Most Irish people donât.
Eh thereâs 17m living in the Netherlands. So thatâs less than a third.
Take it up with Priya bro
Why would I?
Theyâre her figures. She has no reason to lie.
He played, but not much more than all his mates or the rest of us from similar backgrounds, it was winter sport and largely came 2nd.
Hurling is more british than the gah fella
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Nobody is sweking numbers like the GAA.
Pulling out a âbâ team once a year registars 15 âplayersâ apparently.
I have a friend working in Japan. They mostly work. Alot of them work within the companies they ay for, Toshiba and the likes. They get educated and train and work somewhat less hours.
Only the impirts tend to be true pros
Its a good culture really.
What? Football was invented. The game of hurling and variations of it have been played in Ireland for thousands of years. When football was invented It was given hurling rules to make it Irish.
Yes, rugby is, Iâve just spelled it out above.
Bullshit
I agree
Long was always known as one of the best underage soccer prospects in Tipperary. It was always claimed he had a decent chance of going to England.
Kev is bullshitting here.
Modern stick hurling was invented by the gentry in Trinity College and played on a rugby field, hence the posts stick hurling uses. If it wasnât for rugby there would be no such thing as stick hurling.
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Displaying your ignorance once again.
Why did he end up playing Minor for Tipp so?
Because there was no surity of anything. He had not even played underage for Ireland before moving to City. Pat Dolan stole him from relative obscurity. I remember it clearly as i knew lads playing with him at the time both in Michaels and City.
Had things rolled slightly differently he would have stayed hurling. And arguably fallen between 2 stools and never excelled at either.
Cork City got him recognition and while i am stretching it here, i have a hazy memory of him being seen in an Munster Senior Cuo game that was against City or Ramblers and it alerted people to him.
He was still hurling up to that move as far as i know. Thats a late change in any mans language.
Dolanâs brother Eamon was the Academy boss at Reading iirc, they came over to watch Kevin Doyle and took both on his recommendation
Ya that rings a bell.
Iâm actually think about even previous to that, how City got him. 2 of my brothers best mates were playing with him, but lads think they know more here because they are from the same county.
In fact alot of City players were the same. Alan Bennett and Damian Delany too. Could have gone anyway for them and they were quite late commiting to soccer.
Cu Chullain hurled the shite out of the gentry in the Trinners cricket pitch one day. Fucking legend that he is made shit of the pitch too before he left.