Wexford likely better under ABD, Galway will get a bounce out of Henry, kk are kk. Laois improving steadily. Offaly getting organized.
Of course they are.
I will retire from the forum if either of Galway or Kilkenny donât win Leinster the next 3 years.
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Championship wins in head to heads since 2011:
Dublin 4 Galway 3
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Dublin hurlers will never win an All Ireland in our lifetime. It cost them millions to compete at football but hurling takes real skill. Its time you accepted this
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You might be planning on Covid killing you off fairly sharpish but Iâm not.
Shefflin out!
Heâll have to walk after today!!
Was quite awkward after, no going over to the players to console etc. Seemd like everyone was unsure of what to do. Iâd imagine he got in the jeep and fucked off home after.
They let him down, so they did.
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Seeing Killimor in the IHC semis reminded me of the Killimor rules. Michael Cusack obviously knew his hurling. Even back then.
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.
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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Sure Galway Hurlers spend as much as any inter county team. Your hurling board chairman just said so.
Home of Hurling
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Eoin Ryan is incorrect. Tipperary in 1887 were represented by Thurles. The club Thurles Sarsfields came a good bit later.
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A quote from the 1990s.
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Tipp clearly starting as they meant to go on. âThurlesâ who were the the representatives of tipp, secretly recruited lads from Roscrea and Nenagh for the first AI final. The referee was from Toomevara and they even went as far as stating that they werenât going to turn up for the game. Thus inviting the gaels of Meelick to go on the piss, which they duly did. Before turning up in Birr an hour late.
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Holds true today.
Tipp cunts
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Henry is coming up to Galway next weekend. No double header for the county semis so heâll have to stay up for the night. Anyone can give the fella a dig out and a pillow for the night?
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Would be great trolling if cody turned up to watch from a row at the back with his wife
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