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why show more highlights of Tyrone and Down, when it was already live on tv?

Surely the Longford v Offaly, Wicklow v Laois and Roscommon v Leitrim games deserved higher billing and then show scoring highlights from the earlier live game.
I just don't get that. What idiot makes those decisions?

Mark Nally and Enda Smith can put in a shift in midfield too.

Aren't the Rossies the dirty cnuts that left the contents of the bus toilet in Armagh last year. Let's bope they have a decent septic tank!

Armagh hurlers dumped their bus contents outside the ground in Athleague.

They should rent it out for stag dos and the like....wouldn't it be some laugh for a bunch of maniacs to roll up to a pub in that wagon

Ye'll not be welcome in the sweet City of Derry anyway whether ye've clothes on or not!!

I'll point it out to you that quite a few members of that Roscommon football panel who were libeled by the newspaper got substantial damages.
Just in case anyone goes any further with it.

I'm enjoying this...

so in the GAA 2014 financial report, the whole of the country was given €1,256,963 for games development. (that is outside of wages)
Wages for all games development staff was €2,987,781 (does that also cover all of the full time and part time coaches in Dublin)

Dublin were given a special grant of €1,470,000.

Hurling development was funded to €1,292,485 (but a lot of counties don't have hurling coaches) and there was also more funding for national and regional projects (which I'm sure Dublin is part of)

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So, one county gets more than the other counties combined. (should the 6 counties in NI be included?, I don't know if they are funded separate by the assembly).
I'm just clearing up the facts.

Counties are not able to apply to the Irish Sport Council for grants for non-capital projects. They have to do this through the GAA.

eg in 2012 in the Irish Sport Council capital sports grant for Dublin only €220,000 was allocated to Dublin GAA directly. The only other county board to get direct funding was Donegal - €300,000.
So where did the rest of the €1,000,000 come from then to fund Dublin coaching?

Where can other counties apply to? Because I don't see any mention of it with the Irish Sports Council.

I think it's yourself that is skewing the facts. That 7 million given to Dublin GAA isn't from the GAA, it's from the Sport Council. ie taxpayers.

Now, where do other counties apply?

the only thing I got from that article was 7 million ring fenced for Dublin, over seven years.

You said there was funding for counties? Where do they apply?

I've read that before...

"Over a seven-year period almost €7m was ring-fenced from Irish Sports Council funding to develop hurling in Dublin – the Laois fraternity would salivate at the thoughts of a small portion of that. Last year, Plunkett went on national radio to debate their plight with a GAA official. Plunkett was reminded that a centre of excellence was available to aid their development. In the same breath, however, Plunkett reminded the official that the centre in question was based at Waterford IT. Not much use to the men of Laois."

There is no money available for other counties.

The amount of sheer ignorance & mis-information on this thread is staggering.

Where is the money then?
Shoot. Other counties will apply.

If 2/3 clubs down the country got together they could fund 50% of a full time or part time coach. Stop paying big money to the senior football or hurling manager and invest in underage and in-house coaches.

But where would the balance of the funding come from? There is no money available for other counties.

Time to get a campaign going from the grassroots of the organisation for change. Led by the clubs.

Less focus on making money, more focus on volunteers, club facilities, games for club players.

Christianity was killed long ago in Ireland, by the church itself.

The church is a hierarchical system set up to control people and centralise power and wealth in the hands of a few.