Its a disgrace and an outrage
Youngsters hanging around on street corners unsupervised getting up to mischief
In this day and age with the money that the government are spending on banks and builders
One would thought that money would be better spent getting these young fellows off the street corners and into proper
funded facilities where from an early age they can receive the proper supervision structure and training to ensure that
someday they will be able to throw more accurately

madasbutter (Mayo) - Posts: 872 - 05/05/2010 12:57:42    638227

Yep, had the mirror kicked off my car at a Croke Park game a couple of years ago. Just some lout, the same brain dead people that break trees and cause mindless vandelism. If I was trying to start an arguement I could blame it on Dublin GAA fans, but the reality is that it was just some fool, nothing to do wit GAA, just like this incident with the Dubs bus.

Roger (Meath) - Posts: 480 - 05/05/2010 13:02:32    638236

Im sure if it happened to a meath team going through Dublin they would be a lot more comments on it.
It is a disgrace that it happened and there is an bad element creeping into gaa games and that cannot be good for the Gaa

declan30 (Limerick) - Posts: 652 - 05/05/2010 13:03:13    638238

Legan4life
County: Longford
Posts: 157

638182
I'm from Longford and if Roscommon won an all Ireland and passed through our land I would lead the stone throwing. It's a way at venting your fury. Nobody got hurt. People need to harden up. A few stones never hurt anyone. Football's a mans game.

YOUR A DISGRACE stones never hurt anyone tell that to my mates 8 year old daughter who needed 8 stitches in her forehead when travelling home after the 08 all Ireland final when there car windscreen was put through ok it happened at a loyalist area outside Dungannon but still it shows you what can happen, also if it had been a Coach driver hit in the face with stone throwers it could have been a fatality??? Banter one thing , violence is another thing altogether? the GAA is a big family and like soccer we could do without this Cancer creeping into are society.

fortyfive (Tyrone) - Posts: 5929 - 05/05/2010 13:06:39    638245

i remember coming home from matche's in the 80s and 90s on the train and the windows were smashed on the train
pulling out of dublin. it was just young thugs doing it nothing to do with the dublin gaa fans. it even happen in tullamore
and portarlington . bye the way i would have the dublin fans anyday of the week over the meath fan's. well half of them are from cavan.

Birrgreat (Offaly) - Posts: 111 - 05/05/2010 13:08:42    638249

Serious wind up thread here. There are egits in every county. Its not a reflection on all meath people and supporters.

Bosco1937 (Longford) - Posts: 185 - 05/05/2010 13:18:29    638257

declan30
County: Limerick
Posts: 355

638238 Im sure if it happened to a meath team going through Dublin they would be a lot more comments on it.
It is a disgrace that it happened and there is an bad element creeping into gaa games and that cannot be good for the Gaa

That's a good point... it's a shame it didnt happen in Mayo though... they probably would have missed the bus! Problem solved....

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 05/05/2010 13:23:20    638264

Its a bit rich to think that it was a random bus attack. I am sure that there was some celebration from the Dubs going through Navan, plus colours of some sort on the team bus. It is a disgraceful attack. I am also sure that the person/s who threw the stone/s arent season ticket holders. But I think Meath supporters holier than thou attitude on this site is a cop out. If it happened in Leitrim I would be ashamed.

bugsie (Leitrim) - Posts: 199 - 05/05/2010 13:25:05    638265

I think it just was that they where at the wrong place when it happened but i have a thing where i would like to get off my chest, few
clubs in meath and few poeple complained about me wearing tyrone tops in to navan for games before i changed in to my refs tops . well i think this is childish from these meath clubs as i was asked to wear my club colours in future which i refused to sit back and let this happen.

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 05/05/2010 13:27:39    638272

Bosco1937
County: Longford
Posts: 70

638257 Serious wind up thread here. There are egits in every county. Its not a reflection on all meath people and supporters.

Ok Graham we believe you.

