Get Over Yourselves!
18/02/07 21:10 Filed in: Politics
The Sunday
Tribune tells the tale today of one JJ
Barrett, whose father won several Gaelic football
medals with club and county back in the 1920s and
'30s. The medals are on display in the GAA Museum
at Croke Park, and Barrett has written to GAA
Director-General Liam Mulvihill, asking for them
to be returned to him before the Ireland-England
Rugby match at Croke Park next Saturday. He is
doing this in protest at the playing of God Save
The Queen as the English national anthem before
the match.
Barrett objects to the "arrogant, war-mongering" lyrics of GSTQ and wonders why the English couldn't have come up with a compromise anthem, as Ireland did with Ireland's Call.
It was probably inevitable that a crank like Barrett would emerge at some point. Even though the removal of Rule 42 was carried with relative ease, such was the depth of feeling among the "antis", that it was certain that nonsense like this would happen in the run up to the Ireland-England match. There are some who see the presence of the English rugby team in Croke Park as a betrayal of those that were killed on Bloody Sunday 1920. They just don't see that for everyone else, Ireland has moved on.
And in a wearily predictable fashion, that bunch of antediluvian wankers "Republican Sinn Féin" have announced that they too will be there to protest at the playing of God Save The Queen.
Fer Chrissakes, will you all just get over yourselves? We have moved on.
Barrett objects to the "arrogant, war-mongering" lyrics of GSTQ and wonders why the English couldn't have come up with a compromise anthem, as Ireland did with Ireland's Call.
It was probably inevitable that a crank like Barrett would emerge at some point. Even though the removal of Rule 42 was carried with relative ease, such was the depth of feeling among the "antis", that it was certain that nonsense like this would happen in the run up to the Ireland-England match. There are some who see the presence of the English rugby team in Croke Park as a betrayal of those that were killed on Bloody Sunday 1920. They just don't see that for everyone else, Ireland has moved on.
And in a wearily predictable fashion, that bunch of antediluvian wankers "Republican Sinn Féin" have announced that they too will be there to protest at the playing of God Save The Queen.
Fer Chrissakes, will you all just get over yourselves? We have moved on.