Letters to the Editor: Decline of the Gaelic football game

One reader writes in to say that people admit that they now attend principally for the tribal reason of showing solidarity with their own club/county and community
Letters to the Editor: Decline of the Gaelic football game

David Clifford, of Kerry, and Christopher McKaigue, of Derry, clash during the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship quarter-final match between at Croke Park. Picture: Ben McShane/Sportsfile

That there is widespread concern abroad about how Gaelic football has been allowed to evolve is an undeniable fact.

Most people with whom I discuss the sport admit that they now attend principally for the tribal reason of showing solidarity with their own club/county and community.

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