Israel bombardment of Gaza echoes dark episode in GAA's history – Kneecap are showing integrity for pro-Palestine stance
A GAA column, you say? Not today, folks.
Sure, we are smack bang in the middle of another whirlwind
Championship
season.
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Kneecap faced criticism in the UK for past comments
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It came after the rap group showed solidarity with Palestine
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52,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October 7
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It bears similarities to the death of Sean Browne
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Cork's 20-year quest to take Liam MacCarthy back to Leeside is in full swing.
Two of the provincial
Armagh lock horns with
But in the midst of all that drama, horrors are taking place.
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Calls are growing to ditch them from the
While Kneecap themselves acknowledged that
earth
and the trio have shown integrity in exposing it to young audiences.
More than 52,000 people are dead, mostly
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The Gaza strip has been obliterated and it is all unfolding before our eyes while Western powers do nothing.
A
drones
off the coast of Malta last week. Israeli troops attacked ambulances on March 23 and medics were killed.
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Journalists have been murdered. Medication is being rationed and will soon run out.
Benjamin Netanyahu's government will no longer cooperate with the
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US president
The British establishment have a front-row
seat
but does nothing.
Sounds all too familiar — and another distressing image comes to mind. It is that of Bridie Brown, the 87-year-old widow of Bellaghy
Derry
club in 1997.
QUEST FOR JUSTICE
Bridie and her
family
have been on a harrowing quest for justice for 28 years, yet their search for the truth goes on.
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More than 25 people — including state agents — have been linked to his death. Yet the British government are appealing a
court
order that it must hold a public inquiry into the murder. Bridie's impassioned appeal to Northern
Ireland
Secretary of State Hilary Benn not to block the inquiry and force her to
travel
to
London
to campaign for justice fell on deaf ears, consistent with their calls for the truth for almost 30 years.
Seán Brown was a father of six and a GAA man who was killed for being just that.
Those names are mentioned most when it comes to victims of the Troubles who were GAA members, but the number is thought to be more than 150.
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Why are we talking about Kneecap when over 50,000 Palestinians are dead?
Why are there aggressive attempts to silence both them and the Brown family?
Sport gives us a wonderful escape from life's troubles and that will be the case again this weekend when 30,000 pour into Clones and even more hit Croker the
next
day.
All of our troubles can fade away when a farmer directs you into a field so you can eat ham sandwiches out of your car boot or your team comes racing out of the
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But this weekend, spare a thought for Bridie Brown and her family's quest for justice.
And think of the men, women and children trapped in Gaza without food,
water
and hope.
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