Hello Blog! Today ended the second day of the 6 Nations match with Ireland and France.
The news is not that, but the fact that the match was played in Croke Park, the stadium bigger and more beautiful than Ireland.
Throughout the period in which the Lansdowne Road will be rebuilt (hopefully within 3 years), rugby and football playing in the park an Crochaigh, Croke Park precisely.
The stadium is beautiful, modern, and can contain up to 82,000 spectators.
Although, when it comes to stadiums, "Spaceship" is a term of abuse, here really is not anything better to describe a giant three-ring, such as San Siro, between the houses to a maximum of 2 levels that are around a up to 20 meters.
When I went there last week I was afraid to be wrong road, but it was impossible.
was enough to lift our eyes and most of you know where to head north Dublin.
The special is that Croke Park has so far hosted only Gaelic football and hurling.
This peculiarity is due to both the stubbornness and attachment of the Irish to their traditional sports (the other day on TV there was a special done on the bowling road with rocks!), is a tragic event and subsequent swearing.
On 21 November 1920, while the stadium would play a game, broke a patrol of British soldiers who tried IRA supporters.
There was a shootout and killed 12 spectators and a player.
That was the first famous "Sunday Bloody Sunday", then unfortunately repeated on other occasions in the troubled history of Ireland.
Since then the leaders of the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) swore that Croke Park, until all 32 counties of Ireland (including 6 in the North) were not united under a single Irish state, disciplines would house only Gaelic, which in fact has become a monument.
think of another play there until recently was a heresy, not to mention the rugby or football are sports from England!
But times change, fortunately. The GAA, which is doing valuable work in the rural counties of the country also depends on state subsidies and could not refuse to host the national teams of other popular sports under pressure from the government.
discomfort, however, abundantly repaid from renting.
Despite this, the debate is on and many of the purists are in open dissent.
Complicating matters is the fact that Ireland will host this year Croke Park at the British.
And with them, the anthem has long banned in the stadium a symbol of Ireland.
will be a "God Save the Queen" even more full of meaning ....
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