'If public shaming is ultimately viewed as the solution to this problem, claims regarding the higher moral authority of Gaelic games come to sound even more preposterous.'
He understood the games and had a decent grasp on how the competitions and different tiers operate. Societally though, having never lived in Ireland, he had not considered the breadth of this organisation’s influence.
It takes a particularly inflammatory topic then to engender consensus among GAA members. Recently, diving and cynical play have reemerged as issues plaguing Gaelic football, particularly, but hurling has not been unblemished either. Generally, arguments such as Ó Sé’s would have you believe that impressionable inter-county players and coaching teams are at the mercy of these professionals acting in bad faith. As if to say that no Gaelic footballer or hurler could conceive of acting beyond the remit of what is right and proper.
And yet, there is something about the language surrounding this debate that disturbs me more. GAA partisans will openly draw the terms of engagement on this issue along ethical and moral lines.
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