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Well done kildare. Showed Laois for the poor side they are. Big year for ye. Leinster Championship & div 1b hurling next year. Congrats. carlo (Carlow) - Posts: 273 - 08/06/2025 20:09:00 2615885 Link
I thought the Kildare backs gave an exhibition on how to defend without fouling. Hopefully they can repeat at the next level. Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 3108 - 08/06/2025 20:48:04 2615900 Link
Hon the lads! AllWhite (Kildare) - Posts: 172 - 08/06/2025 21:51:15 2615926 Link
Huge congrats to everyone involved with Kildare..this hasn't happened over night and is a long time in planning..next year will be hard but it would be great to see them manage to stay in Liam mc.. I've seen a few matches this year and have been hugely impressed.enjoy the next few days and give the dubs a rattle next week. CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2542 - 08/06/2025 23:17:59 2615945 Link
Fantastic achievement. Maith sibh to Brian Dowling, his management team and all the players. Kildare hurling making massive strides.Could not be more proud of these men LilywhiteGael (Kildare) - Posts: 124 - 08/06/2025 23:43:14 2615949 Link
didn't i tell ya kildare would win the joe mc oneshot (Tyrone) - Posts: 16 - 09/06/2025 00:26:28 2615956 Link
Replying To carlo: "Well done kildare. Showed Laois for the poor side they are. Big year for ye. Leinster Championship & div 1b hurling next year. Congrats." And showed Carliw to be even worse than Laois. ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 606 - 09/06/2025 00:47:09 2615961 Link
Replying To Canuck: "Congrats Kildare. A great win and fine hurling team. It is a huge step up now and let's hope that for the first time in 125 years that a county can keep going ahead." Have you forgotten Offaly? ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 606 - 09/06/2025 00:51:13 2615962 Link
Replying To dakid: "Congratulations Kildare. What an achievement and worth every inch of it. Brian Dowling a serious manager. Out of curiosity, how many of the panel are from Naas? From my knowledge this panel has a larger spread of clubs in comparison with Kildare teams of the past." 11 from Naas on panel. ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 606 - 09/06/2025 00:52:29 2615963 Link
Well done to Kildare, aside from the first weekend they were by far the best team in the competition. I thought after losing the league final and then the first round against Kerry, it was going to be same old same old for Kildare but they proved us all wrong. I think a key point in the championship was when Carlow clawed it back and pulled level with Kildare in the 2nd half, Kildare scored the next 6 points in the match and won by 6. That must have given them huge belief. Great to see a new team get a chance to go up and try to compete in the Leinster championship. Hopefully our lads can be there or thereabouts next year. hurlingguru (Carlow) - Posts: 1848 - 09/06/2025 08:52:10 2615978 Link
Replying To ORIELMAN85: "Have you forgotten Offaly?" Offaly were in 5 Leinster finals from 1901 to 1969. Them getting to Leinster finals in the 1980s wasn't a new thing. Them winning AIs was. Kildare have never been in a Leinster SHF ever. They didnt even have a team in the Leinster Championship for many of those years. Think that's what the OP meant. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16292 - 09/06/2025 09:23:24 2615984 Link
Replying To ORIELMAN85: "And showed Carliw to be even worse than Laois." Played laois twice this year. Beat them in league in Portlaoise & relagated them to div 2 for next year. Played them in Championship & they scored a goal with the last puck to draw with us ( don't need to go into the problems with that goal) I would say we are the better team overall but doesn't matter as we both lost to Kildare & many congrats to them carlo (Carlow) - Posts: 273 - 09/06/2025 09:28:33 2615987 Link
Replying To ORIELMAN85: "11 from Naas on panel." Think 8 starters from Naas yesterday, and a couple of subs. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16292 - 09/06/2025 09:34:10 2615988 Link
Well done Kildare on a great win, I thought their defence was superb. Will Newbridge be able to cope with a double header next with Kildare playing Offaly in the football! tireoghainabu (Tyrone) - Posts: 404 - 09/06/2025 14:37:02 2616129 Link
Has worked out well for a Kildare double header. legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 8929 - 09/06/2025 16:38:44 2616179 Link
Mighty stuff from Kildare, went to college with one of the players and is a top hurler who would have made it in any county. But what now? Promotion to Leinster Championship and likely relegation, what does that do for them? StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1862 - 10/06/2025 09:38:39 2616302 Link
You'd hope Kildare can kick on in the hurling. Their footballers are at nothing anyway, playing in the Tailteann cup. Past hurler (None) - Posts: 957 - 10/06/2025 10:14:59 2616311 Link
Replying To StoreysTash: "Mighty stuff from Kildare, went to college with one of the players and is a top hurler who would have made it in any county. But what now? Promotion to Leinster Championship and likely relegation, what does that do for them?" What does it do for them? It exposes them to top-level hurling. What do you want it to do for them? Kildare are good, and there's every chance they'd beat Offaly, even Wexford on an off-day. They're big, strong, and very fit. The game against Dublin will tell a lot. I don't expect they'll win, but I don't expect them to be hammered, either. As for Laois? Sadly we're stuck at a level and have stood still as a hurling county while all around us have passed us out - Carlow, Kildare, Offaly, Westmeath, Dublin. It takes massive resources, top-class coaching, properly-channelled ambition, good leadership, and belief to harness a hurling tradition. We have very little of those ingredients and I think we're going nowhere for the next few years. We used to be a decent dual county, but now we're pretty irrelevant at both codes. burdizzo (Laois) - Posts: 12 - 10/06/2025 10:46:31 2616324 Link
Replying To burdizzo: "What does it do for them? It exposes them to top-level hurling. What do you want it to do for them? Kildare are good, and there's every chance they'd beat Offaly, even Wexford on an off-day. They're big, strong, and very fit. The game against Dublin will tell a lot. I don't expect they'll win, but I don't expect them to be hammered, either. As for Laois? Sadly we're stuck at a level and have stood still as a hurling county while all around us have passed us out - Carlow, Kildare, Offaly, Westmeath, Dublin. It takes massive resources, top-class coaching, properly-channelled ambition, good leadership, and belief to harness a hurling tradition. We have very little of those ingredients and I think we're going nowhere for the next few years. We used to be a decent dual county, but now we're pretty irrelevant at both codes." When you appointed Derek Mcgrath over your minor hurlers your Chairman thought he was getting Ken Mcgrath. You need your Board to step up and give hurling proper support. You've played in AI finals in Hurling, and won a SenIor Hurling All-Ireland. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16292 - 10/06/2025 12:06:00 2616349 Link
Replying To Past hurler: "You'd hope Kildare can kick on in the hurling. Their footballers are at nothing anyway, playing in the Tailteann cup." Footballers should be the curtain raiser for the hurlers on Saturday. Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2390 - 10/06/2025 13:26:22 2616383 Link