Sir, – A number of counties, including most recently Meath, Galway, Tyrone and Dublin, have had “golden periods”.
However, Kerry has been the only county to dominate Gaelic football consistently – winning, on average, one in every three titles since their first in 1903. There is no evidence to justify extrapolating Dublin’s recent success to long-term dominance.
If Dublin, where Gaelic football is a minority sport, were to surpass, over a prolonged period, Kerry’s success rate, the suggestion to split the county would be acceptable. As every reasonable person knows, such an eventuality is highly unlikely. – Yours, etc,
GERARD SMYTH,
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Clontarf,
Dublin 3.