts?I didn't realize you can't understand English
Absolutely. Many Irish people are still very aligned to their former English masters. The fact that they read English newspapers, watch English TV and say "We" and "Us" when talking about English football teams shown just how culturally English they are.
Or they could watch it on UK TV, though Virgin TV is really just ITV with a bit of tabloid "Oirish" content thrown in.
I'm not quite sure what you're basing this assessment on. While I'm not from a traditional hurling county, I don't see evidence of this. In fact, it's the opposite. You see a lot more kids going around with hurls and helmets now (in Dublin for instance) than you would have 40 years ago when it was virtually unknown.
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Every day's a school day. You've misunderstood my post. When you're dyslexic it's usually harder to learn a second language. That's why there is an Irish language and foreign exemption for dyslexic children doing State exams. It's nothing to do with whether someone is verbal or not. The Autism spectrum doesn't go from mild to severe, it's a spectrum of different issues and symptoms. Those issues and symptoms may vary from mild to severe.
Great game today and a great result for Carlow .....hard luck to Offaly in a nail biting finish.....it seems.
Didn't see all of it but it was a good game. You could see the benefit a few of the Carlow lads have from playing Fitzgibbon with SETU Carlow. Given the lack of numbers in Carlow, that may be the way forward for them in the future, get 3 or 4 lads onto the SETU team every year and the benefit of playing and training on that level. They don't have the numbers to be competitive at under age level although good to see a few from Carlow town on the under age panels this year
That's right. The County is small and they haven't enough hurling teams to pick from to always be consistent. They have a good squad at present so it's been a good year. Unfortunately we will never be a constant threat to Offaly or Laois and traditional hurling counties.