The clamour to bring the Dublin footballers out of Croke Park will probably dissipate a little, not least because it's now apparent that Dublin would likely hammer Leinster quarter-final opposition in any venue.
But, there is another debate about venues in the Leinster championship coming down the track.
The Galway hurlers played Dublin in front of an echoey Croke Park in yesterday's 'curtain raiser'.
Neither side seemed particularly distressed at only getting out of there with a draw and they meet again in Tullamore this Saturday.
It's five years since Galway entered Leinster. They remain half-in and half-out of the province. Their minor and U21 teams are not included in the new arrangement and still face the same senior programme the seniors did back in the 1990s.
The Leinster counties have decided that their generosity will only extend as far as allowing Galway into the province and no further.
Tullamore has become a surrogate home ground for Galway as the other counties have refused to countenance allowing Galway an actual home game.
After the game, Anthony Cunningham lamented the fact that Galway haven't been 'embraced properly' by Leinster.
Look, I’m not going to make a massive issue of it but we do need to have a home and away situation in Leinster. I suppose we need to be embraced properly into Leinster.
Galway need Championship hurling in Galway. It’s something for the future but it’s something I thought might have happened by now.
And as if that wasn't enough, Labour senator from Galway East Lorraine Higgins asked the Leinster Council to do the right thing.
Galway v Dublin replay should be played in Pearse Stadium! Agreed? @Galway_GAA pic.twitter.com/RBYF3VkQx5
— Sen Lorraine Higgins (@LorHiggins) May 31, 2015
Excluding the ludicrous and facile Connacht championship that was briefly staged in the 1990s, (it consisted of Roscommon taking on Galway in a game which was rather grandiosely titled 'The Connacht final' and proceeding to have the shit beat out of them) Galway have only played two home games in the senior championship in modern times.
This makes them, in many ways, the anti-Dublin footballers.
For their record these games were the 2003 one-point qualifier loss against Tipperary and a 2011 hammering of Ger O'Loughlin's Clare on a scoreline of 4-25 to 0-20.
