- Intimidation of match officials
- Use of the spare arm
- Playing on the edge
- Phenomenal Intinsity
- Hooking, blocking, tackling
- Refusing to visit Brisn Cody when he was sick
Please add to the list…
- Rucking.
- Counter rucking.
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Being robots.
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no Gaelic football.
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no soccer.
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no rugby football.
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being dour cunts and having no other interests.
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Other teams being shit
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Wrong
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You forgot Avonmore Milk.
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The Kilkenny hurlers are elite warrior-eunuchs bred and trained in Kilkenny City, one of the three major cities of the South / South East. They are slave-soldiers famed for their skills and discipline in battle.
Kilkenny hurler battle tactics are based on the legions of the old Mullinavat Empire, involving large groups of them fighting in lock-step phalanxes using hurl and spare arm, though they are also trained to use rucks for close-quarters combat. Slave-eunuchs who have been trained from birth to fight, the Kilkenny hurlers are renowned for their utter discipline on the battlefield, both in their usage of incredibly coordinated large unit phalanx formations, and because they will never break in the face of overwhelming odds, even to the point of death.
Kilkenny hurling training begins when the boys are five years old: some were selected to be Kilkenny hurlers as infants and castrated then, though any slave boy up to the age of five may be later selected to be made into a Kilkenny hurler, and then castrated. For over a decade until they are full-grown, they train from dawn to dusk until they have mastered the hurl, spare-arm, and ruck, as well as their training to fight together as organized phalanxes. The training regimen is utterly brutal, and because of this, only one out of every four boys survives until the end.
Because they are eunuchs, the Kilkenny hurlers will not succumb to bloodthirsty or sexual urges in the midst of battle; their actions will only go as far as what they have been ordered to do, and nothing more. The Kilkenny hurlers also seem resistant and even immune to pain. However, Kilkenny hurlers do possess emotions and can show anger.
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Cody.
In no particular order for me it’s the
- Cute Hoor factor
- Brian Cody as Manager for the last how many years 14 is it?
- They Don’t play Gaelic Football, Assocation Football or Rugby competitively in general
- The whole population buys into the game, hurling is community/county based and the majority seem to buy into it which isn’t the case in other hurling counties.
- Winning Coaches passing on, winning beliefs
6)The Schools in KK put Hurling far ahead of any other sport, other Counties have a lot of competition trying to keep young lads to stay playing hurling. - Tradition
- Good chance if you actually make it, you’ll be successful and win AI medals
- Self belief in themselves and no fear of anyone on the big day out.
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They’re one of the only counties in Ireland that take stick hurling seriously, it’s no big deal what they achieve. It’s a bit like Armagh in that road bowling lark.
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Man who streaked in front of 10,000 Kilkenny fans ordered to do community service
A streaker found himself being ushered off the pitch quickly by gardai at Nowlan Park during the Kilkenny homecoming. Photo: Pat Moore.Open Gallery 1
A streaker found himself being ushered off the pitch quickly by gardai at Nowlan Park during the Kilkenny homecoming. Photo: Pat Moore.
A man who stripped off and streaked in front of 10,000 fans and the victorious Kilkenny hurling team has appeared in court.
Stephen Clifford, Emmet Street, Kilkenny ran out onto the pitch wearing only his socks at the Cats Homecoming celebrations at Nowlan Park on Monday.
At Kilkenny District Court Clifford entered a plea to engaging in threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour at Nowlan Park on September 7. He was convicted and ordered to carry out eighty hours of community service in lieu of six weeks in prison. He was also fined €200 for being intoxicated in a public place.
Inspector Joe Carton outlined how Stephen Clifford, Emmet Street, Kilkenny entered the pitch at Nowlan Park, where there were approximately 10,000 fans present cheering on the All-Ireland winning hurling team from the stands.
Solicitor Michael Lanigan said that his client had attended the Homecoming and had ‘too much to drink’ and ‘a colleague dared him to run across the field’.
The defendant was quickly apprehended by gardai and stewards and was arrested and brought to Kilkenny Garda Station.
“He had too much to drink and was overcome by exuberance. He wants to apologise to everyone that was present and to the gardai and the court,” said Mr Lanigan.
Judge Colin Daly remarked that the defendant would ‘be better off to tog out and try for the Kilkenny team’.
The judge added that he was taking into consideration that the defendant pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.
The 29-year-old, who lives at home with his parents has 74 previous convictions for a range of offences including theft, trespass, engaging in threatening behaviour, possession of drugs and burglary. He is unemployed and in receipt of 188 euros a week in social welfare.
Getting to play the likes of Wexford every year.
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- emphasis on picking only physically competent ball winners. sliky minors need not apply or may reapply at 23/24 when they have developed.
- huge amount of hurlers teaching in kilkenny national schools, brainwashing/indoctrinating them when they are young
- almost complete lack of competition in leinster for over a decade, forcing them to intensify training matches to create any competition at all, thus raising the standards
- mastery of the dark free handed arts
- refusal to gloat or talk up their achievements makes their success bearable, unlike munster counties who celebrate revolutionizing the game after one soft win
- crop of excellent hurlers, together, unlikely to be seen the next decade, they’ll still have one or two and will be at the same level as everyone else, not below it.
- Keady, 89
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- Galway choking
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Cricket
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The dark arts, that’s a good one
- Game management
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head-high challenges, grabbing face-guards, and off-the-ball striking
Spurrit
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