daytona11
County: Kildare
Posts: 1413

202000 Worthwhile cause indeed. I'm not sure who to donate to. I don't really want to favour one side in the war over there as both can be equally blamed. The israelis left homeless etc deserve our help aswell

Yeah. we must park a lorry in athy next weekend and send them over some fencing material

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 09/02/2009 18:04:25    202219

My D4 cronies!

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 09/02/2009 18:46:50    202267

FredtheRed. All's good with the Cuchulainns. Pretty good year last year on the football field- winning champ, McArdle and Mullarkey cup. Have a big night planned oon 21st with club dinner dance in Charlton FC and big after party planned. Check out our web site for information www.cuchulainnsgaa.com!

Ed (UK) - Posts: 156 - 09/02/2009 19:50:13    202333

hurlingdub
County: Dublin
Posts: 274

201509 George Galloway! This is the man who was 'allegedly' taking money off Saddam and says Stalin was one of his heroes and is part of a party that has jihadists as members! Eh, no thanks. This man is legend stick to your hurling.

olivers (Tyrone) - Posts: 283 - 09/02/2009 21:07:53    202427

Well folks, update on day 3 of "Tyrone To Gaza"............. Well, the bags of clothes and blankets just came thick and fast all day, and already the lorry is half full. Going by the amount of people coming back with stuff to us, the lorry will be stuffed to the ceiling leaving on Friday. Today, 3 local actors stopped by to lend their support. Conor Grimes, (Datsun), and the other half of his comic duo Alan Mc Kee took time out from rehearsals of their hit play "The History Of The Troubles", and came up from Belfast. For anyone who hasn't seen this play, do yourselves a favour and go see it. Liam Mc Mahon, star of the recent movie "Hunger", stopped by as well. It was fantastic to recieve their support, along with the many bags of clothes they donated. Had Michael Cullen take a few photo's, and he is to send them around to a few national papers, so keep a look out!! I intend to keep an update going on here as best I can, permitting on coverage. I am taking my laptop, digital camera, and digital camcorder along, so If I have the coverage, i'll be posting as much as possible. If anyone knows of a satellite phone that could be donated for a month, let me know. Hopefully on Thursday morning, Cuthbert Donnelly will be bringing along the Sam Maguire and the Tom Markham. I have no idea what the people in Gaza are going use them for!!!! Also, I hope to have representives of the local clubs and beyond there too, and have a bit of media interest. So, if any of you are around Dungannon on Thursday morning about 10 ish, please call in and you can represent the board. Would be great to have a rep there since your support and motivation so far has been invaluable. Thank you all. My friend Greg in Cardiff has been doing well fundraising. He is good friends withThe Super Furry Animals, and they have kindly donated four beautiful posters, signed by them. One is for the Royal Festival Hall gig in 2007-2008. 2 are for "The gift that keeps giving" (very apt) and the last is for their sngle "Demons". He will be selling them individually at some stage to the highest bidder, so that should bring in some good money. Plus, A 90min documentary has been commisioned, and it follow the convoy from London through to Rafah. The docmentary is going to be produced by Louis Grover, directed by Gavin Searle and edited by Ken Loach, the award winning director of "The Wind That Shakes The Barley". A producer and a camera man will follow the journeys of 6 to 8 vehicles, alternating between the vehicles, and follow them all the way. Now, how could they go past the "Tyrone To Gaza" lorry......... For anyone in London, or have friends in London, tell them to come along and support the convoy leaving. For now, we are leaving the Embankment at 11am, but if that changes, I will let you know. Cuchulainns GAA club SE London has donated a set of jerseys, and will meet me on Saturday with them. Great support from the club there. Fergus Mc Anallen has an appeal out for me for jerry cans, as he is a mod on a Rally Forum, and he has secured a few for us in short notice. 2 different men in Cork and Kerry even offered us cans and tools, if we could get them up. It's so heart warming to see such generosity for so far and near. A few friends of mine in California and Oregon, have called up and sponsored a few blankets as well.. So, day 4 will be another chapter, and no doubt I will have another few stories for you tomorrow night. Oh, by the way, funniest story so far happened on Saturday night in Mc Graths bar in Dungannon. I was collecting with the bucket, and his woman told me she wasn't going to donate to Gaza as he was just an alcoholic! The face on her when she realised it was the wrong Gaza was absolutly priceless............... Sure what would he do with all those blankets and clothes eh? Tyrone To Gaza John

TyroneToGaza (Tyrone) - Posts: 7 - 10/02/2009 01:01:57    202590

P.S. daytona11 you are absolutley right. The Israeli's left homeless in the war deserve our help as well. So, if you can gather up some donations I will personally call by in the lorry on friday and collect them. When I get to Gaza, I will make it my business to see that the Israeli's left homeless in the recent war gets them. All you have to do is tell me where they are. hurlingdub, please don't embarras yourself any more with your nonsense. George Galloway has organised close to 100 trucks filled with aid from all over the UK and Ireland, Volunteers have stood out in freezing conditions, people have come out in terrible conditions to bring whatever they can, people are taking off work for weeks on end to drive 5,000 miles in order to bring some hope and relief to over 60,000 homeless people. So, for me, George Galloway derserves the utmost respect for organising this incredible act of kindness, and, I for one am very proud to be a small part of this convoy, and I will fly the flag of Tyrone and Ireland all the way to Gaza. Don't forget, it wasn't that long ago when Ireland starved, and we were forever grateful for the incredible acts of kindness given to us from over the world. In 1847 a Native American Indian tribe, The Choctaws raised $710 and walked hundreds of miles in order to send it to Ireland for famine relief. Doing something for Gaza right now is least we can do. If you don't support us. then don't contribute any more waffle.

