yeah,your right cuetherocket, st james are from the liberties itself, i think theyve only one team now, in the latter end of junior football, they were better not too long ago. Good Counsel got players from as far in as the coombe, but they seem to drop a division in hurling every year, and they reach out as far as drimnagh. More than anything out in neilstown, cherry orchard, etc. there was always a very strong soccer tradition, more dominant than in any other part of dublin,Id say

flack (Dublin) - Posts: 1054 - 22/06/2014 19:01:51    1607273

new ross

Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2969 - 22/06/2014 19:09:38    1607276

Yes flack -Nothing in Islandbridge or Chapelizod either really.I know Chapelizod is supposed to be with Palmerstown in playing with St Pats but i dont think ders too many that do.Basically thats a very large part of Dublin where the GAA is struggling,or non existant.Tis not all a bed of roses thats for sure.Thats why ill never take these great times for granted.

cuederocket (Dublin) - Posts: 5084 - 22/06/2014 19:15:04    1607280

Also meant to say the one gaping GAA black hole in Tyrone which has a majority Catholic population (if that's not a contradiction in terms!) is the Sion Mills, Douglas & Victoria Bridges areas. Here amazingly Cricket is King. I find it amazing that more was never done in Sion to promote the GAA especially considering its potential.

omaghjoe (Tyrone) - Posts: 1191 - 22/06/2014 19:50:24    1607298

I think the view that Inishowen is not a GAA stronghold is an outdated one. It may have been the case 20 years ago when you would seldom see any Inishowen players on a Donegal football team. Burt always contributed significantly to Donegal hurling teams. Thankfully that is no longer the case. Todays minor team had 4 starters from Inishowen.

HEREBENJI (Donegal) - Posts: 431 - 22/06/2014 19:56:12    1607300

daithidub
County: Dublin
Posts: 4

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South East Dublin, the rugby heartlands. Only two or three GAA clubs for a population of some 250,000.
Tallaght on the Western side wouldn't be known for GAA either, definitely a soccer stronghold.

I remember being in Sandymount last September the flag count in order was-

1) Leinster Rugby
2) Mayo
3) Dublin

Having said that there are big clubs like Kilmacud and Cuala in SE Dublin. And Clanna Gael Fontenoy are technically D4 as well!

roundball (Tipperary) - Posts: 2514 - 22/06/2014 20:36:39    1607326

Gleebo-

Am I right in saying that the aforementioned Westport draws a lot of it's gaelic games support from the rural parts of the parish? I know Westport United are a big deal but the place always seems football mad in the summer and they currently have one of the best in Ireland in their ranks.

roundball (Tipperary) - Posts: 2514 - 22/06/2014 20:40:26    1607331

In Fermanagh the GAA is poorly supported in the largest population area of Enniskillen as well as Lack, Kesh, Ballinamallard, Lisbellaw, Irvinestown, Brookeborough, Lisnaskea and some parts of South Fermanagh. There are clubs but some in name only.

hairyhorse (Fermanagh) - Posts: 94 - 22/06/2014 21:07:37    1607353

this is an interesting post and demonstrates how the GAA hasn't or can't get a footing

In Armagh we have Markethill, Hamiltonsbawn, Richill , and Tangragee ( where Tayto crisps r made) are some of the places where there is no GAA

However County Down have the strongest example of this with no GAA activity:-
Bangor pop 60,000
Newtownards 27,000
Dundonald 14,000
Ballynahinch 6,000
Comber 9,000
Donaghadee 6,000
Ballgowan
Saintfield 3,000
Hillsborough 4,000
Warringstown 2,500
Killyleigh 2,500
Clough
Crawfordsburn
Groomssport
Killough
Killincy
Loughbrickland
Scrava
Millisle
Crossgar

cuchulainn35 (Armagh) - Posts: 1688 - 22/06/2014 21:54:55    1607382

Really silly poster about Inishowen. Always remember players from there , Jim Quigley in the sixtys, John Farren Des Newton (won an Ulster medal in 1983) plus over the years a lot of lads played minor plus the Hurling lads from Burt, who made up the county team. Great GAA people in Innishowen and always was.

SamOnErrigal (Donegal) - Posts: 1427 - 22/06/2014 21:57:41    1607386

In the last ten years, no team from south Longford has even contested a county final. Longford Slashers, Clonguish, Dromard, Killoe, Colmcille and Abbeylara have dominated football in the county while clubs in South Longford (Legan, Ardagh, Rathcline, Carrickedmond, Ballymahon, Mostrim, Kenagh, Killashee, Cashel and Grattans) provide very little opposition. We don't have many clubs in Longford but clubs like Dromard, Clonguish, Killoe and Slashers are very capable of getting far in Leinster.

