What are the weirdest names you've come up against on the pitch?
I've no doubt I've probably come up against every type of animal there is; from pheasant to bear and so on..
I reckon Crowshite or Arse Bandit are probably the best I've heard.

gaafarmer (Wexford) - Posts: 280 - 06/12/2012 17:11:22    1307380

marked a fella called smallwilly in an u16 game once

whiterbannnas (Mayo) - Posts: 2441 - 06/12/2012 20:35:44    1307503

gullyer (i don't even know how to spell it)

pati (Meath) - Posts: 80 - 06/12/2012 21:47:00    1307537

Handbag is a well know hurler & footballer in Kildare.

I once knew a team whose fullback and goalkeeper were "Black" & "Magic".

The "Black" term came about as he was a mechanic whose hands, in those pre work-glove days always shoed his profession, tested mant a jaw.

The keeper's came from an incident where he demolished a box of a certain type of choclates !!!

KELF (Kildare) - Posts: 775 - 06/12/2012 21:57:43    1307541

"The Gunner" Brady

A Cavan legend. As far as I know he won All Irelands with Cavan in the 40s/50s. Would love to know the story behind this nickname. His nephew is Paul Brady the handball champ, he carries the "The Gunner" now. Anyone know anything about this?

gaelicgab (USA) - Posts: 878 - 07/12/2012 15:38:18    1307748

Tommy Tight Togs, The Turk, Tits and Teeth who were twins in a rival team and Diggler spring to mind

skinthecat (Galway) - Posts: 394 - 07/12/2012 16:18:57    1307773

There is a skinny ginger lad who plays football in Ciarraí called the Gooch. Anyone ever heard of him?

Culann (Dublin) - Posts: 2306 - 07/12/2012 16:29:14    1307779

Many years ago in an under-14 county final in Galway I marked a big lad whose nickname was Buinneach. I learned afterwards that this is the Irish word for diarrhea! Surely one of the worst nicknames ever.

Gaillimh_Abu (Galway) - Posts: 1016 - 07/12/2012 16:59:06    1307792

father and son played for a club in dublin, father was called BOOTS and the son was called SOCKS.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 07/12/2012 19:39:33    1307862

I know a family that were in the business of selling timeber on the side, the grand father trained teh team, the son was in goals and the grandson was corner forward, they were know as Big Chip, Little Chip and Micro Chip, Club in West Kerry have bingo, weeshie, Geni and gorse, Played against a Buns and Banbh also years ago

Horsebox77 (Kerry) - Posts: 5491 - 07/12/2012 20:46:27    1307883

Marked a lanky lad called 'Spider Legs' donkeys years ago while playing St. Annes above in their pitch on the side of a mountain in Bohernabreena! He was their target man due to his height and they served him high balls galore and got a few scores off me at the very start of the game as I was too busy falling about the place laughing every time somebody roared "C'mon Spider Legs!" (you know the way laughing mid-sprint just saps the energy out of your run) before I finally got over it and got to work on him when 'enough was enough' as my manager roared at me!! He actually tried to get thick with me for splitting my sides laughing at his nickname!

Cant remember the club he belonged to but supporters on the sideline shouting "C'mon the Red Flare!" at a young bright ginger haired lad on the pitch!!....now he was excellent in fairness!!

Regards,

Snufalufagus....Laochra Gael

Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 08/12/2012 19:36:02    1308066

Was there not a corner forward combination on a well known team a while ago called 'lamb' and 'chops' respectively??

square_ball_69 (Westmeath) - Posts: 826 - 08/12/2012 20:23:50    1308076

My own county has had its fare share of players with nicknames down the years - Pat Red Collier, Peter The Man in the Cap McDermot, Paddy Hands OBrien, Jinxy Beggy, Biggy Reilly. My personal favourite is an underage opponent from many years ago known as the Snot.

Sam_Maguire (Meath) - Posts: 1 - 10/12/2012 16:49:46    1308745

Played with a guy known as 'f*"k face', nice!

realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8678 - 10/12/2012 17:04:09    1308753

Purty and roundy Landers played for Kerry back in the day

juniorbsub (Wexford) - Posts: 646 - 10/12/2012 17:29:49    1308775

There's a lad called Turkey playin with one of the Junior clubs in Meath, Dunsany or Drumbaragh i think. Had a team mate before that went by the name of 'Chopper', not because he was a hard tackler but because he had rather prominent front teeth

Crawley_JuniorD (Meath) - Posts: 211 - 10/12/2012 17:47:49    1308786

Was watching an u.16 game just this year and one of the players on the other team was nicknamed Squarebag.

I asked someone I knew why they called him that, and it was actually quite funny, he took one of those abnormally square GAA Cúl Camp bags to school!

HowManyStepsRef (Donegal) - Posts: 292 - 10/12/2012 19:00:07    1308820

KELF
County: Kildare
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1307541
Handbag is a well know hurler & footballer in Kildare.

His son also played and was called ...'Purse'....I joke you not !

Played with a guy call 'Rat' due to his facial features looking somewhat similar to that of a rat!

witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 11/12/2012 08:18:55    1308927

There's a lad from our club called The Stork.

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9541 - 11/12/2012 10:04:13    1308946