GAA missing out with stay-at-home Dubs

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GAA missing out with stay-at-home Dubs
Sat, 07 Jun, 2014 - 01:00
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Eight years since the Dubs ventured westwards to Longford for a Leinster Championship quarter-final. The visit of the GAA poster boys generated all sorts of excitement in Longford in the weeks leading in.

Longford County Board had ponied up €3m on Pearse Park in the run-up. One embankment was spruced up and given a capacity of 1,000 extra souls. On the day, the place would hold 15,213.

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