Louth GAA can point the way for League of Ireland clubs, with Pat Dolan writing in Friday’s Irish Daily Star column that while the “quiet positivity that’s out there (in Irish football) is hopeful, it is simply not good enough.”
The former St Patrick’s Athletic and Cork City boss returns on Friday with his weekly League of Ireland column.
And in his first of the new season, he wonders why clubs here cannot take a leaf out of Louth GAA’s book.
“The smallest county in Ireland is Louth, which is 826km squared,” he writes.
“Of course this football-mad county is crazy about football, with Drogheda and Dundalk both league champions within the last 20 years.
“Louth have never won an All-Ireland in hurling and last won a Leinster and All-Ireland Senior Football title in 1957, 65 years ago.
“I salute the GAA because here in the smallest county, the proposed brand spanking new stadium will have a 14,000 capacity… that should be the minimum requirement for the FAI to insist hosts Premier Division games in its top professional league.”
*For more from Pat Dolan, including his thoughts on last week’s President’s Cup and Pat Fenlon’s return to Bohemians, check out Friday’s Irish Daily Star.
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