Monday, March 19, 2007
GAWA does St Patrick’s Day
The London NISC became the latest addition to this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade in London.
Fair Deal @ 11:28 AM
“For year, Northern Ireland football and Northern Ireland supporters were ignored and we’re not going to be ignored any more”.
Vintage MOPEry from Kate Hoey. Thankfully she didn’t spoil what was otherwise a great day out.
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 11:47 AMMopery or not it is good to see it - roll tricolours on the 12th.
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 12:10 PM..roll on..
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 12:10 PMGlad to see that St Patricks day is being enjoyed by all. Didn’t hear any stories about the parades in Belfast, I assume it went well?
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 12:25 PM“… roll tricolours on the 12th”.
In a true and UNITED (not just joined or forced together) ‘Ireland of Equals’, it will go without saying. 20% of the population would be hard to ignore!
But the Twelft has bugger-all to do with yesterday in London - why shouldn’t supporters of the founding IRISH FA team embrace St Patrick’s Day and be embraced back, and have fun into the bargain?
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 12:38 PMWas it a ‘no surrender’ bus !!
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 12:41 PMApparently Newsline will be covering this story this evening. Good on the London NISC.
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 12:42 PMTroll James,
Just for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5EIWA2VZZs
Close the door behind you.
;-)
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 01:12 PMgav
football for all ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Divl_I-pyg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMCAljqoTVc
I suppose the n.i supporters were ‘up to their necks in fenian blood’ at yesterday’s parade.
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 01:33 PMYeah James how dare those evil sectarian bastards get involved in a St Patricks parade. How dare they get involved in your saints day.
They better not have had gays walking there as well…
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 01:40 PMUnrelated topic
But could this be the end of Glasgow Rangers in europe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXw2rm3xs0s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CocTc8tEnjQ&NR;The club was fined last year and warned about sectarian & racist singing.
After crowd trouble in Spain last week & more sectarian chanting will FIFA now tackle them face on
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 01:56 PMI guess the Slugger fellas must put up GAWA posts with a heavy heart ‘cos they know it’ll bring the trolls out of the woodwork and degenerate into the usual mudslinging about b1gotry by s**t-stirrers who I really wish would leave us all alone (desperately searching for video evidence of b1goted behaviour by supporters of the international team you don’t like on youtube??!! – get a grip!!!) …anyway, hope the GAWA had a cracker day and good on ‘em for showing that expressions of Northern Irishness are as valid as any other displays of Irish identity – sorry if that upsets the embittered diehards of both persuasions. Anyway, Paddy’s Day kinda died for me with that very questionable France try against our Scottish brethren…wish I cared a bit more about cricket…ho hum…
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 02:02 PMhttp://www.irishfa.com/the-ifa/news/2884/l...otball-for-all/
I hope the London NISC enjoyed celebrating our Patron Saint yesterday, and look forward to meeting with them in Vaduz at the weekend.
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 02:03 PMDinger,
Ireland blew it in Dublin a month ago, against the French, though ironically with similar carelessness to Saturday there. Brian Moore gets up our noses, but he has a point.
As for trolls like James - Northern Ireland supporters who cherish their team and want to celebrate their Irishness, which they are entitled to do as anyone else with a stake in this island, are here and aren’t going away.
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 02:17 PMRe. the rugby team, agree entirely that the last minute lapse of concentration against France was the killer. I also suspected that some of the kicks O’Gara should have got would end up costing us dearly. Conceding the last minute try was a symptom of the gung-ho attitude which Ireland displayed and which actually carried them into a strong position. A more cautious approach would have yielded a much less high-scoring result. If Ireland had broke away and scored another try in the dying seconds we would have hailed that bravery. Of course in retrospect the ball should have been cleared, but everything becomes clear in hindsight.
An excellent initiative from the London NISC again. Best of luck to them and to the Black Dog supporters club who will be completing a sponsored walk prior to Saturday’s game for charity.
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 03:02 PMComments from O’Gara on were about the Italy match btw.
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 03:03 PMWell done London NISC, great initiative and hope you enjoyed the day.
(And hope Vaduz starts warming up for Saturday-minus 7 evening temperature predicted-luvvley!)
Posted by on Mar 19, 2007 @ 03:48 PMGood to see the NI soccer folk out in London celebrating St Patricks Day. About time too! NI flags were flown along with Irish tri-colours, and everyone got along fine. Twas the same at the cricket, celebrations all round from the supporters from all quarters of our island.
Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 10:04 AMThe Vol Martin Doherty Republican Flute Band (from that great Irish town of Govan) can’t have participated in the same parade as members of the GAWA before?
Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 03:01 PMThe IFA are quite fond of bands themselves.
They hired an ‘kick the pope’ band for the pre- match musical entertainment during the CAS cup final at Seaview last year.
Posted by on Mar 20, 2007 @ 09:30 PM“The IFA are quite fond of bands themselves.
They hired an ‘kick the pope’ band for the pre- match musical entertainment during the CAS cup final at Seaview last year.”
That is a lie.
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 12:09 PMRealist,
I thought that myself when I heard of that band in the parade.Wasn’t Martin Doherty the doorman of the Widow Scallan’s pub in Dublin who was killed while stopping loyalist terrorists from getting inside to carry out a massacre of the patrons?
Don’t know what the Govan link is.
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 12:43 PMAlso an IRA *volunteer*, according to An Phoblacht anyway.
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 01:02 PMWell done to London NISC. It doesn’t matter who else was or was not on the parade - many diverse groups take part. They were there representing Northern Ireland and the supporters club. Good show!
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 02:15 PMKick the pope bands hired by the IFA for music at finals.
Minutes silence for the leader of the UVF/PUP at Glentoran.
Ian Paisley & the DUP electioneering on the pitch before Ballymena United game.
No movement on sunday football(only league in the whole of Europe).
Sectarian singing the whole way through last nights Linfield game.
No movement on unionist Anthem & flag.
Continued ‘no surrender’ chants and other party tunes at n.i games.
n.i flags flown with uvf/uff flags all over unionist areas during the 12th period.
..Football For All..as long as you’re unionist.
Ohhh. and no taig games at ‘our’ new stadium.
Posted by on Mar 21, 2007 @ 08:42 PM
