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Replying To Southsham: "I'm astonished speaking to people why they think it is a forgone conclusion it will be a Limerick Cork Final.
Dublin's result against Limerick last year should surely be in people's minds.
For me Clare will be very dangerous and Galway have some fantastic players, possibly need to tighten up in defence." What gives me confidence of Limerick winning next week is going in as Munster champions, our greater level of consistency this year and reversing the trend of recent Championship defeats to Cork.
Also i think they can improve on their display in Munster final.
Im taking into account Clare' s Championship performances to date and thats why im backing Limerick to get back to All Ireland final.
I give Galway a great chance of winning, last year a facile semi final win did Cork no favours in the final, what will they have got from last weekend?
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Replying To Seniorleague: "How many hulers did the dubs lose to football though? I think o callaghan and diarmuid connolly were very good hurlers. Rory o carroll too.Are there others im missing?
The money did help to develop players but playing football was the more attractive option." Ciaran Kilkenny
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20099 - 25/06/2026 07:23:06
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Replying To Seniorleague: "How many hulers did the dubs lose to football though? I think o callaghan and diarmuid connolly were very good hurlers. Rory o carroll too.Are there others im missing?
The money did help to develop players but playing football was the more attractive option." Ciaran Kilkenny is a great hurler
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20099 - 25/06/2026 07:23:35
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Replying To Seniorleague: "How many hulers did the dubs lose to football though? I think o callaghan and diarmuid connolly were very good hurlers. Rory o carroll too.Are there others im missing?
The money did help to develop players but playing football was the more attractive option." That happens in dual counties. Dáithí or Comer for example. The late Paul Clancy played both.
Crashingwaves (Galway) - Posts: 356 - 25/06/2026 08:30:38
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Replying To Seniorleague: "How many hulers did the dubs lose to football though? I think o callaghan and diarmuid connolly were very good hurlers. Rory o carroll too.Are there others im missing?
The money did help to develop players but playing football was the more attractive option." Cormac Costello as well
Emmets67 (Galway) - Posts: 13 - 25/06/2026 17:22:10
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Out of interest how many Cork
footballers have switched to hurling.
I know you cannot stop a player
switching codes if he wants to but
surely Cork football would be better off if they
had "persuaded" the likes of Niall Cahalane
to stay with the big ball game.
Brummiejoe (UK) - Posts: 18 - 26/06/2026 07:35:27
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Replying To Brummiejoe: "Out of interest how many Cork
footballers have switched to hurling.
I know you cannot stop a player
switching codes if he wants to but
surely Cork football would be better off if they
had "persuaded" the likes of Niall Cahalane
to stay with the big ball game." Cork football might be better off, but what about Cork hurling?
And going off topic a bit, is football bigger than hurling in Cork?
Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2918 - 26/06/2026 15:22:40
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Replying To Brummiejoe: "Out of interest how many Cork
footballers have switched to hurling.
I know you cannot stop a player
switching codes if he wants to but
surely Cork football would be better off if they
had "persuaded" the likes of Niall Cahalane
to stay with the big ball game." Niall is well past it but was a great servant of Cork football. Im not sure he ever hurled though. Damien is probably past it at this stage too. Brian Hayes, on the other hand, is an excellent midfielder for his club in football and considered one of the best in Cork.
Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 625 - 26/06/2026 16:28:15
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I'll do my best to answer some of these questions. The Cork Hurling Panel can be probably be separated into 3 groups in regards to football.
Group 1: Hurlers who would be on the cork footballers if they chose football. Brian Hayes (guaranteed starter and all star football level player), Hugh O Connor (one of the best underage footballers Cork have had in the last few years), Damien Cahalane (One of Castlehaven's best players over the last 12 years).
Group 2: Decent to good club players playing above junior a. William Buckley, Ethan Twomey, Shane Kingston (super footballer) all play at Premier Senior Level with their clubs. Sean O Donoghue, Eoin and Rob Downey would be pivotal to the Inniscarra and St Nicks football teams. Alan Walsh and Brian O Sullivan both play football at senior a level with Kanturk who are a very impressive dual club and Daire O Leary and Brian Keating have both played above junior a level in the past for Glenville and Ballincollig.
Group 3: Players often playing for the clubs first team at junior level, most of the time when the hurling club season is done. Darragh Fitzgibbon, Shane Barrett, Paudie O Sullivan, Declan Dalton, Ciaran Joyce, Eoin Roche/Brian Roche, Diarmuid Healy. This group often fluctuates depending on how their clubs football team is progressing through the championship, lingering injuries from hurling etc.
There could be more or less players to be added here as this is just of the top of my head of players I can remember seeing play football.
Frontier1000 (Cork) - Posts: 66 - 27/06/2026 13:56:30
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Replying To Cockney_Cat: "Cork football might be better off, but what about Cork hurling?
And going off topic a bit, is football bigger than hurling in Cork?" Cork on has always been a hurling county..the support for the footballers has never b at the level of the hurlers..and I can read back to the 70s.
Pepper1 (Galway) - Posts: 35 - 27/06/2026 14:29:38
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Replying To Cockney_Cat: "Cork football might be better off, but what about Cork hurling?
