Tall Dark and O hAilpin

[youbetterbelieveit]

i disagree about the boys on the hurling BT, i remember before 2003 eveyone had written off setanta, that he would never be good enough for the cork hurling team. and then in 2003 he showed them up and proved how good he was,

as regards their puck about, as he said it was two years since he played abit of hurling! anyone would lose their touch then.

i think they would be superb hurlers if they came back and even better footballers. and i dont think they would be playing corner forward aswell.

[bottlethrower7]

i disagree about the boys on the hurling BT, i remember before 2003 eveyone had written off setanta, that he would never be good enough for the cork hurling team. and then in 2003 he showed them up and proved how good he was,

as regards their puck about, as he said it was two years since he played abit of hurling! anyone would lose their touch then.

i think they would be superb hurlers if they came back and even better footballers. and i dont think they would be playing corner forward aswell.

I disagree and I'm basing that on seeing the 2 lads playing for their respective Cork minor teams. In my mind Aisaike was never much more than a free-taker on his minor side. Setanta was a star on his. I can't recall the year or the oppositon, but I remember him putting it up to whoever in a munster final pretty much all on his own.

And I wasn't going on the touch from the puckaround. I was going more on how the boys were moving, how unnatural having the hurl in the hand seemed to them. It was an uneasiness in their body language and I think its more than not having hurled for that long. I could be wrong of course but that was my reading of it.

[Galway15]

Thought it was a fantastic show..as regards people here sayin its nothing new! C'mon..unique viewing..A fella going back to a Fijian island to meet his cousins and play hurling in a remote village...yeah we've seen it all before!!! Ah only jokin the 3 lads seem genuine guys..fair play to them and Seán óg is a model 'professional'...great great show..the mother was priceless too!!!

[sam03/05]

Yeah players get personal sponsorship- some of the Tyrone boys get £3k from adidas plus £3k of gear free per year. Sean og is prob getting this as well.

[Croí na hÉireann]

Hi Paul,

Enjoyed your article at the weekend, even if it was in the Sindo.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/in-the-name-of-the-father-an-interview-with-sen-g-hailpn-29722119.html

Fame at last Gaelgoir.