Let’s consult the White House on this one
According to Barack Obama and the lads in Washington, the Taliban are not actually a terrorist organisation but ‘an armed insurgency.’
Fair enough.
But we are quite sure the basic message behind comments made by the GAA President rings true after Aogán Ó Fearghail hit out at the analysis being peddled by the Sunday Game and others so far in the championship.
The Cavan native has already expressed his displeasure at comments made about his county’s football side, and has now turned his ire on Roscommon’s Shane Curran
The former goalkeeper was less than impressed by London’s loss to Roscommon in the Connacht championship last month, and lashed the Exiles in his analysis on RTE
‘They’ll come once every 35 or 40 years with a team that can compete but the overall job of what they’re doing to the championship isn’t that good.
‘Roscommon will be just delighted to get out of it with no injured players and to prepare for the game against Sligo in three weeks time.’
According to the Irish Examiner the GAA President was unhappy with the coverage of the game and the comments of the former netminder especially,
‘I think when you’re disrespectful to individuals, you go over the edge.’
‘I’m not saying RTÉ, I think anywhere that it happens. I dealt with it all my life as a teacher in the school playground. It’s nasty. It’s wrong.’
‘I have to say one aspect of that evening annoyed me because London were attacked in a disgraceful way as having no right to even be in it and nobody said anything.’
Ó Fearghail also feels that the analysis of the Cavan-Monaghan Ulster championship game was all style and fancy diagrams, but no real substance,
‘Three panellists, not one of them, saw what was probably the best forward in the country at the moment, Conor McManus, an outstanding footballer, put in a tremendous display for Monaghan.’
‘Cavan made huge strides. We saw loads of hexagons and triangles and honours maths-type diagrams which are very… all it proved to me was the man did honours maths!’
‘I saw very little real analysis of what was a fantastic game of football. I can accept, and I would absolutely accept criticism, but there was no balance.’
The new GAA President also made reference to an incident from four years ago when Pat Spillane was heavily criticised for comparing Donegal as to having the “the Taliban of GAA defences” in 2011.
The Cavan native feels that such language is a threat to the GAA and crosses the line in terms of what is acceptable,
‘Fair enough, if you want to criticise but to be nasty and to be abusive and to use language to associate certain counties with the Taliban. That’s not disrespectful, that’s actually dangerous.’
‘The most dangerous force in the world today are the Taliban.’
