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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "That'd be very disappointing if true, see elsewhere that Westmeath Schools have also conceded to Meath Schools"
Yes

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20966 - 06/11/2026 10:18:39    2699578

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Still a bit away but going off team line-ups published on Twitter, looks like the following will be playing Fitzgibbon (And Freshers)....

DCU Seniors - John Sunderland, Charlie Roark, Darragh Farrell, Tom Kirwan

UCD Seniors - Ciarán Doyle, Conn Mernagh, Simon Roche, Doran Daly O'Toole, Páidí Doyle

DCU Freshers - Jack Young, Ronan Shannon, Énán Quinlan, Conor Fanning, Danny Scallan

Think Jack Hennessy, Oisín Moore, and Alex Lafferty are all with Maynooth

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1621 - 06/11/2026 23:07:56    2699661

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Still a bit away but going off team line-ups published on Twitter, looks like the following will be playing Fitzgibbon (And Freshers)....

DCU Seniors - John Sunderland, Charlie Roark, Darragh Farrell, Tom Kirwan

UCD Seniors - Ciarán Doyle, Conn Mernagh, Simon Roche, Doran Daly O'Toole, Páidí Doyle

DCU Freshers - Jack Young, Ronan Shannon, Énán Quinlan, Conor Fanning, Danny Scallan

Think Jack Hennessy, Oisín Moore, and Alex Lafferty are all with Maynooth"
Some very good prospects there. Best of luck to all of them for the winter ahead!

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20966 - 07/11/2026 11:51:27    2699672

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Still a bit away but going off team line-ups published on Twitter, looks like the following will be playing Fitzgibbon (And Freshers)....

DCU Seniors - John Sunderland, Charlie Roark, Darragh Farrell, Tom Kirwan

UCD Seniors - Ciarán Doyle, Conn Mernagh, Simon Roche, Doran Daly O'Toole, Páidí Doyle

DCU Freshers - Jack Young, Ronan Shannon, Énán Quinlan, Conor Fanning, Danny Scallan

Think Jack Hennessy, Oisín Moore, and Alex Lafferty are all with Maynooth"
Is that 12 players in total from Wexford playinv Fitzgibbon cup? That is very very low

I know in 2019 Wexford had 38 players involved in Fitzgibbon cup panels


DCU
Oisin Foley
Jame Henebry
Paudie Foley
Damien Reck
Darren Byrne
Conor Firman
Rory O'Connor
Joe O'Connor
Aaron Maddock
Harry O'Connor

IT Carlow
Shane Reck
Cathal Dunbar
Seamus Casey
Michael Redmond
Cathal Walsh

Maynooth University
Fiach O'Crualaoich
Stephen Stafford
Cormac Byrne
Diarmuid Kehoe

Trinity College Dublin
Ger Dempsey
Mikey Kelly
Eoin O'Callaghan

UCD
Barry O'Connor
Brian Quigley
Gary Molloy
Charlie McGuckin
Jack Cushe
Darren Codd
Conor Scallan
Ciaran Murphy
Michael O'Brien
Mikey Coleman

WIT
Conall Flood
Stephen O'Gorman

Alan Walsh - Mary I
Quinn Saunders - DIT
Seán Murphy - GARDA
Ross Donohue - UCC.

Past hurler (None) - Posts: 1048 - 07/11/2026 23:23:27    2699722

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Replying To Past hurler:  "Is that 12 players in total from Wexford playinv Fitzgibbon cup? That is very very low

I know in 2019 Wexford had 38 players involved in Fitzgibbon cup panels


DCU
Oisin Foley
Jame Henebry
Paudie Foley
Damien Reck
Darren Byrne
Conor Firman
Rory O'Connor
Joe O'Connor
Aaron Maddock
Harry O'Connor

IT Carlow
Shane Reck
Cathal Dunbar
Seamus Casey
Michael Redmond
Cathal Walsh

Maynooth University
Fiach O'Crualaoich
Stephen Stafford
Cormac Byrne
Diarmuid Kehoe

