Laochra Gael - Back, and to the left hand on top

[anon76546466]

@myboyblue

Pat O Connor. In and out like a flash.

He scored a great over head pull goal in the Leinster Final 95 also. A Coolderry man and a cousin of the great Pat Carroll.

[iron_mike]

I was at that match. They gave Kilkenny an awful hiding that day in monsoon conditions

[carryharry]

Far better cushion for the pushing…

[endakenny]

What’s young Mullins going doing now?

[Aertel220]

He was a very good keeper for Offaly around 2003-2006. Stood out with the tracksuit trousers on.

[Arthur]

He wore them as he’d a massive flute, used to tuck it into his sock

[Piles_Hussain]

98 final, yes
99 final he hurled a load of ball but hit wides rather than points

[Arthur]

Yeah that was definitely the story at the time. He couldn’t really run so they just stuck him in ff and he got 1-3 or something.

[anon76546466]

@endakenny

What’s young Mullins going doing now?

Didn’t he play in a band or something

[anon76546466]

@iron_mike

I was at that match. They gave Kilkenny an awful hiding that day in monsoon conditions

Regan with a flukey goal in off Joe Darmodys ? chest shades of Kevin Fennelly

[Piles_Hussain]

More like Ken Hogan v Hopper McGrath in 93 than the Puck’s ‘effort’ in 87

[kerry1891]

@AlanHQ

A truly great side doesnt win only two All Irelands. The 98 winning side was surely as poor a All Ireland winner as theres been. BW too sick to play in defence ends up winning MOTM tells you about the state of KK at the time. That side needed the greatest stroke of luck going with Jimmy Cooney as well. All in all they probably over achieved winning two imo.

they were a bit unlucky in 1995 , got the breaks in 1998, nothing lucky about 1994, bate Limerick fair and square

[kerry1891]

@Bisto

Kinahan was great ,hands like shovels but dog slow

he looked awkard in so many ways but still a great full back

[kerry1891]

@Ralphie

Was mentioned in a tv show (think could have been about Matt Connor) that Bord an Mona plants provided enough employment in Offaly in 80s that they were not impacted as badly by emigration as other counties were

Not sure how accurate this claim is, but they had a incredible group(s) of players in 80s/90s

a factor alright

offaly had a fine football team in the early 1970s too, beat kerry in the 1972 final

the football team in the early 1980s had some very stylish players - Liam Currams was very skilful on the ball and of course Matt Connor

[Ashman]

Socks down and shin guards

[anon76546466]

@Ashman

Socks down and shin guards

Due to a bad leg break I believe

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Ralphie

Was mentioned in a tv show (think could have been about Matt Connor) that Bord an Mona plants provided enough employment in Offaly in 80s that they were not impacted as badly by emigration as other counties were

Not sure how accurate this claim is, but they had a incredible group(s) of players in 80s/90s

I’d say that was probably true for the footballers. From memory Seán Lowry was a BnM employee and of course Rhode was a bastion of Gaelic football and the site of a turf power plant.

The hurlers weren’t really in turf country and a number of good Offaly hurlers emigrated like Tom Conneely

[peddlerscross]

Banagher/St. Rynaghs would be Born na Mona territory

[Arthur]

It’s a nice reason but there were surely other counties that had good employment in that period too. It was hardly as if it was some massively wealthy spot.

[carryharry]