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You know Ross O'Carroll Kelly is not a real person right?
Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12120 - 01/09/2017 10:08:59 2041493 Link 0 |
MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13707 - 01/09/2017 10:15:36 2041500 Link 0 |
Is that you squeaking??
Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 01/09/2017 10:30:53 2041505 Link 0 |
Think he wrote James and the Giant Peach. You'd love it. catch22 (USA) - Posts: 2148 - 01/09/2017 11:03:22 2041514 Link 0 |
Soccer is the number one game in Dublin. No question (it is also the no.1 game in Limerick City btw, despite what the media might try and tell you!) Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 01/09/2017 11:04:30 2041516 Link 0 |
Roddy Doyle just seems to be a soccer head. Plenty of them in Dublin and plenty of those that have no regard for the GAA. That happens everywhere. Soccer still would be the dominant sport in Dublin. Football I think would be a second. There are parts of Dublin where the GAA is not prevalent. Where I live, there are a fair few Rugby heads, very few soccer heads. seanfinn (Monaghan) - Posts: 360 - 01/09/2017 11:36:18 2041525 Link 0 |
about 18/20 years ago myself and a lad went to dublin for the weekend..racing sat ,shelbourne sat night and all ire sunday.we ended up a bit worse for wear staying on the south side.the lad who was to get us tickets failed to deliver. so we ended up going into a pub around ballsbridge area. there was a big crowd in..no all ireland to be seen(dubs were not playing)..a premiership match was all that was on.we were astounded.thats the thing about dublin city.pockets are totally no gaa. we went down a few doors and it was the all ireland all the way.. kavvie (Clare) - Posts: 505 - 01/09/2017 11:44:01 2041530 Link 1 |
It's quite simple they had good enough player's as a team to win it. you only need to get thirty players in any county and work with them as a group . Donegal did that and developed as a team, kildare just haven't had as good a players in that time together to achieve it. You can have thousands of players to choose from but you can only pick thirty as a panel and if the thirty are better in one county than the other well then the other thousands mean nothing. hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 01/09/2017 12:00:51 2041535 Link 0 |
I would believe that....was in Dublin a few years ago for a party and decided to watch Mayo v Dublin on TV in the league first (you may remember the game was cancelled at HT because of fog in Castlebar) well anyway I must have went into three bars and all looked at me like I had two heads when I asked to put on the Dublin v Mayo game...they had no clue it was on and were not going turning off the golf or rugby league so I jumped in a cab to Drumcondra and good old McGraths had it on.
yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11231 - 01/09/2017 12:02:20 2041536 Link 0 |
Liam can members of the current Dublin tea walk in certain parts of Dublin without being recognized or bothered? If so that is a great advantage in the build up to a final. Mayo players based in Dublin can go about their business but those based over here can not step outside the door without someone coming up to them.....I walked down the street an hour ago and met three people I know all on about the game and tickets....overhead two more taking about it.....it is a suffocating atmosphere to be in if you don't want to talk football.
yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11231 - 01/09/2017 12:05:20 2041537 Link 0 |
On what basis are you suggesting soccer is number 1 sport in dublin, anybody I ever hear say this has no actual answer to that question with a single fact. I have clearly stated three real categories of defining a sport's position as 1 attendances 2 participation 3 general interest including tv viewing figures If you take each sport to task on all three areas Gaelic football is clearly number 1 in Dublin hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 01/09/2017 12:17:44 2041539 Link 0 |
That has to be the most bizarre post ever as you have gone to great lengths to show why gaelic football is the biggest sport in Dublin and then turn around and finish it off by saying but soccer is still king without a single reason to back it up haha
hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 01/09/2017 12:22:29 2041541 Link 1 |
Liam can members of the current Dublin tea walk in certain parts of Dublin without being recognized or bothered? If so that is a great advantage in the build up to a final. Mayo players based in Dublin can go about their business but those based over here can not step outside the door without someone coming up to them.....I walked down the street an hour ago and met three people I know all on about the game and tickets....overhead two more taking about it.....it is a suffocating atmosphere to be in if you don't want to talk football. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13707 - 01/09/2017 12:27:57 2041544 Link 0 |
Yew, I'd imagine DC, Bernard and Cluxton are the only 3 that would be recognized absolutely everywhere. I would bet even lads as high profile as Philly, Jack Mc, MDMA Flynner could get around relatively anonymously in their civvies. Dublin is so different in that respect. Back in the 90's Jayo would have been the only player on that team who couldn't have walked the town unrecognised. Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 01/09/2017 12:38:28 2041549 Link 0 |
But thats the same thing with pubs up and down the country not just Dublin or regarding the gaa that happens with anything. limerick for example I went into Mcgettigans a place with around twenty screens on a saturday afternoon, sky had a double header of gaa championship action but on ever single screen was a rugby club game from New Zealand beeing aired. It took me six more pubs to find the gaa on, 10 minutes later a guy sitting at the bar told him to put that rubbish off and he did, myself and four other tables of people who had been watching the gaa said we would go elsewhere if he didn't put it back on and he immediately flicked back. another time munster were playing a rabo game in thomond park and when the match was over I asked to put in one of the tv's the world darts semi finals, the barman flicked over and was getting into it, about twenty minutes later the manager flicked off and put a rerun of the Munster match that they just shown live on every tv, I asked the same barman can't you just let the one tv I was watching who the darts and he said the manager wants all tv showing the rugby as people will be coming back from thomond park and he wants the rerun of the rugby on for them. hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 01/09/2017 12:39:41 2041550 Link 0 |
Just to show ye its not just a Dublin thing, I tried watching the All Ireland hurling semi final in a pub in Kerry last September and they only agreed to put it on if i left the volume on mute.............. My father in law who is a clare man had to try 3 pubs in West Clare to watch a CLARE hurling match on TG4 2 years back! (West Clare is football country) Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 01/09/2017 12:40:39 2041551 Link 1 |
Depends on what part of town they are in but generally speaking there wouldn't be the instant recognition thing that the Mayo lads for example would have to face. There are huge swathes of people in Dublin that are totally oblivious to the GAA, but unless you have lived or worked in Dublin it is hard to understand or believe that. My son is in college with a girl (from Dublin), and last year she spent the entire summer working with one of the Dublin team, and one of the big names on the team at that, and she had no idea who he was. The week before the all Ireland final she was asking had he any plans for the weekend, to which he replied 'ah, I've got a football match on Sunday' and off he went. It was only when she seen his picture in the paper on Monday morning that she realised who he was. I couldn't imagine Lee Keegan or AOS being anywhere in Mayo where that could happen. AHP (Dublin) - Posts: 323 - 01/09/2017 12:44:07 2041555 Link 2 |
I don't think it's a gaa thing I have played against a lot of the current team but if I see them I wouldn't feel the need to go up and talk to them if I don't actually know them, it's the same with anybody who has some sort of fame in Dublin be it sport's or other areas of life most people will recognize them but wouldn't feel the need to say anything to them hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 01/09/2017 12:45:56 2041557 Link 0 |
Hill, its simple. Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 01/09/2017 12:45:58 2041558 Link 0 |
The soccer fraternity here are either playing soccer, coaching or involved in some way. If there's a game on telly clashing with their club game they'll be involved in the club game, regardless of importance or weather. Many of them also play football, hurling, rugby and other sports The League of Ireland do have small numbers attending. But these are diehards. No more than League of Ireland players who sign on for the off-season and get paid a pittance while working part-time during the season I have to admire their dedication and question their sanity. Lesser important Ireland games aren't well attended but early round GAA championship games aren't sellouts either. Those you see sitting on barstools watching Premier League matches are shouting at GAA matches from the same barstools. Telling you yer man is never county county standard, their county never wins anything and they were a great underage player but the U16 manager didn't like them so they stopped playing. They know nothing about sport and are best ignored. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7345 - 01/09/2017 12:48:26 2041559 Link 0 |