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I'm hearing that Ballinakill are taking in Slieve Margey and Ratheniska Juvenile  Hurlers and that Spink and Ratheniska are amalgamating at Juvenile Football level.

You hear wrong. With respect, I ask that you concentrate on your own matters and stop spreading rumors.

We are heartbroken, one of our treasures has been torn from us too soon by this horrible blight on our young men. Please, for the love of God, talk to your young men. Talk to each other. Avoid this devastation. Dinny we loved you, we f**king adored you, we will always love you. You were ours. You were one of us. We will go on but it will never be as it should have been. There aren't enough words, there will never be enough tears.

Talk to each other. Please. This shouldn't happen.

We approached both colt and shanahoe before the start of this season with a view to forming a more concrete amalgamation for 8's up to u21's.

Ratheniska U12s left Clonad this year to try field their own hurling team leaving Clonad with only 10 players. This has really destabilised the relationship between the two clubs and has forced Clonad to look elsewhere.

It was quite an achievement for Park/Ratheniska to destabilise the relationship when, if you were to believe what has been stated above, Clonad went to Colt and Shanahoe at the start of this year to form an amalgamation.

I won't comment anymore on here, as I think its a disgrace to see something like this discussed on a messageboard by people with agendas hiding behind anonymous usernames. It would do well for some to remember that in the 80's and 90's, it was Ratheniska who catered for Clonad hurlers, both by coaching and using facilities and jerseys, and sought no kudos for doing so. We gave lads an outlet to hurl and had fun doing so, that's what it's about.

If there is an issue to be dealt with, it is a matter for the Committees of both Clubs. It shames both of us to see some of the talk on here. And it downright disgusts me that on the weekend when we lost a former chairman and secretary far too young, a man who was directly reaponsible for coaching many a man who went onto hurl adult level for Clonad, that I have to come on here and address this horseshit. Whoever is pushing this is no degree of a man.