Michael McGuinness is bolloxed now with injuries. I think Declan Maxwell is similar. He came on in the Mayo match in 2006 after having a cruciate operation a month before. ‘Bandage it up and you’ll be alright!’ I think he even kicked a point.
Declan Maxwell and John McKeon kicked last year with Drumreilly. Maxwell is bet but he’s surely closing in on 40 and there’s life in him yet. McKeon is tipping away, same as ever only the surging runs have become occasional spurts into space. 2 great servants and I was sorry to see them relegated. They’ll find it a struggle as numbers are thin with them. Their set-up, pitch and trimmings are the full solid finest.
Typical small club situation. A bunch of good players come at the same time and unfortunately leave at the same time. Fenagh have experienced it, Eslin have experienced it - I dread to think what will happen to our club in ten years time.
Hopefully this WFH lark will continue and the drain on communities in the county will ease up.
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I take your point but the current planning restrictions mitigate against it. The Ballinagleara club made a fine and valid point railing against the current system but it’ll be read and discarded. We’ve had a great run at underage, solid gains Senior wise but if we don’t reap a title soon you’d feel it’s difficult to sustain. The bigger/urban clubs will continue to benefit.
Loaded against rural clubs for the benefits of the likes of Manor and Mohill. 
Unfortunately if the planning laws go ahead that’s all we’ll have,Kinlough Manor Drumshanbo SOH Carrick Mohill at senior and the rest trotting along behind.Maybe join Dromahair/Drumkerin and Fenagh/Drumreilly/Carraigallen and you’ll have 8 senior teams.
Cathal Flynn has slipped away, the light of Heaven to him. An outstanding corner forward, lethal from placed balls, he topped the NFL scoring table for 9 straight years. Not a big man but a great man to make the break at the opportune moment and apply the finishing touch. Won a minor medal with Fenagh in 1952 alongside McGarty, their partnership would extend for nearly 20 years. Súaimhneas síorrí d’anam uasal.
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I didn’t know he was still alive and found it apt that he would pass away a few months after McGarty.
My Dad was not a huge fan of McGarty (probably an Eslin Mohill thing) and his main reason being ‘all he wanted was to look for fucking Flynn!’
Wow.
Flynn was a very accurate forward, very quick to find the space and the outside men were very good at finding him. Probably an Eslin thing your Dad had about McGarty but he was very good to find the man in space.
We had hapes of good forwards in those years, the two mentioned, Columba Cryan, Paddy Dolan and Noel Blessing would have been up there with any of them.
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That stat is something else.
Make no mistake my old lad was as biased as fuck and don’t take his comment as anything like truth.
Cathal Flynn played for Gorvagh I believe - when did their club go?
They won the first 4 in a row 1924-27 and lost the final of 1928. Jack Bohan was technically entitled to captain the Connacht winners of 1927 but he was an incredibly modest quiet man and Tom Gannon did a fine job.
The club struggled along intermittently until the late 40’s before folding about 1949. A revival of sorts involved a minor team of 1967 before the cuter neighbours (Fay-na, Cloone and Mohill) picked the bones of the team for themselves. Blue and Gold were the jersey colours a’la Tipperary.
Flynn played the majority of his football with the Civil Service club in Dublin to the best of my knowledge. He was an accountant by profession.
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Cavan and Tipperary relegated to D4. Both provincial champions in 2020. Frightening…
D4 is where it’s at in '22.
Just goes to show how bad the Ulster and Munster championship were last year
We shipped our 2nd defeat in a row being beaten by Drumreilly this evening 2-10 to 2-05. Without our county panellists we’re bunched.
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Ouch.
We won yesterday to go with a defeat last week.