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This isn't exact and I'm sure there are others, but in West Belfast alone there is:

Lower Falls  (2 clubs)
Upper Falls (1 club)
Glen Road (1 club)
Shaws Road (3 clubs)
Monagh Road/bypass (1 club)
Andersonstown Road (1 club)
Springfield Road  (0 clubs)
Stewartstown Road (1 club)
Finaghy Road (0 clubs)
Whiterock Road  (2 clubs)
Hannahstown/Old Springfield Road (1 club)

Would less clubs mean more clubs fielding 15 at under age? Given that many playing members are families with historical ties to the club, as opposed to players who live in the area (of which there are some). It's not clear cut.

Far too many clubs

Met him once, very eccentric, Id say very intelligent to the level of borderline buck mad

No way Donegal have 103 teams

To stop Limerick dominating the Hurley stuff Cork with 3 times Limerick's population need to get the finger out.
Their Co Board needs to go to the Cork Taoiseach, tell him it will be the end of hurling if Cork aren't winning a scatter of AIs every decade and ask for an oul dig out€€€€.
Then tell GAA HQ hurling will die if there isn't a successful Cork hurling team. And ask for twice as much €€€€ per player as any other County.
Then get all their Championship games played at home!!

Cork had 220 adult hurling teams registered last year versus Limerick having 90.

Cork      220
Dublin      128
Tipperary      125
Galway      114
Wexford      97
Kilkenny      91
Limerick      90
Waterford      78
Clare      71
Antrim      61
Laois      54
Offaly      48
Meath      43
Westmeath      31
Kildare      27
Kerry      23
Wicklow      22
Carlow      21
Down      20
Derry      16
Donegal      14
Roscommon      14
Monaghan      10
Armagh      9
Sligo      9
Mayo      7
Louth      6
Tyrone      5
Longford      4
Cavan      3
Leitrim      3
Fermanagh      2

Number of teams registered at U20 hurling level last year.

Cork   95 Tipperary   55 Limerick   42 Wexford   41 Galway   39 Kilkenny   38 Clare           32 Waterford   27 Dublin   21 Meath   19 Laois           17 Offaly   13 Kildare   12 Kerry   10 Antrim   9 Carlow   9 Donegal   7 Westmeath7 Derry   6 Roscomon   6 Down   4 Mayo           4 Armagh   1 Fermanagh1 Louth   1 Sligo           1 Wicklow   1 Cavan   0 Leitrim   0 Longford   0 Monaghan   0 Tyrone   0

Number of underage hurling teams registered 2020

Cork   998 Dublin   992 Tipperary   577 Galway   444 Waterford   403 Limerick   400 Clare   344 Kilkenny   329 Kildare   319 Wexford   291 Meath   253 Antrim   179 Offaly   153 Laois   149 Kerry   137 Wicklow   110 Westmeath   90 Donegal   82 Down   82 Carlow   81 Sligo   74 Derry   71 Louth   70 Mayo   63 Armagh   53 Roscommon   50 Tyrone   41 Fermanagh   40 Longford   34 Cavan   32 Monaghan   29 Leitrim   10

Total number of hurling teams registered in 2020

Cork   1313
Dublin   1141
Tipperary   757
Galway   597
Limerick   532
Waterford   508
Kilkenny   458
Clare   447
Wexford   429
Kildare   358
Meath   315
Antrim   249
Laois   220
Offaly   214
Kerry   170
Wicklow   133
Westmeath   128
Carlow   111
Down   106
Donegal   103
Derry   93
Sligo   84
Louth   77
Mayo   74
Roscommon   70
Armagh   63
Tyrone   46
Fermanagh   43
Monaghan   39
Longford   38
Cavan   35
Leitrim   13

These figures are wrong. Derry only have 8 clubs , you must be counting reserves there too

Not at all suprised by any of this.

League results don't matter for next season's placings and teams have championship around the corner with dual clubs playing hurling this week.

Don't understand the Drumsurn complaints about no trophy at their final league game. Did they want County Board to be on standby to go to Dungiven or Kilrea games if result didn't go their way? Worst of all, a few calls for promotion from division 1b to senior championship on twitter for a club that hasn't played an intermediate final in last 30 years. 

Steelstown gave Kilrea a fair thumping there

Can you each have a look at https://www.namagha.ie/ please

We are looking to push this draw big time for our development, we are located in Greater Shantallow and honestly need help to develop a club with unbelievable untapped potential

I'm not sure he meant to spear him but it was bloody dangerous and careless, honestly very nearly a disaster paralysis, red card for me

Are we hyping this up more than it was? Spearing him? Flip sake, the intent was to throw the player off his back, how he landed was bad and could have been worse, but he didn't (in my view) do it with malice.

He got man of the match and will probably pick up player of the year if he isn't cancelled!

Thats what I said.

You're saying a red card though.... watching it pitch side it wasn't a red, the repeat views in slow mo would result in at least 5 red cards a game, I still in slow mo don't think its a red, two yellows and move on

A lot of red cards are not intentional, but I just think the effort to throw a man over your shoulder in that way is much worse than the badly timed tap on the face guard/helmet which you see given as a red a lot.

He was motm, followed by Sean Finn.

I'm not sure he meant to spear him but it was bloody dangerous and careless, honestly very nearly a disaster paralysis, red card for me

Are we hyping this up more than it was? Spearing him? Flip sake, the intent was to throw the player off his back, how he landed was bad and could have been worse, but he didn't (in my view) do it with malice.

He got man of the match and will probably pick up player of the year if he isn't cancelled!

Thats what I said.

I'm not sure he meant to spear him but it was bloody dangerous and careless, honestly very nearly a disaster paralysis, red card for me

I thought it was the most dangerous thing I have seen in a while on a hurling pitch-risk of paralysing a man

Miles ahead of everyone else. Great team , every aspect of them from physical prowess to skill

Dunloy should win the senior Championship. Intermediate - as per usual anyone could win it. Just look at last year. Creggan or Sarsfields for me. Cushendun a good outside bet. Glenarm for Junior.

Two stand out fixtures are Dunloy v Cushendall and Creggan v Sarsfields.

Dunloy
Glenariff
Glenarm

Look after yourselves Fear and Ben. Order a pulse oximeter from amazon, they're about £25. Will show you your blood oxygen levels which is an early sign if anyone is going downhill and needs hospital treatment.

Thanks , thankfully I didn't attend , but it's bad fallout , father of the bride.

Family wedding at the weekend and my whole house is down with Covid. OH and I are vaccinated. My symptoms are flu like with a cough, eldest boy the same. Youngest kids showing no symptoms. Isolation now for 10 days.

Yeah, same situation here , friends wedding, widespread covid cases and 1 death, mostly double jabbed