Halving counties would double the problems

Huzzah for the boys from Longford. Huzzah!

Halving counties  would double the problems

The midland lads weren’t merely the latest David to give Goliath a good chinning when they toppled the mighty Dubs in the Leinster U21 championship on Wednesday, they also punctured the ballooning guff about the capital being sliced in two along the banks of the Liffey lest they lay waste to the rest of the footballing landscape.

This was an idea that first raised its curious head back in 2002 when a Strategic Review Committee spearheaded by Christy Cooney, who would go on to become GAA president, proposed it and, in fairness, it isn’t all that hard to understand why such a concept would generate backers in the first place.

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