Come on, Mick. Is that it, childish name calling? 
They showed the Offaly v Limerick 1994 final last week. Hadn’t seen it in years. It was some laugh watching that last 5 or 6 minutes again.
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I’m amazed you didn’t take the opportunity to tell us about the time the fat bastard fell on your leg an made shit of it. Or was that a different Big Joe?
Limerick were very unfortunate to meet the most skillful hurling team of all time.
That was the same big Joe.
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Jim Troy was a fine cut of a man by 1994.
Pat Canavan was motm in that match.
Talty is retired from teaching and now works on reception in the GAA sports campus in Abbotstown. A gentleman off the field. On the field or the sideline, not so much.
John was no slip of a lad either but he was a magician. Those lads were so talented, fitness was completely unnecessary.
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Talty did more for underage football in Dublin than most ex Dublin players . He did huge work with planning and coaching .
That’s true. He’s a great bit of stuff.
He also clattered opposition managers, opposition players and referees on a regular basis. He was suspended more often than Dermot Connolly.
Don’t go drinking with the Troy’s as they used to say.
John Troy’s favourite poem as a youngster was “No Second Troy” by Yeats. He used it as personal motivation as an imaginary jibe that he wouldn’t make it to inter-county hurling.
Now the phrase is used to describe the amount of time he takes to knock back a pint, although it was also equally relevant to all Offaly players when that team were in their pomp.
Did John or Jim marry a Helen ?
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Be class if a man with the surname Troy married a woman with the surname McClure. The engagement announcement in the Irish Times would look splendid.
Has there ever been a Troy who trained horses?
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Troy won the 1979 Epsom Derby:
I did actually know this but it slipped my mind.
Lester Piggott on board?
Willie Carson
I could tell you Carson’s other two (?) Derby winners and every winner from 1984 to around 1997 but I haven’t a clue after that.
Sorry, I shouldn’t have spoken to you like that. It was a bit tongue in cheek to contextualise the debate topic but poorly done on my behalf.
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Yeah hilarious
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