Christy Cooney - Wanker

Watch_The_Break · August 2, 2010, 2:12pm

Christy Cooney sleeps naked in an oxygen tent which he believes gives him sexual powers.

anon95599269 · August 2, 2010, 2:26pm

a few examples please?

caoimhaoin · August 2, 2010, 2:40pm

Well the Liverpool-Belfast-Dublin drug triangle anyway for one, they had several meetings over the years.

Sidney · August 2, 2010, 3:04pm

If Christy Cooney died of AIDS would it make the news? Yes, but in reality nobody would give a flying fuck.

fistoffury · August 7, 2010, 1:35pm

GAA agree to raise Hill 16 barrier

The Central Council of the GAA have endorsed a recommendation to increase the height of the front barrier at the Hill 16 end in Croke Park to 2.8metres.

The decision has been made after the unsavoury incidents that followed Meath’s victory in the Leinster Senior Football final as referee Martin Sludden was attacked by supporters.

GAA President Christy Cooney warned last month that something had to be done about pitch invasions for the safety of players and fans.

SHANNONSIDER · August 7, 2010, 1:44pm

http://www.ohwhenthespurs.co.uk/communities/1/004/007/015/021/images/4530735365.jpg

They never put the cages back up in England despite having way more trouble than the high jinx in Croker. Christy you’re a wanker.

anon95599269 · August 7, 2010, 1:48pm

when & where has a referree & manager been assualted in england in the last few years?

SHANNONSIDER · August 7, 2010, 1:54pm

The Brits took the fences down after Hillsborough, not put them up.

Sidney · August 7, 2010, 2:45pm

The Louth supporters didn’t come in from Hill 16. They came in from the stands. Why then is a fence being erected on Hill 16? Why only Hill 16 and not the stands?

The GAA loves to talk about “best practice”. Fences are “best practice”? Fuck off and die Cooney and McKenna.

Sidney · August 7, 2010, 2:45pm

http://media.nowpublic.net/images//df/7/df7529a978eb9e46868dfb36830112b6.jpg

gola · August 7, 2010, 4:46pm

Actually can’t believe this decision.
Definitely made because it looks like there’s a chance of Dublin winning the All Ireland and there’s no way they’d stop an invasion from Hill 16 without fences. The worst thing is there would actually be a genuine chance of a Hillsborough situation now if Dubs do win it.
They were laying it on thick on the big screens during the four games last week with players talking about it and there actually were no hints of an invasion despite fairly big surprising results, including the Dubs. Why do it now?
Incredible decision.

Sidney · August 7, 2010, 5:10pm

These cunts cannot be allowed get away with this. It is an attack by corporate bullies not only on tradition but on the safety of supporters.

Christy Cooney is by a comfortable distance the worst president in GAA history. The GAA are paying this man over €200,000 while he takes a three year sabbatical from his taxpayer funded junket at FAS. His tenure has seen constant and infuriatingly unnecessary meddling with the playing rules. Now this.

What is happening at the instigation of Cooney and Croke Park manger Peter McKenna is obscene. There is one underlying issue here as Watch the Break has said before on this thread and that is money. What Cooney and McKenna want is a sanitised, corporate friendly banality of a presentation which pays no heed to any of the best traditions of the GAA. No speech from the winning captain, no crowds celebrating as it has always been done. You can bet your arse there’ll be a Vodafone logo in the background though.

One by one their excuses as to why supporters should not be allowed celebrate on the pitch after finals have been exposed. They talked about supporters damaging the pitch, but yet had no problem ripping it up straight after the Leinster Football Final last year. Money was far more important than having a good playing surface for the most important games of the hurling and football season.

They talk about safety and best practice. Putting up a fence in front of a terrace is the most dangerous thing you can possibly do. Fences, the very thing that caused Hillsborough, and are banned in every sports stadium in Britain under the Taylor report. Best practice? I couldn’t think of a worse one.

The supporters who intimidated (not assaulted, though they should have) referee Martin Sludden at the end of the Louth-Meath match didn’t come from the Hill. They came from the stands. So why fence the Hill?

