GAA referee Carthage Buckley
Buckley, you rotten no-good so and so. You robbed us out of the Leinster final. If you put off the three lads for using the fist, what broke Gerry Browne’s nose. You so and so. Your so and so linesmen.
Don’t forget we are watching you. It may not be now but don’t travel too far on your own from home. You are going to get what they are getting in the North, the bullet.
And we mean every bit of it. You may never get the chance of taking the whistle in your hands again….
We don’t mind what happens to us so long as we get you. Besides it will never be known who did it. It may go a while but we will get you and your car.
Laois Trio.
A letter sent to ref Carthage Buckley after he sent off three Laois players during a GAA football game against Wicklow in 1986.
FIGHT!
It’s really about ethics in refereeing.
He spoke about this for the first time on OTB a few months back. Willie Brennan, one of the men he sent off was interviewed too and I don’t remember the ins and outs but there was still a lot of tension.
http://www.newstalk.ie/player/podcasts/Off_The_Ball/GAA_on_Off_The_Ball/53163/0/the_battle_of_aughrim
The siege of Rathdrum
Or sumting
the battle of Aughrim
The Battle of Carthage.
Ha. I thought t’would be Mani d’ Mammy that would correct me
I must be loosing my touch
Tis all the Sounds of Sodomy
“You rotten no good so and so”…
I think that was written by my nan. Sorry nan.
All it was missing was “Cotton headed ninny muggins.”
Threatening’s my favourite.
Gerry Adams!! I know him!!
“We will get you and your car”
He should never have been put in charge of a game involving a county with a large Roman contingent like Laois.
The culchies are revolting. (I know, I’m one to talk)
Carthage! Not the point I know, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. Fair play to his parents for imagination, but that must have been a burden to carry even before he encountered thugs from Laois.
Is that a line from Taken 3?
I was thinking more along the lines of Big Joes Davy Joyce.