Dublin and Kildare supporters are being asked to join together in a minute’s applause at this weekend’s Leinster SFC final in memory of tragic youngster Bradley Lowery.
Dublin fan Denis Finnerty has come up with the idea of honouring the brave six-year-old who lost his battle with cancer last week.
It is also intended that the show of unity will recognise all children who are currently battling the illness.
Bradley’s plight touched the hearts of sports fans after he became close friends with England soccer star Jermain Defoe who then played for the club he supported, Sunderland FC.
Bradley got to take a penalty kick at the Stadium of Light against Chelsea and was a mascot when England played Lithuania back in March.
FFS. would they hold a minutes silence for all the black kids drowning in the Med fleeing from persecution or the kids being bombed to death in Syria…would they fuck.
Something has to be done about all these minutes applause in the middle of matches to honour dead people. It’s peak Generation Snowflake behaviour. It’s as much for the benefit of the people involved - look how considerate we are! - as it is in actually remembering the deceased.
Respect the dead before the game with a minutes applause or silence. That’s more than sufficient. Anything else is just a cry for validation from Joe.ie and its subscribers.
Terrible what happened that little lad in Sunderland but linking it to a minutes applause at a sporting event in a foreign country? Fuck off for yourself.
Someone please nominate Mr Finnerty for COTY 2017.
Jesus wept. There are some self appreciating cunts out there. If they were to insist on a minutes applause would it not at least be better for a Dublin or Kildare child who has died in similar circumstances and given the basket case that is the HSE I doubt they’d be thin on the ground or even for poor little Omar who was stabbed to death the other day
If he felt that strongly why doesn’t he make a donation to that relevant charity or to the children’s hospital in Crumlin. Or even have a whip round in work or arrange a local fundraiser. That would all be perfectly reasonable and positive. Any human being with a scintilla of a conscience wouldn’t think twice in giving over a few bob for something like that.
But a social media led campaign for a minutes applause at a football match? Ffs.