I’m not sure if @Ewan is considered a GAA journalist as such but I’ve noted a growing propensity from Irish sports journalists to tweet views that would be quite right of centre.
Hugh Cahill from RTÉ was one flagged here previously but in recent months Derrick “Ireland is full but my hair isn’t” Lynch and Shane Stapleton seem to be veering more and more towards the right. Fellas who are supposed to be talking about sports now more interested in how matters around immigration, gender equality and human rights are irking them
If he’s a clown then what does that make lads like Shane Stapleton who talks like he’s some sort of guru on the sport. He treats his opinion as THE most important and nobody else can have an opinion that is different to us. An absolute
weirdo
Brendan Devenney (journalist would be a stretch) who appears on Woolie’s show from time to time and has the only GAA show on Donegal radio took it upon himself to pretty much ignore the biggest story since winning SAM in 2012 when Lacey resigned, the Croke Park investigation and disastrous management debacle. The guy has too many friends on all sides of the debate so he buries his head in the sand and pretends it’s not happening. It was comical, yet disheartening.
Qewan became a right wing extremist because he was pissed off that his anti-rugby rants back in 2015 weren’t taken seriously and people thought of him as an attention seeking crank.
Because his first attempt at seeking attention didn’t work, he had to increase the edginess of his next attention seeking attempt. That’s didn’t work either, and neither did subsequent attempts, so he had to keep ramping up the edginess until he got into full blown anti-vaxxer, Covid conspiracist and defending Nazis territory.
Although most people agree RTE left their journalistic principles down badly when they took the vaccine money I cannot really understand why Stapleton is going down this route.
He’s had a few appearances on various RTE GAA games which he will likely lose now.
You can’t agree with somebody’s “views” (“RTE took the vaccine money” which is conspiratorial bollocks) and then say they shouldn’t be advancing these “views”.
Never forget how weaselish and grasping most (sports) journalists are. SS is all but a moron, someone who has never had an original thought in his life. But what he is at? Pretty straightforward. Namely: wants to be a pauper’s Woolhead.