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KevHill (Antrim) - Posts: 271 - 09/11/2009 20:16:08    479715

In Reply to gotabetrue your most likely right, in coalisland the boys put the soccer before the gaelic thats shows in the fiannas performances

fiannablue (Tyrone) - Posts: 326 - 09/11/2009 20:43:25    479748

The biggest difference in Down seems to be town or country teams. The townies play soccer & GAA, the culchie mostly GAA with only a few playing soccer. Almost no rugby amongst GAA members. This shows in team performances. Downpatrick, Castlewellan, & Newry (3 teams) are all underachieving. Compare that with Kilcoo, Mayobridge, Loughinisland, Burren, all rural or small towns with few other distractions.

blu (Down) - Posts: 1240 - 09/11/2009 21:15:34    479777

In my area - Rugby 70%
- Soccer 10%
- Cricket/Hockey 10%
- GAA 10%

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4649 - 09/11/2009 21:59:42    479806

For the ladies it's certainly the football. For lads it seems to be split pretty evenly between GAA and soccer. The local GAA teams however, are certainly the more successful of the sports, happily split between football and hurling.

Rugby is growing alright but nowhere near the numbers of the other two.

Always see plenty out fishing too...

if_in_doubt (Kildare) - Posts: 3691 - 09/11/2009 23:01:51    479871

09/11/2009 16:22:24
Pinkie
County: Wexford
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479515 Rugby I would say in Wexford.


Are you on something ?,that's the rich man's sport in Wexford !!!

Duffy89 (Wexford) - Posts: 3320 - 09/11/2009 23:03:42    479875

official report from the esri states that more people participate in soccer than in hurling and football combined

tinrylandman (Carlow) - Posts: 387 - 10/11/2009 00:15:10    479940

Tom1916
County: Armagh
Posts: 567

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Tom, should be ashamed of your self telling porkies.

The MAJORITY of people who play GAA in the North also play soccer. The reverse is not true.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 10/11/2009 00:41:18    479952

Pinkie County: Wexford Posts: 821 479515 Rugby I would say in Wexford. Are you on something ?,that's the rich man's sport in Wexford !!! I know that the local GAA club here has more under 14's playing GAA than the Wexford Wanderers do at U14 level. The rugby club is one of only 4 in the county... Therefore, in Wexford, there are far more kids playing GAA than rugby, although there is a big overlap. Soccer is also very popular in Wexford, but to be honest, I really don't know where all the previous posters have plucked their figures from.... 9 out of ten cats prefer kitty-kat maybe? What surveys have been conducted for people t break things down into percentages and ratios..... Surely an pld fashioned Venn Diagram would be more appropriate as some kids play more then one of the sports, two, three even four! Athletics is also popular, and awimming in some areas... Just some food for thought!

cailin (Wexford) - Posts: 143 - 10/11/2009 01:01:56    479957

Che finny your a fianna man, ur not from Ardboe.

stewiegriffin (Tyrone) - Posts: 341 - 10/11/2009 01:21:17    479960

In Galway City, Soccer is the number one participant sport, followed by Gaelic Football, Hurling then Rugby. The City Has 2 senior football clubs, St Michaels and Salthill and 1 intermediate football club St James, 2 Senior Hurling Clubs Mellows and Castlegar and one intermediate hurling club Rahoon. There are a number of clubs in both codes playing at junior level. Underage Football is very strong in the city at the moment and long may that last.

galwaybhoy (Galway) - Posts: 83 - 10/11/2009 10:52:53    480059

Probably depends on the part of the country. Id imagine football is more popular in Kerry, but soccer is more popular in dublin.

JPM1981 (Kildare) - Posts: 825 - 10/11/2009 11:48:22    480115

patrique
County: Antrim
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Tom1916
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Tom, should be ashamed of your self telling porkies.

The MAJORITY of people who play GAA in the North also play soccer. The reverse is not true.
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Maybe in Antrim Patrique where GAA comes second to soccer but i wouldnt say so in Tyrone our the rest of rural ulster. On our local team only one player could be considered to play both codes and in the ones around me, fintona definitely have no soccer players in the squad and Dromore would also have only a possible one or two in the team. Look at McCullagh for example, he gave up Irish league soccer to play for Dromore.

