Has to be the club. How many counties can genuinely look to winning an AI title? A third maybe?
Na pairsaigh are a city club with a small support base. Not much people in limerick city cared about na pairsaigh winning an all ireland club. A country club winning an all ireland is on a whole different level
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Only founded around 40 years too.
You could fit the na pairsaigh support into a mini bus. A manufactured club.
Every club starts somewhere .
Winning the senior intercounty All-Ireland was incredible, the county went mad and it was just such a feel good factor for the place. The only negative - well negative is probably the wrong word - is that when you donāt have a clubman or close friend involved on the panel youāre just a small bit distant as opposed to if there was someone involved.
Been lucky enough to see my club win county junior & intermediate titles and you definitely get more personal satisfaction out of it. Delighted for your neighbours and friends, people youāve known all your life, drank with, went to school with, even fought with when you were younger!
Being honest I think the GAA is really starting to come under pressure in rural areas. Becoming so hard to field teams, finance - or lack thereof - is a major thorn for everyone. Clubs having to merge with neighbouring - and rival clubs - to field at underage and often 13-a-side at that. The super clubs with club bars and gyms and with 200 u-10ās training on a Saturday morning operate on a different planet to most.
The county scene has all the glitz and glamour. If we won the AI again this year Iād be the happiest man in Ireland once more but Iād honestly prefer to win a club title in the muck and shit next October just to give all within the club a boost and encourage more children and volunteers to get involved. A lot of people now donāt have the time or willingness to get involved. Itās only when you give a hand out yourself you see what a struggle it is to keep the show on the road.
We played two championship matches in April. We were due to have four All County league games since. All four were called off by the opposition for various reasons - bereavement, they had a football match fixed for the same night, lack of numbers. These are senior B/premier intermediate clubs with much bigger numbers than us. Honestly can see clubs folding in the not too distant future if things persist.
The big days in Croke Park with full houses etc donāt really paint an accurate picture of what life is like down at the coal face where just keeping your head above water, paying the bills and not being relegated is the order of the day.
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Putting club before county is backward gombeenism at its best, even worse itās selfish. Think about the elderly who only have a short time to see their county win an All Ireland but you have lads here rather shouting for there local bogger version of Jimmy fivebellies getting to play in Croke Park. The advent of the superclub has taken the true spirit out the club game anyway and only worse thats going to get.
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Hard to believe the jealousy and bitterness towards NaP has spread to Cork now,
In truth theyāre a huge part of the community out in Caherdavin, a fine club.
Personally I think that success for the county means so much more the first time (in a lifetime) Limerick in 13 and 18 being the prime example, the greatest joy Iāve ever taken from the GAA is club victories, the county is good for a bit of banter and the excitement while the match is on but itās never gotten me down to lose.
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Even if you go on the holidays with them?
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True enough . That said I was hoping Doon beat them last year in co final . Not anti Na p but Doon have never won a title .
Agree with dodgy, good few clubs dying, having to join up with hated neighbours. Going to get worse too in the future.
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That is down to urbanization & contraception .
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Ha, true.
Holidays?
I couldnāt get the time off to head to Cancun, pal.
Thereās a hint of club treasurer off that postā¦
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Anyway should be able to enjoy club and county. Each to their own.
If I ever win the Euromillions Iāll do a JP on it and buy our way to a senior county title.
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What āsuperclubsā are there in Galway hurling? Look at winners and finalists over the past 20 years, all by and large rural clubs with small playing numbers. St Thomasās for example barely have a few decent subs.
The rest of your post is pure horseshit, the elderly in 75% of counties will never see their county win a hurling title, the same is realistically true for the majority of counties in football. In contrast, there is a good chance they will see a county club title at some grade or even get to a provincial or AI final.
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Galway clubs have a bye to all Ireland semi, no wonder they have a good record.
What a simpleton
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