Kettle doubts benefit of Dub divide

DUBLIN chairman Andy Kettle raised serious doubt about the validity of GAA President Christy Cooney’s suggestion that Gaelic games in the capital would be better served if the county was split up.

In his address to Congress on Saturday, Cooney asked was it realistic for Dublin, with a quarter of the country’s population, to be catered by one single county board.

It’s the second occasion the Cork native has raised the matter after heading up the Strategic Review sub-committee in 2001 which recommended it be broken into north and south with the river Liffey being the divider.