Back in December 2015, as Ballyboden St Enda's were closing in on a Leinster club football title, one of their officials reflected on the gargantuan size of the Firhouse Road operation. And yet results lend credence to the theory that bigger clubs tend to have a better chance of contesting - and ultimately winning - senior titles in football, hurling, ladies football and camogie. Formed in 1969, they didn't win a solitary Dublin senior title in their first 25 years. Countering that, their flagship camogie team toppled St Vincent's last Sunday to claim a second Dublin senior 1 championship in three seasons. "If you looked at the membership numbers in Kilmacud, you would think that it's one enormous organisation all facing in the one direction.

Source: The Herald September 11, 2020 01:30 UTC