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Public pressure continued to mount on the GAA yesterday with more public figures from the world of sports, politics, and beyond asking the organization to allow a tribute match to the late Liam Miller at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Former Manchester United player, Celtic and Cork City, 36, has died as a result of a battle with cancer earlier this year.
Tickets for a tribute match for the benefit of the Miller family and Marymount Hospice at Turners Cross, last September, was sold in minutes last Friday – intensifying calls for the event to be transferred in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, greater than 45,000.
The GAA will meet today with the organizers to discuss a possible change of venue. having originally declared its forbidden rules such a development.
Former Cork soccer manager Billy Morgan told Miriam O 'Callaghan on RTÉ Radio 1 that the controversy had been an embarrbadment.
My own reaction was a reaction of disgust, "Mr. Morgan said." When talking to other GAA members over the weekend, their feelings were the same. We see no reason why the game can not go from the front to Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
"Ed Sheeran was there a few weeks ago, if Ireland had had Rugby World Cup, it would go from there to the front, for the life of me, I can not not understand why it is not permissible to go forward.
"I used the word embarrbaded this morning. Talking to GAA people over the weekend, they also expressed this opinion, that they felt embarrbaded by him. It is an embarrbading situation that we do not allow our stage to be used for a sports hero of Cork. "
Speaking on the same program, broadcaster Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh said that he believed from the outset that he should have gone from there to Páirc Uí Chaoimh. [19659002] "This is not a match. It is a fundraiser for a most meritorious cause, "he said.
Páirc Uí Chaoimh is a wonderful place, why not show it to people who are never there gone before? This would create goodwill.And above all, it would increase the fundraising budget.
"I remember that years ago there was a book, and in which there was had a question and an answer included: Who is my neighbor? And the answer given was, my neighbor is everyone, even those who differ from me in any way.It is a mind that should decide that. Bishop of Cork & Ross John Buckley made a statement in which he said "delighted that discussions are taking place between the GAA and the organizers of the Testimonial Match". Liam Miller "Bishop Buckley said the Testimonial match was" a worthy event and many people in Cork would like to attend. "
He noted that Liam had played Gaelic football.
Speaking of The Sunday Game Joe Brolly stated that he believed that the GAA rules could allow the match to take place at Páirc Uí. Chaoimh
Rule 5.1 allows our property to be used as long as it does not conflict with the purposes or goals of the badociation. "All we have to to do is characterize this for what it is – it's a charitable event, "says Mr. Brolly.
" Once you've clbadified it as a charity event, we have also an agreement with the central government. Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has also become the latest minister to talk about the issue, stating that he believes that GAA rules around the use of its facilities need 30 million euros. for Páirc Uí Chaoimh. "
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" I get out of my file when I talk about a problem like this. I understand the sensitivities involved, I think the GAA too, but I think that they're going to have conversations with the family and I think that kind of rules need to be changed, I think that they belong to a past we are no longer recognize, "he told RTÉ's Drivé
