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We are what we are REBELS, suck it up baby
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we had real rebels in 1798 and they were brutally suppressed by crown licking carkies
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i remember my grandmother used to have that on , used it be a Sunday night around May and RTE Radio Cork would have it live on AM radio
i was on to the father this morning about Ethon Varian, he knows the lot of them from his refereeing days and you’re right all southside , shur Greenmount Rangers would be their team.
Temple Utd. are they gone?, the first i ever saw them i was around 9 and Wanderers were playing them in the Tech field in Cobh, ah it was the Junior team now, father was playing- i was behind the goal talking to their keeper and i remember him drinking “water” out of a glass bottle, i was holding the bottle for him behind the goal, at half time my dad came over and told me to stay away from him.
anyway
later on we played temple , jesus I dunno how it even happened as they’d have been at a shite level and we were MSL premier… they had an oddball lad called Varian up front and he tore us asunder… i remembered the name as it was so odd… i never heard it again outside Cork soccer
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Varian would be a surname that would cause people to shudder when they hear it tbh. A lot of bad eggs. The young lad was some hurler. Captained Cork sides from U14 up till the time he left. Was head and shoulders above his age group athletically.
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Temple are still knocking around the AUL
During the late 80s they’d have been one of the top junior teams in the country and would have been too 3 in the MSL Senior.
They had Austin Ricken who would have been one of the best junior players in the country but his family were/are steeped in the club so he stayed out. Denis Keane was a great player.
There’s lots of Varians around Cork, i played soccer with one of them, brilliant player.
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That was a great watch. There’s a delightful campness to the Cork character.
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Like my own family name, all related in Cork city , be it Blackrock,Douglas, Dillons x, or Bishopstown, and bloody same Christian names aswell
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All Varians know / knew are A1 all republican, even the elderly ones
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Yeah think Temple are gone ( loopers anyway, them Rockmount, St Mary’s, Mayfield and basically most of the norrie teams
Ye had fuck all when it mattered , after the treaty, and the border campaign, and 69- now
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When did Rockmount abandon the city? Can they still be classed as norries or cluchies at this stage?
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ye had one proper rebel and ye shot him
There’s nobody from Whitechurch playing with Rockmount, nobody from Kilkullly playing with St Mary’s, Flat green fields are at a premium in the northside but those clubs are all rooted there
There is a few hills up there. St Mary’s have a fine set up. I went upto a car boot sale one day pre pandemic.
christ St.Mary’s… mother of jesus…that was always a ropey gane
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Is Denis Roy’s brother? Johnson Keane played with Temple as a striker.
Yes, Denis is a brother, I saw him play a few times, I lived very near the old AUL pitches in Mahon, Temple were a fantastic side,
Don’t think I ever saw Johnson play
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