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My hometown is a few miles from the Roscommon border. Plenty of Rossies went to secondary school there including some Roscommon players of different age grades. A game with the Rossies is a big deal. The slagging and banter pre-match and after the game we'll rightly be reminded if we lose. Usually the post-match celebrations and banter are good-natured but the ocassionally things get heated, usually proportional to the amount of drink taken. Doesn't matter what either of us did the year before, if we lose a championship game to the Rossies we'll be reminded for the year! GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7290 - 17/06/2017 06:07:22 2000532 Link 1 |
Great rivalry around there with Maynooth Dunboyne, kilcock summerhill Enfield is effectively Alaska lol surrounded be Kildare but Meath through amd through. Clonard similar. Longwood too bragging rights a plenty up for grabs.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 17/06/2017 09:02:55 2000545 Link 0 |
Kilcock always has had a good mix of kildare and meath folk as it is located slap bang on the border. Blackhall gaels would be the club on the meath side and as there is no pub as such on that side they all come into kilcock to for a drink. Hopefully the lillies do the business tonight or else there will be a stampede of meath men coming into kilcock from across the bridge to rub it in our faces. May the best team win. 11jm11 (Kildare) - Posts: 364 - 17/06/2017 09:22:44 2000548 Link 0 |
Nerves in tatters with 5 hours to throw in.Hopefully it will be a great game that will help put the Leinster Championship back on the map. May the best team win and go to give a good accout of themselves in the Leinster Final. lilywhite1 (Kildare) - Posts: 2984 - 17/06/2017 14:04:42 2000603 Link 0 |
Ethnically I can't shout for Meath What are you trying to say here? Why can't you shout for Meath? They're not playing Mayo. HurlingSnob (Dublin) - Posts: 220 - 17/06/2017 14:29:33 2000611 Link 0 |
Would you shout for Cork if you lived there and they were playing kerry?
catch22 (USA) - Posts: 2148 - 17/06/2017 14:41:46 2000615 Link 0 |
Only slagging. Some Mayo people still have bad memories of '96 and dislike Meath. The best team won and 21 years is a long time to hold a grudge. I still get the piss taken for moving to Meath from the lads at home.
GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7290 - 17/06/2017 15:50:25 2000630 Link 0 |
Absolutely.
HurlingSnob (Dublin) - Posts: 220 - 17/06/2017 15:58:42 2000631 Link 0 |
Absolutely."]Fair enough ! But I doubt you'd get any real kick out of it. Doubt too many Dubs or others would actually get that worked up about another county's fortunes unless they had a connection other than living there. catch22 (USA) - Posts: 2148 - 17/06/2017 16:53:19 2000637 Link 0 |
Born and bred in Drogheda there is some rivalry with Meath. The biggest town in the country and part of the town is in the Royal County. The biggest housing estate which was build during the boom is actually in Meath. Them two weeks leading up to the Leinster Final in 2010 was something else. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 18/06/2017 12:01:03 2001051 Link 0 |
A hell of a lot of Dubs these days to.
TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4441 - 18/06/2017 12:28:28 2001060 Link 0 |
When meath lose they don't show theirs faces. They also remove their colours quick enough to.
daytona11 (Kildare) - Posts: 4012 - 18/06/2017 14:38:15 2001117 Link 0 |
Plenty of happy faces (and some not so happy!) around Johnstownbridge this morning. beir_bua (Kildare) - Posts: 746 - 18/06/2017 15:29:39 2001151 Link 0 |
I lived in Meath for five years, and IMO the enmity is far from one-sided.
Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 18/06/2017 19:33:10 2001319 Link 0 |