Countdown to Croker: Rugby returns to the home of GAA
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2024
- Rugby returns to the home of GAA as Leinster aim to continue their bid to regain their European crown.
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Video by David Kelly and Avril Kinsella
Sorry, American here with complete lack of awareness of the significance of Croker Park, and why they are returning to it, and haven't played there for a while, any recommendations from the good people of Ireland of where to find the best video to completely understand? Love sports traditions, and love my American Football, and falling in love with Rugby recently.
The Aviva stadium where they usually play it’s under work for the Europa league final so they can’t use that and there is no other big enough stadium than the Aviva or Croke park and since the Aviva is under construction they have to use croke park
It's the Mecca for bogtrotting cousin-chasers.
Croke park is a stadium that up until recently was reserved for our indiginous sports of Gaelic Football and Hurling.
The big significance is that in 1920 British forces stormed the stadium and killed 14 Irish people while a game was underway between Tipp and Dublin.
Up until recent years The GAA (the association of Gaelic sports in Ireland ) had forbidden non-Irish sports from being played in the stadium under Rule 42 but this was relaxed in 2005
The huge significance from a rugby perspective lies is in the fact that when the English returned to Croke park stadium in 2007 to play a game of Rugby against Ireland, there was immense historic significance due to the Bloody Sunday massacre that had taken place in 1920 and Ireland whipped the English with a huge scoreline which would have been seen as a revenge of sorts.
The stadium was opened up for these sports due to the fact that Lansdowne Road (now called the Aviva stadium) was being redeveloped so Leinster Rugby, The Irish Rugby team and the Irish soccer team needed a temporary home ground. This time around, the Aviva is booked out for an international soccer match so over to Croker we go.
@@paulM-gs7jz Man that is a great explanation. Thank you for investing the time to put it together. Much respect, and much sadness regarding the history of suffering the Irish people experienced in the past including 1920. Thank you again!
Croke park hosts and is the headquarters of irelands indigenous sports gaelic football and hurling.Gaelic football is like a mixture of rugby soccer and baskdetball and hurling in turn is like gaelic football,but with a stick and small ball,they are the most popular sports in the country with a club in every nook and cranny of ireland.Rugby and soccer were not allowed in the stadium until 2007 when the AVIVA stadium was being built and not since 2010 because there was no need for rugby to be played there.As the others have said AVIVa is not currently available however rugby will be played there on and off for the next few years as RDS leinsters main stadium is being redeveloped,this will be mainly for big matches like this one i suspect with ordinary league games in the AVIVA
Jasus lads, its a match. Get on with it.
ah sure they have to make a song and dance about every thing these days