‘We were being baited’: Kevin McManamon had no time for calls to split Dublin in two

Kevin McManamon is not about to stir the pot in relation to Dublin’s current league pickle. When it comes to bandwagons, he’s old enough to remember the ‘split Dublin in two’ locomotive gathering a fairly prolonged head of steam. McManamon’s role in Dublin’s unprecedented era of success between 2011 and 2020 is the stuff of legend, born out of his epoch-making goal in the 2011 final. For much of his Dublin career, there was the persistent drum of criticism around the reasons for the county’s dominance – cries that Dublin should be split in two (or three or four) were common. As were assertions much of the success was down to Dublin’s superior financial backing. “I knew it was nonsense at the...