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Can Ballyfad resume the place of Tara Rocks now in intermediate hurling? Or what are the rules in place there? ontheball247 (UK) - Posts: 20 - 14/11/2025 10:35:21 2644410 Link 0 |
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As Viking touches on above, the history of GAA clubs in Enniscorthy is a complicated one. And some of the details are murky or overlap and contradict each other depending on who you talk to, because available records aren't exactly clear and different people remember the same things in different ways. My understanding is that the "old" Shamrocks drew largely from the Templeshannon side of town, but not exclusively so. Anyone in town could go play for them - much as anyone in Gorey today could go play for Tara Rocks. What is known is that the club that won Senior Hurling 1969 was one of the clubs that amalgamated in 1971 to form Rapparees/Starlights (which is actually officially known as "Enniscorthy Town Hurling & Football Club"). There was then no Shamrocks club at all for a number of years, until the current one formed. Viking reckons above this was in the 1970s, but I'd swear it must have been early to mid 1980s. I remember an uncle of mine (since deceased) who hurled with that '69 team and went on to play with the "new" Rapparees club in the 70s giving out about "that new crowd in the Shannon claiming our title", and if he was making those complaints in the 70s, I'd have been no more than seven years old at the time. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3226 - 14/11/2025 10:35:47 2644411 Link 0 |
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The overarching GAA rule is actually just that counties may use bye-laws to define club catchment areas, or may choose not to define catchment areas at all. Dublin (for example) choose not to define them, and that's why you'll often hear it said that "there's no parish rule in Dublin". The overarching rule also says that where counties choose to define catchment areas, they can do using parish boundaries, or any other means. So again, the sort of new boundaries you suggested would very much be possible under the Rule Book. But whatever we might think differently about the pros and cons of it, we can probably agree that trying to do so would be difficult in practice. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3226 - 14/11/2025 10:50:12 2644415 Link 0 |
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Not to be sceptical, but sounds much like the plan Clonee had about seven or eight years ago. Remember them?? Big difference though is that Tara Rocks has a far bigger population on its doorstep to try attract players from. I genuinely wish them well if that's the way they end up going. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3226 - 14/11/2025 10:54:00 2644416 Link 0 |
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Very interesting! Makes you wonder about Shamrocks's current status, Senior in 2015 but have gone backwards at a rate of knots since ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 701 - 14/11/2025 11:10:59 2644426 Link 0 |
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I know it's a complex situation, but the parish rule is being disregarded by several clubs. I don't have exact figures but I'd bet that almost every rural club would not be 100% legit.
Yellaman (Wexford) - Posts: 200 - 14/11/2025 13:10:16 2644441 Link 0 |
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I'm not sure the rules are being broken as often as you say. Remember we have a by law that states if you go to school in a parish you can play for that parish. Think it gets more complicated as regards town.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17503 - 14/11/2025 13:26:44 2644443 Link 0 |
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Clonee and Tara rocks are essentially clubs which were/are sustained over the years by a collection of people who fell out with other clubs. When you have a club full of people liable to fall out enough to leave a club for another, well don't be surprised if that club struggles to progress. Onfor15 (Wexford) - Posts: 538 - 14/11/2025 14:44:49 2644452 Link 0 |