The Dominance of Dublin GAA *Mod warning post#1*

That's quite a lengthy response and the first sentence includes a massive lie- at no point have I said that funding was the "sole reason" for Dublin's success. It is a big factor, for sure, but not the sole one. The rest of your points are nonsense, and cherrypicked and ignores the most important factors- namely, population, funding and home pitch advantage.

Population- Have more top-tier players than any other county, by weight of numbers

Funding- Helps identify and bring these excellent players to their full potential, and ensures sides have access to resources above and beyond other teams

Home pitch advantage- Helps win close games that would be drawn or lost in other venues

There are other factors, but these are certainly three of the most important, and are inaccessible to any other county, either individually or, more importantly, in combination.

Leinster (which you try to ignore as much as possible) has already been ruined by these unfair advantages- in 2004, I doubt anyone was predicting that Dublin would win every Leinster until 2023 save one, with increasing ease over the years too. Despite some poor management failing to take advantage of Dublin's unfair advantages currently, the risk is high that this will happen for the All-Ireland too, and even if it doesn't, Dublin are still unfairly advantaged. The championship is in a poor state, with declining interest and attendances- this is mostly down to the decisions made by the GAA from the 2000s to allow the funding and home advantage to persist unchecked, and refuse to split Dublin, as mooted in the early 2000s, as even when they don't win every year, it is obvious to neutral and unbiased supporters that the situation is completely unfair. A 4+ way split now would go some way towards improving the competition, for all counties, including Dublin.

Great post.

I'm interested in increasing fairness in gaelic games and improving the quality of the competition- I have no animosity towards Dublin (and have acknowledged that the current situation is not their fault). As splitting Dublin helps all counties, including Dublin, what am I arguing for is actually beneficial for them.

Nobody said money From the GAA was the sole reason but it's a big one. By any metric the GAA unfairly funded Dublin for 2 decades.

Secondly Armagh receiving the funding Dublin got absolutely would improve GAA in the county which ultimately would help the county team. Fairly brain-dead to try and suggest otherwise.

On one hand you tell us this money won't help but then you use the East Leinster project to show how the GAA is investing money to improve things.

Dublin over a decade we're getting about 20 time's the funding most counties got. To have the equivalent of that counties from now on would need to start receiving 20 time's what Dublin get.

The sad reality is counties can't even get close to parity and yet some idiots think they should just get their House in order.

If Dublin had 40 clubs, 200k population, crappy funding and didn't play most important games at home you boy's wouldn't win anything. The sad reality is you needed insane advantage's to start winning again. Fair play 👏

It wasn't just the GAA funding Dublin, also factor in the government and their sponsors etc.

One thing that is striking is how contradictory the Dublin supporters' arguments are. They say money makes no difference but then cite the East Leinster project or get irritated when they say it should be reduced. They say as Dublin have more people/ players/ registered members etc., they should get more money but when it is pointed out that on anyone of these metrics they are still overfunded, they stay silent. They say population makes no difference but then say other counties should be split until they are the size of Leitrim. They say Croke Park makes no difference but get irate when it is proposed playing games out of there, even when the capacity is not needed etc.

So you agree the population size of Leitrim makes it more unlikely you will find 15-30 players of that high calibre ?

There for Cork , Galway ,Meath Kildare etc should be split also for a level playing field like 😂

What's striking is so called GAA supporters on here , want Dublin split 4 ways , but expect small population Counties ie Leitrim to compete with Counties with several times larger populations , what is also striking is individuals posting on here and not revealing what County they are from , clearly hidden agendas .

Again a complete nonsense of a post

1- If Dublin were to split all discrepancies in population would have to be looked at ,and splits and mergers would have to happen , this has been pointed out repeatedly.

2-A split of Dublin will not help/ improve all Counties , most likely it will help your County " which is unknown" and a few of the bigger Counties ,this has been pointed out repeatedly

3- A split would clearly weaken Dublin , this has been pointed out repeatedly

4- Dublin fans dont want to see inter-County rivalries , this has been pointed out repeatedly

5- You clearly want to weaken Dublin to help your own County this has been pointed out repeatedly

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IMO counties like Leitrim, Fermanagh, Louth, Sligo should be getting more favourable funding the likes of Cork, Meath, mayo, Kildare etc. Now not on the level of a province like Dublin but considering the natural disadvantages the smallest counties have they should be getting the highest help per capita.

As a former Meath fan I wouldn't celebrate much if we beat a county like Leitrim or think it's impressive for that matter. The same way it's not impressive when Dublin beat anyone. You should be and by a lot at that. What you can't beat Roscommon by 10 points? Need another million a year maybe. Imagine what Roscommon would have beaten you by if they'd your advantages and you had there's.

Ah sure no need for your fear for the big bad ,Dubs, it will never happen 😂🤣

1- All descrepancies must be looked at or none at all .

2 -All your interested in is weakening Dublin to benefit your own County " who ever that is "

3-A split wouldn't enhance clubs across Dublin the opposite actually and I'm 100% sure they are perfectly happy with what they have achieved.There is no asterisk beside there successes only in the eyes of bitter jealous anti Dublin folk

4-Dublin GAA Supporters are happy supporting there club mates already thanks 👍

5-Your not interested in fairness, splitting and merging is the way to go

Just to be clear , are you saying you don't think a special group of players arrived around the same time along with a great manager had zero impact on winning 8 All Irelands?

You do know you're wasting your time with that lot dunnerc, They despise Dublin, always have always will, would not matter if they split Dublin in 20, they will still have something to moan about. let them off on their ramblings.

Good old Bertie 🤣

It was several groups of great players, not a golden generation. They played their part for sure, but money and population played a part in getting them on the pitch to begin with. We can't judge Jim Gavin given the context, he was too unfairly advantaged to be definitively analysed.