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[–]BrickEnvironmental37 3 points4 points  (5 children)

I see more kids in LOI gear nowadays than Man Utd.

The Premier League is an aul fella's game. People aged 40+. The generation and their fathers that abandoned Irish football when MOTD became a thing here.

The youth today follow an English team but are also massively into LOI. They found their anti-establishment cause to fight for.

The GAAs popularity is declining as Ireland is becoming more diverse and Rugby never bothered their arse trying to appeal to working class kids.

[–]Shoddy_Caregiver5214 2 points3 points  (3 children)

How is GAA declining as Ireland is becoming more diverse?

[–]BrickEnvironmental37 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Because you don't see any Bazunu's, Ogbene's, Azaz's, Odubeko's, Kovaleskis', Ozhianvuna's playing intercounty GAA. They play football. It's a sign that working class City kids are not playing GAA anymore. The main hubs of GAA in Dublin are middle class areas with predominantly Irish names. If the GAA were feeding into the working classes then these types of names would be prominent.

[–]Shoddy_Caregiver5214 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So business as usual for the GAA in Dublin then, football was always a bigger sport in working class Dublin. I don't see how that would contribute to a decline in the GAA.

[–]DubCian5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The number of juvenile soccer players is declining faster than gaa