Do you remember when

[Peter Solan the Great]

Dublin threat to boycott the Championship. I am after seeing an old report from a 2003 issue of the hoganstand. What ever became of it?



An on-going row between the Dublin county board and the Leinster Council over who should oversee the spending of EUR4.5 million in the capital could result in Dublin withdrawing from all provincial competitions this year.

The threat has been issued by Dublin county board chairman John Bailey who is strongly opposed to a Leinster Council proposal to appoint an outsider to oversee the spending of the money earmarked for the county by the Strategic Review Committee over a five-year period.

Bailey received unanimous support from club delegates at a meeting of the county board on Monday night, April 7.

"No county in Ireland would hand over control to anyone else," he said in an impassioned speech.
"This is our county - we've elected our own officers and they should be allowed to look after the county's affairs. Here in Dublin we stand up for our rights and just because we won't sit down, we're painted as the bad guys.

"We're bankrolling the Leinster Council and Croke Park with gate receipts from our matches, but I'll tell you if this goes on much longer, I am prepared to withdraw all Dublin teams from the Leinster championship."

Dublin want Bailey to be co-chairman of the committee set up to administer the money for the first year of the programme, alongside an outsider, and then to take sole charge for the remaining four years - something the Leinster Council are objecting to.

[Qwerty28]

I remember he had a similar outburst about the poor Dublin "fans" having to travel to Longford in 2006 to play first round game....sent him an e-mail telling him where to go but didnt get a reply!!

He was going on about how it would cost them money to travel, eat out etc but was so oblivious to the fact that this obvioulsy works both ways! He was also going on about how it would cost the GAA money by game being played outside of Croker.....what a muppet. Same thing happened this year, the Dubs didnt want to travel to play Wexford

[Canalman]

I remember he had a similar outburst about the poor Dublin "fans" having to travel to Longford in 2006 to play first round game....sent him an e-mail telling him where to go but didnt get a reply!!

He was going on about how it would cost them money to travel, eat out etc but was so oblivious to the fact that this obvioulsy works both ways! He was also going on about how it would cost the GAA money by game being played outside of Croker.....what a muppet. Same thing happened this year, the Dubs didnt want to travel to play Wexford

Last sentence is FACTUALLY WRONG.
Never let the facts get in the way of an anti Dub tirade....... eh!

[heffo]

I remember he had a similar outburst about the poor Dublin "fans" having to travel to Longford in 2006 to play first round game....sent him an e-mail telling him where to go but didnt get a reply!!

Quite possibly John Bailey didn't reply to your 'email' as he never made any such claim and Gerry Harrington was the Dublin Chairman in 2006.

Great story though - pity it's not based on fact.

[heffo]

Qwerty - I hope you apologised to John Bailey in light of your unsolicited harrasment of him - you never posted on this thread again - what's going on??