GAA president John Horan believes that a “greater analysis” of Dublin ’s funding is required.
The disparity between Dublin’s games development funding and that of other counties has become an increasingly thorny issue as the county’s footballers’ dominance continues though Horan commented recently that their success is more attributable to volunteer effort.
From 2007-19, Dublin received close to €18m in games development funding with Cork next on €1.4m.
Speaking at the launch of the All-Ireland football series in Scotstown, Co Monaghan yesterday, Horan said: "People are operating off global figures because Dublin's money goes from Croke Park whereas most of the other counties in Leinster get their money from the province by going from Croke Park to the province.
“I think there needs to be a greater analysis of it.
"It's very easy to take a global figure and say it's one-point-whatever going to Dublin and whatever going to the rest but if you actually did an analysis, where is the penetration in the schools which a lot of the coaching money in Dublin is going into and that goes into camogie and ladies football as well.
“So that's where it is. I remember having a meeting with Seamus Kenny and Shane Flanagan [in Meath] and Shane Flanagan's comment at the meeting between the three of us was that per head of population there's actually more coaching money going into Meath than Dublin.
“That's what he said at that meeting. Now I didn't have the actual figures so I'm not going to stand over it but I intend to get someone to just have a look at it and analyse it.”
