Don't shoot the messenger in GAA debate
YOU know all about the Dromid / Derrytresk controversy at this stage, so we're not going to get into the rights and wrongs of the whole sorry debacle all over again.
The debate that the incident, and the comments of Dromid boss Michael Anthony O'connell, generated, however, seemed to result in a sizeable enough amount of criticism from certain people simply because it was taking place at all.
On internet forums, in texts on radio sports shows (and Liveline) and from chatting informally with people this last week, it seems certain people seem to have viewed the whole firestorm as demonstrative of anti-gaa media bias.
People wondered whether this type of incident would be getting as much coverage were it in any other sport. Of course it bloody well would. The thing is, though, it doesn't happen with anything like the regularity it does in the GAA.
That's why it's highlighted. That's why it's criticised. Not because of some sort of 'Dublin meejah' conspiracy against the GAA. Thinking that is symptomatic of the type of one eyed, keep it quiet at all costs, nonsense that got this country into the mess its in.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
