maybe put Nicky full back and Dowling in the nets??!!
so it may be all pony?! Casey is fine?
Pony?
RIP
Barry Nash will solo the length of the field from corner back
He’ll do fucking nothing
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Limerick are done
Tony Fitzgerald died last week, a great servant to Askeaton/Ballysteen. Captained the footballers to that famous win over Cork in ‘65 and also won a Munster Junior Cup with Munchins. He was a first cousin of my mother’s and the nicest man one could meet. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
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Whatever hope we had is gone.
RIP
Just a quick question on that obituary.
He won a county senior football finals in 1964 and 1965 with different clubs. How did that come about?
To get a clear and concise answer for this question you’d need to be in a pub about ten pints deep with a fella from askeaton and another from Ballysteen.
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Hon Limerick!
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They’re the same parish, and I believe it was the entire same team; they played under the Ballysteen name one year and Askeaton the next.
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that’s more accurate
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How long have you got 
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First Senior Football title
Ballysteen became County Senior Football Champions for the first time ever in 1964 when they defeated St. Patricks at Pairc na nGael by 3-12 to 1-2. The Ballysteen team on that famous day was Bobby Walsh, Liam O’Shaughnessy(Pallaskenry) Tom Perryman(Listowel) Donie Nestor, Basil Fitzgibbon, Tony Fitzgerald(Captain) Eddie Walsh, Tommy Carrig, Pat Reidy(Ballyhahill) Michael Allen, Francie Kenny, Pat Chambers(Bank Official), Michael Ranahan, Paddy Carrig, Michael Walsh. The selectors were Jack Buckley, Tom Downes, Jack Barron and Fr. Dermot McCarthy.[77] Ballysteen went onto meet Shannon Rangers of Kerry in what was the first ever Munster club football championship. Ballysteen and Shannon Rangers were level on 3 points each at half time but the Rangers put in a whirlwind display in the second half to defeat Ballysteen by 5-9 to 0-4. Shannon Rangers went onto win the first ever Munster Football Club title in 1965 [78]
Champions Again
Ballysteen GAA club accumulated some debt in 1964 after winning the county. It was small by todays standards but it was decided that Askeaton GAA club would take over the running of football in the parish in 1965. The same bunch of players captured their second title in 1965 and the Limerick Leader described how ‘police protection was needed to escort a Treaty Sarsfields player to his dressing room after a rough and tumble county final mud bath at the Ennis Road where Askeaton triumphed after withstanding a determined second half rally by Treaty.’ The Askeaton team that defeated the men from Thomondgate 3-3 to 1-5 was Bobby Walsh, Liam O’ Shaughnessy(Pallaskenry) Paddy Carrig, Donie Nestor, Basil Fitzgibbon, Tony Fitzgerald, John O’Donnell, Tommy Carrig, Francie Kenny, Hugh O’Boyle(Copsewood) Paddy Reidy(Ballyhahill), Mike Ranahan, Minie Allen, Peter Neville, Tomas Sheehan. Tom Perryman(Listowel) for Tomas Sheehan injured. [79]
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Is that O’Shaughnessy related to the young chap you were managing the last few years? Is he working or farming?
Not sure if they were related, but most likely are. He’s working alright, but don’t think he’s teaching.
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How did the Ballysteenians work up a debt after winning a county back then ???