Sorry I meant schools in the city.
St Joseph’s. Think it’s a community school now. Played Harty last year not sure about this year. Hurling was never really prioritized in the school. Depends on the teachers really.
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Grand year for Teeje, two county titles. Coached Thomas’ to the Galway senior title and obviously got the Bouncers up to senior too.
You’re surely not whitewashing the pivotal role he had in the development of many of those Limerick hurlers as well? JP will surely fire a medal his way.
Chippy Brady on RTE radio 1 this morning discussing the Eire soccer job . He said in his time at arsenal both Pat Gilroy and Dublin GGA & Joe McKenna and Lk GGA went for a look at how they do things . Chippy then said look at where both these are now . The FAI never went to them .
How much is a lobster roll going for in Fanueil Hall nowadays? The last time I was there it was in the region of $18. Did you get the chowder in a bread bowl?
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lobster rolls are serious, you’d want 2 of them though
They’re a real treat if you can get a proper one.
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Why did you not bring everyone home with you?
Is Brian Finn not teaching there???
No idea.
Had the most delightful turkey and bafe roll there, all for the princely sum of $8.00.
Also the pizza is divine, not the spam we get this side of the pond.
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Go on…
The Leader.
Keeper of the cup - Liam MacCarthy finds a good home in Limerick and is kept busy.
Keep the diary ready, you are looking after Liam for the year. The words of Limerick County Board Secretary Mike O’Riordan in a phone call to project co-ordinator for Limerick GAA, Siobhan Scanlon.
The diary entries open on that fateful day, August 19, 2018 with the words Citywest Dublin, the venue for the post-match celebrations.
For the morning of August 20 the entry is Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, and that evening, it’s Limerick.
And it has been Limerick ever since.
There have been thousands of visits by ‘Liam’. Sixty-five clubs, countless schools, charities and nursing homes have all had a sprinkling of the MacCarthy Cup magic dust.
“It hasn’t been in the office for a full day. It’s booked right up to December 23,” says Siobhan.
Requests started coming in thick and fast from the Wednesday after the final.
“It was mainly clubs first for the requests,” Siobhan explains. “They call or email. Because I work in the office they would have access to my number and email so they came in both ways.”
Liam and his diary are based at Siobhan’s office in the Munster Council HQ on Dublin Road.
There hasn’t been a day when the Cup has stayed in the office.
Each engagement is handwritten in the diary.
“I started the diary online but it proved difficult with changes of times so it was easier to go back to the old handwriting,” says Siobhan.
Whoever makes the request for the booking is the person who is in charge of the cup for that engagement, and with that comes responsibility.
“With the clubs they are told from the outset that whoever books it is responsible that’s why I only deal with one person. If that one person is on holidays they have to tell me who their point of contact is for the exchange.
“They are also responsible for the handover so, for example, if it is going from Kilmallock to Dromin Athlacca, the person who manages it in Kilmallock then transports it to Dromin Athlacca and it’s then handed to the person who is responsible for it there and they are responsible for it from that moment. I don’t want to say where it stays overnight for security reasons but it does stay in different locations depending on where it is going the following morning.”
The club is informed beforehand that the cup is not to go to a pub – a decision taken from the outset by Limerick County Board in a stand against the Irish drink culture.
“Because the cup is not allowed in a public house, there are restrictions.
“There is a request for a booking next year for a special birthday - a surprise party for a past player and it’s in a house, not a pub. If there is a request for a party and there is a bar function going on, then the cup would only be at the reception of the hotel.”
For the majority of the working day from 9am to 3pm the cup is in the schools, primary and secondary, as well as special needs schools. It has been to a couple of the wards in the regional hospital.
On Christmas morning it will be paying a visit to the Children’s Ark in University Hospital Limerick and then the Liam MacCarthy Cup “is going on his holidays”.
It is expected that it won’t be in circulation for the Christmas season until the New Year.
For Siobhan, being in charge of Liam for the year “is an honour”.
“It really is,” insists the Granagh-Ballingarry woman.
“There are a lot of people who would only love to have the job that I have. I am from a GAA background and appreciate everything that has happened.”
America is one of the proper countries in the world, Oireland is only a mickey mouse place
Proper infrastructure, proper law and order, proper food.
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FFS sake
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Twee overload.
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America is the world power and corrupt as fuck, fucksake
The only thing I took from that is Siobhán has one fucking handy number.