JAHC semi-final draw:
Ballybricken/Bohermore v St. Kieran’s
Caherline v St. Patrick’s
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Caherline haven’t beaten their neighbours Ballybricken in years, they look to have the Indian sign overnight them in league and championship for a couple of years
Some man to go to matches in fairness.
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That looks like the final to me
Came out of the group of death too in fairness, were in with Drom Broadford, Templeglantine and Crecora, none of those bad sides
Brennan must be 35…
When did Ballybricken add Bohermore to the name ??
Does the handball club still operate there ??
Close on 10 years ago at this stage. The handball club is still going, as far as I know. The Frawleys would be fair stalwarts of it.
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I presume the Pat’s semi-final will be on the Thursday/Friday night too to faciliate Hego?
Dan Owens scored a hat-trick for B/B. He is absolutely lightning quick.
I hear the football final might be moved to the Thursday night to accommodate our big weekend
What a farce. Zero respect
He would be, yeah. Still looks very fit, athletically he stood out, the way a lot of intercounty players do at club level.
And that Wixted is only 21.
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Well done K/P 
Probably the most progressive club in Limerick this past decade. Always look out for ye as I have cousins down there. My grandfather Willie Hayes played for Kildimo in the ‘34 and ‘35 county finals against that great Ahane team.
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One man has his print on that anyway #Kyler
There’s nothing great about Ahane.
A full capacity Junior A hurling final is going to be off the chain.
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Attended the County Board delegates meeting tonight in the Woodlands. A very informative evening, with the most interesting debate concerning illegal players.
The most common theme here seems to be one whereby a player might have gone to school in a neighbouring parish, but has never lived there nor has no familial links to that parish. Obviously long established senior clubs have benefitted from this, but from talking to a couple of other delegates afterwards, it’s equally widespread among intermediate & junior clubs. For example, in the east, Hospital Herbertstown is haemorrhaging players to the likes of Caherline and Ballybricken. Lads from
Herbertstown going to school in Caherelly and then choosing either of the latter two clubs. Crecora parish goes right into Patrickswell village, and some of the Well squad are technically born and reared in Crecora. Similar issue back west where Glin goes right into Ballyhahill, lads being sent to school in the latter, born and raised in the former, yet turning out for Gerald Griffins. There’s a hundred more examples from across the county.
There’s increasing consternation in rural clubs located near to the city. Parts of Ahane, South Liberties, Ballybrown and Patrickswell are now officially within the city boundary since the 2014 merging of the City & County Councils. Any of those clubs could legally lose players to existing city teams such as Mungret, Monaleen, Na Piarsaigh, etc. Since there is no defined parish lines within the city, it’s almost treated as once big parish where a player can choose his club once it is inside the city boundary limits.
So the Co Board want clubs to agree a “defined catchment” area between them by next summer. This includes “cultural ties” or “historical precedence” whereby there has been a long established history of players from one particular area playing with a club that may be located in a neighbouring parish - for example some players from Rathkeale parish have traditionally chosen to play their football with neighbouring St Kierans. Likewise, a few from Old Mill in St Kierans parish have lined out for nearby Newcastlewest down through the years.
If such catchment areas cannot be established/regularised, then the CB will vigorously enforce the parish rule as it currently stands (except in scenarios where there is no football/hurling club in a particular parish and a player may seek to line out for a neighbouring parish e.g. Ballylanders natives playing hurling with Garryspillane). Any club can legally raise an issue with an illegal opposition player obviously, but it seems CB will be clamping down on illegal players even more come next August if agreements between clubs cannot be reached on catchment areas.
Other nuggets of information gleamed on the night:
CB raised €103,000 from the ‘Win A Kuga’ fundraiser, which ironically was won by a Laois woman.
Construction on the stand in Mick Neville Park will commence in the next fortnight, with a precast concrete structure due to be put in place. The 900 seater stand will be a modular unit. Banagher Precast Construction are involved, they also received the contract for the new Everton stadium. I can’t think of a much bigger honour than laying concrete for bums on seats in Rathkeale though.
Profit and Loss accounts indicated that Limerick GAA went from making a €60k profit margin in 2019 to a €27k loss in 2020. Which isn’t that bad a figure, all things considered.
A 2022 Season Ticket will be available, with the usual club/inter county options. They hope to link the Club Ticket option back to individual club membership though, so that some of the funds from ticket sales go directly back to the purchasers own club.
All proposed inter-county management teams were ratified on the night. Bad news for all the other inter county teams on the senior hurling front there 
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Informative👍
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