I tuned into the game and I was impressed to see a very busy looking main stand, just a pity for the Longford fans that Athlone were a fairly better team on the day, they won't be pushovers this season.
I tuned into the game and I was impressed to see a very busy looking main stand, just a pity for the Longford fans that Athlone were a fairly better team on the day, they won't be pushovers this season.
There are som really solid figures from this weekend's games. Probably wishful thinking but if ever there was a snapshot of attendances of LoI taken to bolster the argument for facilities funding it is the opening day of the season - fudge the fall off or average mid-season. Outside the latter stages of GAA All-Ireland inter-county fixtures, there is quite possibly better attendance of LoI in relative terms. Certainly, club championships (All Ireland or County) would struggle to regularly break 2k with figures distorted by the large finals or occasional showpiece games. GAA league fixtures are more a miss than a hit for attendance. Remove provincial rugby and there is a huge gulf between LoI and Rugby attendances and even they have had to develop multi-jurisdiction domestic and European competitions to make ends meet. Maybe being at Louth games has influenced my thinking on this but some creative use of figures by the FAI would surely lay the basis for justifying investment?!
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin Labour TD is a Bohs fan aswell I think….
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Loads more, for Dundalk there is Ruairí Ó Murchú (SF) who a regular in the terrace at oriel park, former Govt Minister Dermot Ahern is also a ST holder. Cork City have a prominent TD also who is a big fan, most clubs have I would think.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
Would it be a bit far fetched to say we had close to 30,000 fans attending games for the opening round of the new Airtricity League of Ireland season!
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
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