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More Than Just A Game. Once you select Rent you'll have 14 days to start watching the film and 48 hours to finish it. Can't play on this device. Check system requirements. Available on HoloLens. Mobile device. Xbox Play Video. Search video It was billed in some quarters as a battle for the very future of Gaelic football, the latest skirmish in the culture wars.

But it was all noise. When it comes down to it, who really, truly cares? We live in the fast food, social media era. Sustenance is hard to come by; happiness is too often measured in likes and retweets. Take British soccer clubs as an example; formed in working class areas a century and a half ago, they now leverage their histories to pay players more in a week than some supporters earn in a decade, literally trading off the engrained tribal loyalties, which are now otherwise meaningless.

It is an abominable distortion of what sport should be - and yet we lap it up. Everything about the recent debate in the lead-up to Special Congress illustrated as much.

It will be dressed up alright as something that is going to save the game but, make no mistake, the football fairytales are over. In ways, it is a miracle inter-county football survived as long as it did in the way that it did but its days as a relatively egalitarian competition have been over for some time and the opportunity to actually address the imbalance in a meaningful way has been missed.

The inter-county game may be the heart of the sport, extracting money from television and ticket sales and pumping it around the various arteries, but club football is its soul. What mattered was the context.

Denn is a deeply rural area, which has been torn apart by tragedies for years, the last year-and-a-half the worst of all. Not for her. For others. It was for those people to give them hope. And off the pitch, it is obviously important to look after that side of it. We ended up building a really great relationship, they are like our Irish family now and they invited us to their house for our first Christmas.

I think that set the tone in terms of us feeling like we were in a very family-orientated country. Become a Member. Short URL. About the author:. Emma Duffy. See more articles by Emma Duffy.

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