The present is Dublin with the largest urban population on the island have been the dominant force in recent years.
There was a time when very rural counties like Offaly, Roscommon and Cavan won All Irelands. Offaly’s win in 1982 marked the last occasion that a county with a population of less than 100,000 won an All ireland Football title.
Your point is utter nonsense.
Why are you replying to your own post you freak?
I’ve already covered that, you’re obviously very selective in what you choose to take in and not.
Dublin have a disproportionate population base to every single other county in Ireland with only Cork being anywhere in it’s realm which it has over double the population of. That is why they are successful.
Fuck off.
You’ve taken a fair beating in this thread, i’ll let that slide.
And yet you were liking the posts I was making on this particular debate not so long ago, go attach your nose to the nearest anus you can find you vacuous wanker.
Have i liked your drivel which shitty pants has clamped?
It’s the same debate, bottomfeeder.
Look it, you are rattled. Replying to your own posts is a sure sign of it.
Log out, reflect on your mishap & come back a better poster.
Regards, CH.
Gaelic Football is dominated by Kerry and Dublin, they have won almost half the All Ireland’s between them, 37 & 25 apiece. Everybody else is largely making up the numbers. Galway and Cork are next on the roll of honour with 9 & 7, both as I’ve said have the 3rd & 6th largest cities on the island. Cork have won an All Ireland as recently as 2010, Galway 2001.
Your point that counties with rural populations dominate over urban is nonsense. Even within Kerry, you can go through just about any Kerry All Ireland winning team and you’ll find a good sprinkling of players from Tralee and Killarney, the most urbanised centres within Kerry with populations of around the 20,000 mark.
Leave him be, he’s done.
But thats not true for seceral competitive counties. And Dublin is the only county that is predominantly urban.
Cork had 9 that played against Kerry last year in deaw.
Kerry had 10 players from Urban clubs in same game.
Dublin had 15+ most of the time
Mayo have 6/7 regulars from urban clubs
Tyrone seem to be quite rural as are Monaghan.
But, yet again, you have no basis to what you are saying.
In fairness, other than Dublin, how many counties actually have predominantly urban populations?
There’s half a million people in County Cork of which 119K live in the City. Is a quarter of the county to be classed as predominantly urban? Likewise, Limerick City populates 57K out of a county population of almost 200,000. Again, roughly 25%
I don’t know about Belfast, Derry and the host of made-up “cities” in Northern Ireland.
Realistically Corks urban sprawl is closer to around 150/160,000 now
I would classify urban areas as town with a population of circa 20k.
You’re not very informed on this matter.
Tyrone is more urban than Mayo, Omagh, Cookstown and Dungannon have higher populations than any town in Mayo.
It’s the urban:rural population ratio that I would be looking like and places like Castlebar and Ballina are little more than small towns in any case. I think they both only have one GAA club in each town.
Maybe, but I took my figures from the most recently available data (2011 census).
Mobility of 30-40K since then would seem very much on the high side given the slow property markets of the period in question?
Dungannon, Omagh and Cookstown make up about 80k of Tyrone’s 170k population
Of the 3 All Ireland’s Tyrone won, as far as I know only Cavlan, the McMahons and Mulligan were panel members on those teams which over the 3 panels would have covered about 40-50 players. That’s 4 players from a population base of not far off half the county.
Omagh are thriving at the minute but Dungannon and Cookstown are intermediate clubs despite being the only clubs in their respective towns. Dungannon would be mainly nationalist but soccer is very popular there. Cookstown has a slight nationalist majority as well.
There are no county players from Strabane or Cookstown currently on the county panel, that’s about a 45k population.
Louth do, the O6 counties have quite hig urban populations ratios.
With the exception of Antrim, all the counties in Ulster would predominantly draw their players from rural clubs.
Derry haven’t had a player from Derry City in over 30 years.
Armagh get very little from Lurgan/Craigavon/Portadown.
Tyrone get little from Cookstown/Dungannon/Strabane.
Down get absolutely fuck all from urban areas as they are hun hell holes.
Fermanagh also mainly comprise of players from rural clubs.
There’s very few medium to big sized towns and cities, certainly that I’m aware of, that provide county players in near parity with their population ratio to their counties, with the exception of Dublin which is an anomaly.
How many players from city clubs are on the Cork football panel?
How many players from city clubs are on the Galway team?
Well there are “rural” areas not counted in that that are connected to the coty and very much urban centres like Glanmire, Model Farm Road, Ballincollig etc. So they are County Cork, but not really if you get my meaning.
Tyrone is not representitive of the whole country.
You have had you position blown apart, completely, over and over again. Just leave it off.