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Post by mossie on Jan 25, 2021 22:25:52 GMT
Diaemuid Lyng is joining Parnells this year. Corkes also looking to move up to senior Corkes!?? Crokes have applied to go senior, who decides on their application? After winning intermediate , the application will surely be accepted, be hard to refuse. lets be honest the county senior hurling championship may as well be called the north kerry senior championship at this stage so the more countywide spread of teams the better. The intermediate championship was more of a county championship in recent years in terms of geography great to see Crokes plan to field a second hurling team as well in 2021 kerrysportshub.ie/2021/01/25/dr-crokes-look-for-dual-senior-status/?fbclid=IwAR3WQkvI-A5gF8sbgJcwQnOeiw1rAX9jqdgOJwsL2_zqzQXQE5VgeDSmvhc |
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Post by hurlingman on Jan 26, 2021 9:32:57 GMT
Diaemuid Lyng is joining Parnells this year. Corkes also looking to move up to senior Corkes!?? Crokes have applied to go senior, who decides on their application? After winning intermediate , the application will surely be accepted, be hard to refuse. lets be honest the county senior hurling championship may as well be called the north kerry senior championship at this stage so the more countywide spread of teams the better. The intermediate championship was more of a county championship in recent years in terms of geography great to see Crokes plan to field a second hurling team as well in 2021 kerrysportshub.ie/2021/01/25/dr-crokes-look-for-dual-senior-status/?fbclid=IwAR3WQkvI-A5gF8sbgJcwQnOeiw1rAX9jqdgOJwsL2_zqzQXQE5VgeDSmvhcimo they're better off taking the chance. People will say it's too early etc but really there's never a right time to do these things. I'm not sure if it's happening but they'd also want to be playing in Div 1 of the county league as well if they are to make the step up. |
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Post by rovingfullforward on Jan 26, 2021 9:58:43 GMT
Great Decision by Dr. Crokes. We will be the only Dual Senior Club in the county
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Post by mossie on Jan 27, 2021 1:28:23 GMT
Great Decision by Dr. Crokes. We will be the only Dual Senior Club in the county Austin Stacks in the 1990s were the last dual senior club, were very competitive in hurling for the early\mid part of the decade but by the beginning of the 2000s were in dire straits heading for junior though in reality there were other dual senior clubs - Ardfert football\St Brendans hurling were senior at the one time, same players really, same pitch, just different jersies and names assigned to the football\ hurling club, heck they had the same manager in both codes Pat Driscoll Finuge spent a year senior , serious overlap with Lixnaw hurling Anyways best of luck to Dr Crokes, it is a brave step , my own preference would be for Kenmare, Kilgarvan, Dr Crokes to play together at senior like they did when they won the under 21 in 2019 but it going a particular route now so I hope it works out for Crokes Ambition is to be admired and hopefully rewarded. Perhaps the higher profile that senior brings will bring more youngsters to the Crokes hurling nursery and keep lads hurling that tend to drift away at 15\16 because of football or all the other reasons that cause lads to drift away at that age. It may also encourage strong hurlers from cork, limerick etc living in killarney to play in kerry rather than travelling home to play if such players exist around the town that are not already with Crokes Dr Crokes played an impressive brand of hurling in the intermediate championship in 2020, but will need that squad and a stronger one again to be in the mix at senior |
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Post by hurlingman on Jan 27, 2021 9:26:40 GMT
Ian Brick is also on board with Parnells this season.
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Post by hurlingman on Jan 31, 2021 16:13:51 GMT
Tadhg Flynn named as the new minor manager.
He's a man who of one reason or another never had the career his talent deserved. For a keeper he had some bad luck with injury.
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Post by sullyschoice on Jan 31, 2021 22:59:29 GMT
As someone who is not involved in a club in Kerry can I ask how many clubs play football and hurling. In my club both codes are given parity of esteem.
Since that happened the trajectory of hurling has gone steadily up. Ten years ago you would never see young fellas walking around Clontarf with a Hurley in their hand. Now its commonplace. I never played hurling in my life but its great to see. My eldest fella would prefer hurling to football.