Trinity College Dublin
Ger Dempsey
Mikey Kelly
Eoin O'Callaghan

UCD
Barry O'Connor
Brian Quigley
Gary Molloy
Charlie McGuckin
Jack Cushe
Darren Codd
Conor Scallan
Ciaran Murphy
Michael O'Brien
Mikey Coleman

WIT
Conall Flood
Stephen O'Gorman

Alan Walsh - Mary I
Quinn Saunders - DIT
Seán Murphy - GARDA
Ross Donohue - UCC."
I've no idea tbh, only really looked at DCU, UCD, and Maynooth, didn't recognise any of the WIT names and couldn't find any names for TUD, didn't check any other college

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1621 - 08/11/2026 10:34:39    2699735

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Replying To Past hurler:  "Is that 12 players in total from Wexford playinv Fitzgibbon cup? That is very very low

I know in 2019 Wexford had 38 players involved in Fitzgibbon cup panels


DCU
Oisin Foley
Jame Henebry
Paudie Foley
Damien Reck
Darren Byrne
Conor Firman
Rory O'Connor
Joe O'Connor
Aaron Maddock
Harry O'Connor

IT Carlow
Shane Reck
Cathal Dunbar
Seamus Casey
Michael Redmond
Cathal Walsh

Maynooth University
Fiach O'Crualaoich
Stephen Stafford
Cormac Byrne
Diarmuid Kehoe

Trinity College Dublin
Ger Dempsey
Mikey Kelly
Eoin O'Callaghan

UCD
Barry O'Connor
Brian Quigley
Gary Molloy
Charlie McGuckin
Jack Cushe
Darren Codd
Conor Scallan
Ciaran Murphy
Michael O'Brien
Mikey Coleman

WIT
Conall Flood
Stephen O'Gorman

Alan Walsh - Mary I
Quinn Saunders - DIT
Seán Murphy - GARDA
Ross Donohue - UCC."
There will be Wexford lads at TUD, SETU Carlow and SETU Waterford also, plus theres aways a few at the other colleges put together.
Agree there wont be as many as 2019, think 2019 to 2023 was our highest level.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20966 - 08/11/2026 10:41:58    2699739

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Enniscorthy CBS up against Peter's in the first round of Corn Uí Dhúill on Tuesday at 11:30AM in Pat's Park, looks like the game will be on Clubber as well

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1621 - 08/11/2026 21:06:31    2699786

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Caught the Enniscorthy CBS-Peter's game there on Clubber, had it on mute so couldn't catch any of the names, CBS has Matt Butler in goal, Alfie Sludds-Murphy at centre-back, Brian Ivers, Jamie Downey (Centre-forward in the first half, looked like midfield in the second), and Rhys Wickham (Full-forward in the first half, centre-forward in the second from what I saw), Peter's has Oisín Caulfield at wing-forward, didn't really recognise any of the other names from a county set-up perspective

Ended in a draw and conditions looked to be circuit enough, thought there was a good intensity to the game in the first quarter, died off a little then until the very end where it picked up again, thought some of the general play working the ball up the pitch was decent enough but some of the shooting from both sides in the first half was very poor

Both teams looked to run the ball a good bit, CBS in particular were very good when ever they tried to run it, Peter's seemed bigger and stronger though and they seemed to win nearly every breaking ball, their forwards were a lot better than the CBS forwards at winning their own ball IMO

Wickham was quiet enough IMO, Downey was probably their best hurler at breaking through tackles and winning dirty ball, he's smaller than I thought height-wise although he's very powerful

Peter's had a lot of height and their S&C looked good, think they had a lad called Alfie Whelan in at full-forward wearing a white Cooper, don't think he scored that much but he was a general nuisance, big guy and was a handful for CBS

Don't know his name but Peter's #7 in a black Cooper looked good to me, tall enough and very athletic looking, looks like he has a lot of S&C work done

