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Fantastic to see 6 Offaly Olympians in Paris. Shane Lowry’s GAA heritage is well known, but have any of the other athletes got GAA tradition behind them? Jordan Conroy and Megan Burns both from Tullamore and both competing in rugby sevens. Darragh Kenny from Belmont (I think) and competing in equest...

I only called it the way I say it on Saturday. Not all drumcullen supporters condone that stuff any more. I certainly don't and late and stupid fouling is lot to blame for our back to back relagations. Is it only considered dirt when it drumcullen players that are pulling bad strokes or what ?. I a...

New year, new manager, new coach, 4 county seniors starting, same old Belmont. What a vintage display from the Mountain Men of Kinnitty. Shane Kinsella with one of the best scores I’ve ever seen in a 5 minute cameo. Paddy Rigney outstanding on Oisin Kelly. Paddy Delaney imperious at centre back. Kin...

Always a very hard to predict competition. You’d imagine Drumcullen will be the favourites. Shamrocks could struggle to bounce back. Rynaghs have plenty of youngsters. Coolderry have the experience of Cathal Parlon, Corcoran brothers and Kevin Brady to call on. Edenderry will hope to consolidate. Se...

Hard to see past KK again this year, even with their younger lads named for Senior A. They have plenty more off the 20s panel and the likes of Gorman and Currams eligible. Interesting to see how Clodiagh Gaels go after a full year of training and hurling with the club for Keenaghan and the Langtons....

Sorry lads, haven’t got a chance to do a preview. I’ll hopefully get to it next week. Championship kicks off tonight with Ballinamere and Birr in Tullamore. Great to have all the Senior A games on Clubber. My 4 semi finalists are KK, Belmont, Coolderry and Ballinamere. I expect Rynaghs to struggle t...

Great game yesterday between Cork and Limerick and it was enhanced by a great performance by ref Thomas Walsh of Waterford. Free flowing, not overly fussy etc etc, all the usual sound bites. You may remember he reffed last years Joe McDonagh final between Offaly and Carlow. Dara Maher was controvers...

ah lethimoutwithit wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 3:22 pm
Really harsh rule on remaining players on a team to have to play extra time without replacing sent off players in my opinion.

I’d imagine you’re in a very small minority who want that rule brought back.

It was a silly rule that was finally replaced this year.

If memory serves me right, Emmet Nolan played with Birr last year - is he still in the country? He would be a great addition to the panel next year, an excellent hurler and athlete and God knows we are going to need everyone we can get for next year to stay up. That’s one years hurling from the las...

I know this is highly irrelevant but make an offaly team only using one player per club ill go first 1. Stephen Corcoran (Coolderry) 2. Ben Conneely (St Rynaghs) 3. Niall Houlihan(Tullamore) 4. Padraig Cantwell (Shamrocks) 5. Paddy Delaney(Kinnitty) 6. Cillian Kiely(K/K) 7. Donal Shirley (Brosna Ga...

Very positive year. At the start of the year, the morale may have been fairly low. It seemed like the loss to Carlow last year was a killer, along with our second underage all ireland loss in a row. Goals at the start of the year for inter county hurling would have been: 1. Win the Joe Mc (achieved)...

Lots of positives to take from today, I thought a lot of lads really stood up when teams of the past would have coasted and more importantly, we kept fighting to the end and got our just rewards. I thought Conneely, the two Kings, Shirley, the two Sampsons, Dan Bourke and Oisin put in excellent shi...

Doon Exile wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 10:46 am

JimBwobb wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 8:58 am How many are supposedly gone on holiday

Players have changed flights. Full squad available tomorrow.

Will O’Callaghan reporting that Spain and Screeney are on holidays

Offaly haven’t yet named a team on social media from what I can see, but Offaly Independent are reporting that Ross Ravenhill & Oisin Kelly come in for Eimhin Kelly & Adam Screeney.

They say that Screeney isn’t on the 26.

Tickets still available on ticketmaster for Saturday. It would be a real shame if there were only 2,000-3,000 Offaly fans there. I know we have very little chance of winning but a bit of support can be worth a few points and would be really heartening for the team to see. It would be nice to cap off...