GAA Hard men (all counties)

[Maximus Marillius]

hes that hard that i never of him...r ye sure he played football

[The Bottom Brick]

rigor mortis

lol 

[esmonde]

Bobby Ryan of Tipp.

[forkinknife]

Brian Mullins. Tough as me ma's rockcakes.

[lynchbhoy]

Surprised that Ross munnelly hasnt been mentioned thus far..

[thegael]

also surprised joe brolly wasn't mentioned!..

[stoke the boilers!]

Ger Houlihan?

[saffron sam2]

There was a fella from Ballinascreen by the name of Adrian McCoy ( although an import from Co.Down ) who was as hard a man as about.... i.e he would eat glass!

Played with him at Queen's. Originally from Lisummon in south Armagh and you are indeed correct - he was fairly tough.

[hightower]

mickey crozier played in england 60's-70's heard he played 4 moortown got the man then if the ball was still there he took it hard as the mountains

[pintsofguinness]

Ger Houlihan?

[youbetterbelieveit]

down limerick way in the hurling, you had Mike Houlihan, tough as nails and he would let you know too.

[lynchbhoy]

also surprised joe brolly wasn't mentioned!..

yeah
he seems to get his name in everywhere else

Joe is well known for that teak tough streak - and was not played in the ulster championship in 93 (against fellow 6 county teams) in case he got a bit too carried away hitting oppenents- so Derry saved him for later rounds of the championship..

[full back]

Lucky he isnt playing for Derry now, he would get very few games!!

[easytiger]

Hard man dubs

as mentioned before

70's vintage

Kelleher
O'Driscoll
O'Neill
Drumm (hard as nails - modern day equivalent would have been Mannion for Galway)
Doherty
Hanahoe
Moran (the amount of punishment he took and still played on0

80's

Mick Holden
Gerry Hargan
Mick Kennedy
Eamon Heery

90's

Keith Barr
Paddy Moran
Jack Sheedy
Mick Deegan

But the hardest of the lot, not only on the field but the bravery he showed off it- has to be Mullins - the biggest and baddest of them all.

[seanaglis]

shorty treanor