So tom wasnt telling porkies.

How many of the Cross, Dromintee, Ardboe, Dungiven lads do you think play both soccer and GAA? Very few.

trileacman (Tyrone) - Posts: 759 - 10/11/2009 12:08:23    480159

Orlaith im from Coleraine, lovely little town!

bosch (Derry) - Posts: 873 - 10/11/2009 12:59:06    480219

dundalk and drogheda are big soccer towns.rugby is also popular.gaa mostly in the country.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 10/11/2009 13:19:39    480232

When i was a young child in national school i was fond of all sports as long as they were team sports - GAA, soccer, rugby, whatever. It was all about hanging out and having the craic with my pals.

whiterbannnas (Mayo) - Posts: 2441 - 10/11/2009 13:28:31    480242

its not about the ball or the pitch, its all about the time of year and whats on tv, before or shortly after a big soccer match all you see is youngsters playen soccer pretending to be the big stars, but on the run up to the championship everyone with a ball is playing gaelic. when the world cup comes around all the children will be on the street playing soccer but come september theyll all play gaelic again

dpktech100 (Down) - Posts: 15 - 10/11/2009 14:41:38    480306

just did a quick suvey, not scientific but might be relevant, in the heart of double county champions territory. As i type there are 11 chaps and 7 girls in a field behind me. its fully light up coutesy of SDCC. 9 are spitting, 4 are picking their own nose, 3 are texting and 2 are playing head ball with a rugby ball. Sounds like most U12 matches! The ESRI research is below, basically Gaelic Games are as popular as they were when Patrique was in short trousers while other sports have increased their market share. Soccer's more popular than Gaelic Games though not by much, however there's no distinction between organised participation and ***ing around in the car park or between people who play both, for example most hurlers would play 5-a-side soccer for the craic but no soccer players would ever play 7s for fun. I'm in hurling country so foreign sports such as football and soccer aren't much of a concern. Lunn, P. & Layte, R. (2008) Sporting Lives: An Analysis Of A Lifetime Of Irish Sport. ESRI: Dublin. Pg 26 "For members of the oldest cohort, combining football and hurling/camogie, Gaelic games accounted for over 40 per cent of all the sport they played as children, roughly twice the combined strength of soccer and swimmingBut for the 18-29 years cohort, a generation or so later, both Gaelic games had been overtaken by swimming and soccer. In the space of one generation, the near dominance of children's sport by Gaelic games disappeared." "while other sports benefited from this period of sporting expansion, Gaelic games simply carried on as before." Pg 27 Soccer is the most popular outdoor team sport amongst children. pg 34 "hurling/camogie has fared better than Gaelic football in managing to maintain or marginally increase participation, while the number playing the latter may have marginally fallen."

Benandonner (Antrim) - Posts: 459 - 10/11/2009 15:25:03    480361

So che finney, i am still trying to get my head around this.95% play for a GAA team, now some people play sport and some dont, some play soccer and some play gaelic, but to say that only one in 20 from ardboe dont play for the club is a bit far fetched. I am sure there 100 or so lads from Ardboe aged between 18 and 25, do you have 95 at training every night? or like most clubs have 35-50? i have played against Ardboe for the last few years and have never seen a panel of what you claim.

But back to the point, which was what kids actually prefer, I think kids dont have a preference, it'll change depending on the day, but most likely they will love soccer and gaa. Given a ball and a set of posts and more than likely they'll play soccer, be it in a park or school breaktime. I have never heard of a school where i've seen gaelic played ona regular basis at lunch time.

Ask 100 kids in the class room, well boys anyway what they would love to be when they grow up, and i bet there would be more talk of Man U or liverpool than Ardboe or tyrone.

gottabetrue (Tyrone) - Posts: 300 - 10/11/2009 16:57:36    480441

gottabetrue, How many time do i have to say my figures are about people that play organised sport? I'll put it simply for you. 95% of lads - who play organised sport - in East Tyrone are Gaelic Football men.

CheFinny (UK) - Posts: 1358 - 10/11/2009 17:03:15    480447