doublehop
County: Kildare
Posts: 517

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Plenty of people from other Leinster counties attend Leinster matches so the comparison isn't valid, really is it? However the Dub county board have clearly referenced the success of Leinster when outlining why they are trying their approach to their home league games this year so there is something in it. Also I have to say that to state Dublin sell-out Croke Park for all matches simply isn't true even if these attendances are far bigger than any other county.

read what i said again as i did not say for all matches i said most matches

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 26/01/2011 20:07:04    854534

Hill16man soccer is the most played sport in Ireland, the ESRI complied a comprehensive study on sports participation in Ireland. I'm sure if you google it you can look it up. Dublin rarely sell out Croke park these days - less than 20k at one match last year. Leinster get bigger crowds for league than Dublin. Parnell park is tiny. By the way I live in Dublin, not that it makes any difference.

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4663 - 26/01/2011 20:20:33    854549

even the dublin county board says its because the popularity of rugby- but the posters on here just cant bear to hear that so they try to dismiss it- who know more the county board or some supporter- rugby is the heartbeat of the nation folks you would be aswell to embrace it cause its pointless denying it

liathroidboy (Mayo) - Posts: 4921 - 26/01/2011 20:23:47    854553

Rugby is a social scene as much as a sport in this country.
Went to a couple of internationals in Croke Park.
The amount of people around me on their mobiles during the game, or spending most of the game at the bar, or just chatting away amongst themselves etc. was baffling.
I'd say they went into work on the Monday and were full of chat about how they were "At the rugby".
They were at it alright, but they weren't watching it.
Rugby in this country has a small, hardcore support primarily borne out of the fee-paying schools system.
It also has a lot of social-climbing hangers-on that want to be part of that scene and move in those circles.
They're not that bothered about the actual sport.

Coylers Elbow (Meath) - Posts: 1075 - 26/01/2011 20:26:20    854557

bad.monkey
County: USA
Posts: 2669

854549
Hill16man soccer is the most played sport in Ireland, the ESRI complied a comprehensive study on sports participation in Ireland. I'm sure if you google it you can look it up. Dublin rarely sell out Croke park these days - less than 20k at one match last year. Leinster get bigger crowds for league than Dublin. Parnell park is tiny. By the way I live in Dublin, not that it makes any difference.

esri i dont care as you will find in most country towns in ireland a church post office and gaa club not soccer or rugby so they would eant to check that survey again or was it john delaney comprising it.as for less than 20k you are wrong the match against tipp was the lowest attendance 22 thousand so get your facts right and that was a qualifier which normaly attends 3 to 4 thousnad for any other county so that was a good attendance,in there two leinster championship matches they got over 125 thousand you are telling me leinster could get that in two heineken cup pool matches leinster get 15thousand for league games parnell held only 10 thousand so wait and see how many dublin get in croker for league matches and i could guarnatee be more then 15 thousand somewere around 40thousand an average i would say.yes well you obviously live on the southside of dublin and dont travel over to the northside as rugby is as popular as cricket or hockey this side of the city.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 26/01/2011 20:38:28    854571

Seems you are happy to keep your head in the sand.


And yes I am from the southside, home of BOTH hurling and football Dublin champions!!!!!!

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4663 - 26/01/2011 20:50:46    854584

bad.monkey
County: USA
Posts: 2671

854584 Seems you are happy to keep your head in the sand.


And yes I am from the southside, home of BOTH hurling and football Dublin champions!!!!!!

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Lads,Lads, Lads... when it comes to GAA there is no Northside/Southside divide... We're all true blues.

We need to look out for each other... we've enough trouble promoting Gaelic Games in the county as it is....

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 27/01/2011 09:50:19    854703

yes well you obviously live on the southside of dublin and dont travel over to the northside as rugby is as popular as cricket or hockey this side of the city.

The Southside has the hurling and football county champions and the Northside has the division one cricket champions. Clontarf are also top of Div 1B in the AIB league.....seems like there is a good mix of GAA, rugby and cricket across both sides of the liffey.

bubba83 (Dublin) - Posts: 333 - 27/01/2011 10:03:30    854711

Hey finglas full ba why can't you bear to say who it is, is it because the mere mention of the name strikes fear into the hearts of every true blue??? I bet it is :-)

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 27/01/2011 10:30:41    854731

hill16no1man
County: Dublin
Posts: 275

854437 mikeoc
County: Kerry
Posts: 206

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Leinster are dublin's biggest rivals. They're playing league games in croke park because they feel rugby is taking over.

HAHAHAHAHA
are you for real mate leinster pull in 15 thousand for there big matches the dubs pull in 82thousnad do the maths mate
its gas to hear a guy sitting on his farm in kerry how many miles away from dublin who complains about having to make too long a journey to croke park for 1 match a year but yet presumes to know what people in dublin attend more,worry about your own team getting a crowd,your just jeaous dublin have asupport base big enough to play in croke park and that the national league will actualy get some marketing were as most kerry people only market there team the month before a final

Gaa was nothing in dublin before heffo in the 70s. Dubs will go where the entertainment is. In dublin they have to market their team,in kerry we dont have to do that as football is a religion down here. It's seems your still bitter about the hammering we gave ye in 2009. It's you that should worry about your own team. When kerry play dublin kerry win. Your 6.30 training sessions wont change anything,we'll do the same this year.

mikeoc (Kerry) - Posts: 567 - 27/01/2011 14:01:34    854900

Het finglas were not just up the N2/M2, you will also find us on the M1, M3 and the M4, we cover a lot of ground!!

