[1][2] Within a few years Nils was one of the strongest Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Cork.
It had a headquarters on Marlboro' Street and was largely represented by West Cork men who had come to the city to work.
He stressed the fact that Gaelic Football was in a deplorable state in the city at the present time, and teams of long connection with the GAA like Nils and Lees, found it almost impossible to put a single senior team on the field when a couple of years back they could put senior, intermediate and junior teams.
There was certainly work for an organiser here to organise Gaelic football in Cork City and help to bring it back to the high position in the GAA which it held some years back.
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