Full of them.
Full of hard working people.
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One of my favourite memories of Axel was the miracle game against Sarries in 1999, when we pulled it out of the fire. Woody and Rog ran the show, one of the best atmospheres I ever experienced at a game
Just looking through my programmes there. Pat O’Hara got his first cap was against Western Samoa in 1988. He was at Sundays Well then and was 27 when first capped - born on 4 August 1961. The inaugural AIL started in 1990/91. I would suspect it was in the early days of the AIL that he moved to Con. I don’t think Sundays Well were even in the AIL for the first few season and were still playing Munster Senior League.
Con were always a well connected club. Former players and British Lions, Tom Kiernan and Noel Murphy, both went on to be two of the most influential coaches and administrators in world rugby.
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Yes.
Watched it back there. Old style lansdowne road invasion. similar to when Galwey scored his try v England and his sister ran on
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Was at that
That match was the Ireland equivalent of the 1994 AIHF
Noel “Noisy” Murphy served me at a petrol station shop somewhere close to Kent Station in Cork following Oasis’s concert in Pairc Ui Chaoimh in 1996. True story.
The AIHF meant something
Ireland’s next match after the near miss to Australia in the World Cup was against Wales. Ireland were supposedly going to win the Championship in 1992. They got whitewashed and Franno ran into Tony Copsey at 0.31 in, in the Wales match.
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The club is named for long defunct unionist newspaper in Cork called the Cork Constitution which was strongly left-footed and Unionist.
He owns a few of them around the place and does own one few hundred yards from Kent alright
You must have swam across from the Pairc though to get that side of the station 
Cycled across with a bag of cans.
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I met him plenty of times. Next door neighbour and family friend of a mate of mine.
They are still in the petrol game.
I thought it was more to do with Crosshaven, its original home?
His son Kenny who was the Ireland full-back for a brief period circa 1990 was also at the till.
Kenny was a good footballer, but that was undue Con influence by all accounts.
Yeah, they would not cap pat Murray or Mick fitzgibbon but a steaming pile of cons players were capped including the son-in-law
It must be some sort of record for him to get his first cap 3 years before he was born?
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I think this might be Limericks Princess Diana moment.
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