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Youll be coming in the N5,I think best option is to get in as far as you can to the first roundabout (locally Mulroys roundabout or Dublin road roundabout) and turn the car back the way you came.
You're a short distance (10 mins walk to Bar1,Coxes and Barrel And Castle all on the same street) These are all good spots for food. Bridge Street Bar and the famous Mick Byrnes (if you want football talk) are all in the same area.
Its a bonus this game isnt on telly,there will be a big crowd.
I have a soft spot for Cavan and hope you enjoy your time and the craic in Cbar.
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Lads what's the craic. Heading over on Saturday from Cavan any tips on parking aiming to be over early and grab a the dinner before the game.
Looking for a decent spot to park and more importantly a decent spot for a feed.
I Think we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves here.
I hoping the Dublin game will decide who tops the group but that's far from a shoe in.
Tullamore should be out in my opinion, has less seats than new Hyde and no public transport from Mayo.
Hyde park doesn't probably have enough seats for season tix but is equidistant and trains from both Dublin and Mayo.I hope it might be here though as I doubt any team in Ireland has as good a record as Mayo in Hyde Park.The CCCC chairman being from roscommon shouldn't come into it but in reality it probably does.
Limerick is probably the fairest option although no public transport from Mayo.Enough seats and a memorable day on the cards if its a winner takes top spot game.
Lots of posters bang on the money here - Mayo v Dublin will attract a far bigger attendance in a venue outside Croke Park, especially seeing as the losers are potentially on the road again for the following two weeks and one of those is potentially another CP game (obviously, it would be Mayo would be the favourites of the two to end up with this schedule at the moment). Then again, since when did HQ ever give a f**k about logic, fairness, supporters etc…..
I think you're right. We'll have Cavan next weekend. Then a short enough trip to Roscommon shortly after. Dublin after. Then (probably) the 2nd v 3rd place playoff. And then the 1/4 finals the following week. That is far too expensive for the majority of families. People will obviously wish to make the knock out matches of the 2nd v 3rd and the 1/4 finals. If Mayo beat Roscommon and Cavan, the Dublin game will be seen as many to be a bit of a foregone conclusion, and too expensive, especially if in Dublin. The bigger games arrive in the following 2 weeks.
Based on all that having the game in the province of either team isn't a factor.
A big thing in Limericks favour is the train. I think a certain proportion of Dublin fans don't even own cars or drive and getting on the train will bring more of them than relying on buses.
"CCCC will decide" probably means 'let's try and get it in Croke park and if there's big resistance we will reluctantly look elsewhere'
Michael Gallagher is right in this week's Mayo News. The minute the Leinster final is over the County Board should be contacting Croke Park and insisting it shouldn't be in Dublin.
Limerick is probably the most likeliest option if the CCCC do decide that it is a neutral venue. Roscommon and Tullamore do not have enough seats for season ticket holders I'd imagine. Hopefully isn't not Croke Park. Atmosphere would be much better in Limerick. I do not see a big Mayo crowd traveling to Croke Park at the moment.
No published criteria and even with all the uproar over it in recent years (from Super 8's up to last year's new Group Stages) I've never seen them give clear outlines on how they evaluate options. Just a "CCCC will decide". At underage, distance is viewed as a key factor. In various competitions if it's over a certain distance to an away game a neutral venue will be used instead to lessen the burden. You'd imagine it plays a part in this too. Beyond that, who knows.
Provincial clashes didn't seem to be an issue last year for most of the games with Kerry/Louth in Laois, Galway/Armagh in Leitrim, Tyrone/Westmeath in Cavan, Mayo/Cork in Limerick or Kildare/Roscommon in Offaly. Gaelic Grounds a solid balance of distance, size, quality and equal distance. Certainly near the top of the list for our game you'd imagine.
that sort of logic should apply, but never will.
What is the actual criteria for venue selection?. Must it be a neutral province or is that just a preference? I would have thought capacity and similar travel distance for each county was more important.
I'm sticking with Limerick as best option anyway..
Not a hope - the capacity of the ground just wouldn't be up to it. Plus, Mayo fans would probably be parking in Tarmonbarry and the Dubs in Edgeworthstown! 😋😂
You've never seen the queues for the toilets at the back of the stand in Castlebar for even a league game so, it always a nightmare! 😕
I'm really confused here….. I think you need to read the quote I was replying because my response was exactly as to what should happen if Dublin took the same attitude…… And I did suggest Limerick, which is in the neutral province of Munster? 🤷♂️
What if Dublin took the same attitude? Is there a pitch that straddles the Leinster-Connacht border? Athlone the closest I can think of…
There are many areas of the Hyde that are better than Castlebar (superior pitch, lovely new seats), toilets is not one of them!
10k capacity. Unlikely.
It's going to be fascinating to see where this game does finally end up. My money is on Pearse Park, Longford.
Then there's no way that they can send Mayo to Tullamore for a fixture against a Leinster team. Mayo management need to be very strong on that too!!! Limerick it is so.
You could say the same for Castlebar.
Shame they couldn't fork out for a few toliets.
You'd have to be a very cynical person to assume that the chair of the CCCC being the Roscommon Chairperson Brian Carroll would have any impact on the CCCC's choice of neutral venues and increase the odds of seeing the nicely newly redeveloped Hyde getting an attractive game like Mayo vs Dublin. That'd be me. I'm totally expecting it in the Hyde. Relatively straight line. Good rail/public transport links. Great new surface to help show off one of their show pieces of the group stage. Lots of upsides for the choice. Wouldn't expect either side to have any issues or objections to it.
Tullamore could be an option. Not a notion of GAA sending the dubs to Roscommon for a neutral fixture against a Connacht team.
Limerick would be epic*
*I live in Limerick 😂
Mayo management might want to play in Croke Park but if the GAA want to get rid of the idea that Croke Park isn't Dublin's home pitch, then the game shouldn't be held there because Croke Park is Dublin's home pitch.
They played Sligo in Breffni last year. But then Sligo would have a small support base.
I presumed straight away it would be croke park. Is that what they did last year for the neutral match.
It's only a group game with 3 teams going through. Both teams will probably have already qualified so it's debatable how many Mayo supporters would travel to Dublin.
However having it in Limerick say would give it a whole new dynamic and novelty factor and could lead to a 44,000 full house.
Dublin to Limerick 2hrs 13m all motorway OR train option. Castlebar to Limerick 1hr 55m with motorway from Tuam.
The lack of proper toliets is an issue.
Oh feic!
How could i forget that one
I would be shocked if the Dublin game isn't in Croke Park. They'll churn out the usual guff about attendance (won't be an issue, it will struggle to get 40K) and how Dublin's home ground is Parnell Park, so it's technically a neutral venue etc. etc. while the powers that be in Mayo will roll over and spout about how happy they are to be playing there, but no word about another trek inflicted on their supporters. We're not on our own with this - Meath and Kildare have given up home advantage to them as well. Infuriating (to say the least!) the way everyone just rolls over for them….
My very first memory of being at a Mayo game was in The Hyde in 1994 against Leitrim in the Connacht final.
It hasn’t always been a happy hunting ground!
We really do have an incredible record there.
I was first there in 1989,obviously we've played there a lot since then and off the top of my head we've only lost there twice league and championship ,roscommon 2001 and westmeath in a qualifier around the same time (there may be others but I can't remember)
I'd say we've played there between 30 and 40 times in that period.
