Gaa split season, promoting Meath football since 2025

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50 years ago today, Sunday 28 September 1975 saw one of the seminal All Ireland Football Finals. Mick O’Dwyer’s Kerry team of bachelors shocked Kevin Heffernan’s reigning Dublin All Ireland champions in the first instalment of their great rivalry to herald the start of Kerry’s greatest ever era of success.

50 years on, courtesy of the split season zealots, Croke Park is a GAA wasteland in August and September. An entertainment venue now, which today hosts the sport of choice of the US redneck MAGA type, the sport most synonymous with displays of might of the US military.

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On this day 22 years ago two teams from the United Kingdom played at Croke Park in an abomination of a game in which the ball was barely kicked and today it’s two teams from the United States of America doing the same.

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Forelock tugging to the US is an integral part of Irish and GAA culture

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I see the Clare County Senior Hurling Final is on Sunday. Six (6) weeks before the Clare Champions enter the Munster Club fray.

All to allow Lohan and co get a headstart for the 2025 Intercounty season I suppose.

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Proper disdain shown to the senior club championships. Awful aul nonsense only take seriously in truth by a few super clubs

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What’s a superclub?

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I see Kieran has jacked it in with the Stor

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It’ll be a first title in 80-odd or 35 years for the winners. They’ll fill the few weeks in the appropriate manner I’m quite sure.

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Lohan has already cleared the decks for 2026. He won’t faff about

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So the whole calendar now needs to fixed to facilitate one club team giving six weeks on the beer?

This is progress I suppose.

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And that’s all that matters. The rest is only of interest really to a few oddball super clubs

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Ain’t that the truth really. Lads bursting their holes for a few months to grasp the Holy Grail that the club may haven’t seen for 40 years are hardly worried about the provincial club.

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A grand aul bus trip maybe with a slab of cans is all it should be really. Lads want the poor aul players flogged all year round

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So a Clare championship hurling final on the first week of November would be ideal?

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Ballyhale, st Thomas’s and Glen would hardly be described as superclubs

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Yeah your own county championship is the one to win but I don’t know of any club who doesn’t prepare properly and give the provincial a right go.

If there’s a chance of getting to croke park why would you not?

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County Championships have been filled with Rosenburg situations since Kingdom come.

Nobody cares about Kilcoo doing 10 in a row in Down or Ballygunner doing 12 in a row in Waterford but when its ‘All Ireland Club or bust’ for both and they’ll come up short nine times out of ten, it makes things far more interesting.

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Attendances way down in cork due to the split season

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Up 15% actually mate.

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