Richieq (Meath) - Posts: 3760 - 27/01/2011 14:26:35    854927

mikeoc
County: Kerry
Posts: 212


Take it easy man.. Football is like Religion in Kerry because there's nothing else to do.

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 27/01/2011 14:29:50    854928

Mikeoc, football is a religion down there, is it? Is that because hardly anyone goes to mass anymore because Kerry do no get good crowds in the league?

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 27/01/2011 14:33:29    854933

jimbodub
County: Dublin
Posts: 7560

854928 mikeoc
County: Kerry
Posts: 212


Take it easy man.. Football is like Religion in Kerry because there's nothing else to do.

We have the best scenery in the country,the best beaches,the best towns/villages,the best people and the best footballers.
It's called the kingdom for a reason. Kerry is better than dublin in every single way.

mikeoc (Kerry) - Posts: 567 - 27/01/2011 14:56:32    854956

mikeoc
County: Kerry
Posts: 214

854956 jimbodub
County: Dublin
Posts: 7560

854928 mikeoc
County: Kerry
Posts: 212


Take it easy man.. Football is like Religion in Kerry because there's nothing else to do.

We have the best scenery in the country,the best beaches,the best towns/villages,the best people and the best footballers.
It's called the kingdom for a reason. Kerry is better than dublin in every single way.
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Hahahaha...

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 27/01/2011 15:18:35    854976

"I SPENT the weekend involved in the right sort of bailout. On Saturday the GAA in Kildare staged a testimonial game for Anthony Rainbow with the benefits going to two charities. Congratulations to everybody involved. We had a great time and it struck me that if it was down in Kerry we wouldn't get a hundred people through the gates but in Kildare they pulled in almost 5,000 people."

Dara O'Se: The Irish Times - Wednesday, November 24, 2010

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 27/01/2011 15:20:15    854978

mikeoc
County: Kerry
Posts: 214

I wont bother list our Pros... There's a reason why hundreds of thousands of your fellow county men/women have worked and lived and brought up families in Dublin rather than Kerry.

BUT.. AND IT'S AN OPRAH SIZED ONE...

Without a shadow of a doubt Kerry is beautiful... I loved my visits down there... brought my fly rod down, sheer bliss...

I went out with a Killarney woman, none of her brothers were into GAA, honestly.

I'd go down and marvel at the lakes, the mountians, the untouched Oak forests, The waterfalls, The fishing... etc etc.

They were bored of them.

I'd hire a boat to head out from Ross castle for a days fishing.. they didnt know how to fish... they'd barely even been out on the lake.

Do you know where they all live and work now...? I'll give you a clue... It's where I'm from.

Here's another few for your list...

Outward migration

A Failing over priced tourist industry

Jackie Healy Rae

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 27/01/2011 15:31:25    854988

Oye hill16no1man and Kildare boy knocking Kerry, lets stop slagging eachother. It is not a time to haggle about the problems or rivalries, it is a time for solutions. each county has quite a bit to offer to the GAA. I have huge hopes that the Dubz do well in both hurling and football, it will be good for everyone. Because one thing that occurs when the Dubz do well is we country boys get more intense with the desire to bate' ye'. Up the Dubz and I too am in the Southside, at times. But I travel to Croker which brings me to the North side ? So does it really matter what side I am on ? The GAA have their own stadium !!!!!!!

lostintime (USA) - Posts: 533 - 27/01/2011 15:32:41    854992

Oye hill16no1man and Kildare boy knocking Kerry, lets stop slagging eachother. It is not a time to haggle about the problems or rivalries, it is a time for solutions. each county has quite a bit to offer to the GAA. I have huge hopes that the Dubz do well in both hurling and football, it will be good for everyone. Because one thing that occurs when the Dubz do well is we country boys get more intense with the desire to bate' ye'. Up the Dubz and I too am in the Southside, at times. But I travel to Croker which brings me to the North side ? So does it really matter what side I am on ? The GAA have their own stadium !!!!!!!

lostintime (USA) - Posts: 533 - 27/01/2011 15:33:46    854993

mikeoc
County: Kerry
Posts: 214

We have the best scenery in the country,the best beaches,the best towns/villages,the best people and the best footballers.
It's called the kingdom for a reason. Kerry is better than dublin in every single way.

Best scenery? - You've obviously never taken a stroll down the Strand. You will sights there that you'd never see in Kerry.

Best beaches? - I love Derrynane beach. Idyllic but it has nothing on Dollier!

Best towns/villages? - I love Caherdaniel village as its such a beautiful spot but several Dublin villages are equally as nice. Stoneybatter is just one example.

Best people? - Jackie Healy-Rae and John O'Donaghue.

Best footballers? - I'll give you that alright.

Finally you said "Kerry is better than dublin in every single way" - then why are so many of yous in Dublin?

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13837 - 27/01/2011 15:38:30    855004