I never saw him play but John Jobber Mcgrath made the 84 team of the century. Willy Shanley, Sean Mclaughlin, Mick Cosgrave Darren Mccormack, Brendan Murtagh were all wonderful hurlers.
Nationally Ken Mcgrath, Tony Browne, Ciaran Carey, Ger Loughnane, Sean Stack, Ollie Canning, Eugene Cloonan Sambo Mcnaughton, all glorious players.

jobber (Westmeath) - Posts: 1445 - 24/08/2018 07:49:39    2136157

from my own county it has to be pat horgan (hoping against hope he has two more years in him and hopefully we can get across the line for him to win one) that point in the drawn 2013 final vs clare was just unbeleivable and worth the win in any game but domhnails point after was also great and that day the draw was the best we could have got because infairness if we managed the all ireland that year it would have been a robbery

as regards overall ive only really watched hurling with an understanding of the game since 2003 due to me being relatively young so i never saw ciaran carey or the likes play but in my opinion you pick anyone of that great waterford team,tony brown,john mullane,ken mcgrath,eoin kelly dan shanahan

pidge (Cork) - Posts: 543 - 25/08/2018 20:09:45    2136554

From Carlow it's Paddy Quirke. He used to get man of the match awards when playing with Leinster in the Railway cup in the 80s

From the other counties it's either ken McGrath or ciaran Carey.

Couldn't choose between them as they were both brilliant

carlovia (None) - Posts: 1517 - 25/08/2018 20:38:16    2136563

Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 1898 - 25/08/2018 21:29:35    2136572

Own county : Keith Rossiter
Other : Ken McGrath

jobber, what bit of "only allowed 2 names" didn't you comprehend? :)

StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1732 - 26/08/2018 12:50:31    2136611

Olly Canning

special mention to; Eugene Cloonan, Terrance "Sambo" McNaughton, Ger loughnane, Joe Rabbitte & Ciaran Carey

Monaghan Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 442 - 26/08/2018 17:25:55    2136660

from my county it has to be Danny McNaughton, was outstanding for both club and county, always top of the scoring in the national leagues.
best player I ever seen play was Ciaran Carey absolute beast of a player who never let anyone past.

exref (Antrim) - Posts: 63 - 09/09/2018 22:00:54    2140570

My own county, my father (who shall remain anonymous) probably most of the 1961 side but more recently Brian McMahon.
Too many to mention from other counties, honourable mentions to Ken McGrath, Ciaran Carey and of course, Joe Henry :D

realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8585 - 09/09/2018 22:40:54    2140580

Gaillimh_Abu (Galway) - Posts: 996 - 10/09/2018 05:26:01    2140593

To put the cat alomgst the pigeons

Mickey Holden and Diarmuid Connelly !


Otherwise go with Mick Birmingham and Joey Towel

witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 10/09/2018 08:34:32    2140598

tommy jogger doyle senior of westmeath pat critchley of laois conal keaney of dublin

mickcunningham (Westmeath) - Posts: 1799 - 10/09/2018 08:46:22    2140604

you could easily list 30-40 great players that never won an all Ireland or even more from all counties big and small due to the fact the big 3 have the monopoly of all Irelands between them..its nearly too hard to pick one. every county could have 6 or 7 that deserved an all ireland

preddan (Kildare) - Posts: 733 - 10/09/2018 12:36:13    2140688

John Mullane comes to mind right away.

Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2113 - 11/09/2018 15:58:21    2141051

Ken McGrath

Honourable mention for Pat Horgan think he just missed out on winning one

dubshurling7 (Dublin) - Posts: 1017 - 11/09/2018 16:23:10    2141056

From Galway it has to be Iggy Clarke.
From the rest of the country John Mullane.Just check his scoring average.

Barnowl94 (Galway) - Posts: 3150 - 13/09/2018 13:13:05    2141411

All weaker counties in hurling have some players who if born in a competitive county would be house hold names and would have held their own on All Ireland teams, the problem is they only have few of them. It's impossible to really judge these players against the best as they never got to play in the really big games. In the recent past in Meath Nicky Horan and Pat Potterton come to mind. (My father mentions Fer Foran and Ned Giles (Trevor's grandfather) as being great Meath hurlers from a long time ago). I'm sure the likes of Kerry, Westmeath, Wicklow, Kildare, Carlow, Laoise and other similar counties would similarly mention a good lot of names. Often makes me wonder could some of the weaker hurling counties have almagated teams for the Championship the same way Kerry have divisional teams in their club championship ?.
The best hurlers that spring to mind that I can remember not to have won one are Joe Rabbite, Ollie Canning and Tony Browne.

bdbuddah (Meath) - Posts: 1337 - 15/09/2018 07:06:01    2141842

id say ciaran carey felt the next best thing when limerick and cian lynch won the all ireland.....like the old saying an ounce of breeding is worth a ton of feeding.

munsterchamps (Limerick) - Posts: 1095 - 15/09/2018 18:07:40    2141894

Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4316 - 15/09/2018 20:43:25    2141908

its a great debate. From Galway I would say Eugene Cloonan or Padraig Kelly. Overall it would be John Mullane.

clare_sparrow (Galway) - Posts: 425 - 16/09/2018 06:08:57    2141933

preddan (Kildare) - Posts: 733 - 18/09/2018 13:15:30    2142451