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Huge loss for Kerry hurling. 1B promotion means Kerry is no longer a designated county. We are a dual county. We need to be retaining our best hurlers and not have them being poached.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 7917 - 19/05/2015 18:17:43    1725750

Please explain how he was poached , in doing so please issue FACTS , name and shame at will .

Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 19/05/2015 19:09:22    1725776

If he's playing with Cuala the Dubs have every right to ask him to come on board

Victorious87 (Wicklow) - Posts: 597 - 19/05/2015 20:02:46    1725799

dont agree with him joining our panel
but dont agree he was poached either
as he choose to join dublin and didnt commit to kerry because hes been living here for so long
if there was to be poaching surely it would have happened before now as hes been in dublin living for few years
and training with cuala before he even choose to transfer to them so dont think can be accussed of that either now

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 19/05/2015 20:23:38    1725811

Oh God no, a tainted Liam McCarthy, that's all we need :D

realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8603 - 19/05/2015 20:29:32    1725813

He's gone to a far far better place !what a lucky lad.
No poaching involved,would be lucky to be considered I'd say.

Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 19/05/2015 20:43:22    1725821

The poachers become the poached.

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 19/05/2015 20:53:43    1725825

Its not as if he is going to win an allireland anyway

Thebigbite (Laois) - Posts: 13 - 19/05/2015 21:04:33    1725831

What goes around comes around.

Naysayer (Antrim) - Posts: 2071 - 19/05/2015 21:06:46    1725833

If he is playing with Cuala why have Dublin a right to ask him to go with them.

johnwhite12 (Kilkenny) - Posts: 306 - 19/05/2015 21:46:55    1725855

johnwhite12

Because he plays in Dublin having transferred - he is a primary teacher in Dublin so why not?

As to is this good or bad? If he is good enough and legally entitled to play then he should play, on what spurious ground is to be lost to hurling? I don't buy into this sanctimonious argument about poaching (?) or the "denying local lads an opportunity" who (?). If he is legally entitled to play and he is good enough that is that, end of. Happens all the time.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4903 - 20/05/2015 09:12:23    1725885

Good luck to the lad if he can make ther Dublin panel/team.

But who is he???

woops (Kerry) - Posts: 2073 - 20/05/2015 10:42:22    1725940

It's a good thing Mick O'Connell wasn't in Cuala 60 years ago. Now that would have been poaching in the highest degree :) This is nothing new, relax.

lostintime (USA) - Posts: 533 - 20/05/2015 10:51:21    1725945

Well its his own decision who he wants to play for and its a long way to be travelling to training, but Kerry need him a lot more than Dublin do. Hard to make it out of the lower divisions if you keep losing your best players.

clonjon (Dublin) - Posts: 665 - 20/05/2015 11:25:51    1725966

I was expecting the northern response!

Sabotage is a more appropriate word than poach. The capital are taking out a potential up and coming rival.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 7917 - 20/05/2015 11:37:59    1725977

woops
County: Kerry
Posts: 1266

1725940
Good luck to the lad if he can make ther Dublin panel/team.

But who is he???

His name is Darragh O'Connell woops. Played with Abbeydorney till he switched to Cuala last year.

CroiGorm (Dublin) - Posts: 1547 - 20/05/2015 12:02:38    1725984

I was expecting the northern response!

Ha - you didn't really expect to come on from a County which has Tipp, Clare and Limerick hurlers playing for you (when there is a question over where they reside and the legailities of it all) and give out about a Kerry lad working and living in Dublin and playing for them and not get any response.

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 20/05/2015 12:06:05    1725988

Sorry, and give out about a Kerry lad working and living and playing his club hurling in Dublin and playing for them and not get any response.

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 20/05/2015 12:11:01    1725993

While it's disappointing to lose such an important player, everyone who follows Kerry hurling closely wishes Darragh nothing but the best in Dublin, hopefully he will bury the myth once and for all that Kerry is the hurling equivalent of the KK footballers

Also the bitter Antrim supporters should look closer to home as to why we beat them (if they actually bothered to go to that game they would have seen they were very lucky to lose by just a point) The 17 point defeat to Westmeath hopefully sent the message home that ye have no divine right to beat the likes of KY,WH,CW

For the record 16 of the 17 Kerry players who saw action aginst ye were Kerry-born with the other having a Kerry parent, so quit the whinging

KYTitletown (Kerry) - Posts: 816 - 20/05/2015 13:34:30    1726058

We have a surplus of great hurlers in Kerry any other
county looking for good hurlers

wfkerry (USA) - Posts: 933 - 20/05/2015 13:40:53    1726063