Wouldn’t be the first time DJ Carey has been marked by a Kinahan.
Most of those battles went the way of Kinahan.
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Absolute all-time TNH
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Honour amongst thieves.
There’s always cunts who slow down to gawp at an accident
Brolly said on the podcast that he brought his da Francie to that, on the back of getting a backhander for doing the gaa some good. Said Francie congratulated him when he met him after the match, Dj then went into a spiel about raking in money from cleaning products. Joe said it was weird cause his da wouldn’t have been impressed whatsoever with that shite.
Francie would have his interest perked if DJ had discussed nitrogen and glycerin
Very true.
Kilkenny put DJ at full forward for a league semi final against Offaly in 1995. DJ gave Kevin Kinahan an awful roasting and got a hat-trick of goals.
All the talk a few months later ahead of the 1995 Leinster Hurling Final was that DJ was going to administer the same treatment again. Kinahan cleaned him out that day. That 1995 Leinster Hurling Final was one of the worst drenchings I ever got at a match. Nice little montage of it here, with some top notch roaster carry on.
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a few lovely scores there from Offaly
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Kinahan seemed to be a fella who burned brightly for a very short time. There were one or two televised matches where he was absolutely brilliant at full back in a Brian Lohan type way but he wasn’t around all that long was he?
I could be remembering that totally wrong and I’m not going to bother googling
Ah yeah like, he only played for a decade and won 3 aul All Stars. The quiet butcher.
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DJ had the last laugh in 2000 when Offaly had shot their load.
In the 1989-1998 period in particular Offaly had a mostly justified superiority complex as regards Kilkenny and Kilkenny had the inferiority complex as regards Offaly. 1999 was the change.
The tone for the 1995 Leinster final was set by Kilkenny running for the hills during their warm up as the rain lashed down. It was understandable because this was reminiscent of the sort of monsoon that puts Chittagong underwater, but it set a tone. You could sense Kilkenny knew they were going out to lose.
A common theme in those years was Offaly beating the shite out of Kilkenny before Kilkenny came late with a vain comeback to make the score falsely respectable.
I recall meeting a Corkman, a friend of me father’s, on Clonliffe Road after that match and he said Offaly would win four in a row. While they didn’t even get two in a row, after that performance, it was not an outlandish statement.
Two titles was an underachievement really for that Offaly team given they were considerably more talented than their contemporaries but they were definitely happy enough with two titles. Even their mullockers had style. Four titles would have required a level of discipline they weren’t prepared to give, and it would have been less fun in the end.
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And the second one they won has a double asterisk beside it!
My recollection is that Offaly ran back into the dressing rooms and stayed dry. Kilkenny stayed out on the pitch in a monsoon like eejits. Some of them tried to take shelter under a supporter’s golf umbrella. It was a cracking game, esp in the first half. Pure warfare. I think that’s the day Eddie fired a sliotar at Cregan’s head. I’d say it was about 5 points each at half time before Offaly pulled away in the second. I’ve a vivid memory of being devastated in the back of the car heading back down the Naas Road.
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They should have beaten that Clare team out the door in 95. They were a far superior team at that stage and totally underperformed.
It was the panic and shambles that ran through the Kilkenny ranks as the monsoon hit that really set the tone.
The key score in that game was Offaly’s first goal, where Michael Walsh was adjudged to have allowed a harmless looking short ball from Daithi Regan cross the line as he gathered it. Offaly were getting on top at that stage early in the second half but the game was still very much a contest.
I don’t recall much debate about that goal afterwards perhaps because Offaly cut loose in a big way after it but I recall being very surprised at the decision at the time and I was standing not too far away from it, and it seemed to take everybody else by surprise too.
I recall Down being involved in a couple of similar goals in Ulster Football Championship matches over the years where a goalkeeper was adjudged to have caught the ball behind the line.
Billy Morgan and Cork have a gripe re one the the 1976 Munster football final replay. and the gripe looks pretty legitimate!
Their unprofessional approach to training and preparation caught up with them when faced with Clare in 95, Pilkington with his box of ten woodbine and stuffed into thee shorts and two pints in the morning of the game
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I’d agree with that, maybe not beat them out the door, but Offaly were a better team than Clare in 1995 and should have been winning. It’s all on the day though in an All Ireland Final and Offaly were desperate in a very poor quality match and Clare deserved their win. Clare in 1995 were nowhere near the force they were in 1997. Or 1998 for that matter. Swings and roundabouts and all that. 1998 was the reverse of 1995. Clare were the best team in the country in 1998 by a country mile, yet Offaly who were desperate in the early stages on 1998, rode their luck, sacked Babs mid-season, benefited from a refereeing timekeeping cock up, slunk in to win the All Ireland.
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That was the one that got away on Waterford. We lost to a hopeless Kilkenny team and would have had no fear of Offaly.
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