If you pen fans in, especially on a terrace, you will have problems. The 1983 and 1993 All-Ireland Football Finals and the 2008 Cork-Tipp match are just three examples off the top of my head.

I walked through a fenced in passageway through a forest before the Oasis concert at Slane last year. It was extremely dangerous. Penning in large crowds in confined spaces like this is a recipe for disaster – 20 dead at the Love Parade in Germany two weeks ago brings home the complete lunacy of it.

We have been subjected to a sinister PR bullshit campaign that supporters celebrating on the pitch is dangerous. Bullshit talk about hooliganism and possible deaths. Where is the evidence? Where are the injuries? If it happened you can be sure the media would have been all over it. They weren’t for one reason – because it’s bullshit.

Every single thing in life carries an element of risk to it. If I walk down to the shop I have to cross a dual carriageway. Tha at’s a risk. If I have to rewire a light fitting, I could electrocute myself. That’s a risk. If I take a shower, I could slip and badly injure myself. Should I never cross the road or take a shower again?

Why not be consistent. Let’s ban anything with an element of risk. There’s a far, far more serious risk of injury at an event like Slane, especially if it rains, than there will ever be from supporters coming onto the pitch at Croke Park. But events like this will continue because there’s money to be made. Ban Puck Fair. Ban hanging around Westmoreland Street at 3am on a Saturday night. Defo ban hanging around Supermac’s in Galway. Why not ban the running of the bulls in Pamplona? Is that not dangerous enough? Ban that tomato throwing festival too while you’re at it.

Do ban coursing though

The real risk to safety comes from trying to prevent supporters celebrating on the pitch. The current attitude is promoting fear, uncertainty and desperation in the crowd - people want to celebrate with their heroes and always will. The most sensible thing for everybody would be to allow that to happen in the most orderly fashion possible.

But Cooney, McKenna, with the support of their media lackeys, have decided in their infinite wisdom to cage in Dublin fans and fans of other counties who stand on Hill 16 in the same way that the Thatcher government and police treated football supporters in the 1980’s. We all know how that ended.

SHANNONSIDER · August 7, 2010, 5:42pm

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*except for the coursing bit.

gola · August 7, 2010, 5:57pm

The funny thing about Ireland is any of these type of decisions are completely influenced by what ‘the people’ ie Irish Indo, Joe Duffy callers, Des Cahill texters etc say. It’s ridiculous how big an influence the media has on massive issues of national importance never mind piddling little ones like this.
It would be fairly easy to win the PR battle on this and at least get it to the stage where they would let people on the pitch in an ordered fashion after a break of a couple of minutes. Would be no ‘invasion’ problem then. It’s such a no brainer there’s literally no argument against it.
A ‘GAA fans organisation’ would do it fairly handy but there isn’t one. And I doubt any of us are going to bother our holes organising one either.
It’s a massive PR disaster for the GAA waiting to happen cos they’re too stupid to come up with the obvious solution.

Watch_The_Break · August 7, 2010, 6:03pm

I think they need to start playing the fratellis after every score

anon95599269 · August 7, 2010, 6:47pm

These cunts cannot be allowed get away with this. It is an attack by corporate bullies not only on tradition but on the safety of supporters.

Christy Cooney is by a comfortable distance the worst president in GAA history. The GAA are paying this man over €200,000 while he takes a three year sabbatical from his taxpayer funded junket at FAS. His tenure has seen constant and infuriatingly unnecessary meddling with the playing rules. Now this.

What is happening at the instigation of Cooney and Croke Park manger Peter McKenna is obscene. There is one underlying issue here as Watch the Break has said before on this thread and that is money. What Cooney and McKenna want is a sanitised, corporate friendly banality of a presentation which pays no heed to any of the best traditions of the GAA. No speech from the winning captain, no crowds celebrating as it has always been done. You can bet your arse there’ll be a Vodafone logo in the background though.

