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Replying To Fairplayalways: "I remember Pa Carey well, he had a belter of a game in drawn 1987 semi final with Cork which Limerick should have held out to win..Kieran Kingston levelled it deep in injury time..Cork won the replay easy best remembered for the greatest goal ever scored according to many by John Fenton the clip and goal were used in the Ivomec drench for cattle...Micheal O Mhuirecheartaigh was 'Pa this' 'Pa that' "Pa Carey comes away with the ball"..Pa was nice tidy no nonsense hurled.Ciaran was coming on the scene around that time and if I remember right Ciaran missed the following years Munster semi final to Tipperary after apparently a car battery exploded on him that week. Tipp won by 0-15 to 0-08 after...Mike Galligan was an awesome servant to Limerick too...gone off topic I know but just the names came to mind..Terrence 'Spider' Kenny....Paddy Kelly...great names in Limerick hurling.." Yes indeed. Ciaran actually missed the 1991 semi final as he was still a minor in 1988 johnocarroll17 (Limerick) - Posts: 408 - 05/05/2021 15:24:56 2340119 Link
Replying To Fairplayalways: "Ide be really more hurling but would know abit about football in Offaly too...Darby was an unused sub in 1971 final I just looked it up there...I agree about players playing in literally any position...Seamus Moynihan, Aidan O'Mahony..two of the greatest footballers I seen, yet, Moynihan in particular is never mentioned too often when comparing current great teams with older teams...Mike Hassett another who could play anywhere really...that group of Kerry player are relatively for got about now outside of Kerry...that team and era had some great talent..the finest..." And one of the finest ever to competently cover an array of positions, usually down the middle, was your fellow Offaly man, Sean Lowry from Ferbane! foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 1909 - 05/05/2021 16:10:53 2340127 Link
Replying To Bon: "That's interesting about 2002/2003 , he always hit me as a guy with huge ability." he had, he made his debut for clare when he was only 17 in the league, must have had big promise preddan (Kildare) - Posts: 735 - 05/05/2021 22:50:12 2340188 Link
Replying To mickhiggins93: "jimmy coogan?in fairness played in great kilkenny team but where did he go? richie murray was nearly as good as joe canning at his age and now is nowhere.. he epitomises where galway hurling goes wrong as he was brought in too early and then discarded kerril wade is another one,still hurling well with sarsfields but he wont be county standard again imo..i hope he didnt lose the hunger after all he won" I didnt think Wade was even making the Sarsfield team the last couple of years? To the best of my knowledge he isnt and hasnt scored very much for them in a good few years. Correct me if I'm wrong though tiobraid (Tipperary) - Posts: 4119 - 06/05/2021 23:03:54 2340351 Link
Replying To preddan: "he had, he made his debut for clare when he was only 17 in the league, must have had big promise" One of the forgotten Hurlers in Clare hurling. Scored one of the most important goals ever. Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 1905 - 07/05/2021 13:26:16 2340404 Link
Replying To Bon: "One of the forgotten Hurlers in Clare hurling. Scored one of the most important goals ever." and without going off to google it as I cannot remember it, what goal was that? Fairplayalways (Offaly) - Posts: 1034 - 09/05/2021 22:36:39 2340822 Link
Conor McCormack of ballyboden and Dublin, nice hurler, won the league in 2011 and a leinster as a sub in 2013 and gone now over 7 years, always had him earmarked at the time for a long career preddan (Kildare) - Posts: 735 - 25/06/2021 13:36:48 2353273 Link
Replying To Bon: "One of the forgotten Hurlers in Clare hurling. Scored one of the most important goals ever." Eamonn Taffee was fairly gifted alright but suffered allot from injuries from what I can remember. Hamstring in particular.. I think he was taken off after scoring the goal for Clare in the 95 All-Ireland final. He had come on as a sub. Dont think they management realised he had scored the goal. I was in Croker that day. Clare outnumbered Offaly 3 to 1 I'd say. Place went banana's when he scored that goal. Ban (Westmeath) - Posts: 1415 - 25/06/2021 15:20:13 2353311 Link
Replying To Ban: "Eamonn Taffee was fairly gifted alright but suffered allot from injuries from what I can remember. Hamstring in particular.. I think he was taken off after scoring the goal for Clare in the 95 All-Ireland final. He had come on as a sub. Dont think they management realised he had scored the goal. I was in Croker that day. Clare outnumbered Offaly 3 to 1 I'd say. Place went banana's when he scored that goal." As an Offaly man I was there the year before when we won an All Ireland we should have lost, and wasnt there for 1995 when most Offaly supporters think we should have won, 3 points up and shot 5 wides in sucession..Offaly didnt do wides back then as many will know..some of those wides were criminal for the players shooting them...John Troy above all men had about 3 I think, and 6/7 point lead I think we would have won...but we didnt and Clare deservedly won..about the Taffe goal..I was watching the match with my late father (he died following June 1996 and I just said Ide stay at home and watch with him as he was 78 and I thought of him the previous year in 94 when we beat Limerick and said if we get here again Ill stay at home with him)..anyway..it took to rain where I live...we had a big arrow type BBC aerial on gable end of house...and RTE and BCC came through that aerial, it had booster boxes and what have you on it...anyaway the ball came in high for Taffes goal...David Hughes of Banagher & Offaly batted out the ball, the picture went fuzzy instantly and sound dropped out..I ran up to the kitchen to turn on the radio and heard about the goal..my father then called me the picture was back and Clare were in the lead...I remember that evening like yesterday...Well done to our old foes in Clare and the light of heaven to my father...he would be 103 on Sunday if he and his twin brother were alive... Fairplayalways (Offaly) - Posts: 1034 - 25/06/2021 16:43:55 2353336 Link
