Joe Brolly and Paeder Heffron
On Sunday, Joe Brolly in the Sunday Independent reported that a former PSNI Police Service of Northern Ireland] constable was ‘ostracised’ by his GAA club after joining the force.
Paeder Heffron was left in a wheelchair following a dissident republican car bomb in 2010.
Mr Heffron said he was frozen out of games by Kickhams Creggan in County Antrim and ignored by teammates, with republicans ” approaching him in a changing room and handing him a leaflet warning of the dangers of joining the PSNI”.
Shayna O Neill writes:
The PSNI have opened recruiting as of October 23 this year. The aim of the PSNI is to have a balanced force of 50/50 Catholics/Protestants, under The Patton Report – currently it’s @15-25% Catholic,depending on which figures you are given, or believe.
Growing up, we had the RUC, who seemed to have a licence to unleash some form of justice against Catholics. I’m living back in the North of Ireland for a few years now, I have to say the PSNI seem okay.
The GAA have let one of their own down. I feel ashamed that I associate and am a member of the GAA.
Joe Brolly: Spurned, bombed and maimed by his own kind (Independent.ie)
Pic: Presseye/Stephen Hamilton
The GAA are having a good pr week. first Tom Humphries now this.
Don’t feel ashamed for the actions of others Shayna.
But I’d find it hard not to be very bitter if I was that man.
I’m a member of the GAA. The people who ostracised and intimidated Peadar Heffron do not represent me or, I believe, the vast majority of GAA members. It’s a sickening story. The community Peadar Heffron grew up in has let itself down badly by allowing this to happen. I’m not an SF supporter but the majority of nationalists in the North are SF supporters and SF support the PSNI. It sickens me that no-one was willing to stand up to these hate-filled bully boy thugs.
Peadar Heffron is an Irish hero.
They haven’t gone away, you know.
Or so we’re told by Jurrrry.
Perhaps Donal Óg Cusack can write the GAA a reference.
Typical Nordie carry on
Brolly ships a lot of flak, but I like him.
I don’t always agree with him but he’s got balls and conviction.
Not a lot of that around.
Couldn’t agree more, well said Otis
This is a club issue
Then it’s a County issue
Then it’s an Ulster issue
Wtf are ya at stitching us all into that ladypartlogy for
You should know better Shayna
And Joe Brolly wants nothing more than to have an issue he can get outraged at
An’ting to make his Winter shorter
Jesus Christ
Brolly still blames the rest of the Country for his lone medal
He’s like the middle child
Cant imagine a lot of GAA players from Cork are joining the PSNI
More likely to join the NBRU, they love an aul strike those lads :)
Which part of Sunday Independent didn’t you get? #agenda
What kind of a name is “Brolly” anyway?
Yes, he’s clearly faking it.