Reply To: An Irish National Stadium!

Looks like the vital decision today on the redevelopment of Lansdowne Road may be postponed, according to some reports; I hope I’m wrong ….(ah sure why the rush …tis taken 5 years till now).
Don’t really blame the GAA I suppose for the banning of ”foreign sports” from it’s sacred turf (that was grown in England). But they are in competition with the Rugger and Soccer for future budding sporting athletes and the protection and the safe continuation and develpment of the Irish National games.
Tis full of contradictions however, is’nt it …..allowing American Football ( a derivative of English Rugby) in, yet banning both the Irish National Teams of Soccer and Rugby….The Soccer team who plays the Irish National Anthemn yet consists of 26 counties and the Rugby Team that consist of the full 32 county Ireland but who don’t play the National Anthemn at times for PC reasons…and I suppose rightly so too. Yet both teams wave the flag of the Irish Republic….the same flag that Pearse & Co hoisted over the GPO in 1916, an event of Irish history which all GAA heads worship. Full of contradictions eh! …tis no wonder we don’t have a Stadium for all sports…..and it may take another few years or more to come about.