Posts Tagged ‘GAA’
Don’t say ‘fuck’ if you’re a League of Ireland fan. It can get you into trouble with the law.
Fair dues to Shamrock Rovers boss Jonathan Roche. He and his club have been on a positive PR crusade for the last while, resulting in, for a change, some good coverage for LoI. Here’s an example from the Business Post, quoting Roche:
GAA stalwart Michael Lyster joins the sudden orgy of LoI coverage, centred on the Cork crisis, on last evening’s Drivetime (RealPlayer), with the by-now familiar blend of faux sympathy and arch tut-tutting.
If you ever wonder why LoI teams find it so hard to make headway in a country which we are constantly told is sports-mad, and why attendances at ‘glamour’ friendlies don’t translate into long-term conversions, you could do worse than read Deiseach’s account of his freebie big day out with the Tractor Boys at Waterford [...]
Lots of discussion on message boards over the past few days of the GAA’s ploughing of a disputed field, as reported by the Kerryman.
They haven’t gone away you know… The Irish Times gives free reign to the GAA to vent over their cynical but failed attempt to hijack Shamrock Rovers’ Tallaght Stadium. And so a League of Ireland club finds itself in the singularly unfamiliar territory of ‘Top Story’ in the ‘paper of reference’.
