Anyone who has played a team sport (especially soccer,gaa,rugby) knows how rare it is for a top sportsman in a team sport (or any sport) to come out openly as gay during their playing career.
Has it happened in American Football, Basketball, Baseball ? I don't think so.
I don't think it has happened in any well known soccer club worldwide?
This is amazing that it has happened in Ireland.
Trailblazers we are. Donal Og is a trailblazer in breaking down stereotypes.
This is not about the sexuality of one brave individual. This is about the options available to young people throughout the country who find out their gay. It's a new door opened, a new avenue they can explore. Being gay shouldn't put you into a box, it shouldn't allowed individuals to make prejudicial statements about your lifestyle, and god forbid, what it is appropriate for you to do or not to. It's another hammer blow in a series of hammer blows against the marginalisation of gay people in Irish society, and I truly commend Dónal Óg Cusack for coming out of the closet.
If you disagree fine. I don't give a ******************** about you. What I do give a ******************** about is that 14 or 15 year old who believes his life is going to turn upside down because he just discovered that his sexuality is different from his friends, classmates, or teammates. This proves it needn't be that way. He can live his life almost as completely and as unremarkably as before, if he wishes, but merely go out with someone different at the weekend.
If you disagree fine. I don't give a ******************** about you. What I do give a ******************** about is that 14 or 15 year old who believes his life is going to turn upside down because he just discovered that his sexuality is different from his friends, classmates, or teammates. This proves it needn't be that way. He can live his life almost as completely and as unremarkably as before, if he wishes, but merely go out with someone different at the weekend.
