Galway players on top again

Congrats to Jude Ainsworth and Keith McFadden on being part of the 3 way spilt at the Sporting Emporiums May festival main event, these 2 players are obviously in great form this year and we will need to keep a close eye on them in Vegas.
Also I think it is fair to say that this result goes to show that if you are looking for serious poker players you really need to look beyond Dublin. I mean Dublin is fine for some things, like traffic congestion, noise and dirty streets, but really what else is there.
I noticed lately that the Dublin players are traveling around the country to play a lot less then they used to, so I decided to ask a few of them, that still talk to me, why this was the case, and there was an almost unanimous excuse, there isn't any value in the tournaments being run outside Dublin. And I have to say, after thinking about it for a while, they are absolutely right, where is the value in playing a tournament your not good enough to win.