Draw probably fair enough on balance, two sides get out of the group and go to the QFs, one of those will almost certainly be Mullingar CBS who are after giving the hiding of all hidings to Coláiste Eoin (5-33 to 0-05), others might have been impacted by lads playing in Dublin county finals but that's very, very poor considering they're the only Dublin school in Senior A, Dublin South gave our combined colleges a walkover too

Mullingar CBS could be genuine contenders, Mullingar isn't a hurling town but a lot of the WM hurling clubs are very close to Mullingar, WM minors were very strong this year

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1621 - 10/11/2026 13:06:21    2699954

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Caught the Enniscorthy CBS-Peter's game there on Clubber, had it on mute so couldn't catch any of the names, CBS has Matt Butler in goal, Alfie Sludds-Murphy at centre-back, Brian Ivers, Jamie Downey (Centre-forward in the first half, looked like midfield in the second), and Rhys Wickham (Full-forward in the first half, centre-forward in the second from what I saw), Peter's has Oisín Caulfield at wing-forward, didn't really recognise any of the other names from a county set-up perspective

Ended in a draw and conditions looked to be circuit enough, thought there was a good intensity to the game in the first quarter, died off a little then until the very end where it picked up again, thought some of the general play working the ball up the pitch was decent enough but some of the shooting from both sides in the first half was very poor

Both teams looked to run the ball a good bit, CBS in particular were very good when ever they tried to run it, Peter's seemed bigger and stronger though and they seemed to win nearly every breaking ball, their forwards were a lot better than the CBS forwards at winning their own ball IMO

Wickham was quiet enough IMO, Downey was probably their best hurler at breaking through tackles and winning dirty ball, he's smaller than I thought height-wise although he's very powerful

Peter's had a lot of height and their S&C looked good, think they had a lad called Alfie Whelan in at full-forward wearing a white Cooper, don't think he scored that much but he was a general nuisance, big guy and was a handful for CBS

Don't know his name but Peter's #7 in a black Cooper looked good to me, tall enough and very athletic looking, looks like he has a lot of S&C work done

Draw probably fair enough on balance, two sides get out of the group and go to the QFs, one of those will almost certainly be Mullingar CBS who are after giving the hiding of all hidings to Coláiste Eoin (5-33 to 0-05), others might have been impacted by lads playing in Dublin county finals but that's very, very poor considering they're the only Dublin school in Senior A, Dublin South gave our combined colleges a walkover too

Mullingar CBS could be genuine contenders, Mullingar isn't a hurling town but a lot of the WM hurling clubs are very close to Mullingar, WM minors were very strong this year"
That was Rory Durack From Barntown full forward county minor this year, 7 is Bryan Kennedy from Rathangan county minor this year and still only u16

Hurler20 (Wexford) - Posts: 20 - 10/11/2026 15:24:20    2699972

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Caught the Enniscorthy CBS-Peter's game there on Clubber, had it on mute so couldn't catch any of the names, CBS has Matt Butler in goal, Alfie Sludds-Murphy at centre-back, Brian Ivers, Jamie Downey (Centre-forward in the first half, looked like midfield in the second), and Rhys Wickham (Full-forward in the first half, centre-forward in the second from what I saw), Peter's has Oisín Caulfield at wing-forward, didn't really recognise any of the other names from a county set-up perspective

Ended in a draw and conditions looked to be circuit enough, thought there was a good intensity to the game in the first quarter, died off a little then until the very end where it picked up again, thought some of the general play working the ball up the pitch was decent enough but some of the shooting from both sides in the first half was very poor

Both teams looked to run the ball a good bit, CBS in particular were very good when ever they tried to run it, Peter's seemed bigger and stronger though and they seemed to win nearly every breaking ball, their forwards were a lot better than the CBS forwards at winning their own ball IMO

