I think that’s a large part of it. It’s not as a big a deal in Dublin which drives lads madder outside Dublin. Most Dublin players would be largely anonymous in most bars in Dublin as proven by the Temple Bar video last year.
People will hate this but Dublin management encourage a more holistic approach to players lives and actively remind them nobody will remember them or care about their medals when their intercounty career ends.
In other counties lads are still dining or more likely drinking out on being a “county man”. Pundits on TV/radio/podcasts who can’t let it go.
Do they use their profile for the betterment of society
Or are they anonymous?
both suggested here. Seems they are all things to all men. The extreme defensiveness is very transparent lads, yeah they seem to be fairly level headed lads, rescuing kittens to bate the band. They can be that, and also benefit massively from funding and other advantages. The fact ye are pretending that doesn’t exist is telling, as it’s undisputable.
Nail on the head …also a bit like Leo, the muldoons can’t get a read on the dubs because they are not one of the lads down the local having a pint …paddy has an awful problem with a lad taking any road that doesn’t lead to the pub…
What yesterday showed is that hurling simply cannot complete with football when it comes to sheer, unbridled passion, drama and excitment with the scenes at the Athletic Ground.
Most of the Dublin side is made up from a small pocket on the northside of the city and that’s the way it has been for well over half a century. You have Dean Rock, the Small brothers, James McCarthy and Philly McMahon all with Ballymun Kickhams, Eoin Murchan and Johnny Cooper just down the road with Na Fianna on Mobhi Road in Glasnevin, Brian Howard and Brian Fenton with Raheny, Cormac Costello in Whitehall. Ciaran Kilkenny even in Castleknock. Recently departed Brogans with Oliver Plunketts on Navan Road, Jack McCaffrey with Clontarf and Diarmuid Connolly with Vincents in Marino. A northside/southside/Fingal split wouldn’t do a whole lot there.
Hurling is largely a southside sport in Dublin now. Likes of Craobh Chiaran, O’Tooles and Vincents are nowhere now. 2006 was the last time a club on the northside won the county championship and the county team is largely made of players from Cuala, Ballyboden and Kilmacud Crokes and has been for a while now.