QuoteI 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?!
Don't forget a lot of prominent Ministers & TD's are big GAA heads and very parochial in their outlook! What Minister or TD outside Mick Wallace from Wexford is an out and out soccer fan!Originally Posted by Nesta99
There are some genuine LOI fas in the Oireachtas. Wasn't one of the Cork TDs formerly on the FORAS Board ?.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin Labour TD is a Bohs fan aswell I think….
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
jonathan o'brien
Genuinely surprised by that stat. Didnt realise that it was our biggest home gate since end of 2014 season! There was a superb atmosphere at it too.
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
Peter Fitzpatrick (TD and Louth chairman) would be a regular at Dundalk home games with his son/grandsons
The SF TD in the area Ruairi O Murchu would also be in Oriel quite a bit too
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).
Paschal is in Dalyer sometimes too but Spurs would be his first love
Yet he actively worked against a government backed, multi agency municipal stadium on the basis that it would be shared with GAA or not include GAA as they wouldnt contribute. Chancer!
Its not forgetting it though, just making the numbers work and politicians will jump on whatever cause they think will get them elected. If DJ can get an almost €10m loan written down to a 5 figure sum then time we all gave it a go based on the precedence.
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!
Over 30,000 according to FAI
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
The same lad who said LOI clubs weren't able to pay their players so shouldn't be considered an elite sport during lockdown.
I think Fitzer actually played with Dundalk at one stage. Def played underage with them anyway
He does be in Oriel, I've seen him many times and have a chat as he was my gaelic manager as a kid for years
Dundalk FC cannot be moved to a new stadium imo we must do whatever we can with Oriel but it must be Oriel.
Anywhere outside town would be a disaster
I know exactly who he is. A chancer as Nesta said.
The best Louth GAA chairman ever ive been told many times. Far from a chancer, without him they wouldn't have any new stadium
As a politician he's not my cup of tea
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