84 thoughts on “That GAA Fight In Full (Video)”

    • You say that as if GAA is primarily a ‘bogger’ pursuit but you may have noticed that Dublin are the current all-Ireland champions. And of course, these types of scenes would never happen in Dublin. Oh no.

  3. That doesn’t look anywhere near as bad as the media would have you believe. Incidents like this are common and if you’re a footballer it goes with the territory, you should expect to be on the recieving end of the odd handbag or fist once in a while. So long as no spectators are hurt who cares?

    • Maybe you’re too used to hollywood violence. The real thing isn’t as sensational. The man was kicked in the head by a group of people and had his jaw broken as his wife and child watched on.

      • I had my jaw broken when I was 16 during a match. It’s a violent game, always has been, especially a club level.

        “I went to a fight and a junior football match broke out.”

        • Yes your jaw could be broken during a match but this isn’t part of the match.

          The Gardai should get involved when assaults like this happen in off the ball incidents like this.

          • Not to be pedantic. Was it not a broken cheek bone. ( jaw is far more serious and some people could play sports ten days after cracked cheek bone ) and also genuinely couldnt believe how tame this tape was vs media coverage. I looked at it a few times for sly digggers etc and cant even see that……im not even a Gah supporter and to me this just seems tabloid in the manner its being reported.

    • The fact that incidents like this are considered common and that you think players should have to expect it and that it’s no big deal well be part of the problem.

  6. FF down.
    RCC looking pretty shaky.
    GAA should be next for the chop.

    The 3 tenets of Devil Eire.

    • Yea cos they’re all just savages right? Them and their drinking, and swearing and the likes?

    • I agree on FF and RCC but have to disagree on GAA. They are admired around the world for maintaining amateur sports which are hugely positive for the country. Of course they do have some issues but they tend to be internal politics and jealousy.

      Put it this way, imagine Ireland with FF, RCC but no GAA. Now that would be bad.

      • Could easily imagine an Ireland without GAA. It would not look much different to what Ireland is like now. Let’s be honest: Attendances are dwindling at GAA games as people are more interested in rugby and English football, at least among those under the age of 50. There has been a dramatic upswing in the popularity of rugby in recent years, both at provincial and international level, and our love for English football clubs has been there for decades. GAA will see further decline in the next decade or so.

  7. I just wish all the bogger apologists would see through their rose tinted specs that this is a f**king disgrace, how is this just an accepted thing that can happen in a sport?

      • Nope, this isn’t Dubs versus everyone else. This kind of savagery wasn’t tolerated before. It’s totally contrary to what the GAA is about.

        It has a lot to do with individualism and people being reared like they’re God’s gift by parents who are over-reacting to the oppression of times past.

        • Totally contrary but as integral a part of the game as a solo. Gaelic Football is a sport based on loosely controlled aggression and is about as watchable as a turd in a bowl.

    • @vinleggit please point to one apologist here.

      The club structure will produce an automatic entrenchment anyway. This is the very club structure, that is BTW, the envy of every other sporting organization in the world.

      But if we’re to talk of rose tinted glasses and f**king disgraces; let’s not leave the Wesley Disco out

      • “the envy of every other sporting organization in the world.”

        Lolcano! The GAA is unknown to every other sporting organisation in the world bar the hand-egg crowd in Australia whom they organise fights with every so often.

  8. Junior Football.
    Throw in a Kerry side with a superstar and the Tryone’s toughest and most rural club.

    Why the f**k was there 5k plus in attendance….

  9. Don’t you all know that the GAA was founded on the basis that it would channel the energies previously on display at faction fights and patron days?

  10. the GAA’s central council will meet, discuss and do nothing, There will be plenty more headlines like this over the coming months.

    • That could end up more of a line in the sand moment than the septic tanks

      The boggers regularly harass and attack referees for deciding against them, this is just going to happen more

  12. Many of the Northern teams have the perfect storm of a seige mentality; an unhealthy, rabid fanaticism about the GAA and weak social structures outside the totemic influence of the GAA. It makes for a nasty broth. The pedastal that GAA has been put on in the North far exceeds any other type of organisation. It is not a past-time or a hobby but quite literally a cult. there is simply no line that can’t or won’t be crossed.

