So ridiculous. Just let them play the game. Someone has their skort in a twist
Could they just not enforce the rule? Or is that too simplistic a take on this?
I’m no hotshot Munster Camogie Chair, but couldn’t someone in power just say to the ref “let this one rule slide”
What about let them play in shorts but have giant barriers on the edges of the pitch so no spectators can see them play. Seems like a sensible compromise ?
I don’t watch sports at all, but I keep seeing this debate on reddit. One of the most stupid time-waster debates I’ve ever fucking seen.
The majority of the women DONT WANT TO WEAR SKORTS. How about they just… Let them wear shorts and play the game?
Such a waste of energy
The camogie committee:
> we like skorts and we don’t care who knows!
I didn’t know skorts existed until this week, now they are being discussed in the halls of power. And on Reddit.
Skorts.
Skorts.
What a ridiculous hill to die on.
*”Women can’t wear shorts”* is one brainless fucking hill to be dying on.
This is just pathetic.
What an embarrassment for the Camogie committee.
It’s not about skorts, it’s about people (and in particular women) stepping out of line and demanding something. That’s why you see no real arguments put forward.
Instead they try to crush resistance under institutional inertia. Defer the change using institutional mechanisms and then enforce the rules as they are. Because respect my authority and no reason besides.
Honestly, the guys should go out in skirts just to highlight how rediculous it is.
I know it sounds crazy, but it’ll get headlines and really draw a lot more attention to the issue, to get that requirement amended.
If ever there was a time for turning a blind eye, or a wink and a nod, this was it
It’s actually quote something to watch an organisation be on the wrong side of history, realise it and then go into panic mode. There’s not 1 single person who doesn’t back the players.
Anyone that cares this much about what women wear that has no active effect on what they’re doing is a fucking creep or insane.
I genuinely have no idea what the fucking problem is. Let them wear shorts
I’ll be honest, I had never heard of skorts before I saw this story on RTE news last week.
I would love to see some hurlers throw on a skort and see what the gaa say about it
Well done to the players. Imagine if the male teams refused to play as well out of solidarity.
Starts off with a reminder that they are “still in charge“… Pathetic it’s come this far.
We have decided…not to decide
Wankers! Both teams in the final are in unison about their preferred gear. Without the players, there’d be no game. So, this is just a fuck you to the teams to let them know who’s in charge!
They wouldn’t force men to wear skorts and if they protested, the rules would be changed immediately!
Christine Ryan can shove a skort in her mouth and keep it there for the next 500 years.
Eff the committee, and its great to see the players standing their ground.
Let them play in shorts if they want. They used to play in long skirts but that tradition changed.
So I don’t watch the news and barely ever see any Irish news stories in reddit even, but over the last couple of weeks I’ve seen a couple of mentions of skorts. Funnily though this was in my time in Malaysia, which is a heavily Muslim country, where women are expected to wear the head coverings. It struck me as very similar, obviously in ideals, rather than comparative. The reason they have to cover their heads is cause their hair is the thing that makes them irresistible to men. We, in Ireland, have had the older generations of women had to wear skirts, for the same ‘modesty” reasons, and so to me this absolute horseshit of making women wear skorts is nothing short of regression. Where did this idea even come from?
So, it’s a final, the end of this particular tournament, arguably one of the most important events of the year.
Yet, there is one more thing more important, ensuring the *checks notes*……women wear the pants we tell them to.
Speechless they’re doubling down on this.
Marty Morrisey on RTE earlier talking about a “special congress” being formed in Croker this weekend to discuss the matter like it’s the fucking conclave, this entire discussion is completely ridiculous and reads like a Father Ted episode. Not even mentioning that dozens of other women’s sports teams already wear shorts, or that skorts are called skorts because they, in fact, are literally shorts to begin with.
I have never seen such a drama about somthing so trivial especially with everything going on in the world and this country
This is such a weird hill for the council people to die on. Also a creepy one. Let them wear fecking shorts and sit back down…
The only thing this has confirmed is that the camogie administration does not represent the interests of players. How pathetic.
