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Replying To ArmaghAndProud:  "Dont really want to keep this going but he played the league game. May have dropped out by championship."
Ah okay, I wasn't 100% on that, I know he left for work reasons and hadn't been back for a few seasons.

Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1344 - 15/05/2025 09:58:54    2609756

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Replying To PattyONeill:  "In terms of religion yes but not necessarily their political outlook. Many in republic have a different sense of Irish nationalism. Some don't support a unified Ireland.
Sectarianism is probably the wrong term for it, maybe xenophobia or "anti republican sentiment" is more accurate.
I don't think Donegal people have much room to be making comments given how their history is similar to ours with losing the Nine years war and plantations although not as much as our counties. They could easily have been the 7th county."
Can i just say as a Donegal person, if those types of comments were made, they were out of line and certainly not acceptable, nor in line with the thoughts of most Donegal people who are proud Ulster Gaels and see our natural hinterland as Derry, Tyrone and Fermanagh, always will. I think it could be the younger generation having the lack of awareness of the troubles, of the peace process and thinking it's okay to use a comment like that to wind someone up, blind to the deep rooted political complexities of the 6 counties.

Donegal_abroad (Donegal) - Posts: 1415 - 15/05/2025 11:04:49    2609778

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Replying To PattyONeill:  "In terms of religion yes but not necessarily their political outlook. Many in republic have a different sense of Irish nationalism. Some don't support a unified Ireland.
Sectarianism is probably the wrong term for it, maybe xenophobia or "anti republican sentiment" is more accurate.
I don't think Donegal people have much room to be making comments given how their history is similar to ours with losing the Nine years war and plantations although not as much as our counties. They could easily have been the 7th county."
In my opinion the majority of Donegal people would support a reunited Ireland, I'd say that percentage would be even higher among GAA fans.
We could very easily have been partitioned off as well when you look at the map it would have made or a much easier controlled and shorter border,
but partition was based on a sectarian head count as we know and the unionists didn't want a huge catholic county included to reduce their gerrymandered majority.
Many catholic/nationalist people in the six counties aren't too keen on a united Ireland according to reports etc. I have read many see themselves as 'northern Irish'
I don't see what sectarian abuse could be levelled from on Gael to another as we are all the same people.
Unless it's just being done to wind up the opposition which is wrong and shouldn't happen given all the nationalist people have suffered in the six counties since partition and before.

Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3194 - 15/05/2025 11:22:26    2609783

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Replying To PattyONeill:  "In terms of religion yes but not necessarily their political outlook. Many in republic have a different sense of Irish nationalism. Some don't support a unified Ireland.
Sectarianism is probably the wrong term for it, maybe xenophobia or "anti republican sentiment" is more accurate.
I don't think Donegal people have much room to be making comments given how their history is similar to ours with losing the Nine years war and plantations although not as much as our counties. They could easily have been the 7th county."
You know rightly that the whole idea of sledging is to annoy or provoke an opponent.I am sure if some idiot calls some six county player Brittish or Orange it is not because they believe that, it is just that they know it will get an angry reaction.I totally disagree with that type of messing but on the other hand the six county players should know that it is just a wind up and ignore it.

gunman (Donegal) - Posts: 1153 - 15/05/2025 11:41:02    2609789

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I remember years ago playing against a team from the North and I got called a "Free State B******"
I distinctly remember bursting out laughing and told the fella it was 2002, not 1922.

Ah look it shouldn't have been said all the same. I'm sure the player in question used it purely to provoke a reaction, and combined with a very tight loss in a big game...well we saw the inevitable.

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9766 - 15/05/2025 13:08:28    2609807

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Replying To SouthOfTheGap:  "I agree on Aaron, Jamie and Jason, but on the flip side our players returning to the action were excellent and were at the pitch of the game straight away."
unfortunately both are very much confidence players, if the first effort for a score doesn't result in one you can see the reluctance to take on the next one particularly with Jamie, if the first one of his goes over he's good for a couple of more.

totalrecall (Leitrim) - Posts: 1064 - 15/05/2025 14:12:58    2609823

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Replying To PattyONeill:  "In terms of religion yes but not necessarily their political outlook. Many in republic have a different sense of Irish nationalism. Some don't support a unified Ireland.
Sectarianism is probably the wrong term for it, maybe xenophobia or "anti republican sentiment" is more accurate.
I don't think Donegal people have much room to be making comments given how their history is similar to ours with losing the Nine years war and plantations although not as much as our counties. They could easily have been the 7th county."
I'm surprised that those from the north seem to believe that there would be any significant difference in the political outlook between players from the six counties and players from a county like Donegal. Do you really believe that there's a general "anti-republican sentiment" amongst Donegal people?

greatpoint (USA) - Posts: 441 - 15/05/2025 18:05:04    2609883

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Replying To Tirchonaill1:  "In my opinion the majority of Donegal people would support a reunited Ireland, I'd say that percentage would be even higher among GAA fans.
We could very easily have been partitioned off as well when you look at the map it would have made or a much easier controlled and shorter border,
but partition was based on a sectarian head count as we know and the unionists didn't want a huge catholic county included to reduce their gerrymandered majority.
Many catholic/nationalist people in the six counties aren't too keen on a united Ireland according to reports etc. I have read many see themselves as 'northern Irish'
I don't see what sectarian abuse could be levelled from on Gael to another as we are all the same people.
Unless it's just being done to wind up the opposition which is wrong and shouldn't happen given all the nationalist people have suffered in the six counties since partition and before."
I'm in my late 40's and have yet to meet or know of any catholic or nationalist that identifies as Northern Irish or would be opossed to Irish Unity. What you read is a myth. There would be a handful at most including 1 very famous sportsperson. Bar him, I've never heard of it.

sam2024 (Armagh) - Posts: 52 - 15/05/2025 21:13:36    2609908

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