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What's It Like In Mayo For An Away League Match?

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When Cork Footballers won 3 leagues in a row you would struggle to find a in the city showing those finals. They usually clashed with some Premier League game and would at best get secondary billing on a smaller TV with no sound. I appreciate isn't an attraction for the publican trying to fill his establishment but even if the games were on RTE they wouldn't be given priority of the soccer from ac across the water and it wouldn't even need to be Man Utd or Liverpool. The lesser lights would still be a much greater attraction. For a regular league match when Cork were in division 1 you would walk a lot of town to find a sport showing the game. and it would always be on a small silent TV in the corner. I am interested to know what was Mayo like for the League final. Was the Premier League relegated from the pubs in the towns and villages while the county did battle with the Kingdom? How about Kerry, would yesterdays final have got top billing in the pubs of Tralee and Killarney? tomhealycork (Cork) - Posts: 80 - 01/04/2019 09:49:31 2176881 Link
Got back to my local at half 9 last night. Could hear a pin drop while league Sunday was on. Lads said every tv had Mayo game on bar a small tv in corner of lounge which had the Liverpool v spurs game on...GAA always takes preference even mayo are not playing but I'm guessing it's the same in most rural pubs yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11227 - 01/04/2019 12:06:14 2176935 Link
There's a big well known pub in Letterkenny done up in republican/nationalist regalia, anyway I went in there a few years ago on the day of the national league final, they were showing a Newcastle prem lge game on all the big screens, the national league final was on behind the bar on a 14 inch tv, I couldn't believe it, I told the bar manager they'd be as well take all the republican stuff down and decorate the place in union jacks. Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 2739 - 01/04/2019 13:12:15 2176964 Link
At the end of the day it's the punters that will determine what takes preference. If you have a big crowd in who are more interested in the soccer what is the publican to do? GeniusGerry (Kerry) - Posts: 2105 - 01/04/2019 13:37:08 2176975 Link
Replying To tomhealycork: "When Cork Footballers won 3 leagues in a row you would struggle to find a in the city showing those finals. They usually clashed with some Premier League game and would at best get secondary billing on a smaller TV with no sound. I appreciate isn't an attraction for the publican trying to fill his establishment but even if the games were on RTE they wouldn't be given priority of the soccer from ac across the water and it wouldn't even need to be Man Utd or Liverpool. The lesser lights would still be a much greater attraction. For a regular league match when Cork were in division 1 you would walk a lot of town to find a sport showing the game. and it would always be on a small silent TV in the corner. I am interested to know what was Mayo like for the League final. Was the Premier League relegated from the pubs in the towns and villages while the county did battle with the Kingdom? How about Kerry, would yesterdays final have got top billing in the pubs of Tralee and Killarney?" Was in Tralee a couple of years ago, Saturday quarter final in croke park clashed with an early round nondescript of the premier league. Soccer on the pub tv and a tough job to get it changed. No surprise really. EPL over the years has turned into a vehicle for weekend pints and betting for a big chunk of the population. Most of the lads down the pub in the jersey would never stand in their local pitch never mind attend a league of Ireland match. Fact. But it is regular and strongly marketed- a consumer product more than a sport. In contrast, the GAA on TV is hit and miss in terms of fixtures outside the league, plus we are constantly reminded in spring that 'it's only the league'. Eddie the Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 1057 - 01/04/2019 13:52:44 2176980 Link
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "There's a big well known pub in Letterkenny done up in republican/nationalist regalia, anyway I went in there a few years ago on the day of the national league final, they were showing a Newcastle prem lge game on all the big screens, the national league final was on behind the bar on a 14 inch tv, I couldn't believe it, I told the bar manager they'd be as well take all the republican stuff down and decorate the place in union jacks." I would well believe it. What was the response? Gator (Monaghan) - Posts: 238 - 01/04/2019 14:06:03 2176983 Link