Brolly is trolling here, big time.Either that or he is losing the plot. Imagine the scandal if a premier league player pushed a medic to the floor. And what the hell what he is on about, with that ridiculous comparison to a boxing match?
So true talking about a boxing match was completely off the point .. I was listening to the match yesterday and felt sorry for Pauric Lodge having Brolly as a co commentator. He interrupted at every opportunity and went on meandering rambles whilst the teams were scoring. A complete buffoon!
Brolly was the one who called other such cowardly actions as outrageous before.
The doctor could easily have sustained an injury or heart attack or anything from landing like that. GAA is becoming a sport of cowardly angry boys. This is not the warrior spirit, no honour.
When will the GAA start taking a zero tolerance approach to this? There’s no excuse for any of it. Soccer and Rugby don’t take any crap, why does the gaa?
Not going to defend brolly here but what was the doctor doing on the field grappling at the ruckus in the first Place? In 2nd half a team physio from Donegal was involved at the perifery of another incident while on the pitch too. On that occasion he appeared to be giving instruction and handing out gloves. Donegal appear to me to be flouting rules on officials on the pitch by using medical staff to get around rules. If medics are on the pitch it should only be if someone is hurt, not to be getting involved like this.
They have form. I was in Carrick last year for the Donegal v Laois game and Donegal management were often on the field aggressively getting involved with Laois players..
Think joe is really putting it up to rte to send him out to pasture. He’s becoming argumentative for the sake of it now. The man loves the sound of his own voice too much and the analysis is weak at best.
How RTE are persisting with Brolly I don’t know. He seems to annoy everyone of the presenters and analysts. I was listening to the Dublin Monaghan game yesterday and he was annoying to say the least
I was flicking on the commentary at half time, you would swear he was a feckin president of a 3rd world country the way he goes on. As soon as I heard him introduced for the Dublin game I knocked it off and followed it on here instead. The man tries to hard to be Dunphy. I agree, why do Rte persist? Are they that stuck for a bit of shouting back and forth? I’d rather have Mario Rosenstock for my analysis!!
At the game I saw the whole incident and my initial response was that the 2 staff who ran about 80 yards to get involved should have been sent off.
There was no injury so no need to come on the pitch, they ran on to get involved in the fight, they did and got schooled.
He then ran off the pitch like a bold puppy and the row moved from that corner to the center of the field where management again got involved this time the armagh manager belly bumping a donegal player.
But of course it’s the media that are out to get them…
Ger, at last someone talking sense, I was there watching it too and what u can’t see on the telly is that he ran 80yards or so to get involved in the row, he didn’t attend or try to attend to anyone before or after the incident, and if u look at what happened just before the push he had his hand on the neck of the Armagh player, so lads who are commenting on this get up of u’re armchairs and get u’re facts right.
Cant believe that anyone would condone this action and actually making excuses of why it might have happened. It should never have happened. End of…………..
Brolly is just giving the Ulster perspective , the ingrained disrespect , the acceptance of thuggery as the norm . The thinking behind it, Doctor or no, if ur out on the pitch near an ulster team you are subject to their rules, their ethics, well the GAA’s reaction or lack of same. , to this incident will tell a lot.
I agree with Brolly. Armagh were dirty and the Donegal doctor came in to separate players after one of the many off the ball moments instigated by Armagh. But as a Donegal man I felt he had no reason to be there and I think a push to the ground isn’t half as bad as the other dirty dragging and pushing that went unpunished. Armagh should’ve had 3 black cards but one early on would’ve stamped all this out and we’d have a decent open game.
Why should anything that happens on a GAA pitch in Ireland be compared to the happenings at an EPL match in England .. We don’t need lessons from the like of them.
Maybe every player who pushes another player or official could be accused of assault. Maybe at the end of the match all the “perpetrators” of the assaults could be then arrested and charged with assault. Might clean up the game eh!
The reason that Des Cahill, and others, made such a fuss over this is because he was a doctor. If he was any of the other team officials, it would probably not have attracted as much attention.