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Post by mossie on Feb 1, 2021 0:17:18 GMT
As someone who is not involved in a club in Kerry can I ask how many clubs play football and hurling. In my club both codes are given parity of esteem. Since that happened the trajectory of hurling has gone steadily up. Ten years ago you would never see young fellas walking around Clontarf with a Hurley in their hand. Now its commonplace. I never played hurling in my life but its great to see. My eldest fella would prefer hurling to football. Kenmare Kilgarvan Dr Crokes Ballyduff Duagh that is it at adult really strictly speaking Rathmore and Firies up to under 16 play both, ballyheigue have underage in football a bit in recent years to go with the hurling at adult level there is dual when you count in sister clubs St Brendans \Ardfert are the one gang Lixnaw \Finuge - closely connected Crotta\St Senans - close links |
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Post by kerryexile on Feb 1, 2021 1:03:12 GMT
As someone who is not involved in a club in Kerry can I ask how many clubs play football and hurling. In my club both codes are given parity of esteem. Since that happened the trajectory of hurling has gone steadily up. Ten years ago you would never see young fellas walking around Clontarf with a Hurley in their hand. Now its commonplace. I never played hurling in my life but its great to see. My eldest fella would prefer hurling to football. Kenmare Kilgarvan Dr Crokes Ballyduff Duagh that is it at adult really strictly speaking Rathmore and Firies up to under 16 play both, ballyheigue have underage in football a bit in recent years to go with the hurling at adult level there is dual when you count in sister clubs St Brendans \Ardfert are the one gang Lixnaw \Finuge - closely connected Crotta\St Senans - close links Very good summary Mossie. The unusual thing is that Ardfert and St Brendans are the very same in every thing but name. Hurling existed in Ardfert more or less since the foundation of the GAA in 1884. With the arrival of free secondary education in the late 1960's more young fellas ended up going to secondary in Tralee. Tralee always was and still is a hotbed of football, so footballers started to emerge in Ardfert during the reign of the great Kerry team. The hurling club was a bit cautious about what was going on so a separate club was formed for football. |
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Post by hurlingman on Feb 1, 2021 15:08:44 GMT
As someone who is not involved in a club in Kerry can I ask how many clubs play football and hurling. In my club both codes are given parity of esteem. Since that happened the trajectory of hurling has gone steadily up. Ten years ago you would never see young fellas walking around Clontarf with a Hurley in their hand. Now its commonplace. I never played hurling in my life but its great to see. My eldest fella would prefer hurling to football. Kenmare Kilgarvan Dr Crokes Ballyduff Duagh that is it at adult really strictly speaking Rathmore and Firies up to under 16 play both, ballyheigue have underage in football a bit in recent years to go with the hurling at adult level there is dual when you count in sister clubs St Brendans \Ardfert are the one gang Lixnaw \Finuge - closely connected Crotta\St Senans - close links It's a petty after all the work they did Duagh abandoned underage hurling after they started the senior team. It never made scene t me as i would have thought they would have had other younger players still coming along the line. It's also a petty Dingle and Laune Rangers stopped. I know Dingle had but i'm pretty sure Laune Rangers also had underage teams during the 2000s. Stack also abandoned underage hurling around the late 2000s. |
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Post by mossie on Feb 1, 2021 22:52:51 GMT
I reckon Duagh barely hanging in there with adult hurling, had a vibrant underage scene for 7 or 8 years but with no under age in that same length of time, pressure coming on now at adult level
