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"their best forward was the corner man though (mayo name?). thought he was immense - showed for every ball."
Pat Burke -Clare name. His father also called Pat was on the 95 All Ireland team.
Anybody know how many other father and sons have club all ireland medals?

Mort served a long suspension a couple of years ago for an identical jesture in a college match. Whats good for the goose .....

Kavanagh approaced Kilmacud as he is teaching in the parish and made it clear that he wants to play in Dublin. If Kilmacud didnt take him he would have gone to someother club. Better to have him playing for you than against you.

Can't understand why he wants to transfer. His home club is only down the road and while he is playing for Longford he will be driving up and down to training and matches anyway.

  Marty and Ger are bad but surely the absolue bottom of the barrel is Jim Carney.

relax lads the minister is going to back down on this one.

Why do we need Anthems at matches anyway.
Of much more importance is the news that the League Finals cannot now be held in Croker as the stadium has to be closed to let the grass grow after the internationals and club finals.
This gets my goat.
Here we are giving our stadium to promote our competitor sports and then we cannot hold our own national finals there. Idiots.

Easytiger
Any plans to show the Dublin colleges final between Colaiste Eoin and St Beneldus, or any of the Leinster colleges matches.

Delighted to see Jim Kilty involved. Never does things by halves. If the setup is not right and the players are not giving 100% he will walk but I cannot see the players not responding to him. Coach to Dervilla O'Rourke. No barking or shouting but every move analyised. It will take time but the players efficiency in movement will improve dramatically.

Jasus BallyhaiseMan whats a good days drinking? 12 or 14 pints? or more.

My sympaties to his family. His father was very involved in the juvenile section of Erins Isle and did a tremendous amount of work in keeping young lads playing GAA.

Bucket
The people that made those statements were from Tipp and Limerick but the attidude is widespread. One Kilkenny man that has a very good job in the financial world believes that there is no point in coaching huling skills that you are either born with the skill or not. These people are very happy to keep the game confined to a few elite counties.
Best of luck to all involved in developing hurling in Mayo but there are so many obsticles in the way.

There is an increadable snobbery attached to hurling. I have been told by people from "hurling counties" that my son could never become a top class hurler because I did not come from a traditional county and did not play myself. I could understand this if i was coaching him myself but he is being coached by a former all ireland winning captain.
we have found that the besy way to improve standards and to give the lads confidence that their skills are ok is to play clubs from the strong counties. At underage there is very little between them. The problem in Dublin is that most of the better players choose football when they have to choose. The reality is that you cannot play both even at top club level.

And do not expect any help from Nicky Brennan, not that many years ago he stated at a meeting in our club in dublin that the GAA had to concentrate on keeping hurling strong in the traditional counties and there was no sence in spreading the resources thinly over developing counties.
He probably would deny this now and give the usual line about helping everybody etc