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This flag was seen at the eircom League clash between Cobh Ramblers and Shamrock Rovers on November 18th 2006 in Cobh. The flag refers to the ongoing legal proceedings by the Thomas Davis GAA club to stop the building of a soccer stadium in Tallaght which Shamrock Rovers would be the primary tennants of.
A high court hearing is due by the end of November to hear the case by Thomas Davis GAA club. Last week the Irish Minister for Sport again re-affirmed his stance that the ground should be completed as planned. The stadium has the backing of the national government and the local county council.
The true motives behind Thomas Davis GAA clubs legal action may have been hinted at in a leaked email from Mr. David Kennedy to a national paper where he was quoted as saying "in any fight with Shamrock Rovers the GAA will be the last man standing". Understandably some Rovers fans believe that the GAA's motives in legal proceedings are simply to try to destroy Shamrock Rovers.
By Bruce Springsteen
We busted out of class
Had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a three minute record
Than we ever learned in school
Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound
I can feel my heart begin to pound
You say you're tired,
And you just want to close your eyes
And follow your dreams down
We made a promise,
We swore we'd always remember
No retreat, no surrender
Like soldiers in the winter's night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, no surrender
Now young faces grow sad, and old
And hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers, against the wind
I'm ready to grow young again
And hear your sister's voice, calling us home
Across the open yards
Well maybe we could cut someplace of our own
With these drums, and these guitars
Blood brothers in the stormy night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, no surrender
Now on the street tonight, the lights grow dim
The walls of my room are closing in
There's a war outside still raging
You say it ain't ours anymore to win
I want to sleep beneath peaceful skies, in my lover's bed
With a wide open country in my eyes
And these romantic dreams, in my head