Wasnât the Cork championship called the little All Ireland as all the city teams were basically combination of a whole plethora of players who moved into the city. Christy Ring and all that.
The standard of the city clubs has fallen off a cliff. Other than Newtown there hasnât been a serious club there.
I had high hopes for Douglas circa 2017 with their all conquering underage teams and they rocked on to the Senior Championship with a forward line of Kingston, Cadogan, Turnbull, Cian McCarthy, Powter and Shane Bourke but it seems to have collapsed spectacular for them.
They were so strong in the forwards they had to accommodate Stephen Moylan in the backs.
Blackrock should have a purple patch to boost off winning the County a couple of years ago.
The Barrs have a fine crop of young hurlers coming through even if one of them is due to fuck off to play professional rugby and a few others steering down the intercounty football route.
Nouveau, middle class clubs usually have to go through a period of underachievement in which people laugh at them as they consistently lose to harder, less talented teams from more established clubs.
Then they eventually win, and bang, a monster is created.
Sure isnât one of their âbest playersâ Darragh Fitzgibbon a Castletown/Ballyagran man born and bred. 100%.
But Ballyagran or Limerick werenât good enough for his father, he was going to win loads of All Irelands with Cork and his father wasnât one bit shy about telling Limerick work colleagues about it either, nor was Darragh as he was growing up.
Are you sure heâs from the Limerick side of the border?
I used to work with a close neighbor of his who was most definitely from Cork and Charleville
My father in law knows Mossy well, heâs from a neighboring parish, Iâm surprised heâs never said that,
Maybe itâs true, I genuinely donât know, Iâd never heard that