I think an easy one to reply to for Danny Lynch ( or whoever does that job these days) . Or maybe the old mantra of when you are explaining you are losing might be considered and leave it be
Anyway, she’s not from a real university
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I think she thinks the GAA is responsible for the womens game which it isn’t. Do women get a raw deal, yes I would agree with that. Is it the GAAs fault I would say no. How do you fix it? Bring the games back under the association and the GAA do more for women. If they don’t then scream misogyny. But this is a ridiculous attack on the GAA because the LGFA are a basket case
I wouldn’t know 
thats it though. the main reason for the female sport of the gaelic games being so shite is a lot down to the organisation running them, which are both female only organisations.
I would say most clubs in most counties operate the 4 codes, hurling, football, camogie and ladies football within the same set up and as a somewhat joined up force as @binkybarnes notes above , even if they fall under 3 separate governing bodies. but they will always remain second best and not able to push on if they stay as a separate set up hanging on the coat tails and scraps off the main GAA set up nationally and within clubs.
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And thats the problem with the opinion piece. The author is talking like they are one organisation and bashing the GAA as misogyny. At grassroot clubs will give each other dig outs but the GAA club does this at their discretion.
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That doesn’t seem to be the norm though and it would probably be fair to say that ladies teams do not get anything close to equal treatment or access in most clubs and on the whole are not well treated.
Tbh if we’re looking for informed comment on Gaelic Games affairs from comment pieces in the IT we’re fair fucked.
The Camogie and LGFA across the country are on the whole utterly disgraceful. Generally because the people involved wouldn’t be tolerated in the GAA. But the fact of the matter is that this needs sorting out, and as usual in these cases a financial nudge from Leinster House will most likely be required to enact the overhaul.
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You’d miss Danny. The lad there now is some clown.
Who is the current man or woman in the job ??
Cant remember his name.
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I thought that the ladies associations refused to join the GAA??
Surely the lack of diversity on inter-county teams is a bigger issue
Article is some pile of piss. Like something written by a transition year student who has no research done.
You’d feel embarrassed for her.
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I think the lady also mixed up the semi final and the final in the article.
Stop being so sexist
I’d say the entire article was a long winded excuse to roll out the tired old line about the Church, Fianna Fáil and the GAA. In reality the GAA left the Church and Fianna Fáil behind them in the 90s. My father used to point out that Fine Gael had taken over the association from under Fianna Fáils nose as part of its great reset.
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She did .
To me that displays a lack of interest in the underlying subject matter and reinforces my view that it was merely an excuse to have a pop at a perceived “Old Ireland”.
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