This is a top thread. We in wexford could probably write a book on such players. Lee Murphy is the first that comes to mind. Best minor in the country at one stage then just disappeared. Last I heard he was hurling club for sars in Cork. John leacey of barntown would be another one. Joe Kelly of shelmaliers, although he had 1 season with Liam Dunne I think. Robbie codd of rathnure. Dessie mythen mentioned here already. He was top class. Mossy Mahon was another one that never quite got there. Stephen Doyle was gifted but came along at a really bad time for us I think. Having said that he got two spectacular goals in 08 quarter final against Waterford. The first was magic. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 2648 - 26/06/2021 08:12:29 2353420 Link
Sorry, have to include Jack guiney here. I know he did have a couple of really good seasons but had the ability to be canning or tj level. Just no discipline. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 2648 - 26/06/2021 08:13:41 2353421 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "This is a top thread. We in wexford could probably write a book on such players. Lee Murphy is the first that comes to mind. Best minor in the country at one stage then just disappeared. Last I heard he was hurling club for sars in Cork. John leacey of barntown would be another one. Joe Kelly of shelmaliers, although he had 1 season with Liam Dunne I think. Robbie codd of rathnure. Dessie mythen mentioned here already. He was top class. Mossy Mahon was another one that never quite got there. Stephen Doyle was gifted but came along at a really bad time for us I think. Having said that he got two spectacular goals in 08 quarter final against Waterford. The first was magic." I would not include Dessie Mythen in that list. He played for a number of years with Wexford. His lack of substantial height may have mitigated against him having a longer inter county career. Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4318 - 26/06/2021 10:25:58 2353434 Link
Replying To Oldtourman: "I would not include Dessie Mythen in that list. He played for a number of years with Wexford. His lack of substantial height may have mitigated against him having a longer inter county career." Think it had more to do with him not wanting to play intercounty. Rory Jacob would have been a contemporary and he had a long intercounty career. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 11806 - 26/06/2021 10:55:39 2353436 Link
What about that tall lad from Clare Darragh Honan I believe. Pure stud but always injured. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2119 - 26/06/2021 17:20:34 2353524 Link
Replying To Trump2020: "What about that tall lad from Clare Darragh Honan I believe. Pure stud but always injured." Yeah had to retire because of trouble with his hips. Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 1905 - 26/06/2021 19:18:13 2353550 Link
Pretty much any hurler in ulster, any hurler in Connacht (outside of galway), any hurler in kerry, and any hurler in Leinster outside of kilkenny, wexford, Dublin, and maybe offaly,arguably. Galway9801 (Galway) - Posts: 1705 - 26/06/2021 21:00:12 2353581 Link
Replying To Bon: "Yeah had to retire because of trouble with his hips." Pure shame. He was some hurler. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2119 - 26/06/2021 21:44:22 2353595 Link
Replying To Trump2020: "Pure shame. He was some hurler." It was indeed, he had great ability. Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 1905 - 26/06/2021 22:37:05 2353608 Link
Replying To Bon: "It was indeed, he had great ability." I love these threads...all these players who just opt out either by choice (or not)..all the what ifs etc..I google the National Leagues of the 1980s and 90s etc. and the names just jump out at you and brings back memories of listening to games on an old transistor in my room of a Sunday (no Saturday night games back then) and then Sean Og OgCeallachain would come on radio at 5 past 11 on a Sunday night.."Go Meana dia dhiabh"..National hurling league Division 1, Waterford 2-12 Kilkenny 1-11, and you would cling on for some result you missed...then Sports Scene would come on with Liam Nolan and the Kilkenny Waterford game would have proper decent duration of highllights played on a flooded pitch maybe...and Kilkenny loosing even in the league was rare and wonderful to us neutrals... Fairplayalways (Offaly) - Posts: 1034 - 29/06/2021 00:01:46 2354425 Link
Replying To Fairplayalways: "I love these threads...all these players who just opt out either by choice (or not)..all the what ifs etc..I google the National Leagues of the 1980s and 90s etc. and the names just jump out at you and brings back memories of listening to games on an old transistor in my room of a Sunday (no Saturday night games back then) and then Sean Og OgCeallachain would come on radio at 5 past 11 on a Sunday night.."Go Meana dia dhiabh"..National hurling league Division 1, Waterford 2-12 Kilkenny 1-11, and you would cling on for some result you missed...then Sports Scene would come on with Liam Nolan and the Kilkenny Waterford game would have proper decent duration of highllights played on a flooded pitch maybe...and Kilkenny loosing even in the league was rare and wonderful to us neutrals..." And Mick Dunne doing the commentary and whining like a banshee when a goal was scored ....! johnocarroll17 (Limerick) - Posts: 408 - 29/06/2021 18:36:38 2354698 Link