The Cork County Board gave us an early contender for GAA meeting of the year last month. Unfortunately for the Rebels they've now been beaten out in the race thanks to the Clare County Board's vendetta against social media last night.
Thankfully, the Clare People’s Joe Ó Muircheartaigh, braved the hate and went against a proposed executive order to bring us all the fun via the wonderfully democratic medium of twitter.
You read that correctly, an executive order, against Twitter.
Chairman Malty tries to issue executive order telling media not to tweet from Clare GAA meeting...
— Joe Ó Muirċeartaiġ (@muirioch) September 3, 2015
Chairman McDonagh says he knows nothing about social media but he has a twitter account @mcdonagh4clare for general election purposes.
— Joe Ó Muirċeartaiġ (@muirioch) September 3, 2015
Eventually things moved on from criticism of social media to include more traditional media present that had been critical of the decisions made by the County Board.
John Meade from Kildysart has his say... Hitting out at 'the shite written by some journalists' in Clare who are not part of Clare GAA.
— Joe Ó Muirċeartaiġ (@muirioch) September 3, 2015
Most bizarre thing about tonite is @wtnsgaa delegate who said too much democracy in GAA & wanted journalists evicted is a former journalist.
— Joe Ó Muirċeartaiġ (@muirioch) September 3, 2015
'Too much democracy in GAA'. Of course, because if they weren't accountable to anyone, various County Boards up and down the country would get things done so much more effectively.
H/T: The42
