Dubs deserve to keep full funding

A couple of months ago we broke a story here about the GAA’s plans to cut funding to the Dublin County Board, something which even now is exercising minds in the capital.

How else to explain Dublin football boss Jim Gavin’s comments last week? A quick refresher: “What’s surprised and disappointed me is to hear, in the week of our semi-final game I think, that there was proposed cuts to our funding for games development in Dublin,” Gavin said. “I’ve great admiration and respect for them but this is very disappointing and is short-sightedness on the part of the financial review committee who have proposed to cut funding.

There were some comments in the summer in terms of the financial clout that Dublin have and it having a direct correlation with the senior county team’s success.