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[Mullach_Ide]

@binkybarnes

@carryharry

I’m a mess after watching the end of that, what a top top fucking bloke that man is.

Another great show from Laochra Gael. I thought it showed the GAA at it’s best and at it’s worst. I didn’t realize the Meath lads had rallied around Duff when it came to fundraising for his daughter. Fair play to them because as the All Star tour demonstrated there was proper poison between Dublin and Meath in that era.

The constant abuse and vilification Duff endured for one relatively harmless mistake is hard to fathom even now. Other GAA players like John Mullane and John Leahy made far more serious mistakes in their youth but were allowed rehabilitate themselves and have earned the respect and esteem they are generally regarded with now. Duff for whatever reason was never really forgiven. Maybe the fact he looks a little like Satan didn’t help matters.

He was a tremendous footballer and I’m glad last night’s program emphasized that. Dublin let him go way too early. He was one of, if not the best club forward in Dublin from 92 to 96 while the county team were losing All Ireland Finals and semi finals by 1 or 2 points with some proper journeymen playing in the forwards.

One small gripe I’d have is Duff not accepting responsibility for kicking Pat O Neill. As he pointed out there was far worse done to him before and after but that doesn’t change the fact that he kicked a lad in an All Ireland Final and rightly got sent off for it. While the punishment he endured far outweighed the crime it was still a stupid thing to do and he didn’t seem to acknowledge that or at least not on camera anyway.

The last section focusing on his relationship with his wife and daughter were equal parts heartbreaking and beautiful. A hard man with a soft heart.
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Don’t think John Leahy gets much respect and esteem to be honest particularly in Limerick, Clare and Galway.

[Julio_Geordio]

@Mullach_Ide

@binkybarnes

@carryharry

I’m a mess after watching the end of that, what a top top fucking bloke that man is.

Another great show from Laochra Gael. I thought it showed the GAA at it’s best and at it’s worst. I didn’t realize the Meath lads had rallied around Duff when it came to fundraising for his daughter. Fair play to them because as the All Star tour demonstrated there was proper poison between Dublin and Meath in that era.

The constant abuse and vilification Duff endured for one relatively harmless mistake is hard to fathom even now. Other GAA players like John Mullane and John Leahy made far more serious mistakes in their youth but were allowed rehabilitate themselves and have earned the respect and esteem they are generally regarded with now. Duff for whatever reason was never really forgiven. Maybe the fact he looks a little like Satan didn’t help matters.

He was a tremendous footballer and I’m glad last night’s program emphasized that. Dublin let him go way too early. He was one of, if not the best club forward in Dublin from 92 to 96 while the county team were losing All Ireland Finals and semi finals by 1 or 2 points with some proper journeymen playing in the forwards.

One small gripe I’d have is Duff not accepting responsibility for kicking Pat O Neill. As he pointed out there was far worse done to him before and after but that doesn’t change the fact that he kicked a lad in an All Ireland Final and rightly got sent off for it. While the punishment he endured far outweighed the crime it was still a stupid thing to do and he didn’t seem to acknowledge that or at least not on camera anyway.

The last section focusing on his relationship with his wife and daughter were equal parts heartbreaking and beautiful. A hard man with a soft heart.
.

Don’t think John Leahy gets much respect and esteem to be honest particularly in Limerick, Clare and Galway.

When the balls in the sky and their’s glass in your eye

[Mullach_Ide]

@Julio_Geordio

@Mullach_Ide

@binkybarnes

@carryharry

I’m a mess after watching the end of that, what a top top fucking bloke that man is.

Another great show from Laochra Gael. I thought it showed the GAA at it’s best and at it’s worst. I didn’t realize the Meath lads had rallied around Duff when it came to fundraising for his daughter. Fair play to them because as the All Star tour demonstrated there was proper poison between Dublin and Meath in that era.

The constant abuse and vilification Duff endured for one relatively harmless mistake is hard to fathom even now. Other GAA players like John Mullane and John Leahy made far more serious mistakes in their youth but were allowed rehabilitate themselves and have earned the respect and esteem they are generally regarded with now. Duff for whatever reason was never really forgiven. Maybe the fact he looks a little like Satan didn’t help matters.

He was a tremendous footballer and I’m glad last night’s program emphasized that. Dublin let him go way too early. He was one of, if not the best club forward in Dublin from 92 to 96 while the county team were losing All Ireland Finals and semi finals by 1 or 2 points with some proper journeymen playing in the forwards.

One small gripe I’d have is Duff not accepting responsibility for kicking Pat O Neill. As he pointed out there was far worse done to him before and after but that doesn’t change the fact that he kicked a lad in an All Ireland Final and rightly got sent off for it. While the punishment he endured far outweighed the crime it was still a stupid thing to do and he didn’t seem to acknowledge that or at least not on camera anyway.

The last section focusing on his relationship with his wife and daughter were equal parts heartbreaking and beautiful. A hard man with a soft heart.
.

Don’t think John Leahy gets much respect and esteem to be honest particularly in Limerick, Clare and Galway.

When the balls in the sky and their’s glass in your eye

There was a particularly poignant moment during a minutes silence at a match in Limerick when a roar of “Leahy you’re only a bollocks” came from the Limerick terrace.