And I never want to hear the word ‘skort’ again.
Munster Camogie are obviously in the pocket of Big Skort.
So it’s the players against the officals??
If this committee are not capable of ensuring that the final goes ahead, then we need a new committee.
Fucking cowards. Absolute fucking spineless cowards. All over a pair of shorts. The person who ultimately made that call is a complete embarrassment to humanity.
For the love of Christ, skorts are shorts with extra steps. It’s 2025 ffs.
Fucking embarrassing, what message does this send to my daughter going into a senior panel next year? Disgusting from the Munster council.
All the players hard work all season long and they can’t stand with them on this.
‘In the best interests of all players’ 🫢
The dinosaurs must be removed or resign if they don’t get their outdated head out of their rear end.
Just so brain meltingly stupid.
The girls should meet up and play the game on their own. In shorts. RTE should televise it.
Take the power away from self important idiots who can’t get out of their own way.
My 17yo daughter plays at a fairly high level and has been for a long time She plays three matches a week with her club playing up on two different teams above her own. So juniors, intermediatess and seniors. She is on the pitch with women over twice her age at times. She was asked to train with her dublin team last year but we decided the commitment was too much to fully make the effort
This week, one of the teams she was playing offered the idea to all play in shorts in solidarity wirh the county teams, which they did and it went off without a hitch.
I personally think the skorts rules is outdated, misogynistic and ridiculous, but my daughter prefers the skorts and would have rather played in them, so apparently not everyone playing wants to make the change. She couldnt really articulate why she preferred to play in the skorts but I think it is because she doesnt like to cause hassle and break rules. Entirely her right to prefer.
Im just relaying this story as an anecdote that some players do prefer the tradition and it’s not a black and white issue.
Of the three matches she played this week, one was in ahorts and the other two skorts.
The best solution would obviously be let the individual players decide for themselves.
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Just let them play
What an embarrassment for them to cancel it
Such a cop out, so embaressing
So ridiculous. Just let them play the game. Someone has their skort in a twist
Could they just not enforce the rule? Or is that too simplistic a take on this?
I’m no hotshot Munster Camogie Chair, but couldn’t someone in power just say to the ref “let this one rule slide”
What about let them play in shorts but have giant barriers on the edges of the pitch so no spectators can see them play. Seems like a sensible compromise ?
I don’t watch sports at all, but I keep seeing this debate on reddit. One of the most stupid time-waster debates I’ve ever fucking seen.
The majority of the women DONT WANT TO WEAR SKORTS. How about they just… Let them wear shorts and play the game?
Such a waste of energy
The camogie committee:
> we like skorts and we don’t care who knows!
I didn’t know skorts existed until this week, now they are being discussed in the halls of power. And on Reddit.
Skorts.
Skorts.
What a ridiculous hill to die on.
*”Women can’t wear shorts”* is one brainless fucking hill to be dying on.
This is just pathetic.
What an embarrassment for the Camogie committee.
It’s not about skorts, it’s about people (and in particular women) stepping out of line and demanding something. That’s why you see no real arguments put forward.
Instead they try to crush resistance under institutional inertia. Defer the change using institutional mechanisms and then enforce the rules as they are. Because respect my authority and no reason besides.
Honestly, the guys should go out in skirts just to highlight how rediculous it is.
I know it sounds crazy, but it’ll get headlines and really draw a lot more attention to the issue, to get that requirement amended.
If ever there was a time for turning a blind eye, or a wink and a nod, this was it
It’s actually quote something to watch an organisation be on the wrong side of history, realise it and then go into panic mode. There’s not 1 single person who doesn’t back the players.
Anyone that cares this much about what women wear that has no active effect on what they’re doing is a fucking creep or insane.
I genuinely have no idea what the fucking problem is. Let them wear shorts
I’ll be honest, I had never heard of skorts before I saw this story on RTE news last week.
