RIA presentation next week will hear how media interaction with the GAA chronicled society during the pandemic
Clare Senior Hurling Championship final between O'Callaghans Mills and Sixmilebridge at Cusack Park, Ennis, Co Clare on September 27th, 2020. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Dr Free, a lecturer at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, specialises in media and politics and has written extensively on issues such as gender, race, class, migration and national identity in sport. The original paper was published in Sport & Society in the spring of 2021, an issue dedicated to the Covid experiences of global sport. Free says that the comparisons were instructive.
“The strangely anachronistic status [by international comparison] of the GAA as a largely nationally, geographically bounded amateur organisation is such that national broadcaster RTÉ still broadcasts most of its major events and became the logical outlet for policy announcements during the lockdown.”
“I’m from Cavan. There’s only one sport and that’s football. When I was reading in the Anglo-Celt was a different discourse to what was appearing in national media: much more outspoken and contesting the national narrative as to how the State was responding to Covid. This was despite infection rates that were among the biggest in the country in the aftermath of the county final, a pattern that also occurred elsewhere. Unfortunately, this was the other side of local enthusiasms: keen to look after the vulnerable in society, but throwing caution to the wind when celebrating their successes. It’s a dichotomy with which the GAA is familiar.
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