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3574

Won a title with Leeds, suspended for 75 European Cup final

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3575

Jesus there’s a shock- R.I.P.

3576

He hadn’t been well.

3577

Hadn’t he Motor Neurone Disease or something?

3578

Yeah, if not that, something along those lines.

3579

Dementia

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3580

There were 20 or 21 medals given out from the 1880s to in or about the 1990s. This factor could be a controversial and friction-generating one, as Princes of Pigskin, among other books, details.

I think 26 medals are now given by Croke Park to the winning county. Medals for other panellists need to be bought by the County Board in question. So there are, more or less, two tiers in a Celtic Cross.

There is also another nuance, in that being named on the match programme did not automatically guarantee a medal. This outcome (in)famously happened with Kilkenny’s Nick O’Donnell after the 1947 Senior Final.

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3581

I recall that imbroglio from “Princes of the Pigskin” but hadn’t heard of the O’Donnell case before.

It won’t be bothering us in the short to medium term but were we to win a county title I’m sure somewhere short of 40 medals might just about suffice.

Informative rating.

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3582

Wasn’t there a more recent one with the 1997 Kerry panel. Mike Hassett didn’t get a medal even though he was captain.

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3583

In my club in Dublin there was always a nice bit of needle and banter between the lads who had the real medals and the lads who had the bought medals.

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3584

In schools the GAA give out 24 medals. Any extra have to be purchased. Contrast with the FAI who just give the 11. A legacy of the JD era.

3585

Delaney was a great man for not wasting money on shit like medals.

Now birthday parties, matches abroad and social gatherings were a different kettle of fish.

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3586

And a glass statute of himself.

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3587

Kilkenny’s Nick O’Donnell :smile::smile::smile:

Often confused with Wexford’s Nick O’Donnell.

3588

What part of this designation would be controversial? The guffawing rarely learn too much. NO’D did not move to Enniscorthy until he was 24 or 25. He hailed from Graiguenamanagh Parish. Did you not know NO’D was a Kilkenny native?

You also had, on Wexford’s starting team in 1955, Mick Morrissey (Carlow native), Ned Wheeler (Laois/Kilkenny native) and Tom Ryan (Kilkenny native). Used sub Oliver Gough was a Kilkenny native. I have some memory of being told one time that their sub goalkeeper, Chris Casey, was a Clare native.

There is a most interesting (and scarcely known) story behind why NO’D left Kilkenny. But that water under the bridge is long out in the Atlantic Ocean.

3589

Yes, there was. Spot on.

3590

There was also a major kerfuffle in 1951 about Tipperary’s Jimmy Kennedy not getting a Celtic Cross. A man who was simultaneously a selector and a panelist got, in the phrase used, ‘Jimmy’s one’.

3591

Put up or shut up.

3592

Fuck up or fuck off.

3593

Of course I knew.

There’s been loads of ITK banter about Wheeler on TFK also.

Wexford of the ‘50s welcomed all comers.