Wickham was quiet enough IMO, Downey was probably their best hurler at breaking through tackles and winning dirty ball, he's smaller than I thought height-wise although he's very powerful

Peter's had a lot of height and their S&C looked good, think they had a lad called Alfie Whelan in at full-forward wearing a white Cooper, don't think he scored that much but he was a general nuisance, big guy and was a handful for CBS

Don't know his name but Peter's #7 in a black Cooper looked good to me, tall enough and very athletic looking, looks like he has a lot of S&C work done

Draw probably fair enough on balance, two sides get out of the group and go to the QFs, one of those will almost certainly be Mullingar CBS who are after giving the hiding of all hidings to Coláiste Eoin (5-33 to 0-05), others might have been impacted by lads playing in Dublin county finals but that's very, very poor considering they're the only Dublin school in Senior A, Dublin South gave our combined colleges a walkover too

Mullingar CBS could be genuine contenders, Mullingar isn't a hurling town but a lot of the WM hurling clubs are very close to Mullingar, WM minors were very strong this year"
Watched most of the Peters Marys game too. Peters goalie was Dempsey from Oulart, he started for our minors last year. Caulfields workrate was very good, and he didnt get sent off.
Tomas Kirwan played county minor, and Whelan.
Rory Durack played minor this year. Pretty sure he was 14 for Peters. 3 good Barntown lads.
Bryan Kennedy from the Annes was 7, he started for our minors this year too.
Jack Quigley had a decent game at 11, he was on the county u19 panel this year and is a tall lad too.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20966 - 10/11/2026 15:44:22    2699974

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Great result for Marys Junior team, they beat Kilkenny CBS in the Leinster Junior A semifinal.
Some of these lads might play Senior A for Marys this year too.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20966 - 10/11/2026 15:46:43    2699975

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Marys Mullingar are playing Counsel in the Junior A QF tomorrow evening. Going to be a tough game for Counsel.....

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20966 - 10/11/2026 16:05:38    2699977

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Caught the Enniscorthy CBS-Peter's game there on Clubber, had it on mute so couldn't catch any of the names, CBS has Matt Butler in goal, Alfie Sludds-Murphy at centre-back, Brian Ivers, Jamie Downey (Centre-forward in the first half, looked like midfield in the second), and Rhys Wickham (Full-forward in the first half, centre-forward in the second from what I saw), Peter's has Oisín Caulfield at wing-forward, didn't really recognise any of the other names from a county set-up perspective

Ended in a draw and conditions looked to be circuit enough, thought there was a good intensity to the game in the first quarter, died off a little then until the very end where it picked up again, thought some of the general play working the ball up the pitch was decent enough but some of the shooting from both sides in the first half was very poor

Both teams looked to run the ball a good bit, CBS in particular were very good when ever they tried to run it, Peter's seemed bigger and stronger though and they seemed to win nearly every breaking ball, their forwards were a lot better than the CBS forwards at winning their own ball IMO

Wickham was quiet enough IMO, Downey was probably their best hurler at breaking through tackles and winning dirty ball, he's smaller than I thought height-wise although he's very powerful

Peter's had a lot of height and their S&C looked good, think they had a lad called Alfie Whelan in at full-forward wearing a white Cooper, don't think he scored that much but he was a general nuisance, big guy and was a handful for CBS

Don't know his name but Peter's #7 in a black Cooper looked good to me, tall enough and very athletic looking, looks like he has a lot of S&C work done

Draw probably fair enough on balance, two sides get out of the group and go to the QFs, one of those will almost certainly be Mullingar CBS who are after giving the hiding of all hidings to Coláiste Eoin (5-33 to 0-05), others might have been impacted by lads playing in Dublin county finals but that's very, very poor considering they're the only Dublin school in Senior A, Dublin South gave our combined colleges a walkover too

Mullingar CBS could be genuine contenders, Mullingar isn't a hurling town but a lot of the WM hurling clubs are very close to Mullingar, WM minors were very strong this year"
Hurling in Colaiste Eoin has fallen away at a rate of knots.

