Most of these revolve around reasons for cancelling training that would only be accepted in the GAA. What an organisation it is.
Rarely a week goes by that our inbox doesn’t include correspondence from various GAA players or GAA clubs throughout the country regaling us of tales that are as GAA as Marty Morrissey drinking tay and eating hang sandwiches using a match programme for a napkin.
It was a hard job filtering through the dozens upon dozens of stories that would fall under the category ‘Only in the GAA’ that we’ve had sent our way in 2014 but as an extra Christmas present for our readers, we’ve gone and done just that and narrowed it down to five of our favourites.
Enjoy.
Mayo GAA club’s sensible yet also brilliant reason for cancelling training
Going on our knowledge of GAA dressing rooms and players’ attitudes to rules of the road, we doubt there was a great turnout at Burrishoole GAA on this evening during the summer…
Galway girl texts her fella while she’s in the middle of playing a match
‘Soz babes, can’t talk, corner back is stuck to me like shite to a blanket at the minute. Will call later xx.’
This one was sent into us by an anonymous JOE reader, who wrote: “I was just texting a woman I’m seeing earlier, she was playing in a freshers blitz (Football) in Galway this morning.
“I didn’t think much of it as she had asthma and didn’t think she was playing as she was texting me back fine with a little bit of a delay as to be expected.
“However, then she said she was actually playing with the phone in her sock! I thought this was priceless, she’s a Connemara woman so what do you expect…”
Aran Islands GAA team give the most ‘fair enough’ reason for cancelling training of 2014
Gone are the days when legends like Mick O’Connell used to row their own boats to training and matches…
Nothing was going to stop these auld lads in Galway from making it to their GAA do
These lads and lassies were on their way to the Kinvara GAA social when they came across a car that was blocking their path, with the owner attending mass not far away. There was only one thing for it…
The only thing more important than a junior match in Wicklow is silage
Here it is, possibly the most GAA text that was ever composed…
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