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John Connolly's Famous All Ireland Speech Has Been Overtaken By Jarlet Burns

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Tomsmith here Gaa President Jarlet Burns must have delivered the most riveting All Ireland speech (in very emotional circumstances) when his beloved Armagh hung on to lift the Sam maguire cup.. Burns who had a son Jarlet Og who incidentally has the Ball when the final whistle was sounded. President Burns speech referenced the work that , people who cut the grass, make the Tea or wash the Jerseys in Armagh this for you. Very emotional , indeed as one myself who did voluntary Gaa work ( along with the great Mrs T )I found myself getting emotional tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 3951 - 28/07/2024 20:57:56 2562341 Link
Replying To tomsmith: "Tomsmith here Gaa President Jarlet Burns must have delivered the most riveting All Ireland speech (in very emotional circumstances) when his beloved Armagh hung on to lift the Sam maguire cup.. Burns who had a son Jarlet Og who incidentally has the Ball when the final whistle was sounded. President Burns speech referenced the work that , people who cut the grass, make the Tea or wash the Jerseys in Armagh this for you. Very emotional , indeed as one myself who did voluntary Gaa work ( along with the great Mrs T )I found myself getting emotional" Jesus Tom! Emotional! Did the speech cost you financially?Tell us more about the voluntary work, sounds fascinating! Onion_Sack (Dublin) - Posts: 249 - 28/07/2024 21:45:58 2562362 Link
Replying To tomsmith: "Tomsmith here Gaa President Jarlet Burns must have delivered the most riveting All Ireland speech (in very emotional circumstances) when his beloved Armagh hung on to lift the Sam maguire cup.. Burns who had a son Jarlet Og who incidentally has the Ball when the final whistle was sounded. President Burns speech referenced the work that , people who cut the grass, make the Tea or wash the Jerseys in Armagh this for you. Very emotional , indeed as one myself who did voluntary Gaa work ( along with the great Mrs T )I found myself getting emotional" If you're going to start a post get your facts right first joe connolly was the captain not john minor77 (Galway) - Posts: 231 - 28/07/2024 22:06:08 2562372 Link
John, Joe and Michael made contribution to hurling on field greater than any speeches. I had the pleasure is seen seven Connollys go against seven Fennellys in Mullinavat. Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2854 - 28/07/2024 22:14:15 2562377 Link
Wrong everyone! The best All-Ireland speech EVER was ....... Anthony Daly in 1995. bruffgael (Limerick) - Posts: 181 - 28/07/2024 22:25:51 2562382 Link
Plenty of passion in his speech yesterday.. Great to acknowledge even the tea makers etc in the GAA. ;o) Everyone got a mention, and that is what the GAA is all about. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 3943 - 29/07/2024 08:35:31 2562438 Link
Again sane the hurling final Burns trying to make the day all about him, the Shane Ross of GAA. bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4638 - 29/07/2024 08:55:18 2562444 Link
jarlath burns getting alot of kudos for his speech.....platitudes, he would be better sorting on the disparity between grass roots & GAA corporate, ticket prices etc.....but i doubt if will be let totalrecall (Leitrim) - Posts: 983 - 29/07/2024 09:19:23 2562456 Link
John Connolly was a fine fine hurler, though it was his brother Joe who gave the speech The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 734 - 29/07/2024 09:29:35 2562460 Link
Replying To bruffgael: "Wrong everyone! The best All-Ireland speech EVER was ....... Anthony Daly in 1995." This is all very subjective but I personally will never forget Martin storey's bridesmaids of hurling Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3055 - 29/07/2024 09:57:21 2562471 Link
He's destined for Dail Eireann jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20681 - 29/07/2024 10:00:36 2562473 Link
