Not a chance.
Recapping how things stand in the various county football championships.
Galway SFC semi-finals
Mountbellew/Moylough vs Moycullen
Annaghdown vs Salthill/Knocknacarra
Galway SFC relegation round robin - bottom 2 clubs are relegated to intermediate.
Oughterard, An CheathrĂș Rua, Monivea Abbey and St Jamesâ.
Galway IFC final
Dunmore MacHales v Kilconly
Galway IFC relegation round robin
Moycullen B, St Gabrielâs, Williamstown and Headford
Galway JFC final
Clifden v Athenry
I see Buff is in Galway for the Portumna v Craughwell match. Was just thinking there, what would King Henry do tomorrow? Attend the Ballyhale match or keep his eye on the senior hurling games in Galway? Surely his own club comes first in such a scenario?
Ahascragh-Fohenagh stay Senior B. Tynagh Abbey Duniry relegated. 1 point defeat for 14 man TAD. Shane Moloney missing 2 frees to level game at the death.
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Killimor Intermediate Champions
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Happy for Killimor. Dreadful way they lost the intermediate final last year. Think they are more suited to senior than ME at the moment. Seem a bigger more physical and seasoned side than ME. Conditions probably didnât help ME and Niall Fleming a huge loss for them as well. They should be in the hunt to go up next year if they keep the heads.
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My friends in Portumna have been in touch and said it was a Hall of Fame performance from Joe.
What a clubman. Little or nothing in it for him at this stage. No more worldâs to conquer and yet he still turns out and does the business.
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Moycullen fuckin woeful in Antartica conditions. Declan Cronin was unreal though. Immaculate at the back.
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A New York v London Connaught semi-final would be lovely, purely for all the logistical issues it would cause and the GAA would be flustered trying to determine who enters the Sam Maguire race and who goes to the Tailteann cup.
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All the big games away (kk & dubs)
Why is Jacob Rees Mogg doing the draw?
London are in it arenât theyâŠ
Thatâs Ballahawnissâ finest there on chara.
A glorious amalgam of Frank Murphy, Machiavelli and CJ Haughey.
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Hon Killimor
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Hurlingâs history - the Killimor Rules turn 150
Updated / Friday, 31 May 2019 06:33
The âKillimor Rulesâ are believed to be the earliest recorded hurling rules, the 150th anniversary of which is being celebrated around the village and at Killimor GAA club this weekend
RTĂ Sport Journalist
Hurling is an ancient game. Not as old as Irelandâs Ash trees perhaps, but it didnât take long for them to be fashioned into sticks for the purpose of hitting a ball.
It features strongly in Irish mythology: The Tuatha de Dannan and Fir Bolg apparently took time out from fighting for control of Ireland three thousand years ago for a puc around. Setanta became CĂș Chulainn when he sent a sliotar down a guard-dogâs throat.
References to hurling appear in Brehon law from the fifth century and it was one of many native practices banned under the 1366 Statutes of Kilkenny as the descendants of Norman settlers were feared to have become âmore Irish than the Irish themselvesâ. Thankfully, the location of the parliament that year had no lasting effect on the sportâs local popularity.
By the 18th century, different forms of hurling were being played around Ireland, with a wide variation of local rules applying and matches often being arranged by landlords for wagers.
Members of the Killimor club in 1869 attire
The impact of the Great Famine and Act of Union had combined to send the game into apparently terminal decline by the late 19th century however, and the future founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association, Michael Cusack, claimed in 1883 that âNo hurling has been played in Dublin⊠within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.â
But the game was still being played in pockets around the country â including the regions of East Galway, North Tipperary and West Offaly that bordered the River Shannon.
Cusack founded the Metropolitan Hurling Club in December 1883 and reports of its activities soon reached the village of Killimor, 10km north of Portumna, whose team was considered the best in East Galway.
Killimor publican Patrick Larkin issued a challenge that Cusack accepted and on Easter Monday 1884 the Metropolitans travelled to Ballinasloe to play their Galway opponents for a specially commissioned silver cup.
Rules were agreed between Cusack and Killimor captain Francis Lynch and the teams set for 22 players a side.
However, Cusack drew a halt to proceedings at half-time - after Larkin had scored the first goal - claiming that the Galway men were over-enthusiastic in their distribution of timber.
Attempts by both sides to demonstrate how they believed the game should be played failed to resolve matters and Cusack took his men, and presumably his ball, home, where he produce to denounce Killimor in the press as having and âslashed in a reckless and savage mannerâ.
Cusack was the driving force behind the foundation of the GAA in Thurles that November and the Associationâs first president Maurice Davin proposed its first hurling rules the following February.
Killimor were not impressed. A meeting of the club pointed out that their own rules had been in existence since 1869 and demanded an apology from Cusack for his âfalse and scandalous accusationsâ of unsporting behaviour at the Ballinasloe game.
Larkin proceeded to publish the âKillimor Rulesâ, believed to be the earliest recorded hurling rules, the 150th anniversary of which is being celebrated around the village and at Killimor GAA club this weekend.
A commemorative wall is being unveiled by GAA president John Horan, historians such as Paul Rouse - author of âThe Hurlersâ - will deliver speeches and there will be an exhibition game using 1869 replica clothes and hurls.
For a full list of the many events see here.
The Killimor Rules make no mention of pitch dimensions or team sizes, as Davinâs code does, with prohibitions on being under the influence of âstrong drinkâ and catching the ball among the most notable regulations.
Substitutes are forbidden unless a hurler âmeets with an accidentâ which the umpire deems serious enough to prevent him playing on and âthe prizeâ is frequently mentioned.
Hurling under the new GAA rules took a while to find its feet, with games often descending into a scrum and ending scoreless.
Throughout 1885, Killimor continued to play under the âtraditionalâ rules they held to be superior, a view apparently shared by neighbours like Meelick, Mullagh and Lusmagh.
They also challenged the Craughwell club, who had won a tournament under GAA rules, to a match for the title of Galway champions but a letter delayed in the post caused that game to be called off.
The wall commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Killimor rules
Killimor also declared themselves willing to play any team from outside Galway for the Championship of Ireland but in February 1886, Cusack staged a game in the Phoenix Park between North Tipperary and South Galway selections that drew a big crowd.
Shortly after, as the GAAâs version of the game spread in popularity and the rules evolved more to their liking, the Killimor club affiliated with the Association.
By 1888 Larkin was president of the county board and Killimor had several representatives on the Meelick team (the neighbours often amalgamated) that represented Galway in the first official All-Ireland hurling final.
That game in Birr, which had actually been delayed from 1887, ended in a 1-1 to 0-0 victory for Tipperary, represented by Thurles Sarsfields.
Killimor claimed their first, and to-date only, Galway senior title in 1897 and currently compete at the intermediate grade, which they last won in 1984. The clubâs camogie team were crowned All-Ireland senior champions in 2011.
Both on and off the pitch, the clubâs hurling legacy lives on.
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On the button
Townies were always soft