And going off topic a bit, is football bigger than hurling in Cork?" Hurling is much bigger than football as can be seen in the attendances supporting the games (even allowing for the obvious bandwagon support). The prestige and opportunities which come from being a Cork hurler aren't really there for the footballers which results in promising footballers such as Hugh O Connor and a young Brian Hayes who are better footballers than hurlers at 20/21 choosing to develop as hurlers over playing with the footballers.
Like many counties (Galway/Clare/Tipp etc) hurling and football is split geographically. The city is somewhat neutral and contributes a fairly equal amount of hurlers and footballers. East Cork is Cork's main hurling region. Cork city (10) and east cork (14) contribute 24 of the 36 players on the Cork hurling team. That's not even counting anyone from Sarsfields who are the best club side in Cork and one of the best in Munster. Outside of that the pocket of North Cork by the Limerick border containing Charleville (Darragh Fitzgibbon), Newtownshandrum (Tim O'Mahony, Cormac O Brien and manager Ben O Connor) Ballyhea, Dromina and Milford would be a good contributor of Cork hurlers.
South East of the city, the Carrigdhoun region is home to a good few Senior A and Premier Int clubs such as Ballinhassig (Pa Collins and Darragh O Sullivan). In the immediate suburbs of Cork, Blarney (Mark Coleman, Shane Barrett, Padraig Power), Ballincollig (Brian Keating), Inniscarra (Sean O Donoghue), Eire Og and Cloughduv are part of Muskerry division which the further west you go is predominantly football. Also important to note towns such as Mallow, Bandon and Fermoy are generally slightly better at football but still complete at a decent enough level in hurling.
Anywhere west of Bandon and the N20 Cork-Limerick road is a really good producer of Cork footballers. This is a sizable enough region containing the Carbery, Duhallow and Bears divisions, nearly all of Muskerry and contains large towns such as Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Rosscarbery and Bantry. There are still some clubs playing at a really high level in hurling such as Kanturk (Alan Walsh, Brian O Sullivan and former hurlers Anthony Nash, Aidan Walsh and Lorcan McLoughlin) and Newcestown (former hurler Luke Meade's club) who play at premier Senior level. Hugh O Connor (Newmarket) is another west cork player and it's great to see players such as him come from small west Cork junior a clubs. The opposite is true with the footballers where apart from Aghada and Glanmire (Premier Intermediate), Cobh and Glenville (Premier Junior) nearly all of East Cork is junior football. This is why this years Cork minor footballers are so promising as they contain 10 or 11 players from predominantly hurling clubs who would never have contributed to the Cork footballers at any level
Hope this answers some questions, apologies for hijacking the thread.
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Replying To Frontier1000: "Hurling is much bigger than football as can be seen in the attendances supporting the games (even allowing for the obvious bandwagon support). The prestige and opportunities which come from being a Cork hurler aren't really there for the footballers which results in promising footballers such as Hugh O Connor and a young Brian Hayes who are better footballers than hurlers at 20/21 choosing to develop as hurlers over playing with the footballers.
Like many counties (Galway/Clare/Tipp etc) hurling and football is split geographically. The city is somewhat neutral and contributes a fairly equal amount of hurlers and footballers. East Cork is Cork's main hurling region. Cork city (10) and east cork (14) contribute 24 of the 36 players on the Cork hurling team. That's not even counting anyone from Sarsfields who are the best club side in Cork and one of the best in Munster. Outside of that the pocket of North Cork by the Limerick border containing Charleville (Darragh Fitzgibbon), Newtownshandrum (Tim O'Mahony, Cormac O Brien and manager Ben O Connor) Ballyhea, Dromina and Milford would be a good contributor of Cork hurlers.
South East of the city, the Carrigdhoun region is home to a good few Senior A and Premier Int clubs such as Ballinhassig (Pa Collins and Darragh O Sullivan). In the immediate suburbs of Cork, Blarney (Mark Coleman, Shane Barrett, Padraig Power), Ballincollig (Brian Keating), Inniscarra (Sean O Donoghue), Eire Og and Cloughduv are part of Muskerry division which the further west you go is predominantly football. Also important to note towns such as Mallow, Bandon and Fermoy are generally slightly better at football but still complete at a decent enough level in hurling.
Anywhere west of Bandon and the N20 Cork-Limerick road is a really good producer of Cork footballers. This is a sizable enough region containing the Carbery, Duhallow and Bears divisions, nearly all of Muskerry and contains large towns such as Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Rosscarbery and Bantry. There are still some clubs playing at a really high level in hurling such as Kanturk (Alan Walsh, Brian O Sullivan and former hurlers Anthony Nash, Aidan Walsh and Lorcan McLoughlin) and Newcestown (former hurler Luke Meade's club) who play at premier Senior level. Hugh O Connor (Newmarket) is another west cork player and it's great to see players such as him come from small west Cork junior a clubs. The opposite is true with the footballers where apart from Aghada and Glanmire (Premier Intermediate), Cobh and Glenville (Premier Junior) nearly all of East Cork is junior football. This is why this years Cork minor footballers are so promising as they contain 10 or 11 players from predominantly hurling clubs who would never have contributed to the Cork footballers at any level
Hope this answers some questions, apologies for hijacking the thread." Thanks for that info lad
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