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

Now it was a big upset but tough to see Mayo get past the likes of Antrim who will surely walk the Ulster championship with their huge population advantage. There wont be a pallet burned for a week in Ballymena in celebration of Antrims inevitable Ulster success based on their huge population (all of whom like Dublin & New York definitely take part in Gaelic games) .

Right thats just New York

So with New York and London shocking early exits its clear Galway will win Connacht in football and no doubt Antrim , Cork and Dublin will win both the football & hurling in the other provinces with their massive population advantages.

Really unfair Kerry have to play football in a province with Cork and Limerick. No chance they can compete against those bigger populations. Hand the trophy to Cork.

Again we have diversion with ridiculous comparisons. How about we use the number of Irish passport holders in each as a basis for comparison? That gives some accommodation for immigrants etc in Dublin so that it only has one million to pick from.

Same for Antrim?

Are non Irish passport holders not allowed play GAA?

Yeah you tried making this joke before and it fell flat on its face. It's just not funny, or at least, the way you are delivering it is not funny. Try harder or differently.

I will say this though- only Dublin should be split as they are the only county with the unfair advantages of population, funding and home pitch advantage.

They are, but ultimately Gaelic Games are almost exclusively played by Gaelic people or those who identify as such. Which is why the New York comparison doesn't work.

We could perhaps conclude that rather than just raw population, compare maybe members or playing age adult population- unfortunately no matter what metric we take for population, we are forced to conclude that the GAA should split Dublin.

If that's accurate, that reflects really badly on Dublin given the amount of Games Development funding they have received in recent decades! Not to mention sponsorship money, exclusive money from the Irish government etc.

But anyway, that's incorrect. Cork don't have the unfair advantages that Dublin do. We can't split by code unfortunately; we have to take all members as we've said. But it's not just about population- it's the unique combination, nature, scale and duration of all Dublin'Dublin's advantages Population AND funding AND home advantage etc that means Dublin should be split. This has been proven repeatedly.

Even if your conclusion is wrong in this case, I am glad you are willing to accept that population advantages are grounds for a split of county teams. I expect to see you advocating for a split of Dublin in your coming posts now!

That famous Dublin wit! Deliberately misunderstanding the points being made is really funny stuff. Keep it up!

But no, of the counties listed, just split Dublin- as they're the only county unfairly advantaged over all others.

What's the code of the Phoenix Park? There not a pitch in Island Bridge?

Phoenix Park less than 1km away, also the Synge Street pitch just over the canal on Crumlin Road, just excuses

Drop the passive aggressiveness. We all want to help Dublin GAA; I do at the very least. I and others have already addressed this misleading statistic about Dublin 8, but the point is that while I want to help kids in Dublin, I don't want to help them exclusively, or at the expense of everyone else, which is what the GAA did. I want kids in all counties to be helped.

You've yet to provide evidence that people in Dublin 8 are materially disadvantaged vs everyone, but even if they were, there can be no doubt that across Dublin as a whole that Dublin are uniquely advantaged over everyone else. And yes, the facilities in Dublin are often better and more accessible than in other parts of the country too.

How is there not a single pitch for 8000 kids. Are they all restricted inside the Dublin 8 area by some invisible force field?

Me and my kids live in Dublin 8, and we are (at most) 10 minutes walk from 3 separate pitches in different areas. About a 3 minute drive from a few more. When I lived out the country and played GAA there, I had to drive 7 miles to the one pitch in a 10 mile radius to go training.

If there are no pitches in a certain area of Dublin, it may be due to suitable land availability, infrastructure etc. But those area boundaries don't mean anything. There are still GAA clubs and pitches which are walking distance for most people around that area and most areas in Dublin.

Basically, it is just a sensationalist headline - trying to make a story when in reality it is completely irrelevant.