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Considering the demise of Parnells and the relevations that they were paying players to play in the Dublin County championship (which is likely not an isolated situation), should all urban clubs be limited to selecting players living in their specific locality only. tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1479 - 27/06/2025 12:45:10 2621486 Link 0 |
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Didn't a high profile player in your own county move to a more high profile club from his own down the road not so long ago?
boxtyburgerbuns (Leitrim) - Posts: 416 - 27/06/2025 13:17:41 2621503 Link 2 |
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Parnells were not a super club at all. A super club would most likely have handled being newly rich better. They did as you say try to effectively buy a county football championship and that team was run almost as a separate entity! Most of their teams were at lower level -and almost all football. As member of a small club I would all be in favour of limiting them to some extent - through schools if that was possible - but in general it is impossible to run Dublin on parish basis. Even going back to early years the big clubs like Faughs, O'Tooles, Commercials, Kickhams, Geraldines etc were made up of people from all parts of city and country. Many of them were linked to trades - Commercials/bar trade; Gerladines/Guinesses etc. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3669 - 27/06/2025 13:28:06 2621509 Link 1 |
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3 Super clubs in Limerick City - Na Piarsaigh , Monaleen & Mungret with huge numbers of players , administrators & sponsors and are winning most underage titles . Na Pairsaigh in hurling putting out 3 teams at many ages and often all 3 teams win on the same night . OpenStand (Limerick) - Posts: 758 - 27/06/2025 14:30:20 2621527 Link 0 |
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Vaughan I'm sure you are referring to which is correct. I hate those sort of transfers more than likes of say Darcy Walsh hennelly Barrett who are a long way from home A young lad had to transfer in Kerry too in order to improve IC prospects I've seen a number of dubs transfer to clubs outside Dublin recently. Likely we will see a super club in likes of Meath Kildare Louth soon jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1603 - 27/06/2025 15:11:15 2621543 Link 0 |
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I know little of Limerick City but is it not fair to blame Na Piarsaigh for example for becoming so strong when for a long time they were the ones putting the effort into expanding hurling in the city? Surely they ought not be punished for that? I'd say same about Crokes and Ballyboden and Na Fianna here. Was a time when the areas they are in and even the schools were a desert for hurling. They have been helped by expansion of city of course but deserve huge credit. Lots of small clubs remained small because they didn't bother their backsides. Stark but true. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3669 - 27/06/2025 15:55:44 2621563 Link 1 |
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As a Mungret Man, All I can say is that this club has taken years to get its act together and I would say is only now finally starting to realise its potential after decades of hard work. All the work is being done on in the club, on the ground by local people, parents and volunteers raising money and building facilities to give their children, grand children and clubmates the best possible chance to thrive. This Super club narrative implies that there is some big benefactors pumping money and resources in this is not the case. We put our club together with little or no help from anyone outside the member and we wont pass any apologies for the success that is starting to come. People also forget there is huge competition for players with other sports. Within a few kilometres of the Mungret Club house we have 3 AIL Rugby Clubs (Garryowen, Old Crescent and Young Munster), 3 decent Junior Soccer Clubs (Mungret Regional, Regional United and Breska Rovers), various Hockey clubs, Tennis clubs and Golf etc. I can fully appreciate the difficulties some rural clubs have fielding teams and keeping players etc. We were a small village club outside the city ourselves not that long ago and we took many a beating from neighbouring clubs in both the city (like Old Christians, Claughaun, St. Patrick) and the county (Patrickswell, Ballybrown, South Liberties and Kilmallock). So if we have a bit of Success at any level (Men or Women, Boys or Girls) we are going to enjoy it now. LimerickandProud (Limerick) - Posts: 182 - 27/06/2025 16:57:01 2621579 Link 1 |
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Lot of good points and best of luck to the three clubs , it's a demographic matter for rural clubs especially as you go out the county ,some clubs like Ballybrown , Ahane , Murroe have decent population as well inside the greater limerick city belt and Newcastle west the county's biggest town is doing good stuff but many other places particularly in the west of the county are slowly if not quickly dying and will need to consolidate or forget about it . The days of a club in every parish are not sustainable in modern ireland
OpenStand (Limerick) - Posts: 758 - 27/06/2025 17:55:58 2621594 Link 0 |
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Naas for example..
Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2410 - 27/06/2025 18:07:39 2621600 Link 0 |
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I forgot to mention Limerick - it wasnt that long ago that most limerick clubs were coughing up for outside managers tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1479 - 27/06/2025 19:11:55 2621622 Link 0 |