One by one their excuses as to why supporters should not be allowed celebrate on the pitch after finals have been exposed. They talked about supporters damaging the pitch, but yet had no problem ripping it up straight after the Leinster Football Final last year. Money was far more important than having a good playing surface for the most important games of the hurling and football season.

They talk about safety and best practice. Putting up a fence in front of a terrace is the most dangerous thing you can possibly do. Fences, the very thing that caused Hillsborough, and are banned in every sports stadium in Britain under the Taylor report. Best practice? I couldn’t think of a worse one.

The supporters who intimidated (not assaulted, though they should have) referee Martin Sludden at the end of the Louth-Meath match didn’t come from the Hill. They came from the stands. So why fence the Hill?

If you pen fans in, especially on a terrace, you will have problems. The 1983 and 1993 All-Ireland Football Finals and the 2008 Cork-Tipp match are just three examples off the top of my head.

I walked through a fenced in passageway through a forest before the Oasis concert at Slane last year. It was extremely dangerous. Penning in large crowds in confined spaces like this is a recipe for disaster – 20 dead at the Love Parade in Germany two weeks ago brings home the complete lunacy of it.

We have been subjected to a sinister PR bullshit campaign that supporters celebrating on the pitch is dangerous. Bullshit talk about hooliganism and possible deaths. Where is the evidence? Where are the injuries? If it happened you can be sure the media would have been all over it. They weren’t for one reason – because it’s bullshit.

Every single thing in life carries an element of risk to it. If I walk down to the shop I have to cross a dual carriageway. Tha at’s a risk. If I have to rewire a light fitting, I could electrocute myself. That’s a risk. If I take a shower, I could slip and badly injure myself. Should I never cross the road or take a shower again?

Why not be consistent. Let’s ban anything with an element of risk. There’s a far, far more serious risk of injury at an event like Slane, especially if it rains, than there will ever be from supporters coming onto the pitch at Croke Park. But events like this will continue because there’s money to be made. Ban Puck Fair. Ban hanging around Westmoreland Street at 3am on a Saturday night. Defo ban hanging around Supermac’s in Galway. Why not ban the running of the bulls in Pamplona? Is that not dangerous enough? Ban that tomato throwing festival too while you’re at it.

Do ban coursing though

The real risk to safety comes from trying to prevent supporters celebrating on the pitch. The current attitude is promoting fear, uncertainty and desperation in the crowd - people want to celebrate with their heroes and always will. The most sensible thing for everybody would be to allow that to happen in the most orderly fashion possible.

But Cooney, McKenna, with the support of their media lackeys, have decided in their infinite wisdom to cage in Dublin fans and fans of other counties who stand on Hill 16 in the same way that the Thatcher government and police treated football supporters in the 1980’s. We all know how that ended.

whats th thrill in running onto the pitch you simpleton? act like normal people & respect the wishes of the gga

SHANNONSIDER · August 7, 2010, 7:02pm

The funny thing about Ireland is any of these type of decisions are completely influenced by what ‘the people’ ie Irish Indo, Joe Duffy callers, Des Cahill texters etc say. It’s ridiculous how big an influence the media has on massive issues of national importance never mind piddling little ones like this.
It would be fairly easy to win the PR battle on this and at least get it to the stage where they would let people on the pitch in an ordered fashion after a break of a couple of minutes. Would be no ‘invasion’ problem then. It’s such a no brainer there’s literally no argument against it.
A ‘GAA fans organisation’ would do it fairly handy but there isn’t one. And I doubt any of us are going to bother our holes organising one either.
It’s a massive PR disaster for the GAA waiting to happen cos they’re too stupid to come up with the obvious solution.

Lookit unfortunately the sort of twit who rises to the top in the GAA is the same sort who becomes a Fianna Fail councillor. Limerick County Board in their infinite wisdom have scheduled two county SH quarter finals bang slap in the middle of Cork v Kilkenny tomorrow. Promoting hurling how are ya?

