Gant07, that's life if you are stupid enough to allow people to ride roughshod over you. We have a situation where the big attraction of the weekend in the capital city is without doubt the All Ireland hurling final. What would be the total take for the day for the Association ?, maybe 10m at a guess.
The main components are the players, without them then there's no spectacle . These people have given their lives for this day and on their big weekend they are forced to stay in sub standard hotels. Kilkenny stay in a place I wouldn't let my gear bag in, not to mind have my dinner in it.
These players should be staying in the 2 top hotels in the city, yet they are being short changed.
If the English soccer team came to Dublin, they wouldn't be staying in City West, you can bet your bottom dollar on that.
It's only a matter of time before the players call time on this kind of treatment .

Thought it was a decent enough game, it will feel like a classic in 2 weeks time that for sure after we watch the grand final of the muck ball.

Gant are you happy with the standard of gealic football? Just compare it to hurling, soccer or rugby it has been left behind my friend. You can't aford to run down any sport when your own is in absolute crisis. Far easier to get a ticket for the All Ireland football than hurling the past few years, that trend will only increase i am afraid to say or any other GAA football match, could be years before we see another one properly sold out.

Your coming in here and slating every other sport while your own game is being laughed out of it. You are having a pop at hurling fgs man it is a sport in a totally different league. And then having to lie and exaggerate to try and trod down other sports but it does not work. This weekend you will have 70 thousand at croker, most there for a day out, suree i would go if i was at home, few pints and then out in time to watch the prem game, can't beat it but don't think your sport is competing in our league. Now i am off to watch the national team play.

You are a log time beating the same drum, no wonder people flock to the UK to watch soccer matches. You lot hate the national team more than u hate the GAA. Look forward to the same conversation next year. Time to get the head out of the sand, the ladies GAA have gone past you.

When your luck is out Rocket, it sure is out. Bad enough the GAA getting stronger and then Ireland go and score an early goal.

Kavvie......lads offering €350 for tickets already.

The Rock is yer man, he reckons there should be 12,000 or so nobody wants.

Chin up Rocketfingers, your day will come when the big companies take an interest. I hear SSE Airtricity want to sponsor the camogie next year, a step up for them I suppose.

Yes, us Irish love the hang sandwich and the pink snack. Washed down with a nice pint of milk.

Rocketfingers, it beats a few cans of cheap lager, a scrap and a sing song.

That ref was released from hospital later that night.

The ref reckoned the paper cuts were very painful.

Sure look it's probably the only gig in town during the summer.

Big opportunity for your league to take some of the crowd away from this awful game for years. Your crowds have gone down, why is this?.

The fans on the pitch yesterday did nothing wrong. Nice to see both sets of fans mingling after a final.

Rocketfingers, Meath won the Christy Ring this year, we may be league of Ireland standard in soccer terms but we try hard.

Could a  Pat Dolan/Roddy Collins duo save your league?. They has some great ideas on how to take it back from the dead.

night gant

Meath hurling is on the up thanks to all the Dubs who now coach in Meath and give up huge time voluntarily.