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The story with Johnston is that he got an inter-county transfer from Cavan to Kildare all right. But the rules of the time were that before he could line out with the Kildare county footballers, he had to play in a club match there. And as chance would have it, there were only club hurling matches coming up before the Kildare county team were due in action again. So despite never having held a hurl in his life, he got a loan of one (and a helmet!) somewhere, togged off for a club hurling match, and came on for the last two minutes. He probably never used hurl or helmet again after that either!"]The rule was only brought in to try and stop him playing with Kildare. But it never said what code you had to play. I think it caused trouble for London the following year as anyone who moved to London in the new year wasn't able to play for them. Connor Cox also was still a Listowel player in his first season with Roscommon for the same reason. oneoff (UK) - Posts: 1651 - 21/03/2025 18:22:53 2597692 Link 0 |
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God I remember the Seanie Johnston days on here, that's when this place was good craic. It's like waiting for tumbleweed on here these days.
realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8819 - 21/03/2025 20:33:07 2597713 Link 1 |
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One of his brothers won multiple AI Football championships with Dublin, and another won multiple AI hurling championships with Kilkenny. Some family!!!
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17052 - 21/03/2025 23:26:03 2597726 Link 0 |
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Mark Ellis Cork, Jonathan Glynn Galway & Danny Sutcliffe played hurling for their counties and football with New York. CorkLiamMcCarthy24 (Cork) - Posts: 163 - 24/03/2025 22:47:23 2598443 Link 0 |
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He only had to make an appearance so he started the match and was substituted at the earliest first chance possible. An absolute farce."]No apology required. We all now that it's your form to be often wrong. But we're a forgiving crowd on here!
foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 2376 - 25/03/2025 02:02:36 2598460 Link 1 |
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Cathal Sheridan played hurling for Meath and football for Kildare. CorkLiamMcCarthy24 (Cork) - Posts: 163 - 25/03/2025 13:17:44 2598532 Link 0 |
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The story with Johnston is that he got an inter-county transfer from Cavan to Kildare all right. But the rules of the time were that before he could line out with the Kildare county footballers, he had to play in a club match there. And as chance would have it, there were only club hurling matches coming up before the Kildare county team were due in action again. So despite never having held a hurl in his life, he got a loan of one (and a helmet!) somewhere, togged off for a club hurling match, and came on for the last two minutes. He probably never used hurl or helmet again after that either!"]It was an absolute farce and he never should have transferred but how do you know he never held a hurl in his life? By all accounts he's a very talented all-round sportsman. No need to embellish the story with hurling snobbery Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12490 - 25/03/2025 14:46:43 2598555 Link 0 |