LongfordGAAman (Longford) - Posts: 23 - 23/06/2014 08:43:24    1607399

What about the club around aughnaciffe ? Think it represents the area between there and street. ? They were pretty good a fee Years ago

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 23/06/2014 10:23:58    1607485

Good to hear that the GAA is so strong in Inishowen after all! They seem to hugely overachieve on that peninsula in sporting terms, given how strong their junior soccer teams are too.

Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 23/06/2014 10:30:10    1607492

cuchulainn35
County: Armagh
Posts: 1020

1607382
this is an interesting post and demonstrates how the GAA hasn't or can't get a footing

In Armagh we have Markethill, Hamiltonsbawn, Richill , and Tangragee ( where Tayto crisps r made) are some of the places where there is no GAA

However County Down have the strongest example of this with no GAA activity:-
Bangor pop 60,000
Newtownards 27,000
Dundonald 14,000
Ballynahinch 6,000
Comber 9,000
Donaghadee 6,000
Ballgowan
Saintfield 3,000
Hillsborough 4,000
Warringstown 2,500
Killyleigh 2,500
Clough
Crawfordsburn
Groomssport
Killough
Killincy
Loughbrickland
Scrava
Millisle
Crossgar


I thought Willie Frazer was starting a GAA club in Markethill or am I mistaken cuchulainn35

muckla (UK) - Posts: 370 - 23/06/2014 10:41:00    1607499

roundball
County: Tipperary
Posts: 2114

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Gleebo-

Am I right in saying that the aforementioned Westport draws a lot of it's gaelic games support from the rural parts of the parish? I know Westport United are a big deal but the place always seems football mad in the summer and they currently have one of the best in Ireland in their ranks.

Hi Roundball,

It's hard to say at the moment, as I am not too sure about the composition of Westport's current team (lived in Dublin and then abroad for some years now). Islandeady and Kilmeena come right up to the edge of the Westport's eastern borders, and they have their own clubs, so I doubt that they'd get many there. But on the other side of Westport (going out to the Quay, and to Croagh Patrick) there's a lot of hinterland without a GAA club, the next nearest club being Louisburgh, I think, some 12 miles away. Likewise, heading out towards Newport, I think it's just Westport and Newport (the Burrishoole club) which provide GAA representation, so it's possible for them to find some players out there too, especially given that Westport's pitch is at Carrowholly, on the outskirts of the town.

Mayo is football-mad in general, but in some of the bigger towns you'd often have people who would follow the county side but who wouldn't be involved in their clubs, sad to say.

Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 23/06/2014 10:41:43    1607500

Had a look at the OP again and would correct 'Derry' to 'the city of Derry'. Obviously, places like Ballinderry, Bellaghy etc. are GAA strongholds there!

Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 23/06/2014 10:48:49    1607504

OLLIE
County: Louth
Posts: 6628

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Dundalk and Drogheda are hugh soccer towns. Ironically the most successful gaa club in Louth the Newtown Blues are based in Drogheda.

Lived in Drogheda for a spell and would agree with this. I think there's a couple of other clubs in the town- St. Nick's and O'Raghallaigh's, but there are a huge amount of soccer clubs there. It may explain why Louth struggle a bit- most of the population of the county is located in two towns which are soccer-mad.

Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 23/06/2014 10:52:20    1607509

Sport in Dublin has an association with class, status and the overall social structure of the general population, whereby, the sport one plays and supports, identifies one's socio economic status. For example, soccer is the sport of those who self identify as working class, rugby is for those who are, or aspire to be middle class. Gaelic football and hurling transcend the social boundaries in the city, although. the games have a rural association, which is testified by soccer supporters in the city referring to Gaelic football as bogger ball.

In my experience from living in Kildare and other parts of rural Ireland, there is less adherence to the unwritten code of social identification with sport that prevails in Dublin, which allows individuals from the country greater freedom to participate in multiple sports.

bryanadams (Kildare) - Posts: 733 - 23/06/2014 11:17:29    1607533

Not too sure about that bryanadams. There's a lot of uppity jaunty pointy type goys around Naas Rugby club which has always been the dominant club in the town. If anything the inlux of commuters from Dublin seems to have titlted that balance back towards the GAA.

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 23/06/2014 11:30:09    1607537

doublehop
County: Kildare
Posts: 3957

1607537 Not too sure about that bryanadams. There's a lot of uppity jaunty pointy type goys around Naas Rugby club which has always been the dominant club in the town. If anything the inlux of commuters from Dublin seems to have titlted that balance back towards the GAA.

Naas does have rather a lot of Richard Cranium type characters, I recall seeing a cravat or two on my jaunts around the town.

bryanadams (Kildare) - Posts: 733 - 23/06/2014 11:35:12    1607541