And the fact remains that he was not acting as a doctor at the time, and had no business being on the field.
If you are trying to convince anyone that there is as much violence and thuggery in any other sport don’t waste your time. What is acceptable on GAA pitches is simply not tolerated in civilised sports. My children are involved in plenty of sports, they are certainly not missing out on anything by not being involved with the GAA, far from it in fact.
If you’re kids have never been involved in GAA you have no idea what they’re missing out on. As someone whose child has been involved in GAA for 12 years now I can guarantee you they’re missing out on a lot.
Loop, trying to open a closed mind is, indeed, a futile endeavour. The URLs in my last post show that lapses in discipline are far from limited to gaelic games. Gaelic games would not be the most popular sports on the island of Ireland, if the Mad Max type-scenario that you are portraying was true. If you wish to close your eyes and stick your fingers in your ears to the truth, please do.
The likes of me ? Narrow minded ? Don’t make me laugh. I’m not the one defending a sport where mindless assaults are commonplace and accepted. My kids don’t need sympathy from an ignorant gob$hite like you either.
So, in other words, you’ve failed to substantiate your original slurs, and have now resorted to vulgar abuse, whilst hiding behind your user name. You truly are a shining beacon for whichever sport you are affiliated to, bravo.
Darren, if someone is going to insult me they can expect to be insulted back. The comment you are referring to was in reply to Niall and not yourself by the way. I don’t need to substantiate anything either, there is a video at the top of this article showing somebody getting assaulted at a GAA match, something we have all seen countless times before. You seem to be in denial that this is a problem within the GAA ? This type of behaviour is not limited to the GAA but is certainly more common than in any other sport, that is why myself and many other parents would steer our kids away from the GAA.
Plus Darren, as regards hiding behind a user name, I value my privacy and personal safety too much to identify myself, there are too many nut jobs out there, I’ve no doubt many are GAA fans.
Loop, fine, I see now that your comment was to Niall and not me, so I will retract that comment.
And the decisions you make as a parent are obviously yours to make, so I won’t comment on those. But gaelic games are the most popular field sports on the island of Ireland, so many parents clearly feel differently. I have played gaelic football for 15 years, and I could count such incidents involving my teams on one hand (wouldn’t even fill the fingers of one hand).
As far as GAA violence goes, there are probably a dozen or less high-profile incidents every year- most of which, like this one, amount to grappling, pushing and shoving. So yes, these are unedifying scenes, for which the culprits must be punished. But let’s not go all Helen Lovejoy here.
Darren,
for myself and others that don’t follow the games, the violence which appears on the news on a regular basis is all that we see of GAA. I’m sure that that majority of fans and players are decent people but like many things, a minority are making you all look bad. There is no denying that there is a problem within the sport, the sooner it is sorted out, the sooner people like me will take an interest.
Brolly’s well-past his sell-by-date at this stage. There is a world of difference between two pro boxers, who have obviously consented to trade blows, and a medical professional trying to keep the peace.
There was a similar incident involving a female physio during the warm-up before the Mayo-Dublin All-Ireland semi-final in 2006. It was widely condemned then, as this incident is now.
Look in all honesty ya wouldn’t see medical staff touched in any other sport maybe time to look into this. Let the player hammer the sh*te out of each other but there has to be a limit. Whatever about it being Armagh or ulster it could happen any where in any county. Can we have sensible thinking please now?
This is like an episode of the WWE..Oh ma gawd here comes the medic. I’d say our British friends watching can’t believe some of the stuff players get away with.
I’ve just watched a mighty game of hurling and when Michael Lester and his studio guests discussed it there wasn’t a cross word, take Mr (I know everything so listen) Brolly
And how many angry young boys and girls would there be if it were not for all the thousands who get to participate in organised team sports all over the country every week, thanks to the multitude of GAA volunteers.
