The Irish Mail on Sunday

Dubs’ bus has natives restless

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BLURRED loyalties on the Dublin-Meath border this week. There’s no denying the strong contingent of native Dubliners living in the Ashbourne area and somebody in the D on agh more Ash bourne GA A club had the bright idea of making a few pounds by running a bus to an important game in the Leinster Senior Football Championsh­ip today. The problem was, it wasn’t Meath’s quarter-final away to Longford, it was a bus to Portlaoise where the county’s arch-rivals Dublin take on Wicklow. Given that Donaghmore-Ashbourne just happens to be the home club of Meath senior football captain Bryan Menton (right), you can imagine the reaction. No surprise, the advertisem­ent quickly disappeare­d.

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