"It is every town in Ireland" Cocaine Usage in GAA | The Tonight Show
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Claire Brock is joined by Sports Broadcaster Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh and Neale Richmond TD to discuss cocaine use in the GAA. This issue came to national attention when it was brought up in the Seanad.
Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh believes the GAA is in a great position to educate people about the damage that cocaine can do to the body. She states that more and more doctors have people coming to them with the side effects of cocaine usage. Ní Cheallaigh believes the appeal of cocaine for those who play GAA comes down to availability, the price and the fact that one does not gain weight on the substance, it is an appetite suppressant and there is no hangover meaning you can train the next day.
Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh believes not enough people understand the risk when taking such an unregulated and dangerous substance. She encourages education to be offered to young people.
Neale Richmond TD believes that it is more widespread than just in GAA - that cocaine usage can be found in rugby, cricket and hockey as well. He recounts players openly talking after matches of looking to procure substances and celebratory plans.
Richmond believes that cocaine is being seen for its possible advantages without any regard for the risk involved. He reflects on his own youth, stating that cocaine was not as available but can see the appeal of the drug to young men who are looking to get into shape.
He emphasises the need for young people to understand the severity of the drug. Neale Richmond believes that there must be education all the way down to Minor teams about drug safety across all sports from a financial point of view, risk assessment and how it affects your performance as an athlete.
Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh is not too concerned with inter-county players as they are regularly drug tested. She is more concerned with the average players who attend gyms who might fall into drug usage without a proper understanding of the implications.
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Where there is demand there will always supply
Why don't ye try testing the gards you will see fairly fast just how bad it is in Ireland
Sadly so many guards doctors bank staff all on it
It’s easier say whos not on it these days 😢
So, everyone does it!
Wait .. 'it's cheap' (1:51) .. come on now love you defo do it too we are all friends now dont lie 😂. Us pesants just don't have daddy to fund it for us 😂 definitely not cheap
It’s the lads with the money from mammy and daddy that are taking it
Everyone does it!! Welcome to the world! Is it a problem? Or a cure?? Hahahaha
@SiloEU
2 жыл бұрын
please get yourself a sponsor ben
@45pints87
Жыл бұрын
Cant bate a Q of flake of a Saturday night
I'm not surprised, the Irish have always loved the Craic...
Harmless people are funny.
if the sport itself wasn't so depressingly backward this wouldn't be an issue
@markilleen4027
2 жыл бұрын
what are you on about
@conorkieran8196
2 жыл бұрын
@@markilleen4027 well playing in front of grandads in Croke Park isn't much of a sporting ambition, now is it?
@markilleen4027
2 жыл бұрын
@@conorkieran8196 "With 21%, GAA is now the most popular sport in Ireland, followed by Soccer (19%), Rugby (14%), with Athletics, Tennis, Golf, and Swimming all getting 3% each" "Gaelic football is the most popular sport in Ireland in terms of attendance, with the 2019 All-Ireland Senior Championship Final, held at Croke Park, Dublin, drawing an attendance of 82,300 people" a sport has a fixed set of rules, without these fixed set of rules, you wouldn't have a sport would you, and the most beautiful thing about sports is that these rules get past down from generation to generation, for hundreds of years, or sometimes even thousands of years in the case of Hurling over 3000 years, so in your opinion what would make a sport like Hurling that has stood against the test of time and even got outlawed in the 12th century, what would make a sport like that better or less "backward"
@conorkieran8196
2 жыл бұрын
@@markilleen4027 well look I'll hand you the argument there, as the generation to generation passing on the game of hurling is impressive, and hurling has always been the real sport of the the GAA. However the football side of it, is a waste of national effort
@Nate___
2 жыл бұрын
@The Irishman You obviously enable it to your 'friends'/team-mates or take it youself then? Please try calm down and lay off the powder, it's not cool...
Hi
It’s glorified and seen as cool.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” ( Mark 8:35-36) Jesus confronts humanity with a profound reality: Your soul can be lost. He asks: What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? We are going to see how a soul can be lost today.
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