Dermo wouldn’t be a ‘real dub’ though would he? Like Charlie or Keith barr or one of them. I doubt he’d be from a council estate and I’d imagine his parents are culchies and generations of his family didn’t grow up in a tenement. Maybe that’s not important in dub gaa circles.
I actually think he’s the most naturally talented footballer in every way I’ve seen (on his day). He’s like Clifford with a bit more power and pace. He comes across as an arrogant cunt and a little bit stupid which id say was his downfall.
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His father is from Clara Co Kilkenny
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Multi-sport Offalyness XV
1 Martin Furlong (one of the founding members of the socks up brigade)
2 Paddy McCormack (The Iron Man of Rhode, in purely on the strength of his nickname)
3 Liam Connor (diddling and dawdling and here he comes)
4 Martin Hanamy (if that man wasn’t a farmer I resign from the forum)
5 Brian Whelehan (has the flu and might go up into the forwards, but whatever hapens he’s not getting an All-Star)
6 Pat Delaney (mop of hair leaping into the air like Snake in The Simpsons)
7 Sean Lowry (there to hold the ball in the air at the final whistle, that is sensational)
8 Liam Currams (outstanding dual player who vanished like Norman Whiteside and unusually for an Offaly man could run very fast, which called into question his inclusion on this team)
9 Johnny Pilkington (three pints in the local the night before, safest place for him)
10 Johnny Dooley (cool clean hero in the running for the role of Jimmy Bohan)
11 John Troy (wrists of God, will run a total of three yards per game and score 2-2)
12 Pat Carroll (ginger wizard)
13 Matt Connor (give the ball to him, it doesn’t matter what size the ball is)
14 Daithi Regan (no Offaly team is complete without a lumbering full forward)
15 Joe Dooley (still doing it at 77 years of age)
Subs:
Ciaran McManus (a bullocker not a mullocker)
Michael Duignan (if somebody needs to be administrated a good flaking)
Seamus Darby (who?)
Johnny Flaherty (good with his hands)
Roy Malone (flash and good at running, but won’t be coming on because Liam Currams is there to do the running)
Gerry Carroll (there to harmlessly kick the ball wide when hanging on at the end)
Scobie from Pure Mule (if Daithi Regan gets tired)
Shane Lowry (if Scobie gets tired)
Brian Cowen (if Lowry gets tired)
Somebody called Coughlan (mandatory)
Ger Oakley (don’t forget Offaly have a small pick)
Manager: Eugene McGee (no Offaly manager should ever be from Offaly, how do you like that Joe Brolly)
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Did he lose sight an eye after a coming together with a lad from Donegal ?
Was there any of the great dubs team with two parents from Dublin?
Bobby Doyle, I think was only player on Dublin team of the 70’s with two Dublin parents.
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I’d say the team of the 80s and early 90s had a good few
They started a business together?
