dual club arent they, I think Johnny hurled for Derry as well
Henry Downey is reputed to have been one of the best hurlers ever to come out of Ulster, Lavey are indeed a dual club
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used see him regularly in kennedys drumcondra on all ireland football\hurling semi finals\finals days
The brother Seamus was better
i was most likely present too!
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Didnât Lavey and o Donovan rosss skibereen have a seriously ill tempered affair with 3 or 4 derry men sent off in an all Ireland club semi final many moons ago ?
Youâre right, that was the year Skibbereen won it out, Lavey had two sent off very early on and were subsequently destroyed,
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Those Skibb Eire Og games were something else.
A piece from the indo in 2012 âŚ
NINETEEN years ago next month, an All-Ireland club football semi-final became so unruly that it prompted the GAA to change policy on venues. Previously, semi-finals were played at the home ground of one of the participants or at the nearest suitable venue if a club didnât have adequate facilities. In 1993, Cork champions OâDonovan Rossa, Skibbereen, travelled to Ballinascreen to play Lavey (Derry) and within 12 minutes of the start the temperature had zoomed high into the red zone.
Two Lavey players had been sent off, three others (two Lavey, one Skibbereen) were booked and referee Seamus Prior was telling the captains that if the mood didnât change quickly, he would abandon the game.
It took most of the first half to bring the gauge down to relatively normal levels, a process helped enormously by Priorâs experience as one of the countryâs top referees at the time. A potentially chaotic situation had been diffused but, nevertheless, Croke Park heeded the warning and opted for neutral venues for subsequent semi-finals.
In the September after the Lavey-Skibbereen game, while attending the Kilmacud Sevens, my colleague Vincent Hogan was approached by a Lavey man, who was clearly less than pleased with what had been written by him in the Irish Independent about the Ballinascreen bust-up. Handing his glasses to a friend and yelling incoherently, âAnnoyed of Laveyâ made a lunge in Hoganâs direction but was cut off by former Offaly footballer Mick Wright, using all his instincts as a defender.
Seven months after the game, the Lavey supporter remained so enraged by the comments of a neutral observer that he was prepared to park his senses and engage his fists to embody the âfor the honour of the little villageâ sentiment from Charles Kickhamâs âKnocknagow.â
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I could listen to Seamus Darby all day; seems like a good lad to tell a story. Has he still the pub in Toomevara?
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You could make the Joe Canning one three hours long. Looking forward to that one. The buzz when he arrived on the scene was similar to David Clifford over the last couple of years.
Nothing against Tom Parsons but that awful injury and the GPA stuff has given him an excessive profile.
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Couldnt agree more, were it not for the injury there would be very little said about him.
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The Noel OâLeary one should be interesting if he opens up about his brother
His cousin as well
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A one about Cannings club career alone would be worth an episode. Hope theyâve a few more yarns about him when he was u12 and the like causing absolute wreck.
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I donât ever remember Noel OâLeary being much good.
Ah he was, Cork had an unreal team around the middle third then.