In one sentence, what does the GAA mean to you?
I’ll be too busy to ask this of people at the Ulster Final on Sunday but lets have your answers here. One sentence only on ‘what the GAA means to you’…..
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“Is one which relegates your ‘irishness’ before the altar of ‘Britishness’.
But for me as an Irishman, I would never dream of doing such a thing. ”
lol, nothing is relegated from my make-up, in addition to my Irishness and Britishness, I also feel very European. I speak Spanish, my wife is Spanish and my son peaks 3 languages at just 4 years old. I am who I am because of my cultural surroundings.
None of this makes me less Irish. I never felt that the British where trying to deny me my Irishness, the Scottish don´t feel any less Scottish for also being British.
As Driftwood points out we are all apes at the end of the day, and some of us allow the question of nationality which is essentially an accident of birth, dominate our lives.
lol, of course that should read my son speaks.
As my Spanish gets better my English gets worse.
“There’s been a long running campaign to try and get the universities to accept responsibility for the anti-social behaviour of their students.”
What?
You mean that Jordanstown should have expelled the guy who attacked the barmaid rather than move him into halls so that his penchant for vilence could be dealt with in the Students’ Union?
“The GAA means everything to me, to me its more than a Sunday game, its Irish, its Catholic ad its also to support the Gaelic language and even remember those who died for Ireland in the past.
Posted by Kerry GAA on Jul 17, 2009 @ 05:02 PM”
At least someone is prepared to go on record and call a spade a spade – fair play to you for your honesty – I feel it is a view shared by many but very unpopular to voice for obvious reasons….