Kilkenny v Galway 2006 All-Ireland hurling quarter-final
This was a far closer game than you remember
- Edit, I’m mixing it up with 2007
Cork have won the All-Ireland hurling championship 30 times. In 12 of those years Kerry won the football.
Tipp have won the All-Ireland hurling championship 28 times but in only 3 of those years did Kerry win it, and not since 1962.
Tipp have won a two in a row more recently than they won an All-Ireland in the same year as Kerry.
Two in a row defeats in All-Ireland finals since 1950
Hurling:
Tipperary 1967 and 1968 - won 1971
Wexford 1976 and 1977 - the end
Cork 1982 and 1983 - won 1984
Galway 1985 and 1986 - won 1987 and 1988
Kilkenny 1998 and 1999 - won the next 15
Kilkenny 2022 and 2023 - have not got back so far
Football:
Meath 1951 and 1952 - won 1954
Cork 1956 and 1957 - the end
Kerry 1964 and 1965 - lost 1968, won 1969
Galway 1973 and 1974 - did not get back
Dublin 1978 and 1979 - team had to be gutted and rebuilt before getting back to win 1983
Dublin 1984 and 1985 - did not get back
Cork 1987 and 1988 - won 1989 and 1990
Mayo 1996 and 1997 - did not get back
Mayo 2012 and 2013 - got back again after a three year interval
Mayo 2016 and 2017 - got back again after another three year interval
Mayo 2020 and 2021 - the end
An incomplete list of utterly pointless corporate name changes in Ireland:
Dublin Corporation became Dublin City Council
Bord Fáilte became Fáilte Ireland
Posts and Telegraphs became Telecom Eireann
Telecom Eireann became Eircom
Eircom became Eir
An Bord Pleanála became An Comisiún Pleanála
The Irish Amateur Boxing Association became the Irish Athletic Boxing Association
Ernst & Young became EY
Aer Rianta became ARI
Irish Water became Uisce Éireann
An incomplete list of failed Mayo omens:
1989: The previous time Mayo won the All-Ireland in 1951, Tipp won the hurling. This was Mayo’s first All-Ireland final for 38 years and Tipp won the hurling for the first time in 18 years.
1996: Mayo’s last All-Ireland was won against Meath in the final. But the Oasis derby final predictably descended into fighting and predictably the Meath fellas won that.
2012: The All-Ireland final was on September 23rd, and it was on September 23rd in 1951.
2013: Kilkenny did not play a senior hurling championship match in Croke Park. The previous time this happened was 1951.
2014: The World Cup was in Brazil, the previous time it was in Brazil was 1950 when Mayo won the All-Ireland
2015: 15 is an anagram of 51.
2016: Mayo had never lost an All-Ireland in October. The WESTERN Bulldogs won the AFL Premiership for the first time since the 1950s the morning of the All-Ireland replay. Tipp won the All-Ireland hurling championship as they did in 1951.
2017: 'Twas all set up for the Great Western Double.
2018: Mayo had a 100% record in senior football championship matches against Dublin played on September 2nd, the date of that year’s All-Ireland final.
2019: The British Open was played at Royal Portrush for the first time since 1951.
2020?
2021?
2022: The curse had been lifted due to them all being dead.
2023: Joe Biden says Mayo For Sam. The previous championship Queen Elizabeth II was not the reigning United Kingdomish monarch was 1951.
2025: The British Open returns to the 1951 venue Royal Portrush and Mayo’s finest Oasis return, to Croke Park no less.
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That was a Munster Semi Final; Cork and Clare contested the Munster Final that year.
Second one should be 1993 but I got trapped in a Milpool train of thought.
Declan hannon
No, I’m a Hannon truther. He is and was too slow without a huge amount of help all around him.
Each to their own I guess.
He was the right man in the right place and has the medals to prove it, just not a difference maker.
If Limerick left Hayes at 7 and played O’Donoghue at 6 they would have won the all Ireland this year.
Jesus I dunno about that. They were hammered by Dublin.
It’s now four years and three days, or 1,464 days since I saw Andrew Omobamidele play football.
This is the exact same gap as that between the day Jason McAteer scored against Holland at Lansdowne Road and the epic Tyrone v Armagh All-Ireland football semi-final of 2005 when the greatest Gaelic football player ever scored the winner with the second last kick of the game.
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The evolution of Irish football’s absent/overlooked/banished figure who if they were playing we’d be world beaters.
David O’Leary (1986-1991)
John Sheridan (1992-1993)
Niall Quinn (1994)
Paul McGrath (1996)
Robbie Keane and Damien Duff (1997)
Denis Irwin (2000-2001)
Roy Keane (2002-2004)
Stephen Ireland (2007-2011 ISH)
Andy Reid (2008-2010 ISH)
James McCarthy (2010)
Wes Hoolahan (2012-2017)
Jack Grealish (2017)
Declan Rice (2019)
Jack Byrne (2020)
Didsy McGoldrick (2021)
Conor Coventry (2021)
Andrew Omobamidele (2022-23)
Festy Ebosele (2023-24)
Conor Bradley (2024)
Bosun Lawal (2025)
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Darren Gibson was another based off a handful of appearances for Man U.
I thought of including him and Terry Dixon.
Perhaps Jayson Molumby too.
I don’t remember a huge clamouring for Momumby.
Keith Fahey had a decent cameo off the bench at home v Montenegro or Georgia in Trap’s first campaign and there was a big clamour for him to come into the team until his next appearance where he played to form
Stephen Reid is another example of this too
They could have done with him in Armenia the other night.
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He was a starter in Trap’s early stages but as usual got fucked with injuries.
A journey in music
Top Of The Pops on the chart announced on All-Ireland football final days
1974-2005:
22/09/1974: Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas
28/09/1975: Hold Me Close by David Essex
26/09/1976: Dancing Queen by Abba
25/09/1977: Way Down by Elvis Presley
24/09/1978: Summer Nights by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
16/09/1979: Cars by Gary Numan
21/9/1980: Don’t Stand So Close To Me by The Police
20/9/1981: Prince Charming by Adam And The Ants
19/09/1982: Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor
18/09/1983: Karma Chameleon by Culture Club
23/09/1984: I Just Called To Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder
22/09/1985: Dancing In The Street by Mick Jagger and David Bowie
21/09/1986: Don’t Leave Me This Way by The Communards
20/09/1987: Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
18/09/1988: He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother by The Hollies
09/10/1988: One Moment In Time by Whitney Houston
17/09/1989: Ride On Time by Black Box
16/09/1990: The Joker by The Steve Miller Band
15/09/1991: Everything I Do I Do It For You by Bryan Adams
20/09/1992: Ebeneezer Goode by The Shamen
19/09/1993: Boom! Shake The Room! by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
18/09/1994: Saturday Night by Whigfield
17/09/1995: Boombastic by Shaggy
15/09/1996: Ready Or Not by The Fugees
29/09/1996: Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Deep Blue Something
28/09/1997: Candle In The Wind (Goodbye England’s Rooooose) by Elton John
27/09/1998: Rollercoaster by B*Witched
26/09/1999: Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65
24/09/2000: Against All Odds by Mariah Carey featuring Westlife (replay the same)
23/09/2001: Can’t Get You Out Of My Head by Kylie Minogue
22/09/2002: Just Like A Pill by Pink
28/09/2003: Where Is The Love by Black Eyed Peas
26/09/2004: Call on Me by Eric Prydz
25/09/2005: Don’t Cha by The Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes
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