Prime Time last night. Parnells GFC:- from windfall to downfall.

[Marsupial]

"132 years after it was founded the club was wound up and a liquidator appointed."

Fair dues to Prime Time for a well researched and informative report about the decline and fall of Dublin's second oldest GAA Club.

It can be watched on the RTE player, or, more simply, this link tells the whole sorry tale: https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2...all-the-inside-story-of-a-gaa-clubs-collapse/

 

[Peanuts20]

Not the first GAA club to get carried away with itself when it came to property sadly but Parnells took it to a new level and forgot what their core reason for existing actually was.

 

[mathepac]

Desperately disappointed for the community within which Parnell's was founded. A proud club with a proud history destroyed by well-meaning but over-reaching amateurs who, as stated above, lost sight of their purpose.

 

[Purple]

destroyed by well-meaning but over-reaching amateurs who, as stated above, lost sight of their purpose.

Sounds like a lot of Credit Unions back in the day...