pretender
County: Meath
Posts: 180

1810883
Drogheda and Dundalk in Louth, there are no GAA clubs there. All soccer

What a waste of a post. More clubs in both them towns than any towns in Meath

Dundalk
Gaelic
Clans, Young Irelanders, Gaels, O Mahony's, Dowdalshill, Na Piarsaigh
Hurling
Pearse Og, Naomh Moinne

Drogheda
Blues, O'Raghellihs, Plunketts, Wolfe Tones, St Nicholas's
Hurling
Wolfe Tones

DundalkGael (Louth) - Posts: 895 - 01/12/2015 18:08:39    1810907

new ross and gorey

stmunn (Wexford) - Posts: 181 - 01/12/2015 18:52:24    1810911

Dundalk Gael there is no Wolfe Tones Hurling club any more in Drogheda. You could put down the Cilles club in Meath aswel as their territory crosses in to the Wee County in the Dublin Road in Drogheda.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 01/12/2015 19:16:24    1810922

01/12/2015 12:31:51
AthCliath87
County: Dublin
Posts: 338

1810775
biggest travesty for me is Tallaght - 5 clubs (Croi Ro Naofa, Kevins/Killians, Marks, Thomas Davis and Annes) None of them a very strong contender across either code for the senior leagues. Real shame for a place with a population of nearly 100k.

Clondalkin only has the 1 club and is a quite a large area approx 50k.

Same with Crumlin, Drimnagh and Walkinstown Dublin County Board has no interest in GAA in working class areas

Gael85 (Dublin) - Posts: 1433 - 01/12/2015 19:47:03    1810933

Ennis only has 2 clubs- Eire Og and The Banner.

Gael85 (Dublin) - Posts: 1433 - 01/12/2015 19:50:05    1810935

Gael85 would Robert Emmet's not be classed as Walkinstown? Naas only has the one club, am I right in saying it's the same for Maynooth?

Victorious87 (Wicklow) - Posts: 597 - 01/12/2015 20:03:04    1810938

01/12/2015 20:03:04
Victorious87
County: Wicklow
Posts: 352

1810938
Gael85 would Robert Emmet's not be classed as Walkinstown? Naas only has the one club, am I right in saying it's the same for Maynooth?

Emmets are Walkinstown. My point is none clubs in Dublin 12 similar to Tallaght clubs are struggling to compete with super clubs

Gael85 (Dublin) - Posts: 1433 - 01/12/2015 20:17:01    1810945

Victorious87
County: Wicklow
Posts: 352

1810938
Naas only has the one club, am I right in saying it's the same for Maynooth?

Naas would be the biggest in Kildare. Maynooth only has one club but would be a smaller town then Naas and Celbridge who also only have one club each.

beir_bua (Kildare) - Posts: 746 - 01/12/2015 20:42:48    1810955

I think this is going to become a big problem for the gaa in the future with big increases in Dublin and other counties population on the east coast with clubs been unable to cater for the numbers while you have clubs in rural Ireland who are going to fold due to lack of population.

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 01/12/2015 20:47:44    1810956

There are actually 3 clubs in Cavan town Thomas. Killygarry, Drumalee and Cavan Gaels, Killygarry probably being the pick of them at the moment

IamADragon (Cavan) - Posts: 305 - 01/12/2015 20:49:01    1810957

Lisburn - approx 72, 000 with one club, St Patricks

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 01/12/2015 21:16:34    1810962

Bangor, Holywood, Comber, Newtownards and all the rest of North Down only one club, St Pauls, between them with a population that must be over 100,00.

dufferman (Down) - Posts: 156 - 02/12/2015 09:51:17    1810988

Bray Emmets as far as I'm aware are the only GAA club in the town (Pop.31,000)

Maroonatic (Galway) - Posts: 1060 - 02/12/2015 10:07:10    1810994

sorry Dundalk Gael, i read the post incorrectly. There are no teams of any significance in these towns, apologies

pretender (Meath) - Posts: 358 - 02/12/2015 10:29:52    1811003

rcarragh
County: Dublin
Posts: 249

1810843 Brianmac78
County: Dublin
Posts: 946

Is St Feargals not in Finglas too or have they folded? They were a tough enough bunch

Fairly sure they folded in the early 80s

Brianmac78 (Dublin) - Posts: 1168 - 02/12/2015 13:25:56    1811048

Lucan has 17 primary schools and 6 secondary schools in their catchment area. There are more than 10,000 children attending those schools. Lucan Sarsfields really are the great under achievers of Dublin GAA.

themaddog (Wicklow) - Posts: 130 - 02/12/2015 19:46:38    1811141

themaddog
County: Wicklow
Posts: 4

1811141
Lucan has 17 primary schools and 6 secondary schools in their catchment area. There are more than 10,000 children attending those schools. Lucan Sarsfields really are the great under achievers of Dublin GAA.

In fairness to them though most of those schools are new schools I'd say. Up until 15 years ago Lucan was a village outside Dublin rather than the sprawling urban centre it is now. It's a place that's grown very quickly in a short space of time.

I remember travelling out to the 12th Lock from town to play them at underage level and it was basically out in the middle of nowhere with nothing but fields all around. All changed now.

It takes a long time to make all that new population count so I think you're being overly harsh to be honest.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13718 - 02/12/2015 20:07:03    1811145

St. Paul's Hollywood have a hinterland of over 125,000 and they are the only club!!!!

cuchulainn35 (Armagh) - Posts: 1676 - 02/12/2015 21:45:42    1811164

Maroonatic Bray has 2 clubs. Feargal Of and Bray Emmetts. Wicklow Town has only.kne club, St Patricks. Population 1 2,000. Bray has more than 31,000 I suspect.

Wicklowman (Wicklow) - Posts: 1139 - 02/12/2015 21:58:49    1811167

Cardiff or Edinburgh surely! No one said it was only Ireland!! ;-)

Bald Eagle (None) - Posts: 1009 - 03/12/2015 11:34:13    1811202