Is it just the GAA you have an issue with re state funding or would you apply this principal to any institution that receives stae funding?
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They werenāt explicitly GGA.
Nope.
I have an issue with the promotion of things based on bigotry and trying to cleanse a country of foreign influences.
Thatās what the GGA engaged in.
Remnants of those rules exist today, but there is no embarrassment from anyone here. Instead thereās deflection.
Sure most of those abhorred by what you are saying would be the first lad to call you a west brit. Its ingrained in their sub conscious
He arranged for Tolka Park to be leased to The Drums in 1953 by the Council at a nominal rent.
What year was the ban in foreign dancing lifted
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Fee paying schools do worse. Anyone can play GAA if they want to. Not everyone can go to a private school. Both are state funded.
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Most people donāt want to. Itās a minority sport
I know they are not normal CB schools. They are CB schools for Toffs who will enter the political and business elite.
They save the state money line is the best wheeze ever. These schools would close if they had to pay the teachers to provide this elitist and exclusionary education that hardens inequality and these toffs would be forced back into the State sector and an even playing field. It might cost the state a few bob to educate them but many believe that this would be a price worth paying for a society that values equality of opportunity.
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Source?
How was it different from anything at the time?
Iām just trying to square Timās hypocrisy here.
Anyone can play rugby if they want to.
Was there ever fees attaching to the most famed GAA schools e.g. colmans, flannans, jarlaths, kierans etc etc
Iām sure there were fees for boarding but not for day pupils.
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Bumped for the gahliban
Who Stole Our Game.
A story of the demise of the LoI.
Do you admit it would cost the State more money then?
Iām not getting into your deflection tactics here btw, start another thread for that.
The simple fact is that there is no other country in the western word, where you would have the patriarch of the nation saying he couldnāt go to a game he liked for āpolitical reasonsā. Nor would you have a Head of State like Douglas Hyde get the same treatment.
You deflect because you know it to be true.
So how was it different from any other sporting lease? Please explain.
Do you deny that the GGA got special tax exemptions for years?
Do you deny what DeValera said and what happened to Douglas Hyde?
Do you deny the imposition of bans on foreign games, they being āBritishā?
Weāve a few lads here who would have some sympathy for the ethnic cleansing in the old Yugoslavia I think.
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I canāt wait until the knackers are having sulky races up and down the home straight above in the Curragh, thatās the precedent being set here. A lower class of person and a lower class of sport demanding to use the upper classes property and facilities.
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What a load of nonsense that is. The banning of players who were in receipt of payment was nothing to do with any unfairness of amateurs playing professionals. It was to ensure the men working in the mines and mills of northern England were excluded from the sport of the elite. These men, who were far superior athletes to your average public schoolboy, could only play on Saturdays if someone covered their loss of wages for working 5.5 days rather than 6, and the ban was seen as a great way of cleansing the sport of their type. Fascinating to see someone take the moral high ground due to his association with a sport that excluded the working class, was supported by the Nazis and firmly supported appartheid.
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