Worse than fundamentally useless
Probably a tier 2 or 3 BOICMC match but worth reporting the result anyway. Not sure if any injuries were accrued.
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Fethard Town Park is going to become a real, niche venue on the BOICMC.
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Itâs an unreal set up there in fairness
Iv been up there for a rugby game and it was delayed 35 mins due to a ladies football NFL game starting late. They make some use of the placeâŚare the dressing rooms any closer to being finished
The Coolmore lads doing their bit to pacify the locals after driving the price of land mental down there
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Ardfert and Kilmoyley are the one parish. Causeway and Ballyduff one parish.
Used to be the case that probably 80% plus of the lads playing in the Kerry hurling championship went to Causeway secondary school.
Ardfert and Crotta lads would have gone elsewhere and that was it. They used to have a great schools team. Were A VEC and won all Irelandâs in the 00s
Its funny the way half parishes/split parishes work in that while you might think that if the two clubs joined up, theyâd have a serious team, the reality is that the rivalry of outdoing each other can make both sides better.
Arles Kileen/Arles Kilcruise being a classic of this genre.
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The GAA is built on and maintained by hatred
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The prime example. They were Junior/Intermediate when together, serial senior county finalists after the split. The hatred there is far from what it was at its prime, and they are even playing underage together now as part of Na Fianna Og, but it hasnât gone away, not by a long shot. Kilcruise are now Intermediate, and a dangerous intermediate outfit, but depending on Ross Munnelly and Davy Conway and little else rushing to help unfortunately. Killeen are still senior, held together around the Kingstons, but with 40 somethings dotted everywhere and apart from Colin Dunne not a whole lot coming either, but still senior and with the two boys, always dangerous and capable of getting the win to stay up. However, Kilcruise got their Senior title and Killeen didnt and thatâll be the legacy.
Theyâll have to go back together at some stage they say. We will in our fuck they both respond.
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At one point between both clubs they must have had half the Laois Senior starting team?
Cnoc Sion have their championship opener against Fourmilewater (Caislean Cuanach) in the exotic surrounds of the St Mollerans GAA grounds in Carrick on Suir on Friday night.
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Do St Molleranâs still host that tournament @peddlerscross? It used to be a good barometer of form before going into championship.
I dont think so.
When Cuala were starting out around 2015 they got an all merciful beating off Ballyhale Shamrocks i think which stood them in good stead going forward.
Is there anybody better-placed to challenge Ballygunner this year?
A third of it anyway at one stage, some overlapped, some didnt. But they had a serious representation over the time of their peak.
Off the top of my head
Beano
Donie Kingston
Paul Kingston
Paul McDonald
Donie Brennan
Ross Munnelly
Davy Conway
Chris Conway
Paudge Conway
Kevin Meaney
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Realistically De La Salle should be the strongest of the chasing pack.
Played Kilcruise in a practice match a few years ago and the great Chris Conway was still togging out at the age of about 41. Has he dropped back to their Junior B team now?
You pass through Ballickmoyler going into Arles. Thatâs part of Ballylinan GAA I believe. 3 clubs in a very small radius of each other.
I am not sure about that
Conor OâKeefe (Kerry senior hurler), John Griffin ( former Kerry senior hurler) both Lixnaw went off injured in the closing stages of the semi final - potential advantage Crotta
Lixnaws last 5 championships have been won with a Limerick man at the helm, now they have Barry Hennessy ( Limerick) - advantage Lixnaw
1999 ( Gerry Molyneaux)
2005 ( local Lixnaw man but Brian Begley as coach)
2007 ( Eamon Cregan)
2014 ( Ciaran Carey\Mark Foley)
2018 ( Mark Foley)
Crotta have been more successful at underage , 3 minors and 2 under 21s won in recent years, many of the Crotta hurlers with the sister football club St Senans won St Senans first ever North Kerry senior football championship about 3 years ago, these guys know how to make a breakthrough, Crotta hadnt won a minor hurling championsip ever until they came along - advantage Crotta
Lixnaw beat Crotta in the 1985 and 1999 senior final( after replay) - advantage Lixnaw
Crotta have lost 7 senior finals since they last won it in 1968 - advantage Lixnaw
Crotta wear Mayo colours - advantage Lixnaw
Lixnaw have Shane Conway - advantage Lixnaw
Crotta have Barry Mahony - advantage Crotta
Lixnaw hardly won a match in the county league which is usually an omen that they will win the championship based on times past - advantage Lixnaw
There is some piseog about bank of bog on Stacks mountain which is in Crotta terrain that someone made a statement years that Crotta would never win a championship until the last sod of turf is cut out off that bank, apparently it was last year -advantage Crotta
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Cuala beat Whitehall Colmcille in the Shane Stapleton Derby tonight handy enough 0-23 to 2-10 in front of around 35 people at Parnell Park.
Joe Fortune having a good pop off Saint pre-game on commentary saying âhe talks a good game anywayâ.
Cuala are gone back a mile. Con could still win them a County Final though when he gets back. Eoghan OâDonnell gave everything for Whitehall. Do Gannon or Costello even play hurling for them anymore?
Portlaoise must be eternally grateful they split
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