That’s what you get from all the north
Teams all aggressive no style and
All mouth , Their was some one bad foul on a Dublin player yesterday
The player just got up and on with it
That’s style and class
Yeah – Let’s teach our kids that it’s ok to be aggressive and shove people violently backwards on the ground on a whim – That player made a knob of himself and I hope he reaps his rewards.
- Brolly seems to make a knob of himself on a weekly basis – Like it’s a hobby or something – To55er.
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I haven’t listened to the audio,but that push looked pretty cowardly to be honest.
Brolly is trolling here, big time.Either that or he is losing the plot. Imagine the scandal if a premier league player pushed a medic to the floor. And what the hell what he is on about, with that ridiculous comparison to a boxing match?
He wasn’t on giving medical attention. He was on looking for trouble. That’s what he got. Boo hoo.
I’d feel really proud if I shoved a little auld guy when he wasn’t looking…. Come on man…
So true talking about a boxing match was completely off the point .. I was listening to the match yesterday and felt sorry for Pauric Lodge having Brolly as a co commentator. He interrupted at every opportunity and went on meandering rambles whilst the teams were scoring. A complete buffoon!
Couldn’t agree more. He went on some rambles talking absolute b*llox
Brolly was the one who called other such cowardly actions as outrageous before.
The doctor could easily have sustained an injury or heart attack or anything from landing like that. GAA is becoming a sport of cowardly angry boys. This is not the warrior spirit, no honour.
When will the GAA start taking a zero tolerance approach to this? There’s no excuse for any of it. Soccer and Rugby don’t take any crap, why does the gaa?
Not going to defend brolly here but what was the doctor doing on the field grappling at the ruckus in the first Place? In 2nd half a team physio from Donegal was involved at the perifery of another incident while on the pitch too. On that occasion he appeared to be giving instruction and handing out gloves. Donegal appear to me to be flouting rules on officials on the pitch by using medical staff to get around rules. If medics are on the pitch it should only be if someone is hurt, not to be getting involved like this.
Jaysus tom, did Liam o’neill piss in your cornflakes this morning?!
They have form. I was in Carrick last year for the Donegal v Laois game and Donegal management were often on the field aggressively getting involved with Laois players..
Think joe is really putting it up to rte to send him out to pasture. He’s becoming argumentative for the sake of it now. The man loves the sound of his own voice too much and the analysis is weak at best.
He’s looking to get on the soccer panel with Cunningham and dunphy!!
How RTE are persisting with Brolly I don’t know. He seems to annoy everyone of the presenters and analysts. I was listening to the Dublin Monaghan game yesterday and he was annoying to say the least
Why would rte want to get rid of him? He’s a clown but he’s ratings gold.
Brolly is plonker.
As is Jeremy clarkson to the BBC
Classy as always from Armagh.
Seriously lads forget about the ball lets get on with the match
It will be like the two Dublin footballers biting incidents. .
Swept under the carpet and forgotten by this time next week..
I was flicking on the commentary at half time, you would swear he was a feckin president of a 3rd world country the way he goes on. As soon as I heard him introduced for the Dublin game I knocked it off and followed it on here instead. The man tries to hard to be Dunphy. I agree, why do Rte persist? Are they that stuck for a bit of shouting back and forth? I’d rather have Mario Rosenstock for my analysis!!
Ya and mario could do his joe brolly impersonation
Hmmm now that’s an attractive package!!
At the game I saw the whole incident and my initial response was that the 2 staff who ran about 80 yards to get involved should have been sent off.
There was no injury so no need to come on the pitch, they ran on to get involved in the fight, they did and got schooled.
He then ran off the pitch like a bold puppy and the row moved from that corner to the center of the field where management again got involved this time the armagh manager belly bumping a donegal player.
But of course it’s the media that are out to get them…
Ger, at last someone talking sense, I was there watching it too and what u can’t see on the telly is that he ran 80yards or so to get involved in the row, he didn’t attend or try to attend to anyone before or after the incident, and if u look at what happened just before the push he had his hand on the neck of the Armagh player, so lads who are commenting on this get up of u’re armchairs and get u’re facts right.