[Gman]

he was one of the first hurlers I hated anyway. Tipp played Wexford in Bellfield in the mid to late 80s and he pulled on a Wexford player, I think it was a Pender, from Crossabeg and knocked him out. I dont think he actually played again for Wexford after the injury. Anyway, it was off the ball and Babs saw it and sent on a sub for Leahy and took Leahy off. The ref wouldnt take the sub slip and went looking for Leahy and sent him off. My recollection could be slightly off, I was only a chap at the time, but one of my first memories of him. Some of the elder Wexford followers like @Bandage may recall better than me.

[Tassotti]

I really enjoyed this. Thanks.

[binkybarnes]

@Mullach_Ide

Don’t think John Leahy gets much respect and esteem to be honest particularly in Limerick, Clare and Galway.

The last I’d heard of Leahy was he had turned his life around and was now helping other people with addiction problems. If that’s still the case and I hope it is he deserves to be respected for it. You’ll always have a few fucking eejits spewing shite unwilling to let stuff go but such is life

[Watchyourtoes]

@binkybarnes

@Mullach_Ide

Don’t think John Leahy gets much respect and esteem to be honest particularly in Limerick, Clare and Galway.

The last I’d heard of Leahy was he had turned his life around and was now helping other people with addiction problems. If that’s still the case and I hope it is he deserves to be respected for it. You’ll always have a few fucking eejits spewing shite unwilling to let stuff go but such is life

That was Ciaran Carey mate, Leahy was and always will be a woman beating cunt, a tramp and above all else a tinker.

[binkybarnes]

@binkybarnes

You’ll always have a few fucking eejits spewing shite unwilling to let stuff go but such is life

@Watchyourtoes

That was Ciaran Carey mate, Leahy was and always will be a woman beating cunt, a tramp and above all else a tinker.

I rest my case

[Watchyourtoes]

@binkybarnes

@binkybarnes

You’ll always have a few fucking eejits spewing shite unwilling to let stuff go but such is life

@Watchyourtoes

That was Ciaran Carey mate, Leahy was and always will be a woman beating cunt, a tramp and above all else a tinker.

I rest my case

@binkybarnes abides in the abuse of women it seems, the forums very own Donal Og. Congrats pal!

[Midshipman_Asha]

John Leahy is the drug education officer with the HSE in the South East

[Jahan]

Aren’t there enough people taking drugs already without Leahy educating people further?

[Tassotti]

Liam Doyle sorted out Leahy in 99. Sorted him out good and proper

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Baker softened his sneery cough at full time in 1997.

[Ashman]

Leahy was a scut but he was some hurler.

[anon78624367]

sticking a glass in another mans face is a lot harder forgiven than getting sent off in an All Ireland fella

[binkybarnes]

@anon78624367

sticking a glass in another mans face is a lot harder forgiven than getting sent off in an All Ireland fella

Eh, that’s the point I was making

[FatChops]

What did he do there? Jump and leap around in his face hollering like a jinnet, fist pumping and sledging him after the fact?

Very un-Clare like if so.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@binkybarnes

@carryharry

I’m a mess after watching the end of that, what a top top fucking bloke that man is.

Another great show from Laochra Gael. I thought it showed the GAA at it’s best and at it’s worst. I didn’t realize the Meath lads had rallied around Duff when it came to fundraising for his daughter. Fair play to them because as the All Star tour demonstrated there was proper poison between Dublin and Meath in that era.

The constant abuse and vilification Duff endured for one relatively harmless mistake is hard to fathom even now. Other GAA players like John Mullane and John Leahy made far more serious mistakes in their youth but were allowed rehabilitate themselves and have earned the respect and esteem they are generally regarded with now. Duff for whatever reason was never really forgiven. Maybe the fact he looks a little like Satan didn’t help matters.

He was a tremendous footballer and I’m glad last night’s program emphasized that. Dublin let him go way too early. He was one of, if not the best club forward in Dublin from 92 to 96 while the county team were losing All Ireland Finals and semi finals by 1 or 2 points with some proper journeymen playing in the forwards.

One small gripe I’d have is Duff not accepting responsibility for kicking Pat O Neill. As he pointed out there was far worse done to him before and after but that doesn’t change the fact that he kicked a lad in an All Ireland Final and rightly got sent off for it. While the punishment he endured far outweighed the crime it was still a stupid thing to do and he didn’t seem to acknowledge that or at least not on camera anyway.

The last section focusing on his relationship with his wife and daughter were equal parts heartbreaking and beautiful. A hard man with a soft heart.
.

Did he mention me sledging him and boxing the head off him in Clontarf at all?

[binkybarnes]

@Fagan_ODowd

Did he mention me sledging him and boxing the head off him in Clontarf at all?

He did. He said he gave you an even worse roasting than Dessie Farrell gave you.

[Ambrose_McNulty]

@binkybarnes

The constant abuse and vilification Duff endured for one relatively harmless mistake is hard to fathom even now.

Duff for whatever reason was never really forgiven

Ah now to be fair, that Dublin team was packed to the rafters with scumbag knacker cunts, not just Duff. Mullins would be another fine example and he’s still hated around the country too.