That should be fairly easy to ascertain with the latest census data.
But again, on a per player basis, I'd just like to see other counties at least get a fair shake of the GAA's own money. I mean sponsorship and the like is a different kettle of fish, and I see arguments on both sides of pooling sponsorship monies, but I don't begrudge Dublin their sponsorship deals either. That's all part of the glamour of being the Dubs.
The GAA, however, are supposed to safeguard the competitions and encourage participation in our games. By such a large disparity in PP funding, they are not doing that.
Comments earlier this year from senior GAA and ex-GAA figures make me think this is being looked at, and this win by the Dubs again won't lessen the focus. These are some of the quotes I'm talking about..
GAA Director of Finance - Tom Ryan
“It’s a tricky one and it’s one we’ve tried to give a fair bit of thought to over the course of the year”, revealed Tom Ryan, the GAA’s Director of Finance, at the release of their annual report.
“The short answer is no, it (The disparity in funding) won’t persist over the course of the next few years. There’s not going to be a revolutionary change to it. We’ll change it in evolutionary terms rather than in one fell swoop.
“Under Dublin, the first thing is to say that the money is being well spent. I’d be far more uncomfortable sitting here if that level of investment wasn’t being put to good use and I do understand the dynamic when people look at on field results, then look at the amount of funding.
“I’m not sure the degree to which there’s a 100% co-relation but it would be naive to assume that there’s not some degree of co-relation.
“What we’ll try to do, we’ll try to grow the other counties. I think you’ll see we have tried to do that. We have achieved that to a certain degree and we’ll try and do that next year.
“We’ve 9 or 10 specific things that our Finance Committee have looked at and want to implement for this year to do that.
“To be honest in terms of bridging the gap, it won’t be possible to do that without some degree of diminution in Dublin’s funding and there will be a modest kind of re calibration of that in 2017.”
And then Sean Kelly on Newstalk said
On the question of games development money going to Dublin, he feels that "sustainability should now been assured and really there needs to be more either extra money coming in which should be available to the other counties which might allow you to continue the funding in Dublin but definitely vis a vis the other counties there is need to invest more in the counties outside of Dublin than there was 10 years ago. It's definitely something we have to look at."