Saturday 25 February 2012

Financial Support of Ulster-British Culture

For many years the GAA has received sponsorship from businesses across the country. This happened even when they had 'apartheid' style rules excluding those associated with the security forces of the United Kingdom. And yet the GAA themselves continue to associate with terrorists through the naming of tournaments and stadiums. They also act in a political way in Northern Ireland by refusing to respect the anthem and flag of the UK by flying a foreign flag and playing a foreign anthem in NI.

If businesses like BT and the Ulster Bank feel that the GAA is something they wish to financially support, isn't it time that Ulster-British culture also received support from these same companies?

Perhaps a re-constituted Ulster Society (for the Promotion of Ulster-British Culture and Heritage) could act as an umbrella group for the various Loyal Orders, bands and cultural groups to apply for such sponsorship and work alongside the Ulster-Scots Agency. Surely businesses could not act in such a biased way by supporting the GAA and refusing to sponsor the culture of the greater number of people in Northern Ireland?

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