    I remember being at the 2003 All Ireland final and I never encountered the visciousness from both sets of supporters, really vitriolic. The obsession with it was unreal and it seemed the less you knew about the game the worse you were. There was an Armagh woman behind me, middle aged and I never, ever heard language or abuse from anybody at a game. It was just unfocused rage, she literally did not have a clue what was going on. As the game wore on it was Armagh people who had to take her to task about her behaviour.

    There is a cancer in Northern football and it has gone waaaay beyond the parameters of ‘intensity’.

    By the way club rugby or soccer would be equally beset with such problems if the event junkies actually bothered thier holes to turn up for the games.

    • Ulster football is a cancer upon the game. Armagh and Tyrone started this tactic of ten men behind the ball and work it up the field using hand passes with big, fit, strong men who are utterly devoid of any semblance of skill or creativity. Donegal have taken it to a whole new level. Terrible to watch! I grew up in a community in Ulster where the only way to make friends was to play gaelic football and I did enjoy it however not any more. It is a game that has gone down the complete wrong path and if numbers attending these games has dwindled its because people would rather watch paint dry than the game that it currently is

  13. This sort of behaviour never occurs among rugby players nor does one encounter hostile fans. I don’t know whether this is what the GAA refer to as “passion” but on-pitch violence is becoming all too commonplace in the same vein as soccer. A fine example to be setting for children. Discipline will doubtless take the place of a fine and is wholly ineffectual. This lot turn such a wonderful spectator sport into a boorish game played by boors.

    • Yeah rugby is a gent’s game isn’t it. You never see on pitch violence. Things like choking, eye gouging, spear tackles and general brawls never occur in such a noble game…

      • You will NEVER see subs/ management / crowd involving themselves in a “set to” on the rogggger field. Manners are handed out and accepted if youre in the wrong. ( french lower division rugby however is a glaring difference – it would be a nice companion for Junior Gah anyday. Savages. Russian and romanian savages. Entertaining tho…)

    • Well @Louis if Ye had actual clubs ….. and not former school friends …. etc etc

      This is just too easy
      I’ll leave Ye be

    • Louis, youse boys just do a spot of eye gouging in rugby, far better. Wasnt there a player who lost sight in one of his eyes recently?

  14. Still though, what passion for an amateur sport. You wouldn’t see this level of dedication in any of them English soccer games we insist on supporting and shelling out subscriptions for.

    • This isnt dedication its unhealthy fanatacism. Calling it deidcation is simply an excuse to allow shit like this to continue. Dedication is supporting your team through highs and lows not starting, what looks to be more often than not, premeditated fights with the players and other teams fans

      • A sport is a sport; if Irish people are playing it, what does it matter where it came from? I don’t think fights at matches are anything to be proud of. In fact, it just perpetuates the ‘Irish people are backward’ belief that is pretty common elsewhere.

  16. They obviously feel nothing bad happened!!! and that they are disapointed the old GAA Mafia code was broken: “It is disturbing to be on the receiving end of a number of quite serious allegations which have been aimed directly at our club since yesterday afternoon. We are disappointed that such allegations have been aired by GAA people through various media outlets over the last 24 hours.”

    How can they come out like this??

    FULL TEXT OF DERRYTRESK STATEMENT:

    The Derrytresk club are delighted to have made it through to this year’s All Ireland Junior Football Championship club final. Our players thoroughly deserve to be there after all of the hard work that they put in over the last twelve months.

    It is disturbing to be on the receiving end of a number of quite serious allegations which have been aimed directly at our club since yesterday afternoon. We are disappointed that such allegations have been aired by GAA people through various media outlets over the last 24 hours.

    We believe that the referee and his officials were best placed to deal with all aspects of Sunday’s game. We remain confident that the GAA itself is best placed to provide the correct channels to deal with all matters which may or may not arise from this game.

    We therefore we will be making no further comment on the matter and will continue to prepare for the biggest day in our club history.

    • They’re dead right. If the Dromid had won the match and progressed I can tell you for certain they would have done exactly the same.

