Thunder and lightning with hailstones just before throw in. Driving back home 3 hours with my jeans stuck to me wasn’t pleasant.
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Thunder and lightning with hailstones just before throw in. Driving back home 3 hours with my jeans stuck to me wasn’t pleasant.
Grand soft day
(Currently checking cancellation policy of Castlebar hotel)
Got to Cavan before dark so that was something at least. Don’t like roads I don’t know in the dark.
Done the back roads to Breffni before some entertaining roads in there!
Looked a god game mate, fair play behind the goal id be buried in the stand, hardcore!
Yee still pulling it together….
We’re going to needs couple if wins Vs Kerry, Roscommon, you lads or Galway in Salthill….cant see it, how we’re shaping up.
Whoever loses in Croke Park between us and yourselves is heading down it seems.
Wouldn't be too worried mate, we need to find and develop a few and its a great breeding ground, had a great year down there the last time - got down to PUC and Gaelic Grounds for the first time since they were redeveloped.
Agreed. Division 2 is still a high standard and perhaps the best place to test the new blood.
Not sure if anyone saw the commissioned GAA demographics report but formalise what we’ve seen nationally anecdotally.
Falling number of playing members for clubs rurally and a lack of engagement in urban areas due to the cost and provision of playing facilities.
Really is competing needs depending where you are from in the association.
This is a bit Dublin centric - but a flavour of the problem, some of the numbers are stark.
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Falling number of playing members for clubs rurally and a lack of engagement in urban areas due to the cost and provision of playing facilities.
Really is competing needs depending where you are from in the association.
This is a bit Dublin centric - but a flavour of the problem, some of the numbers are stark.
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Not sure if anyone saw the commissioned GAA demographics report but formalise what we’ve seen nationally anecdotally.
Falling number of playing members for clubs rurally and a lack of engagement in urban areas due to the cost and provision of playing facilities.
Really is competing needs depending where you are from in the association.
This is a bit Dublin centric - but a flavour of the problem, some of the numbers are stark.
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Has there been any take up of GAA sports by 2nd generation migrants in Ireland?
Some but i would say a minority of a total still in my experience, i imagine that will change, but i think we see more second generation playing Association football rather then Gaelic games - i do anyway.
You'd proabably see it yourself in who is on field on All Ireland Final Day and at The Aviva for an Ireland Football Game.
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There has been in North Armagh as that tended to be where the new Irish arrived for work opportunities (biggest industrial base outside of Belfast is Craigavon).
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The population shift to a narrow strip along the East Coast is so stark now. Just last week I saw news of a couple of thousand new houses planned between Newry and Banbridge due to the attraction of Dublin being easy hitting distance. Having travelled West last week to Roscommon, it was sad to see once thriving little villages pock marked with boarded up shops and bars.Not sure if anyone saw the commissioned GAA demographics report but formalise what we’ve seen nationally anecdotally.
Falling number of playing members for clubs rurally and a lack of engagement in urban areas due to the cost and provision of playing facilities.
Really is competing needs depending where you are from in the association.
This is a bit Dublin centric - but a flavour of the problem, some of the numbers are stark.
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