Galway big losers in Leinster’s culture of self-interest

It’s five years since Dublin GAA unleashed their ‘Blue Wave’ strategic plan on us, writes Brendan O’Brien. 

There were all sorts of fine features within its pages, although most of us tended to gravitate towards the number of All-Ireland titles they intended to win in hurling and football in the years ahead.

And, in fairness, they haven’t done too badly on that front.The other obvious draw from a pure rubbernecking perspective was the bit about the “subliminal exploitation of Dublin’s unique sporting hue” by unnamed competitors. Why, whomever could they have meant? Leinster weren’t having any of it, of course, and a club spokesman duly pointed out the rugby boys had been wearing blue for, oh, something like 100 years by then.