      It just happens because they lost the match the now feel the need to point the finger of blame to the other club. Those gentle Kerry types aren’t ones to thow a punch don’t you know and their corner back in no way ingnited the brawl by swinging for the Derrytresk manager….

      • When you say “exactly the same” do you mean smashing someones cheekbone, concussing another player and raking studs down a players back?

        • No I mean defending their actions. Fact is there were two teams fighting out there and only one of them is pointing the finger.

          • Fact is that it was not Dromid fans running onto the firld of play to hit players!! Look at the bald lad on Dromid’s no.4.

            Fights happen all the time in GAA. Handbags stuff, and this wasnt massively serious. But how can they defend the actions of their supports wearing their club jackets?

  17. Amazing line from the Examiner piece… says it all…

    “”Thomas Curran played the last six minutes of the first-half and was concussed but I had no idea about that. He was inside in the dressing-room at half-time and telling his brother to get the milk out of the fridge. The man thought he was at home in Dromid, he didn’t know where he was at all. “

  19. If this happened on the street, those responsible would be thrown in cells even if it was just for a few hours to cool their heels.

    Why is this any different just because it happened on a sports field?

  20. Tyrone, Dublin, Meath, Armagh…why does everyone from up the country behave like animals when it comes to football. Absolute disgrace

  21. Line officialdom and crowd control should be put in the hands of a higher authority, this type of Mule sexual socialization would not happen if the B&T’s were still in attendance!

  22. That was handbags, it’s a tough game and incidents like this are happening on a constant basis, that doesn’t make it right but it’s a tough game, the subs should not have got on the pitch, Majority of the players probably shook hands after the match

  23. I like the whole “ah sure it’s a tough game this happens all the time” line of argument, that’s really good. It makes loads of sense.

    If it happens all the time, that means it’s a bigger problem, not a smaller one. Players involved in off the ball fights – 6 month ban. It’s not like they are getting paid anyway.

  25. It just being ‘handbags’ is not a plausible defence although this particular game is not indicative of the GAA overall, but the response from the GAA to say they need a referee’s report before considering an investigation is baffling considering whats gone on. Maybe they could expedite the whole process considering the circumstances.

    Wasn’t there a Liverpool match a couple of weeks ago where there was a full police investigation after racist chants from the crowd and a man was arrested (rightly so). In this case a number of ‘spectators’ are caught on camera coming onto the pitch and physically assaulting players and there is muted reaction from the authorities – what kind of message does that send out. Not just an amateur sport but an amateur response to unjustifiable actions. Sure if we all ran on when we felt things weren’t going our way there’d be mayhem.

    I’m a GAA fan but the sport is continuing to get progressively worse – its a race to the bottom in terms of trying to get the upper hand, winning by all means necessary at times (Meath v Louth 2010 when the Meath player scored an injury time try for Meath).There was a big thing about the abuse of the ref after but there was nothing much more about it afterwards. The GAA need to sort it out.

    After a game it seems like sour grapes to complain or analyse some of the ‘dark arts’ of the game – don’t wait for The Sunday Game to criticise the GAA or a game – its glossed over by some generic comments like ‘its a physical sport…or its a mans game….or its not soccer’ sort of reaction which doesn’t help the conversation and the improvement of the game. But there are rules to the sport and they need to be enforced. When inter county players are more focused on rubbing their opponents testicles, pulling their hair, tickling them, stepping on their toes and worse to get a reaction before falling down clenching their faces – then its not really a mans game. I want to see athletes with bags of skill putting those two things together on the pitch – if I’m paying €50 thats what i want to see – not fellas trying to cheat the rules, or fella antagonising each other in front of the umpires for 70minutes.

    Sunday night should have been a night of celebration for some parish – some players family shouldn’t be going to the hospital to see him after surgery on a broken jaw?! Its a sport – what happened to fair play? That fella was meant to go to work Monday – you can’t justify these actions.

  26. Gaelic football is probably the ugliest, least entertaining and most absurd field-sport ever invented. It could only exist in Ireland. Thank God for English premiership football.

  30. This is why I was dying to leave school to get away from jock ar8es like this who thought that the ability to get to a ball on a field automatically gave them the right to smash into who they wanted.