You’d be mistaken for thinking it was ground hurling only at times like an U9 blitz back in the day. A young Niall Gilligan standing above the rest with a few lovely touches. A time when veterans really did look like veterans.
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The helmet on the Dunloy midfielder looks like an equestrian one
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How did Kerry let Edmond Walsh slip through the net ?
Leinster Intermediate Football Championship Quarter-Final
Allenwood 1-17
St. Malachy’s 1-14
Full Time after Extra Time
There you have it now.
Ballylinan v Allenwood
Psycho v Doyler
Two thoroughly alright sorts facing off.
Box office 
I smell an ambush tonight in this Eire Og v Kilmacud game.
You’d love to see an upset under the lights but unfortunately I can envisage something like Kilmacud 2-16 Eire Óg 0-10 tonight. Éire Óg have lost the likes of Chris Blake and Eoghan Ruth from the team which lost the Leinster final in 2019. Didn’t realise that Rory O’ Carroll is a midfielder now.
That windy nature seems to be gone out of Crokes since they signed Shane Walsh. The days of losing to Mullinalaghta (2018) or Eire Óg (1998) seem to be behind them for now at least.
Ah shtop. Crokes senior footballers were never windy.1998 was the last sting of the great Eire Og team, played over two games in appalling conditions .
There’ll be no upset here anywya
That’s true. The Eire Óg team of the 1990’s were class I believe. Won 5 Leinster titles. Losing to a parish of about 400 people in the 2018 Leinster final was extremely windy though. Crokes have started with intent here though.
Thought it was more an indication of how one dimensional and negative their game was as opposed to being windy. They played putrid stiff back then but they’ve defo learnt from it
If you haven’t seen this Eire Óg goalie before you’re in for a treat, fond of himself is putting it mildly
Every goalie is a former outfield player Marty
They fucked away a semi final in Dublin to Thomas Davis in 2019. Then Ballymun edged them out in 2020.
By 2021 they were ready.
Robbie has built a slick operation in fairness.
It would be deeply unsatisfactory if they came acropper in Leinster this year.
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They never really look invincible but are clearly very hard bet considering they’re on course for 3 Leinsters in a row
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Mannion for all his talent is some man to put a shift in.
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A very unusual scenario where the Eire Óg forward Colm Hulton has lived in Carlow since he was a baby but commuted up to play minor for Ballymun for a few years. Won a minor with Eire Óg in 2013 and one with Ballymun in 2015. Also came on for Dublin minors the same year. Back playing with Éire Óg and Carlow now. Two Dublin parents but still a strange thing to do.
Cannon Gannon needed to light the fuse earlier there
Ref is a stickler given it’s winter football