Quote from: caprea on October 26, 2017, 05:20:01 PMQuote from: Lar Naparka on October 26, 2017, 03:56:09 PM
IMO, changes are taking place in the Ireland of today that are dramatically altering just about every aspect of Irish society and the GAA is no exception to this. Change or be left behind.
GAA heads tend to live in a time warp, oblivious to the great world about them and obsessed with the need to uphold "tradition," at any cost.
If the GAA was a commercial enterprise, the business model adopted in 1884 could hardly be expected to best suit the interests of the association remain up to the present day and beyond.
Simon Coveney recently said that the Greater Dublin Area had 40% of the republic's population and 50% of its resources and the projection was that by 2040 over 50% of the population would reside there. Already, and I'm talking about the time when he was campaigning for the party leadership so his figures appear to be a considerable underestimation.
Today's headliner in the Indo is: "Brexit surge will see our population shoot up 1.1m." (That is between now and 2030.)
Banks and other major financial institutions will seek to follow the money and that's to be found in the Dublin area. As the eastern region prospers an ever increasing rate, the western seaboard regions are heading in the opposite direction.
The gap between Dublin and The Rest in every conceivable way is widening at a dramatic and steadily increasing rate.
The GAA, Dublin included, have had no major say in shaping our country's present, never mind its future but, even in the alternate world where the GAA finds itself, things can't go on as they are forever.
This post has some very good points.
The only thing i would say is that the actual big cats in the GAA are a progressive organization who are willing to adopt and implement change.
There are the likes of Joe Brolly who has become the leader of a type of Idiot fringe of the GAA that think the game is better off like it was in previous eras but thankfully Joe and his followers aren't being listened to.