Conor Hayes
Conor O’Donovan?
Conor Clancy
Clare like their Conors
John Bubbles O Dwyer
John Fitzgibbon
John Doyle
John Fenton
Johnny Pilkington
Johnny Dooley
John Troy
John Power
John Conlon
There was a Hubert Lewandowski playing in an underage game in Laois tonight.
Johnny Glynn
John Hoyne
Johnny Crowley
John Horgan
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John Kennedy
John Commins
Winning Captains by the name of Patrick/Pat/Padraig
Here’s a list of All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (GAA) winning captains whose first names were Pat, Patrick, or Pádraig (or variations like Paddy):
Football:
- Pat O’Shea (Kerry) – 1924
- Paddy Kennedy (Kerry) – 1931
- Paddy Bawn Brosnan (Kerry) – 1941
- Paddy Burke (Cavan) – 1948
- Pádraig Carney (Mayo) – 1950 & 1951 (known as “The Flying Doctor”)
- Paddy Prendergast (Mayo) – 1951
- Paddy O’Brien (Meath) – 1954
- Paddy Doherty (Down) – 1960
- Pat Spillane (Sr.) (Kerry) – 1964 (father of the famous Pat Spillane)
- Pat McCarthy (Kerry) – 1969
- Paddy Cullen (Dublin) – 1974
- Paddy Moriarty (Offaly) – 1971
- Pádraig Brogan (Offaly) – 1972 (substitute captain)
- Pat Griffin (Kerry) – 1975
- Páidí Ó Sé (Kerry) – 1985 & 1986 (as a player, later managed Kerry to titles)
- Pat Spillane (Kerry) – 1981 (as a player, though not captain)
- Patrick Bradley (Derry) – 1993
- Pádraig Joyce (Galway) – 2001 (as a player, though Seán Óg de Paor was captain)
Hurling:
If you’re also interested in hurling, notable captains include:
- Pat Stakelum (Tipperary) – 1949 & 1951
- Paddy Barry (Cork) – 1952
- Paddy Croke (Wexford) – 1955
- Paddy Buggy (Kilkenny) – 1982
Would you like me to refine the list further (e.g., only confirmed captains, only certain decades)?
Be easier to count the errors in that list
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Nick O’Donnell captained Wexford in '55. AI still has a few years to get to grips with.
Where did you dig this ráiméas from because it’s blatently error strewn.
Kevin Mussen captained Down in 1960 for starters.
I know this because we shared a couple of sociables in the Erin Bar in Hilltown in 1995.
There’s pucks more errors in the list that I’ll leave to others to correct.
that’s AI for ye
You were sold a pup - unlike you. The AI man had a black VW when I encountered the term first.
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Yeah but there’s no hope of an All Ireland there
There was but this puts the mockers on it
Last sting of a dying wasp performances - ie. where previously dominant teams took a knock but then returned with a last dominant performance in “we haven’t gone away you know” manner, then they promptly went away.
Limerick v Cork 2025 Munster hurling round robin
Cork v Tipperary 2010 Munster hurling quarter-final
Dublin v Galway first half of 2024 All-Ireland football quarter-final
Tipperary v Limerick 2021 Munster hurling final first half
Clare v Tipperary 1999 Munster hurling semi-final replay
Tipperay v Clare 1999 Munster hurling final
Offaly v Cork 2000 All-Ireland hurling semi-final
New Zealand v South Africa 2019 Rugby World Cup group stage
Spain v Portugal 2018 World Cup group stage
Barcelona v Liverpool 2019 Champions League semi-final first leg
The Dublin v Galway game in the 2025 Leinster hurling championship is an absolute beauty of the Misleading Results And Performances With A View To Future Events genre.
That day Galway methodically exposed Dublin’s limitations in a statement performance that suggested they were dark horses not just to beat Kilkenny in the Leinster final but for the All-Ireland, while it was back to the drawing board for Dublin who moved down to ninth in the POWER RANKINGS and would be making up the numbers against Cork in the quarter-final, even though Cork would be in coming off the back of another thrashing by Limerick in the Munster final.
I’d have said Dublin’s performance against Kerry in Croker in the league last year. They looked a class apart that night.
An incomplete list of exceedingly attractive double headers (EADHs) where the minor match was the senior and the senior match was the minor.
2001 All-Ireland football qualifiers Round 3: Armagh v Galway @2pm, Kildare v Sligo @4pm
2003 Leinster football quarter-finals: Dublin v Louth @2pm, Meath v Westmeath @4pm
2004 Leinster football quarter-finals: Dublin v Westmeath @2pm, Kildare v Wexford @4pm
2004 All-Ireland football qualifiers Round 4: Dublin v Roscommon @2pm, Laois v Tyrone @4pm
2006 All-Ireland football quarter-finals: Armagh v Kerry @2pm, Cork v Donegal @4pm
Kerry v Cork replay proceeding Wexford v Tyrone in the 2008 semi-finals as another example.
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Irish counties spelled phonetically in native accents:
Munster:
Kirry
Wauh-uh-fud
Cleeer
Cork but exactly rhyming with Conk
Lemm-rick with the r sound being guttural and throaty with notes of w
Tipp with a flat ih sound
Connaught:
Gaulweh
Meh-yohh
R’sh-gommon
Sly-geh
Laythrum
Leinster:
Dooblihn or Dablin or Djubbalin or Dublin
Mayd
K’l-dehr
Lewd or Loud
Leeeesh
Auf-lee
Wickla or Wickala
Waxford
Keh-kenny
Laungfurd
Westmead
Ulster:
Th’rone (with the Th’r part utilising the same flip of the tongue the French use for the words quatre or etre)
Aur-maw
Doyyn
Deehry
Dunnay-gahl with a flat a sound like “ahhh” in the gahl part
Cyaah-v’n
Maunah-h’n
Aun’rim
F’r-maunah
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Sadistic “don’t even dare show your face around here again” beatings of teams from nouveau counties by teams from traditional counties.
Cork v Dublin 2025 All-Ireland hurling semi-final
Tipperary v Clare 1993 Munster hurling final
Tipperary v Limerick 2009 All-Ireland hurling semi-final
Tipperary v Waterford 2011 Munster hurling final
Tipperary v Antrim 1989 All-Ireland hurling final
Kerry v Kildare 2015 All-Ireland football quarter-final
Kilkenny v Dublin 1998 Leinster hurling quarter-final
Kilkenny v Laois 1999 Leinster hurling semi-final
Kilkenny v Galway 2004 All-Ireland hurling qualifier
Kilkenny v Galway 2006 All-Ireland hurling quarter-final
Kilkenny v Waterford 2008 All-Ireland hurling final
Galway v Sligo 2000 Connacht football semi-final
Dublin v Monaghan 2014 All-Ireland football quarter-final
Dublin v Monaghan 2017 All-Ireland football quarter-final
Cork v Wexford 2004 All-Ireland hurling semi-final
Cork v Laois 2011 All-Ireland hurling qualifier
Ballyhale Shamrocks v Kilmallock 2015 All-Ireland club hurling final
Ballyhale Shamrocks v some team from Laois 2021 Leinster club hurling final