This message has been edited - 27-may-2012 @ 23:10

Originally posted by jaykeane:
I wonder will he apologize to Richie McCarthy next week over the drivel he wrote on the limerick leader the last view weeks?

This message has been edited - 28-may-2012 @ 10:11

Originally posted by staycalm:
Martin Kiely doesn't have to give an apology to anyone. He is paid to write a column based on his opinion. That is what he did. It would be worse if he was a sheep and just followed the crowd which is what people do here simply because it is the popular thing to do. He may not get it right all the time, even if he gets it wrong all the time, at least he is man enough to express his own personal opinion

Originally posted by Sky-Blue:
staycalm, we all post our opinions on this site (without pay) and certainly are not sheep. Kiely is probably the most divisive influence Limerick GAA has ever encountered. Buy any other provincial newpaper and you wont find a continuous agenda of beration, attack and bitterness towards County Board Officers, players, whoever he can get a cheap shot. Some of the negativity is factual but his column is highly imbalanced and you invariably have to die to get positive comment out of him.

Originally posted by jaykeane:
Yeah Martin whatever................. what did you ever do on the hurling field?

Originally posted by ProjX:
You are highlighting your lack of knowledge of the GAA in that statement.You obviously don't know Martins background?

Originally posted by glasandbán:
Strongly disagree Stay Calm. No one gets a free ride to say whatever they want and where opinion is blatantly, wrong, false or offensive, one should apologise. Weigh up potential unfair comments on players with the circulation this guy has, versus the effort amateur players put into the sport without a similar pulpit to respond or defend themselves, and you get a sense of the potential hurt that might be caused.The 'cancer on Limerick hurling' comment a few years ago was just low. I refuse to buy the paper after that.Add to that the writing wouldn't pass for an essay in the junior cert! 'A man wrote me a letter last week' 'well let me tell you' 'real hurling people know'... dire!

Originally posted by ProjX:
You are highlighting your lack of knowledge of the GAA in that statement.You obviously don't know Martins background?

Originally posted by jaykeane:
WHAT??? Not that I feel the need to vindicate myself on an internet chat room to a moron like yourself about the hurling exploits of a self important idiot of a journalist, so all I’ll say on the matter I personally would wipe the floor with kiely as far as hurling careers are concerned and I don’t feel the need to berate a young fella starting off in his hurling career for Limerick.

Originally posted by ProjX:
Now you have lost the run of yourself.You are throwing personal attacks towards me and the sports journalist. You still don't know Martins GAA background, do you?? Rather than getting angry and throwing insults, you should educate yourself on the facts first.

Originally posted by batter burger:
Say what you want about him and i know most of you would have plenty negative to say but his column is still the most interesting thing in the Leader, I'm sorry but I don't believe for a minute that any Limerick GAA man is conscientiously objecting to buying the paper and i bet ye're all reading it every week while frothing at the mouth.
I'm a recent blow in to Limerick so I don't know much about him really, what sort of playing career did he have jaykeane? I believe he trains a few teams.
Was he the commentator for radio 1 yesterday on the Kerry- Tipp match? Whoever that was is studying Micheal O'Mur.... too closely, "As wide as the square in Mitchelstown.... when Tipp introduced Richie Ryan he informed us that there was once a finance minister called that name but not sure if they are related"