TyroneToGaza (Tyrone) - Posts: 7 - 10/02/2009 01:03:26    202591

Daytona are you for real????

Well done John and best wishes!!

sean og (Armagh) - Posts: 1072 - 10/02/2009 10:58:55    202799

TyroneToGaza fair play to you a very worthwhile cause. Only just came upon this thread and think it is a fantastic idea. Also fair play to Rocwell for their support in this cause. I understand that they intend to leave the vehicle in Gaza for their use. All the best for your trip and will try to get to Dugannon before your departure.

grammer (Tyrone) - Posts: 17 - 10/02/2009 11:55:26    202858

PLease don't patronise me Tyrone to Gaza. I saw through people like him a long long time ago. If you want to persist in your naievity that is your perogative. Just as it is mine to speak my mind, especially on a GAA forum where this has appeared for some strange reason.

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 10/02/2009 12:19:00    202881

Well, done,a fantastic humanatarian effort for a people who have had just about everything taken from them over this past 60 years and left to their fate.Good man John.

northpole (Derry) - Posts: 739 - 10/02/2009 13:03:16    202957

Oh yeah, Hamas will be delighted , the ould sharia law they are bringing to gaza could be implemented in tyrone,keep ye off the beer and on the rocwell. When palestinians voted in hamas in 06 ,organisation spokesman said "the Quran is our constitution, muhammad is our prophet ,jihad is our path,and dying as martyrs for the sake of allah is our biggest wish. Paint a cross on your truck and see how far you get.

pullhaard (Limerick) - Posts: 195 - 10/02/2009 13:48:40    203046

well i'll patronise you, you obviously know as much about the GAA as you do the israeli palestinian conflict!!

bumpernut (Antrim) - Posts: 1852 - 10/02/2009 14:23:44    203103

hurlingdub
County: Dublin
Posts: 278

202881 PLease don't patronise me Tyrone to Gaza. I saw through people like him a long long time ago. If you want to persist in your naievity that is your perogative. Just as it is mine to speak my mind, especially on a GAA forum where this has appeared for some strange reason.

Maybe it's because the request was for jerseys and tops from clubs as part of humanatarian relief. You brought the politics into it. If you think it's naive to support people who are suffering then it says more about you than him.

RoverTin (Derry) - Posts: 228 - 10/02/2009 14:24:06    203104

hurlingdub
County: Dublin
Posts: 278

202881 PLease don't patronise me Tyrone to Gaza. I saw through people like him a long long time ago. If you want to persist in your naievity that is your perogative. Just as it is mine to speak my mind, especially on a GAA forum where this has appeared for some strange reason.

How in the name of God is he patronising you? And why would it be anyones Perogitive to persist with naivety You really dont have a clue what you are talking about. Grow up

Tyr08 (Tyrone) - Posts: 435 - 10/02/2009 14:46:46    203141

TyronetoGaza, Pass no remarks of the knockers. What you are doing is good and badly needed help for a land that has been badly treated by Western Governments. Children need help and fair play to you for giving it. Best wishes on your endeavours !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 10/02/2009 15:29:19    203208

Well said pullhard. People who know sweet fanny adams about Gaza or Israel or Hamas.

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 10/02/2009 15:41:09    203231

HurlingDub, Good man yourself. I suppose the Israelies who targeted schools, United Nations buildings and police stations will receive all the humanitarian awards for killing hundreds of women and children and very few hamas fighters. God help your wit !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 10/02/2009 17:06:36    203383

Maybe the Israelis should have let them fire another 5,000 rockets at them? Fact that they are incompetent medieval barbarians is besides the point. Israel is the only democratic free society in the entire region and is entitled to defend itself against people who want us all to live in the Dark Ages.

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 10/02/2009 17:10:36    203390

"Democratic free society" ha ha ha. I know some Israeli citizens well and met them in the last fortnight and they were completely against what happened in Gaza. They say that they know very few Israelis who were for the attacks. It is about power and the forthcoming elections, as it always is !! You cannot cram a nation into a small space, enclose them in it and treat them like dirt and not expect them to kick. For a Jewish people who suffered so much from the Nazis it amazes me how they can now treat people like they have done to the Palestinians !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 10/02/2009 17:23:15    203413

Yes, the only democracy in fact. Hamas celebrated their coming to power by murdering 6/700 members of the PLO. It's regrettable what happened but the Israelis are not going to allow themselves to be wiped out by Hamas and their allies. Arab states have tried on a number of occassions but failed. Don't have the courage for a real war anymore so use the Palestinians.

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 10/02/2009 18:29:15    203522