Thanks very much. A good friend of mine on that Fenians team.
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Yeah, he was battling a good while. Think it might be 2 years ago i first heard he was ill.
A spiky hoor at times but a gentleman at his core, he will be missed. What he did for Dunamaggin was incredible.
Some quality on those 2 teams 
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He was in good order 2 years ago. Was over MLR.
He was on the line for last year’s Carlow Final. I can recall seeing him. Just reading there that he was hospitalised by the time Rangers lost to Coolderry a few weeks later.
Tipp fell off a cliff then also. There isn’t a forward who ever played the game who can thrive on no quality ball. Canning kept his head above water only by being given license to roam.
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And quality neames too - Wattie and Shem being my personal favourites
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Good friends with the auld lad, a gentleman to his bones
Shem is JJ’s Dad
Denis Shefflin transferred to Mount Sion and played in the 1982 All Ireland final against James Stephens. He had a bit of a shocker. He had a pub on the Manor in Waterford.
Johnny Walsh taught Biology and Science in Mount Sion and for years carried the mantle “best club player in Kilkenny not to make the county team”. I think he had some association with notorious Fine Gael outfit Carrigeen afterwards.
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Is Shem a standalone name or a derivative of something like Seamus?
What is Denis to Henry? Uncle?
Brendan got sick the Friday night before the Coolderry game. Had won two County titles with MLR 2017-18.
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Uncle. Captain of 1978 team.
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Alan Walsh, Johnny’s son and a fine hurler, played full back with Mooncoin for a long time. Have a feeling Johnny might live in the Carrigeen end of the parish.
13 of the team that won the seventh Club All Ireland against St Thomas’ had a father or an uncle or a granduncle on 1978 team.
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Incredible lineage to be fair.
An ounce of breeding is worth a ton of feeding
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Sure we’re all related. Was talking to the Auld boy there this morning about Brendan Fennelly, poor chap didn’t hear the news so it was me who broke it to him, but we were chatting about all the Fennelly’s and The second generation coming through. But he was saying that my grandmothers side are related to the Fennellys and that it’s the Hoyne family from south Kilkenny where the link comes from. Grandmother was not a Hoyne btw. Basically everyone from Callan to Kilmacow is related!!
Anyone surprised to hear everyone in Kilkenny is related?
Anyone?
Bueller?
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