A lot of the socalled advantage the Dubs have in population is false.

Apart from the large number of culties ( and I was one "") so give their allegiance to home club & county as well as people from many nations who often lean towards other sports there is also the large parts od the City & County which are soccer & rugby strongholds. This especially applies in many secondary schools where GAA is regarded as a nuisance and rugby is king. U wont see many Dub or Dub club jerseys in a whole list of schools and I have experience of strong pressure being put on students to drop GAA when they show some promise egg chasing and then you have most promising youngsters being promised if they play a bit of soccer.

So I applaud the loyal diehard GAA people who battle on against the odds in many Dub clubs and also the many GAA families who play & suport.

Of course I would luv if my beloved Biffos could beat the "Jacks" but its been a while & will be a while longer but we live in hope.

KELF (Kildare) - Posts: 775 - 24/01/2013 17:10:30    1323161

i dont think soccer or rugby has any stranglehold its just being a big city you have differant cultures so naturally a spread of sports occurs more then in other countys.
but to try and compare as muckross did the amount of uclchies and non nationals living in dublin to the amount of dubs living in other leinster counties would only be a minute fraction.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 25/01/2013 09:44:29    1323372

Just as a matter of interest, what is the cut off point for morphing from culchie to Dub. Is it one or two generations or do centuries need to pass before you have earned your right to stand on Hill16 with the best of them.

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 25/01/2013 09:52:00    1323379

Mayo lads slagging us about our players with country parents ha at least our players are born in Dublin , Mayo's best players are not even born in Mayo.

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 25/01/2013 10:02:58    1323386

Just as a matter of interest, what is the cut off point for morphing from culchie to Dub. Is it one or two generations or do centuries need to pass before you have earned your right to stand on Hill16 with the best of them.

Well it's interesting you ask that. From what I can see you might have two parents from the country living in Dublin but their kids will go on and follow the Dubs. A lot of the Dubs that have moved down to Kildare though seem determined to deck their kids in blue thoughout the summer rather than let them assimilate with their local clubs and county team.

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 25/01/2013 10:09:25    1323391

Kelf..........hold the back page........your from Offaly?????

Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 25/01/2013 10:09:59    1323392

MuckrossHead
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Just as a matter of interest, what is the cut off point for morphing from culchie to Dub. Is it one or two generations or do centuries need to pass before you have earned your right to stand on Hill16 with the best of them.

If your born and grow up in Dublin, you're a Dub, it doesn't matter where your parents come from, very simple. I don't understand how culchies don't get that.

Is it not the same down the country? Are people with parents from other counties or countries considered outsiders?

Have Michael Murphy and Paul Durcan not been excepted in Donegal seeing as they've Mayo parents?

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13816 - 25/01/2013 10:43:00    1323407

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MuckrossHead
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Just as a matter of interest, what is the cut off point for morphing from culchie to Dub. Is it one or two generations or do centuries need to pass before you have earned your right to stand on Hill16 with the best of them.

If your born and grow up in Dublin, you're a Dub, it doesn't matter where your parents come from, very simple. I don't understand how culchies don't get that.

Is it not the same down the country? Are people with parents from other counties or countries considered outsiders?

Have Michael Murphy and Paul Durcan not been excepted in Donegal seeing as they've Mayo parents?

If your born and grow up in Dublin, you're a Dub, it doesn't matter where your parents come from, very simple. I don't understand how culchies don't get that.

Is it not the same down the country? Are people with parents from other counties or countries considered outsiders?

Have Michael Murphy and Paul Durcan not been excepted in Donegal seeing as they've Mayo parents?

Of course they have been accepted, why wouldn't they? I only ask because according to some posters culchies have swamped the capital & I thought that maybe a different standard, a sort of "culchie light" existed. My reading is that culchies leaving home these days go abroad not to Dublin where jobs are nearly as hard to come by as at home & that Dublin is once again regaining true blue purity as previous generations have their own kids.

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 25/01/2013 11:16:47    1323418

i agree with mesamis it dont matter to me where your parents are from if your born and rared in dublin your a dub the same as if your born and rared in kildare your a lillie thats way i would always see it

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 25/01/2013 11:52:09    1323444

MuckrossHead
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Born and raised in Dublin means you're a Dub.

It's very simple.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13816 - 25/01/2013 12:08:18    1323456

Why did Dublin get all the culchies and Australia get all the kangaroos? Because Australia had first choice.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 25/01/2013 12:21:13    1323465

Born and REARED. Is the thing, look at my own county, you be hard pressed to find a royal born meath men, most are louth, Westmeath or Dublin, it's where your brought up IMO

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 25/01/2013 13:29:13    1323511

I live in Kildare and gave my sons a choice, both of them are very handy and will probably play for Kildare someday, but they choose to support Dublin!

lilypad (Kildare) - Posts: 1363 - 25/01/2013 13:32:03    1323515

Very droll AthCliath, very droll.

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 25/01/2013 13:34:12    1323518

A kid born in Kildare to Dublin parents is different to a kid born in Dublin to Kerry parents for example, the Kildare kid lives in celbridge which is packed with Dubs his granny grandad uncles aunts cousins probably live ten/twenty minutes down the road in Dublin he sees them all the time he lives 15 mins from Dublin city centre he's immersed in Dublin culture he sees it everyday, whereas a Dublin born kid to country parents lives in Dublin is surrounded by Dubs , his granny grandad etc live 4 hours away down in Kerry he probably only visits for 2 weeks in the summer he's not immersed in Kerry culture only Dublin that's all he knows that's why they support Dublin.

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 25/01/2013 14:18:45    1323558