I just love the rationale trotted out about fences, a guy comes off the stand and has a go at the ref. I know, let’s fence off the hill. The dishonesty of the thing is what sickens me. It’s like what the Nazis did after the Reichstag fire, use an incident to wipe out their opponents and push through an agenda.

fenwaypark · August 7, 2010, 7:09pm

These cunts cannot be allowed get away with this. It is an attack by corporate bullies not only on tradition but on the safety of supporters.

Christy Cooney is by a comfortable distance the worst president in GAA history. The GAA are paying this man over €200,000 while he takes a three year sabbatical from his taxpayer funded junket at FAS. His tenure has seen constant and infuriatingly unnecessary meddling with the playing rules. Now this.

What is happening at the instigation of Cooney and Croke Park manger Peter McKenna is obscene. There is one underlying issue here as Watch the Break has said before on this thread and that is money. What Cooney and McKenna want is a sanitised, corporate friendly banality of a presentation which pays no heed to any of the best traditions of the GAA. No speech from the winning captain, no crowds celebrating as it has always been done. You can bet your arse there’ll be a Vodafone logo in the background though.

One by one their excuses as to why supporters should not be allowed celebrate on the pitch after finals have been exposed. They talked about supporters damaging the pitch, but yet had no problem ripping it up straight after the Leinster Football Final last year. Money was far more important than having a good playing surface for the most important games of the hurling and football season.

They talk about safety and best practice. Putting up a fence in front of a terrace is the most dangerous thing you can possibly do. Fences, the very thing that caused Hillsborough, and are banned in every sports stadium in Britain under the Taylor report. Best practice? I couldn’t think of a worse one.

The supporters who intimidated (not assaulted, though they should have) referee Martin Sludden at the end of the Louth-Meath match didn’t come from the Hill. They came from the stands. So why fence the Hill?

If you pen fans in, especially on a terrace, you will have problems. The 1983 and 1993 All-Ireland Football Finals and the 2008 Cork-Tipp match are just three examples off the top of my head.

I walked through a fenced in passageway through a forest before the Oasis concert at Slane last year. It was extremely dangerous. Penning in large crowds in confined spaces like this is a recipe for disaster – 20 dead at the Love Parade in Germany two weeks ago brings home the complete lunacy of it.

We have been subjected to a sinister PR bullshit campaign that supporters celebrating on the pitch is dangerous. Bullshit talk about hooliganism and possible deaths. Where is the evidence? Where are the injuries? If it happened you can be sure the media would have been all over it. They weren’t for one reason – because it’s bullshit.

Every single thing in life carries an element of risk to it. If I walk down to the shop I have to cross a dual carriageway. Tha at’s a risk. If I have to rewire a light fitting, I could electrocute myself. That’s a risk. If I take a shower, I could slip and badly injure myself. Should I never cross the road or take a shower again?

Why not be consistent. Let’s ban anything with an element of risk. There’s a far, far more serious risk of injury at an event like Slane, especially if it rains, than there will ever be from supporters coming onto the pitch at Croke Park. But events like this will continue because there’s money to be made. Ban Puck Fair. Ban hanging around Westmoreland Street at 3am on a Saturday night. Defo ban hanging around Supermac’s in Galway. Why not ban the running of the bulls in Pamplona? Is that not dangerous enough? Ban that tomato throwing festival too while you’re at it.

Do ban coursing though

The real risk to safety comes from trying to prevent supporters celebrating on the pitch. The current attitude is promoting fear, uncertainty and desperation in the crowd - people want to celebrate with their heroes and always will. The most sensible thing for everybody would be to allow that to happen in the most orderly fashion possible.

But Cooney, McKenna, with the support of their media lackeys, have decided in their infinite wisdom to cage in Dublin fans and fans of other counties who stand on Hill 16 in the same way that the Thatcher government and police treated football supporters in the 1980’s. We all know how that ended.

hard to disagree with any of this. well put sid.

anon95599269 · August 7, 2010, 7:14pm

can some GGA fan tell me what exactly the thrill is of running onto the pitch -

the players ,managers, officials,stewards & people in the upper tiers have the occasion ruined by this hooliganism

gola · August 7, 2010, 7:15pm

it’s ferocious craic altogether