Did you smell the irony off this post @Fran ?
[QUOTE=“carryharry, post: 1009776, member: 1517”]Tipp Hurling team that started against Cork.
Gleeson : Partner in financial services firm.
Barrett : Student
Barry : Student ?
Stapleton : Teacher ?
P Maher : Hole scratcher
B Maher : Teacher
Bergin : ?
Woodlock : Guard
McGrath : Teacher
Corbett : Publican
Bonnar : Army
N McGrath : Student
Callinan : Sales Rep
Bubbles : ?[/QUOTE]
Bergin is a student EHO
Paul Flanagan, David McInerney and Cian Dillon are aswell. Touhy might be too.
Couple of accountants and financial men. No longtime students or dole heads that I can think of. Bugler was the longest in college, did two degrees and a post grad.
A lot of them did well in the leaving cert.
Who’s the richest inter county player in the country?
There is a Meath footballer whos name escapes me that is a stockbroker
That’s Anthony Moyles, he no longer plays so doesn’t count.
Probably one of the tillage farmers on the Kilkenny team so
The dairy farmers have it sewn up.
The boys who were rigging all the games probably made it out alright too but none are playing anymore so are ineligible.
I watched the game on Sky yesterday. Halfway through the second half Dave McIntyre informed us that these players all have to get up for work…later in the week.
UCC 3-15 CIT 1-06
“Star studded”.
Very commonly used in reports on Sigerson or Fitzgibbon Cup games.
‘‘Real county men’’
Very commonly used in reports about those who attended Sigerson or Fitzgibbon Cup games.
“Windswept”
“Hailstorm”
“Muddy”
“Atrocious conditions”
Commonly used to describe the conditions Sigerson and Fitzgibbon Cup games are played in.
“All over bar the shoutin”
Team X “laid down a marker”.
If the victory is comprehensive and the teams involved in a match have been drawn against each other in the championship, it’s “a real psychological marker”.
Donegal today “laid down a real psychological marker” against Tyrone.
[QUOTE=“Sidney, post: 1114885, member: 183”]Team X “laid down a marker”.
If the victory is comprehensive and the teams involved in a match have been drawn against each other in the championship, it’s “a real psychological marker”.
Donegal today “laid down a real psychological marker” against Tyrone.[/QUOTE]
@Bisto referenced this a few weeks back. When Kerry beat Dublin, Kerry were laying down a marker for the year ahead. If Dublin had one it would probably have been said that Kerry weren’t taking the league all too seriously, the cute hoors.
“He’s not a dirty player”, says Mairtin Beag McHugh about Antrim’s Sean McVeigh, sent off for an elbow to the fat Brendan Grace’s face.
Claiming that a dirty match was played in a sporting manner, but only when it’s not an Ulster championship match.
“Overall played in very sporting manner” said Marty Morrissey as Damien Comer and Lee Keegan were trying to pull the jerseys off each other, at the end of a match which was filled with comedy incidents of niggle and cyncism which Donegal and Tyrone would have been proud of.
Any game where there is a bit of sun is described as being played in “some heat”