I was at it. We barely hit a score in last 20 minutes I’d say
One of the best team performances I’ve seen. Tipp were a good side and Waterford turned them over good & proper.
Waterford got a run on Tipp in that second half and were untouchable. Benny Dunne of all people kept Tipp in it with 2 goals I think.
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He got 2-2 that day. First year on panel and was only 21 at the time.
Ken McGrath was outstanding the same day, playing centre forward he scored about 7 from play id say. All class scores too
He did indeed. Justin loved the Mount Sion men, Ken, Tony, Eoin Kelly, Eoin Mc, Brian Greene and Brian Flannery all on that team and Haulie White came on as a sub.
Always wondered what Flannery might have brought to the Tipp set-up around that time. Always came across as a decent bloke.
He won an all Ireland u21 with Tommy Dunne and Brendan Cummins
He was a grand corner back.
Lacked pace, a family trait, good hands though
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That’s why Justin dumped him in the end.
Was Michael White still knocking about in 02? He was a handy corner forward.
His last year.
I didn’t realise he was gone so young from Kiladangan. I think he went to college down there and just never came home from it.
Once you discover Mount Sion you’ll never want to leave.
Unless you are Eoin Kelly, Roanmore GAA club or coincidentally Anthony Cooney who replied to the tweet above who was a former Waterford captain who left to hurl with Ballygunner in the 80s and was on the losing side to Mount Sion in the 86 county final I think.
We always had a steady stream of hurlers from outside the county. Martin Geary from Limerick (Anna’s uncle). Terry Butler and Senan Sutton from Kilkenny, Donal Loughnane from Offaly and Denis Connolly from Tipperary ( a guard from Tipperary who died in a car crash while on duty) in my time.
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I’d say there was timber flying that day. Brian Flannnerys older brother John hurled senior with Nenagh, I think he might’ve played minor with Tipp too. Anyway he got one of many 6 month suspensions out of what was one of the most violent fracas I’ve ever seen in a hurling field in the late eighties. Kilruane and Nayna tried to kill each other in the North championship.
The two brothers hurled against each other in the early nineties l at intermediate level, John with Burgess and Brian with Kiladangan. The Flannery’s were no strangers to changing clubs.
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Would many lads switch from Mt Sion to Ballygunner?
Mount Sion matched him up with a chap who had a drug problem and he psyched him out before the throw in and that was that. We won at our ease.
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Tell us about your drug problem?
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That’s the only one in my lifetime and none the other way. Fellas might switch between Passage and Ballygunner (Mossie O’Keeffe) or Mount Sion and Erin’s Own (the Gaters, Davy Robinson) but Mt Sion to Ballygunner and vice versa would be a very unusual event. There is a lot of hatred there since the 90s.