So yesterday I took a rush of blood to the head and submitted a joke bid to host the Garth Brooks concerts on the grounds of my local GAA club in Cavan, Killinkere GFC.
To Garth: pic.twitter.com/NytUOtZ7Pa
— Killinkere GFC (@KillinkereGFC) July 3, 2014
Little did I know that it would get a decent bit of interaction and well, to cut a long story short, I ended up on the John Murray Show on RTÉ Radio One this morning to further champion the bid. Now obviously a rural club in the middle of Cavan couldn't possibly cater for 80,000 people people but I thought it might be funny to still act completely deadpan in our proposal and John thankfully played along.
(You can listen to it from 7mins in here)
Given that I suggested he gets changed in one of the dugouts and that most of my argument was based on the fact that we've recently installed a 'serious toilet,' you would imagine that, deadpan aside, it would still appear to all and sundry that it was just a bit of fun.
Unfortunately it seems, the joke was lost on Jim Carroll of the Irish Times, who didn't take kindly to our bid in his column today. Either he didn't get that I was joking or he didn't like us laughing about such a serious situation.
While – quite rightly – giving out about the 'it'll be grand attitude' to planning around these events, he wrote this:
Brooks and his people, you can bet, do not do ‘sure, it’ll be grand’. They will also not be overly moved by some lad from Cavan offering his local GAA pitch (“we’ve had Mickey Joe Harte and The Sawdoctors here”) with the bonus of surrounding fields for car parks (“we’ve had the second cut of silage done already”), as was the case on the John Murray Show earlier this morning.
I somehow doubt 'Brooks and his people' will be too bothered by us.
