Leinster Club SFC 2018

[manfromdelmonte]

How can you have an employee of Dublin GAA refereeing this game?

Is Gough working for the Dublin county board?

GAA development officer in DCU and St Pats and runs Cuman Na mBunscol

[Milltown Row2]

How can you have an employee of Dublin GAA refereeing this game?

Is Gough working for the Dublin county board?

GAA development officer in DCU and St Pats and runs Cuman Na mBunscol

For a minute I thought he was a Crokes clubman and his brother was playing!

[TheMaster]

How can you have an employee of Dublin GAA refereeing this game?

Is Gough working for the Dublin county board?

GAA development officer in DCU and St Pats and runs Cuman Na mBunscol

That a joke. Why did Columbas not object to him referring? He gave everything to Kilmacud Crokes. Is he involved with a club in Dublin?

[Milltown Row2]

How can you have an employee of Dublin GAA refereeing this game?

Is Gough working for the Dublin county board?

GAA development officer in DCU and St Pats and runs Cuman Na mBunscol

That a joke. Why did Columbas not object to him referring? He gave everything to Kilmacud Crokes. Is he involved with a club in Dublin?

He gave Crokes everything? He could have not blown for a penalty which won the game! Ref wasn't a factor at all

[LaurelEye]

How can you have an employee of Dublin GAA refereeing this game?

Is Gough working for the Dublin county board?

GAA development officer in DCU and St Pats and runs Cuman Na mBunscol

That a joke. Why did Columbas not object to him referring? He gave everything to Kilmacud Crokes. Is he involved with a club in Dublin?

We had no complaints.

[LaurelEye]

Thanks to all for the good wishes 

[manfromdelmonte]

How can you have an employee of Dublin GAA refereeing this game?

Is Gough working for the Dublin county board?

GAA development officer in DCU and St Pats and runs Cuman Na mBunscol

That a joke. Why did Columbas not object to him referring? He gave everything to Kilmacud Crokes. Is he involved with a club in Dublin?

We had no complaints.

Fair enough. I don't think the GAA should be using referees who have a strong connection to one county like that.
Congrats

[From the Bunker]

How can you have an employee of Dublin GAA refereeing this game?

Is Gough working for the Dublin county board?

GAA development officer in DCU and St Pats and runs Cuman Na mBunscol

That a joke. Why did Columbas not object to him referring? He gave everything to Kilmacud Crokes. Is he involved with a club in Dublin?

We had no complaints.

Fair enough. I don't think the GAA should be using referees who have a strong connection to one county like that.
Congrats

He has reffed loads of games involving Dublin the last couple of years. It's a bit like the Croke Park is a neutral venue argument.

[TheGreatest]

Thanks to all for the good wishes 

Well done to you sir, enjoy.

I am sorry that other posters are ruining the thread with Anti-Dublin bias.

Best of luck in the semi.

[brokencrossbar1]

Thanks to all for the good wishes 

Congratulations laureleye. Some feeling winning a big one!  Burst it out now and make CP on the 17th!

[imtommygunn]

Someone talked about Kilmacaud Crokes not having enough "devilment". Be prepared as Dr Crokes have that in spades lol.

[seafoid]

Yet the recent weekends have been just what the club championship has ideally been about for most of its nearly 50 years of official history – not necessarily David sling-shooting Goliath (although that as well) but the sense of a great honour being shared around, with only a small minority of clubs able to regenerate and challenge on a regular basis.


https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/se%C3%A1n-moran-mullinalaghta-and-gaoth-dobhair-restore-the-magic-of-christmas-1.3728013

In Leinster, for instance, only three counties have yet to win a provincial club football title, Louth, Kilkenny and Wexford – ironic given that the All-Ireland trophy is named after the late Castletown and Wexford footballer Andy Merrigan, whose club donated the eponymous cup.

That ideal sends a specific message. Somewhere around the country are club catchments which without explanation or warning fire up a generation of particularly talented players – or in Mullinalaghta's case a critical mass of male children.

Painstakingly developed and nurtured, they may grow to give their community a place in the spotlight that reflects pride on all concerned, fires the imagination of local children, and intensifies bonds with those from home scattered elsewhere on this island and planet.

The spotlight will inevitably move elsewhere, but its glow will bathe each parish and half-parish that it touches in perpetuity.

[manfromdelmonte]

Yet the recent weekends have been just what the club championship has ideally been about for most of its nearly 50 years of official history – not necessarily David sling-shooting Goliath (although that as well) but the sense of a great honour being shared around, with only a small minority of clubs able to regenerate and challenge on a regular basis.


https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/se%C3%A1n-moran-mullinalaghta-and-gaoth-dobhair-restore-the-magic-of-christmas-1.3728013

In Leinster, for instance, only three counties have yet to win a provincial club football title, Louth, Kilkenny and Wexford – ironic given that the All-Ireland trophy is named after the late Castletown and Wexford footballer Andy Merrigan, whose club donated the eponymous cup.

That ideal sends a specific message. Somewhere around the country are club catchments which without explanation or warning fire up a generation of particularly talented players – or in Mullinalaghta's case a critical mass of male children.

Painstakingly developed and nurtured, they may grow to give their community a place in the spotlight that reflects pride on all concerned, fires the imagination of local children, and intensifies bonds with those from home scattered elsewhere on this island and planet.

The spotlight will inevitably move elsewhere, but its glow will bathe each parish and half-parish that it touches in perpetuity.

exactly
these wins give every small area in Ireland the right to believe anything is possible
Mullinalaghta national school is barely able to field a team at the moment due to low numbers, so these things can definitely be cyclical

[seafoid]

https://mobile.twitter.com/naylor1971/status/1073348396067549185

[The Hill is Blue]

Yet the recent weekends have been just what the club championship has ideally been about for most of its nearly 50 years of official history – not necessarily David sling-shooting Goliath (although that as well) but the sense of a great honour being shared around, with only a small minority of clubs able to regenerate and challenge on a regular basis.


https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/se%C3%A1n-moran-mullinalaghta-and-gaoth-dobhair-restore-the-magic-of-christmas-1.3728013

In Leinster, for instance, only three counties have yet to win a provincial club football title, Louth, Kilkenny and Wexford – ironic given that the All-Ireland trophy is named after the late Castletown and Wexford footballer Andy Merrigan, whose club donated the eponymous cup.

That ideal sends a specific message. Somewhere around the country are club catchments which without explanation or warning fire up a generation of particularly talented players – or in Mullinalaghta's case a critical mass of male children.

Painstakingly developed and nurtured, they may grow to give their community a place in the spotlight that reflects pride on all concerned, fires the imagination of local children, and intensifies bonds with those from home scattered elsewhere on this island and planet.

The spotlight will inevitably move elsewhere, but its glow will bathe each parish and half-parish that it touches in perpetuity.

Excellently written as always seafoid