O’Neills: Gorifying British Armed Forces
Charles O’Neill & Co were formed during the year of 1918, making football & hurling balls for the GAA. During this time two major events took place which are forever cemented in GAA and Irish history.
Following a ban on Gaelic games by British forces, Gaels throughout Ireland, standing in defiance of the empire, on the 4th of August 1918 organised a day of Gaelic games. Two years later, on the 21st November 1920, during a football match in Croke Park, and under instructions from Churchill, British soldiers drove onto the pitch and using machine gun fire murdered 14 people.
Churchill even requested on three separate occasions that the RAF be deployed to bomb Irish people. To this day the RAF still have an aircraft base (JHC FS Aldgrove) located within the Occupied Six Counties.
Lasair Dhearg are calling on O’Neills sportswear, a company who have been supported by Gaels all over the world over the last 100 years, to immediately cease manufacturing merchandise that glorifies British occupying forces.