It’s a pity most of the country couldn’t see the game, due to our Gaelic games being sold to sky ‘high prices’ sports! It’s so wrong
Do you expect to get all your entertainment for free?
When we are paying our taxes to sub the GAA we should be getting it for ‘free’ .30 million for a pitch in Cork should buy quite a bit.
Was des up on his high horse when Dublin were biting fingers a few weeks back
Same in Donegal eh??
Doctor shouldnt have been near it in the first place at that stage. Which player was he trying to reach anyway to aid?
Karl Lacey. Two Armagh lads had him by the throat and he went down.
Cant believe that anyone would condone this action and actually making excuses of why it might have happened. It should never have happened. End of…………..
Brolly is just giving the Ulster perspective , the ingrained disrespect , the acceptance of thuggery as the norm . The thinking behind it, Doctor or no, if ur out on the pitch near an ulster team you are subject to their rules, their ethics, well the GAA’s reaction or lack of same. , to this incident will tell a lot.
Armagh man should have got the road, however if the doctor was mouthing an getting involved then he deserved it
I agree with Brolly. Armagh were dirty and the Donegal doctor came in to separate players after one of the many off the ball moments instigated by Armagh. But as a Donegal man I felt he had no reason to be there and I think a push to the ground isn’t half as bad as the other dirty dragging and pushing that went unpunished. Armagh should’ve had 3 black cards but one early on would’ve stamped all this out and we’d have a decent open game.
Why should anything that happens on a GAA pitch in Ireland be compared to the happenings at an EPL match in England .. We don’t need lessons from the like of them.
You will always get trouble when there is a British team involved.
Put away that wooden spoon
Someone needs a geography lesson. Isle of Ireland. Isle of Britain two separate things Mr Troll.
Joe calls it as he sees it he said yesterday that dublin are now taking the piss out of monaghan Harlem globe trotters stuff.
Did the Armagh player know this was the team doctor? Maybe he thought it was a nosey mentor who should never have encroached on the pitch.
That would make an assault ok then ?
Maybe every player who pushes another player or official could be accused of assault. Maybe at the end of the match all the “perpetrators” of the assaults could be then arrested and charged with assault. Might clean up the game eh!
The reason that Des Cahill, and others, made such a fuss over this is because he was a doctor. If he was any of the other team officials, it would probably not have attracted as much attention.
And the fact remains that he was not acting as a doctor at the time, and had no business being on the field.
Name the actor?
Typical GAA behaviour that wouldn’t be tolerated in any other sport. Wouldn’t let my kids anywhere near a GAA club.
I don’t see any GAA players in either of these incidents involving Irish sportsmen:
http://bit.ly/1pkHzDT
http://bit.ly/1sM21h0
If your prejudice rules your children out of experiencing all that gaelic games has to offer, then that is a pity for them.
If you are trying to convince anyone that there is as much violence and thuggery in any other sport don’t waste your time. What is acceptable on GAA pitches is simply not tolerated in civilised sports. My children are involved in plenty of sports, they are certainly not missing out on anything by not being involved with the GAA, far from it in fact.
If you’re kids have never been involved in GAA you have no idea what they’re missing out on. As someone whose child has been involved in GAA for 12 years now I can guarantee you they’re missing out on a lot.
Your*
I have an idea alright, the violence and fighting makes the 6 o’clock news on a regular basis. It’s all about standards really.
The gaa is better off without the likes of you. I just feel sorry for your kids who won’t experience it because of your narrow mind.
Loop, trying to open a closed mind is, indeed, a futile endeavour. The URLs in my last post show that lapses in discipline are far from limited to gaelic games. Gaelic games would not be the most popular sports on the island of Ireland, if the Mad Max type-scenario that you are portraying was true. If you wish to close your eyes and stick your fingers in your ears to the truth, please do.
The likes of me ? Narrow minded ? Don’t make me laugh. I’m not the one defending a sport where mindless assaults are commonplace and accepted. My kids don’t need sympathy from an ignorant gob$hite like you either.