AfricanGael (UK) - Posts: 1947 - 05/05/2010 13:28:01    638273

i remember coming home from matche's in the 80s and 90s on the train and the windows were smashed on the train
pulling out of dublin. it was just young thugs doing it nothing to do with the dublin gaa fans. it even happen in tullamore
and portarlington . bye the way i would have the dublin fans anyday of the week over the meath fan's. well half of them are from cavan.

What makes you say this?

Jimin10 (Meath) - Posts: 783 - 05/05/2010 13:28:29    638276

Bosco1937
County: Longford
Posts: 70

638257 Serious wind up thread here

Yeah that's what I was hoping for but everyone had to ruin it by being sensible and well.... intelligent. :(

I mean it's not often a Dub can take the moral high ground on anything... ahh well! Here's to next time...

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 05/05/2010 13:29:04    638277

Ah fortyfive, your right on there, I remember sitting on the "football" special NIR train for the 1986 semi againat Galway when the windows came in around me, that was in portadown, so no surprises there, but just to even the score, the same thing happened not long after pulling out of Connolly station. I guess that was down to a few disgruntled Meath supporters on a day out in the capital!

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 05/05/2010 13:30:39    638283

I think its quite clear that this was the work of Meath GAA fans. Be there no evidence or not

ConnollyDub (Dublin) - Posts: 2007 - 05/05/2010 13:32:38    638285

From reading this headline I thought a number of Meath GAA fans had pelted the Dublin bus but from reading the article it seems like a kid threw one stone at the bus. Throwing 1 stone is way out of order but this incident has nothing to do with the GAA & creating a thread with this headline is just showing how petty some Dublin fans are.

county man (Limerick) - Posts: 1135 - 05/05/2010 13:34:04    638286

This is not the first nor will be the last time this will happen. The Cavan bus & supporters' cars were stoned outside Kells in 1997 after their defeat to Mayo in the All-Ireland Semi final.

dessieisgod (Westmeath) - Posts: 19 - 05/05/2010 13:37:37    638294

i remember coming home from matche's in the 80s and 90s on the train and the windows were smashed on the train
pulling out of dublin. it was just young thugs doing it nothing to do with the dublin gaa fans. it even happen in tullamore
and portarlington . bye the way i would have the dublin fans anyday of the week over the meath fan's. well half of them are from cavan.

Why do you say this?

Jimin10 (Meath) - Posts: 783 - 05/05/2010 13:47:08    638308

declan30
County: Limerick
Posts: 355

638238 Im sure if it happened to a meath team going through Dublin they would be a lot more comments on it.
It is a disgrace that it happened and there is an bad element creeping into gaa games and that cannot be good for the Gaa

Declan,
It could have been any bus, it just happened to have a few footballers on it, that doesnt mean its a gaa attack. Take off the blinkers.

Jinxie (Meath) - Posts: 6347 - 05/05/2010 14:03:49    638336

Birrgreat
County: Offaly
Posts: 32

638249 i remember coming home from matche's in the 80s and 90s on the train and the windows were smashed on the train
pulling out of dublin. it was just young thugs doing it nothing to do with the dublin gaa fans. it even happen in tullamore
and portarlington . bye the way i would have the dublin fans anyday of the week over the meath fan's. well half of them are from cavan.

Have to agree with you on that one, remember trains and buses being attacked by thugs on the way home from Croke Park on numerous occasions over the years. None of those involved were real fans of course. The worst I've seen was some young s**mbag ******* on our bus one day as we came through Dunboyne, don't even know why we were going that route to begin with but still.

Most of us will have some sort of story about an unsavoury experience with opposition fans, although this incident is much worse than most of the things I've seen myself.

In know way is the is a reflection on Meath people and the GAA, more so a representation of the sc*m in society, every county has a few I'm sure.

wild_biffalo (Offaly) - Posts: 91 - 05/05/2010 14:14:42    638353

Dell, what on earth has a kid in Navan throwing a stone at a bus, got to do with you wearing a Tyrone Jersey instead of the colours of the club you are suppossed to be representing?

You love nothing more than to have a pop at Meath at any opportunity, & this is just another example.

Jinxie (Meath) - Posts: 6347 - 05/05/2010 14:19:04    638360