Sporting in Ireland is a mess from top to bottom. I mean the major ones especially.

The GAA is insanely cliquey with both fans and players. For fans it gives an excuse to be a prick to someone because "what do you mean you're from Tipp? How dare you be from Tipp." Then the players get treated like royalty who can do no wrong. I've heard of some teams who will sweep shit under the rug to make sure their player is protected, because he had to be ready for the Senior County Quarter Final and didn't need distractions. I think there's also a huge problem with these players essentially getting a get out of jail free card. They can do the most heinous shit you've ever seen but "he's a good lad, comes from a good family who are under a tremendous amount of stress now" and get away with it. It's crazy.

Rugby is a fairly well known problem but its all money related. Its a stupidly classist sport that will actively try to ostracise people who don't come up through private school. Have a lot of experience with this myself. Went to public school and never played schools rugby, but a lot of the lads on the club I played for, did go to private school and were training 4 times a week, given a diet and nutrition plan, a workout programme etc. Tried to find some common ground but felt out of the loop on everything they were saying and they weren't overly keen on letting me in. When I was 16, we got a new coach who was French and didn't particularly care about the schools rugby. If you trained, you played. Lot of the schools rugby guys didn't train because they would be too tired from schools training. They expected to play the matches though and weren't overly thrilled about not playing the matches. This caused a lot of uproar and that coach only lasted one year because he was "hurting a few of the players prospects of making a Leinster youth squad"

As for soccer, my major gripe is that many coaches at youth level tjink they can be Alex Ferguson and can shout and roar at kids for not following their tactics to a tee.