@ Niall
So, in other words, you’ve failed to substantiate your original slurs, and have now resorted to vulgar abuse, whilst hiding behind your user name. You truly are a shining beacon for whichever sport you are affiliated to, bravo.
Darren, if someone is going to insult me they can expect to be insulted back. The comment you are referring to was in reply to Niall and not yourself by the way. I don’t need to substantiate anything either, there is a video at the top of this article showing somebody getting assaulted at a GAA match, something we have all seen countless times before. You seem to be in denial that this is a problem within the GAA ? This type of behaviour is not limited to the GAA but is certainly more common than in any other sport, that is why myself and many other parents would steer our kids away from the GAA.
Plus Darren, as regards hiding behind a user name, I value my privacy and personal safety too much to identify myself, there are too many nut jobs out there, I’ve no doubt many are GAA fans.
Loop, fine, I see now that your comment was to Niall and not me, so I will retract that comment.
And the decisions you make as a parent are obviously yours to make, so I won’t comment on those. But gaelic games are the most popular field sports on the island of Ireland, so many parents clearly feel differently. I have played gaelic football for 15 years, and I could count such incidents involving my teams on one hand (wouldn’t even fill the fingers of one hand).
As far as GAA violence goes, there are probably a dozen or less high-profile incidents every year- most of which, like this one, amount to grappling, pushing and shoving. So yes, these are unedifying scenes, for which the culprits must be punished. But let’s not go all Helen Lovejoy here.
Darren,
for myself and others that don’t follow the games, the violence which appears on the news on a regular basis is all that we see of GAA. I’m sure that that majority of fans and players are decent people but like many things, a minority are making you all look bad. There is no denying that there is a problem within the sport, the sooner it is sorted out, the sooner people like me will take an interest.
Must be hard typing out those comments with all the bubble wrap around you!
Brolly’s well-past his sell-by-date at this stage. There is a world of difference between two pro boxers, who have obviously consented to trade blows, and a medical professional trying to keep the peace.
There was a similar incident involving a female physio during the warm-up before the Mayo-Dublin All-Ireland semi-final in 2006. It was widely condemned then, as this incident is now.
Look in all honesty ya wouldn’t see medical staff touched in any other sport maybe time to look into this. Let the player hammer the sh*te out of each other but there has to be a limit. Whatever about it being Armagh or ulster it could happen any where in any county. Can we have sensible thinking please now?
This is like an episode of the WWE..Oh ma gawd here comes the medic. I’d say our British friends watching can’t believe some of the stuff players get away with.
I’ve just watched a mighty game of hurling and when Michael Lester and his studio guests discussed it there wasn’t a cross word, take Mr (I know everything so listen) Brolly
So 21% of the irish public think it’s ok for that to happen ??
Should be banned for life.
The GAA is breeding a group of angry young girls and boys and the government give taxpayers money to sponsor this behaviour.
And how many angry young boys and girls would there be if it were not for all the thousands who get to participate in organised team sports all over the country every week, thanks to the multitude of GAA volunteers.
Love to have seen that doctor smacking him one – then we’d have something to talk about!
Brolly is totally hypocritical!
Tiddleywinks..
Joe Brolly obviously donated his brain as well as his kidney last year. I’ve never heard more stupid comments ever ! The man is an enormous clown !!
Hard to know which of two of them is more irritating – brolly is the George hook of gaa punditry
That’s what you get from all the north
Teams all aggressive no style and
All mouth , Their was some one bad foul on a Dublin player yesterday
The player just got up and on with it
That’s style and class
Dublin – style & class – ha ha ha ha ha !
Must have taken his teeth out
Yeah – Let’s teach our kids that it’s ok to be aggressive and shove people violently backwards on the ground on a whim – That player made a knob of himself and I hope he reaps his rewards.
- Brolly seems to make a knob of himself on a weekly basis – Like it’s a hobby or something – To55er.
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Some of those comments and replies do not warrant printing
@tom lewis you sound like a narrow minded bigot, I pity anyone associated with you