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Esso_Oil · January 31, 2018, 10:30am

If you believe what went on last night Rathkeale parish extends to cover half the square in Ballingarry.

TreatyStones · January 31, 2018, 10:31am

It goes pretty close to it!
The church is nearly in Rathkeale.

Esso_Oil · January 31, 2018, 10:32am

Probably means a fair chunk G/B players over the last 50years should have been playing with Rathkeale. A commission of Inquiry will be required to clean this mess up.

Ashman · January 31, 2018, 10:36am

If clubs around the county sought to rigidly apply the parish rule there would be great craic altogether .

Julio_Geordio · January 31, 2018, 10:39am

Footballers transferring to Rathkeale or what was the craic?

TreatyStones · January 31, 2018, 10:39am

https://www.townlands.ie/limerick/rathkeale/

dodgy_keeper · January 31, 2018, 10:41am

It’s our territory - not an inch!

Lads who went to primary school in Ballingarry living out the church road couldn’t play with G/B all the way up. The cut off isn’t far beyond the village in all fairness. Has cost us a few handy players over the years alright.

No real rivalry between the clubs in all honesty. Mind you I remember a mass brawl at an u-14 or u-16 football match maybe 15 or 20 years ago. Supporters and everything hopped the wire. The game continued and everyone shook hands at full time!

Our best underage prospect and who’ll be playing for the adult intermediate hurling team in 2018 is the son of a staunch Rathkeale GAA man.

Julio_Geordio · January 31, 2018, 10:44am

What’s with the little island of Rathkeale out on it’s own?

TreatyStones · January 31, 2018, 10:46am

Rathkeale parish has a reputation for always being on the move

Esso_Oil · January 31, 2018, 11:34am

Ye are living so close together over there there might be more than one the son of a staunch Rathkeale man

Julio_Geordio · January 31, 2018, 3:55pm

You’ll be right eventually I’m sure Joe.

Joe_Player · January 31, 2018, 3:59pm

Only messing Davy is not stupid

Julio_Geordio · January 31, 2018, 3:59pm

No mileage for travelling between the GG and Clare

Julio_Geordio · January 31, 2018, 4:05pm

You’re a gas man Joe. T’was you said he was going to Limerick.

Joe_Player · January 31, 2018, 4:11pm

No joke JP should get hin

Joe_Player · January 31, 2018, 4:18pm

Is the limerick Offaly game on television

backinatracksuit · January 31, 2018, 4:56pm

Thank fuck they never won anything except a few camogie pots.

Esso_Oil · January 31, 2018, 5:23pm

He might win one Joe but the body count would be too high a price.

Darach Honan fairly stuck the boot in on Davy and Clare here.

Joe_Player · January 31, 2018, 5:32pm

You have to train all players

Bartholemew_the_Ladd · January 31, 2018, 7:31pm

There was always a healthy rivalry between the mushes and Ballingarry. The Granagh crowd, muck savages for the most part, were more Croom oriented and most of them went to school there.

However the rule whereby young lads living a stones throw from Ballingarry and conducting their lives, friendships and education in the village but actually technically in Rathkeale parish, being forced to play with Rathkeale is just bonkers. I knew one or two of them and even they agreed that it was crazy. They hardly knew the Rathkeale lads they were hurling with. I remember one of them telling me that his children would never face the challenges that he had to face.