By the way, how is the promotion going?
Martin Hayden would be one of the heaviest hitting Senior Counsel at the Commercial Bar. A serious operator.
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Amazing – and brilliant – the way serious talent flows in diagonals…
The Diamond would have been one of the most popular and well liked hurlers of his time.
The Diamond’s teammate on the 1947 All Ireland winning team, Liam Reidy has a son Liam Reidy who’d probably be the top man at the Bar for Personal Injury. That’s two scions of 47 All Ireland winners top dogs as Senior Counsel in their chosen field in the Law Library.
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That’s a proper legend of a man. A nickname of diamond, and still being told about to children home from abroad a generation later.
I love stories like that.
There won’t be expats telling there kids about the topan at the personal injury bar in thirty years.
I know, way over by Johnstown. I don’t know what I was thinking…
Just on the subject of winning AI medals on the bench and how ‘worthy’ are they. They are an AI winning medal and far more than I ever won, a member of the panel and would have went to all the training and made their contribution to the squad. However, if you haven’t played a minute of that championship and you get a medal then I’m sure the player themselves would put an * on it. I’ve made my thoughts clear on Noel Skehan and I wouldn’t be a fan but the fact that he has 9 AI winning medals is a magnificent achievement but it’s 9* medals and wouldn’t have the same value of say Ring or Eddie or JJ. Shefflin played the year he won his 10th and he deserved the praise he got at the time.
Paul Murphy 
Well played sir.
I believe JJ picked up one the year he did his cruciate. Not that I’d begrudge the man but he didn’t tog out for the final.
Please don’t ask me the year.
2006
Yea, just found it there now in wiki. Picked up an All Star as well that year.
I don’t know what the deciding factor on this is. Croke Park issue so many, but I know the county can order more.
A year he get’s an all star too then it’s worthy. JJ was our greatest ever player, the man is a legend!
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You know lads are used to success when they’re weighing the value of medals. Kerry do the same.
In Kilkenny, if you make the county panel you haven’t made it. If you make the team you haven’t made it. Win a league, Leinster, you’re not there yet. An AI medal on the panel, not yet sonny. Winner on the medal and there is respect. Multiple medals and you’ve made it.
In saying that there will not be any KK players making it in the next while 
Was there not a lad from Barrow Rangers in or around the Kilkenny panel in the 80s John something or other. Big strapping lad with blonde hair?
Re Graigue when we were u21s we had a really good team in Mount Sion and we went up to Graigue to play them in a challenge. They bet the living shit out of us.
Graigue had some team year the reached all ireland club final. Unreal forwards.
I know it’s not apples for apples but we brought our then u10s up to a blitz in Mooncoin. Our team had beaten all in East Cork and personally, I thought ‘Mooncoin, they won’t be up to much’. They hammered the shite out of us. We chatted to their trainers. They said that even at that stage they were training twice a week, playing games every weekend and only played hurling. We were training once a week and splitting it between football and hurling.
I know it all works out in the end at a county level but it’s just an example of how far ahead and the structures other counties have.
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Mooncoin and Slieverue used to play in the Waterford City Leagues at least up to u-12 level and they’d regularly dish out hammerings to the best City teams.
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