Canât blame Rahoon Newcastle or Michaelâs at all. Having SKGAA land inside their catchment area with brand spanking new facilities. Flying the SKGAA flag. And they already going around sticking flyers in doors asking locals to back the plan. Cheeky feckers.
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Lord Didsbury thinks itâs fcuking outrageous.
Is Mick Culhane one of the movers behind this?
Mulholland has blood on his hands
Sacre Coeur 
These cunts already have plenty of facilities in Cappagh Park, especially as the soccer season winds down. This is nothing less than them widening their catchment for a second time. Rahoon are backed by Barna too. They fucked us over before so Iâd hate to see it happen again.
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Let them buy Pearse Stadium. Solves a lot of issues for everyone
Ground move set to cause major row in Galway GAA
Salthill-Knocknacarra last week revealed details of plans for new grounds
ONJECTIONS:Galway GAA is bracing itself for a major internal row as two city clubs have confirmed they will be counter Salthill-Knocknacarraâs plans to develop new grounds in Rahoon. Pic: Piaras Ă MĂdheach/Sportsfile
FRI, 17 MAR, 2023 - 07:30
JOHN FOGARTY
Galway GAA is bracing itself for a major internal row as two city clubs have confirmed they will be counter Salthill-Knocknacarraâs plans to develop new grounds in Rahoon.
With a membership of over 2,500 and overwhelming demands on their club grounds âThe Prairieâ, beside Pearse Stadium and other shared grounds, Salthill-Knocknacarra last week revealed details of plans for two full-size floodlit pitches, one grass and one astro, dressing rooms and a two-kilometre walkway among other facilities on land they purchased in 2016.
However, the planned playing facilities in Mincloon, 6km away from their current base on the Dr Mannix Road in Salthill, is in the parish of Rahoon and, according to hurling and camogie club Rahoon-Newcastle, just 500 metres away from its club. Both they and neighbouring football club St Michaelâs will be appealing against planning permission and have both claimed Salthill-Knocknacarraâs vision contravenes the GAAâs parish rule.
A statement from Rahoon-Newcastle read: âWe will be strongly opposing this proposal which would see Salthill/Knocknacarra move 3km from their club in the Prairie to within just 500m of our club in Tonabrocky.
âThis violates parish boundaries and the spirit of the GAA whose ethos is to promote Gaelic games and culture as a community-based, volunteer-led organisation which enriches lives and communities. We will fight for our club and for our community.â
Expressing similar sentiments, St Michaelâs stated they had been approached by Salthill-Knocknacarra not to object to the planning permission but rejected their plea.
âAfter deliberation with the extended membership of St Michaelâs GAA club committee, we cannot support this plan,â their executive committee explained. âThough SKGAA claim to have GAA and general city sporting interests at heart, this is purely a plan to promote SKGAA with SKGAA interests at heart.
âFurthermore, it is naive to claim that it does anything other than violate the GAA ethos of respect for parish catchment areas. In a city, there is always a certain element of members playing with clubs while living outside the immediate catchment area â we are all familiar with that â but building this state-of-the-art facility within the catchment area of St Michaelâs GAA and Rahoon-Newcastle GAA, flying the SKGAA flag, is nothing short of a threat to the future of our club.â
Six city councillors have pledged their support for the development, which is led by Salthill-Knocknacarraâs development committee chairman, former Galway senior football manager Alan Mulholland. The land, they highlight, was zoned as ârecreational and amenity land with the specific objective of the development of Football Pitches and Floodlightingâ as part of the cityâs 2023-27 development plan.
Myself and @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy are already working to get this quashed for environmental reasons. This would potentially destroy the Rahoon bogcotton ecosystem with all the Range Rovers bombing up and down Buaile Bheag to collect Fiachra & Joshua.
Thereâs âsome cunt up in Wicklowâ (TM my auld fella) who protests everything. He lost the father a big payday as he was against wind turbines 200km away from him because of the hen harrier. That prick will deffo have something to protest about here.
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This lad?
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Could be him. The auld fella does not like him
Itâs an attack on rural Ireland
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All pig ignorant cunts are welcome in the Battle of the Hoon
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Anseo
Youâd get the feeling jayo wonât be starting championship.
Jayo is 10 mins off the bench manâŚmax
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If that uucoam had to pay âŹ100 to lodge every objection 
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Heâs good for a 15 minute cameo if we can figure out a way to actually bring him into the play as opposed to firing poor 50/50 ball in his direction.
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