The Laune has underage hurling at different stages of the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s sometimes under the banner of the St Marys hurling club which was made up of Killorglin, Milltown, Firies. The Laune and St Marys had adult teams for spells. Gerry O'Sullivan East Kerry manager and former Kerry senior hurler was St Marys best player. Firies are vibrant now under age which is good to see but no adult team left in that patch , whoever is around there at adult tends to fall in with St Pats east kerry
Dingle had some fine under age hurling teams in Paul Geaney age group then Barry Sullivan, Matt Flaherty. Never fielded past under 14 though sadly, a few kept playing with kerry and fell in with Kilmoyley. no under age there now at all
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Post by hurlingman on Feb 2, 2021 15:06:57 GMT
I reckon Duagh barely hanging in there with adult hurling, had a vibrant underage scene for 7 or 8 years but with no under age in that same length of time, pressure coming on now at adult level The Laune has underage hurling at different stages of the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s sometimes under the banner of the St Marys hurling club which was made up of Killorglin, Milltown, Firies. The Laune and St Marys had adult teams for spells. Gerry O'Sullivan East Kerry manager and former Kerry senior hurler was St Marys best player. Firies are vibrant now under age which is good to see but no adult team left in that patch , whoever is around there at adult tends to fall in with St Pats east kerry Dingle had some fine under age hurling teams in Paul Geaney age group then Barry Sullivan, Matt Flaherty. Never fielded past under 14 though sadly, a few kept playing with kerry and fell in with Kilmoyley. no under age there now at all They first had an adult team about 2008 and underage stopped soon after. Could never understand why it did stop. They had Eoin Kelly on the Under 21 and senior panels at one stage. Also find it odd how Firies and Rathmore don't go beyond underage level. You'd think they'd have the numbers for it. t. Pats have started underage teams in recent years so they at least are looking to the future. |
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Post by mossie on Feb 2, 2021 22:50:01 GMT
I suspect not enough mentors hurlingman might be the reason in Duagh and this is often the issue in football orientated clubs. Just not enough hurling mentors to keep it all going
Rathmore and Firies players will feed into St Pats East Kerry at adult level , a lot of Rathmore lads with them at adult already. others might end up with Crokes at adult . Big jump to go from fielding a nice few under age teams to fielding an adult team. 2 adult hurlings clubs in east kerry and keeping them strong is probably a better way to go at adult level than having it fragmented
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Post by hurlingman on Feb 3, 2021 11:26:13 GMT
I suspect not enough mentors hurlingman might be the reason in Duagh and this is often the issue in football orientated clubs. Just not enough hurling mentors to keep it all going Rathmore and Firies players will feed into St Pats East Kerry at adult level , a lot of Rathmore lads with them at adult already. others might end up with Crokes at adult . Big jump to go from fielding a nice few under age teams to fielding an adult team. 2 adult hurlings clubs in east kerry and keeping them strong is probably a better way to go at adult level than having it fragmented You're probably right. I', not sure if there was actually a cross over between football and hurling in Daugh. It would be a shame if they did fold as there seems to be interest out that way and a good Intermediate/Junior club would be a good thing. Being where they are it's been hard for them to find game time. At one stage they played in West Limerick but were no one near up to it. Afaik they joined South Kerry with a view of playing last year but Covid put an end to that. St. Pats could/should be able to hold their own at Intermediate imo. With younger players coming along they should be able to put together a good panel. |
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Post by hurlingman on Feb 26, 2021 8:49:01 GMT
I see Abbeydorney could be setting up a football team as so many of their hurlers are playing with other clubs and not coming back hurling.