Are they giving more attention to gaelic football these days?

I know they beat Good Counsel in the senior football by 1-15 to 3-7 last week.

St Fintans in Sutton and even Terenure College seem to be beating Colaiste Eoin regularly now in Dublin schools hurling.

St. Peters putting a big effort into the hurling this year by all accounts

Past hurler (None) - Posts: 1048 - 10/11/2026 16:30:41    2699981

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Replying To Hurler20:  "That was Rory Durack From Barntown full forward county minor this year, 7 is Bryan Kennedy from Rathangan county minor this year and still only u16"
My apologies, they just have the wrong names down on Clubber or else I got them wrong myself!

Yeah, thought Kennedy was good for the Minors this year

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1621 - 10/11/2026 17:41:06    2699989

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Replying To Viking66:  "Marys Mullingar are playing Counsel in the Junior A QF tomorrow evening. Going to be a tough game for Counsel....."
So Enniscorthy CBS are in the Junior A final but the QF from the other side hasn't even been played yet?

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1621 - 10/11/2026 17:42:22    2699990

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Replying To Past hurler:  "Hurling in Colaiste Eoin has fallen away at a rate of knots.

Are they giving more attention to gaelic football these days?

I know they beat Good Counsel in the senior football by 1-15 to 3-7 last week.

St Fintans in Sutton and even Terenure College seem to be beating Colaiste Eoin regularly now in Dublin schools hurling.

St. Peters putting a big effort into the hurling this year by all accounts"
Thought Enniscorthy CBS were maybe the better hurlers but thought the size and athleticism of Peter's was very impressive, S&C work must be very good down there

Don't think it was that bad a game tbh, others might disagree but was well-contested, thought it was a better watch than some of the games in our Senior club championship in terms of intensity to be quite honest

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1621 - 10/11/2026 17:48:55    2699991

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Replying To Past hurler:  "Hurling in Colaiste Eoin has fallen away at a rate of knots.

Are they giving more attention to gaelic football these days?

I know they beat Good Counsel in the senior football by 1-15 to 3-7 last week.

St Fintans in Sutton and even Terenure College seem to be beating Colaiste Eoin regularly now in Dublin schools hurling.

St. Peters putting a big effort into the hurling this year by all accounts"
Lad beside me in work today actually had his son playing at corner-back for Coláiste Eoin today, think he might have been on the Dublin Minor extended panel this year or was else cut from it

All told, it's very poor for Dublin hurling that Dublin South pulled out and Coláiste Eoin were that weak today, people go on about how bad things are in Wexford but that makes Dublin looks miles worse at underage

Think Mullingar had 13 of the WM Minor squad starting and they also had two WM Minor footballers playing for them

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1621 - 10/11/2026 18:27:20    2699992

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Looks like the Combined Colleges are away to Offaly in Birr at 12:30 on Saturday

Offaly Minors didn't even make Tier 1 this year and their Minors last year were humiliated by Laois but they beat Laois combined colleges at the weekend by 2-14 to 1-09

Tbf, Harps players from Durrow in Laois might go to school in Johnstown so they wouldn't be eligible and Cistercian have always played in Leinster so I'm guessing they'd be eligible for Offaly schools, means their combined colleges side could have Tipp players

Nothing wrong with this IMO but it's basically an Offaly Minor team as they've no school in Senior A

On the other hand, you've the Wexford Minors from the last two years minus the likes of Seán O'Brien, Rhys Wickham, Matt Butler, Alfie Sludds Murphy, Jamie Downey, Jack Cullen, Robbie Kehoe, Seán Kavanagh, Joey Tobin, Seán Doyle, Bryan Kennedy, Martin Dempsey, Rory Durack, and Jack Furlong (And I think Jamie Kennedy and Énán Quinlan as well as they might have done 6th Year last year)

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1621 - 10/11/2026 18:33:36    2699994

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