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DUBLIN’S FOOTBALL DOMINANCE in 2013 will be the centerpiece of RTÉ’s look back at the Gaelic football year tonight.
Dubs star Ger Brennan will be present to reflect along with presenter Des Cahill on a year that saw the county win National League, Leinster and All-Ireland senior titles.
Brennan also experienced glory on the club front in 2013 as St Vincent’s won the Dublin county senior title and then lifted the AIB Leinster football crown earlier this month.
The panel for tonight’s show is completed by Irish Times journalist Malachy Clerkin and Kevin McStay, a pundit on RTÉ’s The Sunday Game.
McStay’s native Mayo won their third successive Connacht senior title this year and the county’s minor side swept to All-Ireland glory. But the coveted All-Ireland senior crown eluded them as they were defeated in September’s decider in Croke Park.
However earlier in the year McStay steered Roscommon club St Brigid’s to win the AIB All-Ireland club SFC title on St Patrick’s Day.
’2013 – A Summer In Blue’ is broadcast tonight at 6.30pm on RTÉ 2.
Meanwhile TG4′s review of the GAA year is on this afternoon at 4.45pm. ‘GAA 2013 na Scéalta’ looks back at the stories, action and highlights from the Gaelic football and hurling year.
Here’s a teaser:
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Another fella who wasted his talent. Similarly to anthony stokes. Also stephen ireland, those 3 should have backboned the irish team for the last 10 years.
@Gareth Ward: not sure on Stokes i think he might have been found out early in his career that he was below average but the other 2 ya
@Wheresmyjumper: Maybe ya, but he had the talent as a young lad and just didn’t work hard enough at it! The other 2 though, imagine if they were our midfield partnership for the last 12 years!
@Gareth Ward:
We achieved more with wheels in midfield than we ever could of with Gibson or Ireland, Glenn is a pro who wanted to play . Gibson never gave it his all to any team he played for. How Stephen Ireland was treated by both Man City and the FAI is a totally different story . Stephen Ireland could of achieved a lot more in the game and I’ve a lot of sympathy for him and his story . Gibson however I wouldn’t trust him to hand out the jerseys and has never looked like a player who cared about anything except for a gargle.
@Shane Lad: Ya Whelan has been grand like when we’ve had no one else. But what im saying is if Gibson had delivered on his potential he would have been so much better than Whelan
@Gareth Ward:”grand when we had no one else” that’s harsh, whelan a fantastic pro put a few them boys to shame, it’s not as if we never had any other options in midfeild either and we had throw poor Glenn there he was there on merit.
@Gareth Ward: Harsh on Warren. He’s only 21.
@Wheresmyjumper: He wasn’t found out, he was fond of the drink which most young Irish players were back then.
A tented lad on his day but wasted his career I’m afraid
We achieved more with wheels in midfield over the last few years than we ever would of with Ireland or Gibson. Glenn is a pro who wants to play . I’ve a lot of sympathy for Stephen Ireland and his story. The way he was treated by city and the FAI was disgusting and he could of achieved a lot more in the game . As for Gibson, he’s never given his all to any team he’s been in because he doesn’t care.
@Shane Lad: I would say taking everything Stephen Ireland says as gospel truth is very dangerous. There’s a reason his career went the way it did after packing in Ireland and then City- perceived “disgusting” treatment with both can’t have applied.
@Shane Lad: “The way he was treated by city and the FAI was disgusting ”
Yes because what happened with Stephen Ireland was everyone elses fault but him, pull the other one Shane.