While i knew they only had one county championship since the 70s. it's actually one since 1913! I was also very surprised to see they've never won either the county league of the North Kerry championship
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Post by mossie on Feb 28, 2021 12:36:37 GMT
I see Abbeydorney could be setting up a football team as so many of their hurlers are playing with other clubs and not coming back hurling. While i knew they only had one county championship since the 70s. it's actually one since 1913! I was also very surprised to see they've never won either the county league of the North Kerry championship I would be surprised if Abbeydorney are losing that many players that are not playing hurling because of football elsewhere There are plenty of Abbeydorney natives playing football with Na Gaeil but they still hurl with Abbeydorney The bigger issue for Abbeydorney and indeed fixture makers is if the Abbeydorney hurling players are scattered around several football clubs. Co-ordinating hurling training and fixtures then becomes tricky The 1990s was unusual in that 3 Abbeydorney men started in the championship at different stages in the munster championship for the kerry footballers - Conor Kearney, Bernard McElligott and Pat Slattery. McElligott played at full forward for the kerry senior hurlers and midfield for the senior footballers in the Munster Championship in the one season! The present day Abbeydorney chairman Tom O'Connell was a kerry senior hurler and although not a kerry senior was a fine club footballer in the same era as the aformentioned trio. They were on the St Brendans district board team that reached the senior football final in the early 1990s. Brick Rangers were the football club in abbeydorney then , effectively was the hurling club with a different name on it for football Abbeydorney record at senior level in hurling does not make great reading. They have some success at minor level in recent times, darkhorse for senior hurling championhsip in 2021 too. Have the bones of a good team |
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Post by hurlingman on Mar 2, 2021 8:23:42 GMT
I see Abbeydorney could be setting up a football team as so many of their hurlers are playing with other clubs and not coming back hurling. While i knew they only had one county championship since the 70s. it's actually one since 1913! I was also very surprised to see they've never won either the county league of the North Kerry championship I would be surprised if Abbeydorney are losing that many players that are not playing hurling because of football elsewhere There are plenty of Abbeydorney natives playing football with Na Gaeil but they still hurl with Abbeydorney The bigger issue for Abbeydorney and indeed fixture makers is if the Abbeydorney hurling players are scattered around several football clubs. Co-ordinating hurling training and fixtures then becomes tricky The 1990s was unusual in that 3 Abbeydorney men started in the championship at different stages in the munster championship for the kerry footballers - Conor Kearney, Bernard McElligott and Pat Slattery. McElligott played at full forward for the kerry senior hurlers and midfield for the senior footballers in the Munster Championship in the one season! The present day Abbeydorney chairman Tom O'Connell was a kerry senior hurler and although not a kerry senior was a fine club footballer in the same era as the aformentioned trio. They were on the St Brendans district board team that reached the senior football final in the early 1990s. Brick Rangers were the football club in abbeydorney then , effectively was the hurling club with a different name on it for football Abbeydorney record at senior level in hurling does not make great reading. They have some success at minor level in recent times, darkhorse for senior hurling championhsip in 2021 too. Have the bones of a good team There was 7/8 at adult level and over 50 at underage level. Part of the issue i think is if these lads have success at football they might pack in hurling altogether. THey're one of those clubs that need one big win to get them going. Lat year could stand them and it would be great to see them back in the final at the very least. Afaik they're only been in one final since they last won it. |
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Post by hurlingman on Mar 14, 2021 17:25:23 GMT
Good interview with Mikey Boyle
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Post by mitchelsontour on Apr 21, 2021 19:46:00 GMT
Looks like the hurlers got a pretty good draw for the Joe McDonagh Cup getting Down and Meath
The other group has Westmeath, Carlow and Kildare.
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Post by hurlingman on Apr 28, 2021 10:10:44 GMT
I see John Griffin is transferring to Blarney this year. Said he'll mot thena likely be his lat year playing.
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Post by southward on May 9, 2021 14:34:11 GMT
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Post by hurlingman on May 10, 2021 20:16:41 GMT
Good start to the season and a good comeback. Looked to be moving well on the highlights on TG4. Also great to see Fionan O'Sullivan starting and playing well. Must be the firt time in 20 odd years Kenmare had someone on the hurling panel.
