will you be the forum representative at the funeral Mark?
Lads, was Foley living in Killaloe or is he actually a Son Of Limerick as he keeps being referenced as in the Media?
Living in kilaloe since he was 4 or 5 afaik
Anthony is a Limerick man. They moved out when he was young, think I heard 4 or 5. But heās long since adopted as one of Clareās own. Shur didnāt a prominent poster here used to claim that East Clare was the home of Munster Rugby.
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Iv been waiting for the pukes eulogy with bated breath
Keith wood interview on off the ball now, replay of one he did this am with pat Kenny.
Brilliant tribute from a man who know him as child boy and man from killaloe and ended up touring the world with him playing at the top end of their sport. Some journey to go on with your best pal
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@mickee321, did Axel score a try against Zimbabwe for Ireland at Lansdowne Road in the 1991 RWC?
Or was that RWC before his time as an international cap?
Thatās a great anecdote. Johnno is one of my all time favourite sportsmen.
When I was in New Zealand for the first time in 1996, I was in a bar in Christchurch around 5pm on a Friday afternoon. A crowd of brickies arrived in after finishing up for the week. Got talking to one of them, a fairly grizzled character, but very convivial company who was none other than Bill Bush, the former New Zealand prop and the man who inadvertently sparked the mass boycott of the 1976 Montreal Olympics. He was able to tell me that on New Zealandās first Grand Slam winning tour of the British Isles in 1978, he propped down in the test match at Lansdowne Road against the only man to have won an All Ireland Senior Hurling medal and played international rugby.
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I suspect you are thinking of the Ballymena, Ulster and Ireland Number 8, Brian Robinson who became only the second Number 8 in test rugby to score four tries in a test match. Axel made his test debut ( a try scoring one too) against England in 1995.
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Well before his time Iād say you are thinking of Robinson he got 4 tries that day
My first time ever at a rugby international
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My main memory of that world cup is meeting all the Australian players on grafton Street selling memorabilia to make a few quid for the kitty.
Willie Ofehengaue was there I had never seen anything like him before the size of the fucker
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Lovely tribute from @glasagusban to Anthony Foley.
He led a group of 15 year old girls in a flash mob dance to tinkers at a halting site outside Limerick. They wore futuristic outfits (half lycra, half tinfoil) and danced to Missy Elliot in a modernised haka manner.
The big moment was Jack Clarkeās try off Gordon Hamiltonās run. I worked with Clarke and played inter-firm football with him for a good few years. He was a sound skin but we always reckoned he has to live with a regret from that game.
Other way around it was Hamilton scored
Clarke did brilliantly he fucked campese out of the way chasing a kick ahead and gathered and offloaded to Hamilton. Smashing stuff
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He missed the tackle at the end alright is that the regret?
He played for munster when they beat the Australians the following year in musgrave
I attended this match (the England 1995 game, not the Zimbabwe game).
Iāve never seen Ireland win a rugby international match in person (Iām 0 for 5).
Pat OāHara was a Sundays Well man. He had a year or two with Con at the end of his career but the bulk of his playing career was spent at Musgrave Park.
Was he capped whilst at the well or did he have to move for his cap?
Cork con has a rep as being a right snooty club and no doubt it has its masters of industry there but plenty right rough diamonds too.
Lenihan and Pat OāHara would be a ling way from snobs.
Lenihan is an absolute gent and a lively genuine way about him. The way he treats cafe staff in a place we both frequent is a long way better than alot of the non-āsnobā cunts treat people in there.
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