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Croke Park Versus Zionism: Why the GAA Can’t Decouple From Allianz
In a recent article titled "The Corporate Capture of the GAA", the Communist Party of Ireland's Socialist Voice magazine informed us that Allianz's massive sponsorship of the GAA must be ended to "save the soul of the GAA". Their excuse for destroying the...
Mná na h-Éireann: Hidden Politics and Irish Sport
The women footballers of Ireland celebrating making the 2023 World Cup Finals has drawn flak all of us could have done without. Just as the Limerick hurlers sang Seán South of Garryowen, so also did these women stir a hornet's...
A Word About Irish Athletics (1884)
The following is taken from an 1884 article by GAA founder Michael Cusack No movement having for its object the social and political advancement of a nation from the tyranny of imported and enforced customs and manners can be regarded...
GAA Bends the Knee to Diversity Lobby
An ideological mop-up operation appears to be the order of the day across a variety of Irish institutions. In the aftermath of the anti-racist protests, while we have not yet seen Irish statues deposited into rivers, there has nevertheless been...
Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Nationalism— A Plea for Rapprochement
The most important cleavage in politics today is the cleavage between globalism and nationalism. This is hardly an original statement. Indeed, it has almost become a truism. In country after country, election after election, the burning issue is not economics,...