GAA Angry Fans

Saturday night’s events in Semple Stadium have left Cork hurling fans not so much angry – though they are a bit of that – as fretful and worried about the future and they are trotting out various remedies to get back on the winning trail.

AFR thinks our sometime staid games need more colourful characters like Mayo’s Conor Mortimer but his Michael Jackson ‘tribute’ during the Connacht senior football final has angered fans. It certainly beats John Mullane’s crest kissing!

Just when we thought no more stadiums could be added to the List of Shame, the GAA’s showcase headquarters comes in for stern criticism from a disgruntled wheelchair-bound fan who feels people like him are treated unfairly in Croke Park.

Many fans got on to us in anger at RTÉ’s online service showing the space shuttle’s manoeuvres rather than the star-studded action at the Limerick v Laois hurling qualifier. Finally, at least one angry fan wants to take the ‘Gaelic’ of out Gaelic Athletic Association!

RED CARD: WHAT WAS CONOR Mortimer up to in the Connacht final after he scored his goal? I don’t care how he feels about Michael Jackson’s death but showing us a t-shirt expressing ‘RIP Michael Jackson’ was objectionable. This wasn't the platform to show these emotions. After you score a goal in the Connacht Final, the first thing you think of shouldn't be ‘Oh I know, I'll make a tribute to Michael Jackson!’

- Dubh agus Buí

AFR’S SHOUT: I spotted Conor’s t-shirt alright and it was a pretty poor homemade effort. He obviously hasn’t cottoned on that he can get a much better class of t-shirt at a very reasonable price from our friends at Puckout.com. I notice he spelled the first name in Irish way as ‘Micheal’. So, maybe it was in honour of a Meehawl Jackson who may have died recently up Glencorrib way?

The rest of today’s column appears in the Irish Examiner and will appear here tomorrow.