Cooney: Decision to keep Dublin united vindicated

STRANGE is the hand that fate can deal.

Two days ago, Christy Cooney presented Bryan Cullen with the Sam Maguire Cup but in 2002 he was chairman of a sub-committee that recommended that Dublin be split in two for football purposes, divided by the River Liffey.

Back then, Dublin hadn’t won a Leinster senior title since 1995 and everyone was in agreement that the potential of a city with a population of 1.4 million was far from being fulfilled.