Proper Gaels were watching events from Croke Park
Football is the most popular sport in the country, it has proper broad interest.
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Almost as broad as gaelic football, rubby, hurling and toys.
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It is a sport on solid ground in the Irish Republic. Begging a son of a plastic paddy who was good at throw ins proves this
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Nope. It is by far the most popular sport.
I’m also a rugby football man with little interest in football, I am nothing but objective on this topic.
I used to get fierce annoyed when itv/utv had highlights of something I wanted to watch but htv would show highlights of Barry Town -v- Rhyl in the Welsh Cup instead
Pissing on each other. Professional rubby needs to go
He also scored in a UEFA European U-18 third place playoff in fairness.
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Can’t beat a bit of gerrymandering when required. Your original point, as much as you had one, was
So iv no idea why you then went and used AFL and Australia as your example.
Bods issue is he explains the complexity of the game. The majority of viewers want an auld cunt spluttering on about how the game is like the battle of waterloo
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Australia is a continent mate, one with clear borders. The AFL Grand Final is the No. 1 in Victoria pre the Federation of Australia.
It’s an illustrative example of cultural dominance.
For NSW and Qld it is skewed by SOO vs. the NRL Grand Final.
That is cultural resonance that the GGA does not have. That’s despite decades of suppression of other sports and a rooral vs urban bias in this country. The injection of qualifiers, more try hard Northerners and Dublin has masked the erosion in cultural resonance of the GGA in the last 30 years.
As I said, I am objective on this topic. I’m not an association football man but can see how it dominates.
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He is a hugely popular figure, he broke the dominance that football had on most marketable sportsman in Ireland in the mid 00s . He draws eyeballs.
BOD is one of the few 00s ex players that actually isnt a cunt in real life. Mad considering he was irelands david beckham at that time
There’s a massive time difference between Australia and most of the places where big international sporting events take place. It would be quite odd if the most viewed sporting event in Australia was one which took place at 2am
Is Rugby still as popular? Munster Heineken Cup games were total sell outs 15 years ago and great occasions. Now youd hardly know they are playing on Saturday.
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Not incorrect but they aren’t getting beaten by the likes of the Toy Show.
Australia is also a country pal, which is why using it and the AFL as an example seemed to confirm you have got yourself in a tizz on this matter.
2% of the country’s population descend on Drumcondra for both the hurling and football finals, there isn’t many similar examples of that anywhere else in the world.
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Sexton makes the most €€€ in endorsement deals in Ireland.
McGregor would beat him hands down internationally (handily).
Katie Taylor would probably earn similar to Sexton.
But is Rugby as popular throughout the country? To me I wouldn’t think so.
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