I would love to see some hurlers throw on a skort and see what the gaa say about it
Well done to the players. Imagine if the male teams refused to play as well out of solidarity.
Starts off with a reminder that they are “still in charge“… Pathetic it’s come this far.
We have decided…not to decide
Wankers! Both teams in the final are in unison about their preferred gear. Without the players, there’d be no game. So, this is just a fuck you to the teams to let them know who’s in charge!
They wouldn’t force men to wear skorts and if they protested, the rules would be changed immediately!
Christine Ryan can shove a skort in her mouth and keep it there for the next 500 years.
Eff the committee, and its great to see the players standing their ground.
Let them play in shorts if they want. They used to play in long skirts but that tradition changed.
So I don’t watch the news and barely ever see any Irish news stories in reddit even, but over the last couple of weeks I’ve seen a couple of mentions of skorts. Funnily though this was in my time in Malaysia, which is a heavily Muslim country, where women are expected to wear the head coverings. It struck me as very similar, obviously in ideals, rather than comparative. The reason they have to cover their heads is cause their hair is the thing that makes them irresistible to men. We, in Ireland, have had the older generations of women had to wear skirts, for the same ‘modesty” reasons, and so to me this absolute horseshit of making women wear skorts is nothing short of regression. Where did this idea even come from?
So, it’s a final, the end of this particular tournament, arguably one of the most important events of the year.
Yet, there is one more thing more important, ensuring the *checks notes*……women wear the pants we tell them to.
Speechless they’re doubling down on this.
Marty Morrisey on RTE earlier talking about a “special congress” being formed in Croker this weekend to discuss the matter like it’s the fucking conclave, this entire discussion is completely ridiculous and reads like a Father Ted episode. Not even mentioning that dozens of other women’s sports teams already wear shorts, or that skorts are called skorts because they, in fact, are literally shorts to begin with.
I have never seen such a drama about somthing so trivial especially with everything going on in the world and this country
This is such a weird hill for the council people to die on. Also a creepy one. Let them wear fecking shorts and sit back down…
The only thing this has confirmed is that the camogie administration does not represent the interests of players. How pathetic.
And I never want to hear the word ‘skort’ again.
Munster Camogie are obviously in the pocket of Big Skort.
So it’s the players against the officals??
If this committee are not capable of ensuring that the final goes ahead, then we need a new committee.
Fucking cowards. Absolute fucking spineless cowards. All over a pair of shorts. The person who ultimately made that call is a complete embarrassment to humanity.
For the love of Christ, skorts are shorts with extra steps. It’s 2025 ffs.
Fucking embarrassing, what message does this send to my daughter going into a senior panel next year? Disgusting from the Munster council.
All the players hard work all season long and they can’t stand with them on this.
‘In the best interests of all players’ 🫢
The dinosaurs must be removed or resign if they don’t get their outdated head out of their rear end.
Just so brain meltingly stupid.
The girls should meet up and play the game on their own. In shorts. RTE should televise it.
Take the power away from self important idiots who can’t get out of their own way.
My 17yo daughter plays at a fairly high level and has been for a long time She plays three matches a week with her club playing up on two different teams above her own. So juniors, intermediatess and seniors. She is on the pitch with women over twice her age at times. She was asked to train with her dublin team last year but we decided the commitment was too much to fully make the effort
This week, one of the teams she was playing offered the idea to all play in shorts in solidarity wirh the county teams, which they did and it went off without a hitch.
I personally think the skorts rules is outdated, misogynistic and ridiculous, but my daughter prefers the skorts and would have rather played in them, so apparently not everyone playing wants to make the change. She couldnt really articulate why she preferred to play in the skorts but I think it is because she doesnt like to cause hassle and break rules. Entirely her right to prefer.
Im just relaying this story as an anecdote that some players do prefer the tradition and it’s not a black and white issue.
Of the three matches she played this week, one was in ahorts and the other two skorts.
The best solution would obviously be let the individual players decide for themselves.
Cancelled? On such skort notice?
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