I thought it was an self indulgent speech by Burns. He was certainly giving it as an Armagh man, not as GAA president. Listing out all the volunteers who make the GAA tick every day and then saying "this is for YOU!" Why, were all the previous All-Irelands not for them? Why is this All-Ireland in particular for them? And all the GAA volunteers from Galway who were no doubt devastated by the result, I'm sure they appreciated it that an Armagh captain lifting the Sam Maguire was in fact "for them". ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1250 - 29/07/2024 10:01:35 2562475 Link
Replying To jimbodub: "He's destined for Dail Eireann" Higher than that Jimbo imo.... Watch this space..... Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 3943 - 29/07/2024 10:10:01 2562480 Link
Replying To bad.monkey: "Again sane the hurling final Burns trying to make the day all about him, the Shane Ross of GAA." He could have thanked the residents of the area.. "All these concerts are for you..." He's a real politician in the making, won't be long until he is. Possibly building on his opportunity to make some noise surrounding himself while he has the stage and definitely build on the hype surrounding his last speech, he definitely let the orange glasses blind him a wee bit yesterday The honest GAA man - A vote for me, is a vote for the tea ladies. jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20681 - 29/07/2024 10:31:32 2562496 Link
I thought the Armagh speech would never end. It was one step away from thanking Rex the dog who collected the ball from the gripe in 2012 Burns was naturally emotional, the speech was better than the hurling one anyway. But it is harder for people to dedicate themselves to GAA in clubs and counties where they haven't a hope of winning anything...ever. Was yesterday for them also? eslinchickenmaryland (Leitrim) - Posts: 249 - 29/07/2024 10:44:02 2562503 Link
All nice talk from Jarlath, it's a great marketing phrase 'we all belong' ... but when it comes to GAA coaching grants etc some kids belong to the association more. It will all be hot air from jarlath unless equal funding is given to counties on a per population basis. devrandom (Galway) - Posts: 76 - 29/07/2024 12:40:42 2562567 Link
Replying To bad.monkey: "Again sane the hurling final Burns trying to make the day all about him, the Shane Ross of GAA." Ridiculous post. Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6117 - 29/07/2024 14:08:42 2562641 Link
Jarlath had a good shot at replicating Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech from 1963. I can't see Jarlath bothering with Dáil Éireann but he'd fit nicely into the Áras…. But it may not be feasible if that fíor-gael Bertie gets his bum onto the Presidential chair. Boxtyeater (Leitrim) - Posts: 699 - 29/07/2024 14:24:13 2562648 Link
Replying To ballydalane: "I thought it was an self indulgent speech by Burns. He was certainly giving it as an Armagh man, not as GAA president. Listing out all the volunteers who make the GAA tick every day and then saying "this is for YOU!" Why, were all the previous All-Irelands not for them? Why is this All-Ireland in particular for them? And all the GAA volunteers from Galway who were no doubt devastated by the result, I'm sure they appreciated it that an Armagh captain lifting the Sam Maguire was in fact "for them"." My sentiments exactly LottoPlus (Kilkenny) - Posts: 79 - 29/07/2024 14:50:53 2562663 Link
Replying To tomsmith: "Tomsmith here Gaa President Jarlet Burns must have delivered the most riveting All Ireland speech (in very emotional circumstances) when his beloved Armagh hung on to lift the Sam maguire cup.. Burns who had a son Jarlet Og who incidentally has the Ball when the final whistle was sounded. President Burns speech referenced the work that , people who cut the grass, make the Tea or wash the Jerseys in Armagh this for you. Very emotional , indeed as one myself who did voluntary Gaa work ( along with the great Mrs T )I found myself getting emotional" Joe (Not John Connolly) was Captain not the president of the GAA. Do Galway folks not wash Jerseys, line pitches, Cut the grass, make tea etc. He is president of the GAA not Armagh GAA. He should be hanging his head in shame. Galway supporters and the team (who probably did not care anyway what he said) deserved better from him. If Galway had won I would say the speech would have been a lot less muted. He has let himself down and ranks as low as John Horan who used to say "We" when he was on about Dublin. GAA Presidents needs to be neutral. He wasnt. LottoPlus (Kilkenny) - Posts: 79 - 29/07/2024 15:01:19 2562671 Link