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His mother is from Liscannor
Corkness XV
1 Ger Cunningham (could save a gilt edged goal chance with his face and get it called as a wide)
2 Brian Corcoran (man-boy)
3 Diarmuid O’Sullivan (a pioneer of a new, more threatening 21st century version of Corkness)
4 Brian Murphy (a composite character of the 1970s and 2000s players of this name)
5 Tom Cashman (pulled off the ultimate pre-INTERNET pwn on the Mayor of Galway)
6 Jim Cashman (Sleek and stylish Cork excellence, cruelly decapitated Mary Queen of Scots style by Declan Ryan)
7 Johnny Crowley (a man so Cork the opposition were afraid to put a man on him and in doing so brought about the very defeat they sought to avoid)
8 Teddy McCarthy (he’s 10 feet above you)
9 John Fenton (prince of pulling)
10 Christy Ring (an insatiable fanatic, the pioneer of a 1940s/50s threatening version of Corkness which would soon give way to the warm and fuzzy 1960s-1980s Bash Street Kids version of Corkness we all know and love)
11 Jimmy Barry Murphy (Secular saint)
12 Kevin Hennessy (friendly pickpocket, cat burglar, at his best grinning in the dressing room being interviewed by Jimmy Magee)
13 John Fitzgibbon (a pure city hurler who would would have made a brilliant sniper if born in South Armagh, his celebrations made Ring look like a no-mark who did a dance like the 1973 New Zealand haka)
14 Ray Cummins (took sympathy on opponents in facile Munster final wins, didn’t laugh at them, which was endearing, as opposed to vulgar like when Nicholas English laughed at Clare)
15 Seanie Leary (goalhanger extraordinare, the most city hurler of all time, grinning assassin, a bag of chips and a gobstopper please)
Subs:
Charlie McCarthy (Cork pibé, street urchin hurler)
Colm Sheehan (1960s goalhanger)
Tom Kenny (he’s the man running further and further ahead of you)
Patrick Horgan (had posters of Christy Ring on his wall and Christy Ring pyjamas and duvet cover)
John Considine (the sort average corner back who in Cork mushrooms into an All-Ireland winner)
Damien Cahalane (Supermarket own brand Diarmuid O’Sullivan)
Gerald McCarthy (“there still is an awful lot of pride in Cork hurling, Ger”)
Tomas Mulcahy (pioneer of the hand solo and the “look as un-co-ordinated as you can” celebration
Kevin Murray (classic Cork goalhanger)
Seanie McGrath (stage Corkness taken to the extreme)
Joe Deane (pibé, RHOT left hander or was it LHOT right hander)
Jack Lynch (“if you come into this square, Lynch, there’ll be a by-election”)
Manager: Jimmy Crowley
Selectors: a couple of lads who used to be shop stewards at Ford’s and Dunlop’s
Doctor: Dr. Con Murphy III
Dugout Mascot: Frank Murphy
This team would beat Limerick in Limerick by three points in a Munster quarter-final, Waterford by 22 points in Thurles in a Munster semi-final, Tipperary by four points in a Munster final in Thurles, Antrim by five points in a poorly attended All-Ireland semi-final at Croke Park, and hot favourites Galway by four points in an All-Ireland final, with all matches played in glorious sunshine and American flags, Canadian flags and Japanese imperial flags being waved in celebration by supporters.
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I know you’ve been doing it for quite a while @Cheasty but your posting has been of an unbelievably high standard today.
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If it’s corkness you’re after then Johnny Clifford has to be in there somewhere …
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McCormack feels it was the worst day of his life for a reason that may amaze some. He knew he was in deep shit with the eye, excruciating pain and the attached dangers but a Donegal supporter roared “fair fucks to whoever done you - ‘twas coming to you a long time”….McCormack felt that worse than the injury while admitting to issuing plenty of hardy belts he shipped a few right ones himself…
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There’s a nod to him in there with the shop steward in Dunlop’s bit.
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Seanie Leary is from youghal the only point of order there
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That’s the hook. O’Leary was a more city hurler than anybody else despite not coming from the city. The engine of classic Corkness was the city and particularly the Northside but it permeated elsewhere with interest, especially to east Cork.
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The Offaly u20 lad with the mullet has to be in an Offalyness team.
Ditto that O’Connell lad from Midleton who played midfield around 1999 with the collar up has to be in any Cork team. He oozed Corkness.
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Mark Landers too but Corkness is such a thing that’s it hard to get everyone in.
Seán Óg Ó hAilpín in there surely?! Can barely string 3 words in Irish together yet has the balls to regularly appear on TG4. Could barely strike the ball and yet went on to captain his County to an All Ireland and give the most Cork speech of any Cork speech you could ever give. Socks up around his hamstrings.
He is Corkness personified. A dollop of bluff, a spoonful of bluster, a sizeable portion of self confidence, a helping of steely determination and dedication and a cup full of ‘balls’ = success.
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