Fran:
caulifloweredneanderthal:
@Fran the auld lad played with Mooncoin, but if we had stayed put there, we would have been closer to Carrigeen pitch I think. It’s on the main road isn’t it?
Yes it is, a couple of kms outside Mooncoin on the Waterford road. I’m not exactly sure how it works or I wouldn’t be up to speed on the history or reasons behind its formation but a player’s proximity to either pitch wouldn’t dictate which club they played for, the reasons are probably more political and societal. @Malarkey would probably be able to tell us more.
In my time the Carrigeen teams would’ve actually contained a lot of lads from the village itself while Mooncoin would’ve mainly been from the more rural inhabitants of the parish. I’d say there’s probably an interesting story behind it all but to my shame I don’t know it
Carrigeen was originally a strongly Fine Gael-orientated club. Probably still is, in ways. Was set up as a response to perceptions that Mooncoin was overly Fianna Fáil inclined.
I reckon Carrigeen are by far the most disliked club in Kilkenny. Their obnoxious carry on at Junior B or Junior C or Junior D used to be confined to the backwaters of Southern Divsion hurling, safely obscured. Then, when this structure was ended, people in Galmoy and Threecastles had to entertain them. I believe the Gardaí were called to at least two Carrigeen games in recent seasons.
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Fagan_ODowd:
Was at that 84 county final. Very enjoyable as I remember it. Probably not so much for you. Was the 78 final the one that was abandoned?
The father and myself used to watch a lot of Kilkenny club hurling.
The 1979 replay with Erin’s Own was – to be technical – unfinished. Erin’s Own were 12 points down with 12 minutes to go. Then Mick ‘Cloney’ Brennan fractured Maurice Mason’s skull with his hurl. Whereupon the Erin’s Own team walked off.
Kevin Fennelly Sr knew the rule: the team that stays on the field until the time the referee would have blown the long whistle automatically gets the game. This eventuality is precisely what happened – axiomatically but to certain people’s great (and enduring) resentment – at the relevant County Board meeting.
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Misperception… The relevant factor is your parents’ address at the time, not the hospital in which you were born.
Correct. Sure a good cohort of Tipp hurlers were born in Limerick maternity.
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I will list the more marginal clubs:
Barrow Rangers: Richie Doyle.
Blacks and Whites: Peter ‘Chap’ Cleere.
Carrigeen: no one.
Cloneen: no one (Seán Meally was hurling for Erin’s Own when he featured).
Galmoy: no one, I think, unless Noel Doherty and/or Niall Doherty featured for a short time on panel.
Graiguenamanagh: cannot think of anyone.
John Lockes: JP Corcoran, John O’Neill.
Kilmacow: Richie O’Neill.
Kilmoganny: a football club.
Lisdowney: cannot think of anyone (Aidan Tallis was invited to join 2022 panel).
Muckalee: a football club.
Piltown: cannot think of anyone.
Railyard: a football club.
Slieverue: Niall Walsh.
St Patrick’s: Joe Brennan, Geoff Brennan, Michael Brennan, Kevin Kelly.
Threecastles: no one.
Tullogher Rosbercon: Pat Hartley, Walter Walsh.
Windgap: cannot think of anyone unless Emmet Landy was on an early league panel in 2022.
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Hopefully Galmoys Billy Drennan continues his trajectory.
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I just saw there that Cody had overtaken Sean Boylan’s record of 23 consecutive years in charge of a county by one year, with 24.
Maybe that’s why he decided to go when he did.
Niall played midfield alongside Cha against Galway in the 2010 league game in Nowlan Park.
Paul Rockett was on a few early season training panels 10 odd years ago.
Eoin Kenny and William Halpin are the most recent 2 from the club to play under age for the county but neither are likely to make the senior panel.
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Yereselves & Clare would be lost without us.
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Gavrilo-Princip:
Niall played midfield alongside Cha against Galway in the 2010 league game in Nowlan Park.
Paul Rockett was on a few early season training panels 10 odd years ago.
Eoin Kenny and William Halpin are the most recent 2 from the club to play under age for the county but neither are likely to make the senior panel.
Good man, thanks. Had forgotten about PR. Not sure if he ever made a league panel.
Fairly sure Landy was involved this year. John Power would surely be the most obvious Lockes man.
Also is Mulhall Muckalee?
No never got that far, he arrived onto the pitch for a pre season training session in Mooncoin one night in a Jack Daniels T-shirt, which wasn’t well received by Cody et al apparently
Very good club hurler when in the mood, but not consistent enough for serious consideration at county level .
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Landy got a few runs in the Walsh Cup and was on the panel for a couple of league games. Didn’t make the championship panel.
Yeah Mulhall is Muckalee.
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Of course… John Power. Doh…
Do not think EL lasted too long in there.
Muckalee is the football arm of St Martin’s. Same for Dunnamaggin/Kilmoganny and Cloneen/Railyard.
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Locke
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Eh, the ‘Lockes is not a marginal club, pal
Alas, given the parish’s population, it is as regards consistently producing Kilkenny Senior hurlers.
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Gavrilo-Princip:
Niall played midfield alongside Cha against Galway in the 2010 league game in Nowlan Park.
Paul Rockett was on a few early season training panels 10 odd years ago.
Eoin Kenny and William Halpin are the most recent 2 from the club to play under age for the county but neither are likely to make the senior panel.
Niall is a very sound and pleasant man. As I need not tell you, his grandfather Tom ‘Builder’ Walsh was seemingly a fine hurler.
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