Carlow seem to get involved in more scraps/brawls/confrontations/handbags in GAA than most other counties.
Willie Dunphy got a fair head butt from the white helmet around the 20 sec mark
He did.
The other Carlow chap with the white helmet, who instigated the whole thing right after the whistle went, drew a sneaky kick and then had a little pull across the Laois player for good measure.
Seething so they were
Jesus that number 6 wasn’t hanging about… Did he catch the ref with the swipe??.. Original blow was sneaky, lad wasn’t even looking up…is it camross playing?
The small lad!! 
He got a snig as well 
2006 quarter.
They fought like tinkers in 05, and tensions were high in 06. That was after a massive row, he issued reds to Greg Cuddy of Camross and Cyril Cuddy of Castletown (no close relation). Greg the tramp struck and Castletown were within full rights to murder anyone thereafter.
Greg was escorted to the sideline then and as he arrived under the stand he was set upon by spectators and subs alike, it was fucking epic stuff. He got a clatter of a hurl and all in it.
Mayhem broke out in the stand, kicks punches flakes all landing from everywhere.
The guards arrived eventually. Everyone dispersed. And the referee blew it up and Camross won by a point.
Paul Cuddy, as classy a hurler as you’d see, but Castletown would lower the blade with the best of them and those lot fucking hated each other. Greg got 96 weeks, Paul and his brother David (yellow helmet and one of Laois’ best ever hurlers and a lovely man) each got 12. 2 spectators got 96 each also.
Both sides got fucked out for 2007 but both got back in after putting up a bond and agreeing to keep the peace basically.
Mayhem.
Are the villages beside each other? Would there be any tradition in laois where finalists meet for a drink day after? Happens in meath and others places…
Remember seeing David cuddy and Keith Wilson of Dublin going at it in a leinster championship one time…think Wilson got sent off for a headbutt. Two hardy bastards. Both well able to hurl too.
They’d be on top of each other practically. I’m sure there would be, and I know there is, but I doubt they did in 05 because that was nasty, 15 year old Dean Denaley got knocked unconscious in that game. He was a chap but as the years would show he wasn’t simple either.
As always in Laois, if theres trouble, Camross will never be far away.
Wilson was O’Toole’s who along with Craobh Chiaran were the force in the Dublin hurling championship in the early 2000s as you woyuld be aware. To put it mildly, they had a few crispy encounters but they would sip away together in Northside hostelries afterwards
What’s the craic with these camross and Castletown lads in general? Are they proper knackers/dole head types… in that they’d regularly be in trouble with the law away from a sports field also?
They’d be mountain men and generally alright to deal with, agricultural folk. Just murderous fuckers on a field If you crossed them. Neither would really be known for starting fights but both would finish them. And some. They’d flake alright, tough, hard and just about on the ball. Both would have had a few ‘enforcers’ back then who you knew not to antagonise, but the rest could handle timber when it came to it also.
Laois Hurling is no place for the faint of heart. It’s much better nowadays, but it’s never far away. Camross and Borris in the Division 2 league final was abandoned last year, a few days after beating Dublin no less. When you think things are going well, there’s no better crowd to smack you with a 36 ash length of harsh reality.
Winning the fight was as important to otooles as winning the match… But they had some very good hurlers… Wilson was a tough nut but well able to hurl… There was a story of him taking care of Ken and eoin mcgrath in a schmozzle in club friendly one time …
Wilson was well able to hurl is right, wristy
o’tooles have a tradition of fighting going back to when many club members were key win in Michael Collins hit squad in the WOI!
Remember a row in a league match between boden and otooles at the turn of century… .don’t know if Boden were waiting for queensbury rules or something but o tooles made bits of them… Butts of the hurl in under the faceguard…helmets ripped off lads in an instance and slaps from all directions … different level altogether…
Borris in Ossory sent a couple of lively characters our way our way over the years.