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Post by mossie on May 10, 2021 20:44:24 GMT
I see John Griffin is transferring to Blarney this year. Said he'll mot thena likely be his lat year playing. To see a Lixnaw team sheet without John Griffin on it will be strange, I d day he must have played near 20 championship campaigns with them |
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Post by mossie on May 10, 2021 20:52:00 GMT
Good start to the season and a good comeback. Looked to be moving well on the highlights on TG4. Also great to see Fionan O'Sullivan starting and playing well. Must be the firt time in 20 odd years Kenmare had someone on the hurling panel. Jimmy Wharton the last one I think. Mike Shea uncle of footballer Sean O'Shea was a super hurler in the late 1980s early 1990s for Kerry, played for Munster in hurling O'Sullivan played well on Sunday, he had a bad knee injury a few years back so great to see him on the team the weekend On the Mike Halloran facebook page , great to see senior hurling training at Dr Crokes pitch and the buzz it generating there, top marks to Crokes for pushing on hurling as well as football. Seanie Shea made a great point in the chat with Mike Hallaron, more or less said hurling is a great way to get people into a club and without having hurling you lose good GAA people. Seanie looked like he was made to go pucking few balls himself!! I hope senior hurling doesnt prove too hot for them , I have a feeling they will be competitive |
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Post by hurlingman on May 11, 2021 7:12:59 GMT
Good start to the season and a good comeback. Looked to be moving well on the highlights on TG4. Also great to see Fionan O'Sullivan starting and playing well. Must be the firt time in 20 odd years Kenmare had someone on the hurling panel. Jimmy Wharton the last one I think. Mike Shea uncle of footballer Sean O'Shea was a super hurler in the late 1980s early 1990s for Kerry, played for Munster in hurling O'Sullivan played well on Sunday, he had a bad knee injury a few years back so great to see him on the team the weekend On the Mike Halloran facebook page , great to see senior hurling training at Dr Crokes pitch and the buzz it generating there, top marks to Crokes for pushing on hurling as well as football. Seanie Shea made a great point in the chat with Mike Hallaron, more or less said hurling is a great way to get people into a club and without having hurling you lose good GAA people. Seanie looked like he was made to go pucking few balls himself!! I hope senior hurling doesnt prove too hot for them , I have a feeling they will be competitive I thought there was a fella from Kenmare in the early 2000s s well but could be thinking of someone else. Good to see Crokes up and running. However i don't see why they were just put into Div 1 of the county league without winning Div 2. To compete they'll need to be playing Div 1 but should they not have to get there on merit? |
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Post by hurlingman on May 11, 2021 7:14:15 GMT
Sad to see the passing of Patrick Corridon from Ballyheigue. Would hav won a few county championships with them back in the day.
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Post by veteran on May 11, 2021 12:42:45 GMT
The late Paudie Finnegan from Kenmare played senior and u21 football for Kerry I think he was on the 1975 panel. He was a fine hurler as well and may have played for the Kerry hurlers. Not sure. Hurlingman / Mossie may confirm.
In the fifties/sixties Sean Healy Kilgarvan/Kenmare was a fine hurler and formed a very strong midfield with the late Sean Lovett, older brother of Declan , Kilmoyley. As far as I can remember Sean Healy emigrated to the U.S. , truncating his hurling career here.
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Post by veteran on May 11, 2021 12:48:15 GMT
I have just remembered PJ McIntyre. He was a Garda from Offaly stationed in Kenmare. Did he play hurling for Kerry? I think so or perhaps he played for the footballers? Again not sure.
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Post by hurlingman on May 11, 2021 13:27:54 GMT
I have just remembered PJ McIntyre. He was a Garda from Offaly stationed in Kenmare. Did he play hurling for Kerry? I think so or perhaps he played for the footballers? Again not sure. He played both football and hurling with Kerry. I think he won a Junior All-Ireland in football. His son Seamus RIP also played both with Kerry. |
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Post by mossie on May 11, 2021 19:11:28 GMT
Jimmy Wharton the last one I think. Mike Shea uncle of footballer Sean O'Shea was a super hurler in the late 1980s early 1990s for Kerry, played for Munster in hurling O'Sullivan played well on Sunday, he had a bad knee injury a few years back so great to see him on the team the weekend On the Mike Halloran facebook page , great to see senior hurling training at Dr Crokes pitch and the buzz it generating there, top marks to Crokes for pushing on hurling as well as football. Seanie Shea made a great point in the chat with Mike Hallaron, more or less said hurling is a great way to get people into a club and without having hurling you lose good GAA people. Seanie looked like he was made to go pucking few balls himself!! I hope senior hurling doesnt prove too hot for them , I have a feeling they will be competitive I thought there was a fella from Kenmare in the early 2000s s well but could be thinking of someone else. Good to see Crokes up and running. However i don't see why they were just put into Div 1 of the county league without winning Div 2. To compete they'll need to be playing Div 1 but should they not have to get there on merit? I dont see any harm in it, Tralee Parnells are also gone into Division 1 on a similar basis |
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