As a counterpoint to all this depressing stuff about spitting, I would like to highlight a very sporting moment during last Sunday's game between Kerry & Dublin.

A Kerry player was being substituted, I think it was Darren O'Sullivan, and before he left the field he turned & shook the hand of the Donegal player who was marking him.

A small gesture that cost him nothing & yet got a round of applause & left a very favourable impression all who saw it.

I think we should remember that for every act of blackguardism, there are sporting gestures by the dozen & friendships being forged that will last a lifetime. We would do well not to lose sight of this.

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5030 - 13/03/2013 08:43:55    1348470

Will never forget Laois minors giving Tyrone a guard of honour off the field after the 1998 All Ireland final.
A very sporting thing to do after being denied their 3rd All Ireland in a row.

orange and blue (Tyrone) - Posts: 1080 - 13/03/2013 10:23:18    1348545

Sorry that should have read "between Kerry & Donegal" not "Kerry & Dublin".

Old age is a terrible thing!!

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5030 - 13/03/2013 10:28:39    1348552

Tomas O'Se handing the match ball to Cluxton after the final whistle of the All-Ireland final

Superglue (Kerry) - Posts: 1283 - 13/03/2013 10:29:31    1348555

Good to see.
Have never understood players shaking their markers hand before a game and then nothing after the game. Something ive always remembered from playing hurling and never got it
Surely things like that should be done after the game

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 13/03/2013 10:29:44    1348556

Tyrone bringing their first Sam Maguire home and it spent it's first night in Donegal in the Abbey Hotel.
Sam was to get it's own box made as Tyrone brought the cup all over ireland and beyond to lift the sick and elderly. Cuthbert Donnelly was to get a full time job chaperoning Sam in an exhausting schedule.

Tyronetim (Tyrone) - Posts: 1254 - 13/03/2013 10:37:22    1348567

Tomas O'Se handing the match ball to Cluxton after the final whistle of the All-Ireland final
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Yeh and then stephen cluxton kicking it so hard when it was given to him we are still searching for it in the Liffey ..

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13659 - 13/03/2013 10:51:42    1348580

waynoI
County: Dublin
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Tomas O'Se handing the match ball to Cluxton after the final whistle of the All-Ireland final
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Yeh and then stephen cluxton kicking it so hard when it was given to him we are still searching for it in the Liffey ..
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Talk about ungrateful tsk tsk!

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 13/03/2013 11:17:12    1348604

Superglue
County: Kerry
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1348555 Tomas O'Se handing the match ball to Cluxton after the final whistle of the All-Ireland final

Got there before me. Will never ever forget that...

DUB1 (Dublin) - Posts: 5583 - 13/03/2013 11:21:01    1348609

The Tyrone county board for this.
http://hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=174132

Superglue (Kerry) - Posts: 1283 - 13/03/2013 11:30:57    1348622

It's hard to escape noticing that Kerry are coming out of this smelling of roses at the moment!!!

Fair play.

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5030 - 13/03/2013 11:59:59    1348651

MuckrossHead
County: Donegal
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It's hard to escape noticing that Kerry are coming out of this smelling of roses at the moment!!!

Fair play.

Ssssshhhhhhh say nathing

Superglue (Kerry) - Posts: 1283 - 13/03/2013 12:13:12    1348665

Offaly hurlers giving the Antrim team a guard of honor leaving the field after The Saffrons brilliant win in the AI semi 1989. Class act.

richiescats (USA) - Posts: 420 - 13/03/2013 13:11:50    1348728

In 1985, Dermot Earley Sr played his last game for Roscommon, on a losing Connacht Final day. The significance of the occasion was not lost on his opponents, many of whom were almost 20 years his junior as the Mayo players set aside their own celebrations to carry Dermot off the field on their shoulders in a powerful recognition of a wonderful man.

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 13/03/2013 13:31:49    1348747

Dublin supporters applauding the defeated Louth team in 2010 during their lap of honour

Beelzedub (Dublin) - Posts: 508 - 13/03/2013 14:46:01    1348816

2 Wexford players(Bobby Rackard and Nick o Donnell I think?)shouldered Christy Ring off the pitch after Wexford beat Cork in the 1956 hurling final.It was Rings last game for Cork.When you compare these men to some of the characters around now like that Cookstown player you cant but despair.

juniorbsub (Wexford) - Posts: 646 - 13/03/2013 14:58:41    1348823

For me it would have be Meath Hurlers beating then All Ireland champions, Offaly in Athboy in a NHL game in February 1995.

hound (Meath) - Posts: 234 - 13/03/2013 14:59:25    1348827

It would be fair to say Kerry people are the most gracious supporters. They were very welcoming last year for the league trouncing they gave us. And also very humble after their defeat in August.

squareball_1988 (Donegal) - Posts: 343 - 13/03/2013 15:14:46    1348835

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It would be fair to say Kerry people are the most gracious supporters. They were very welcoming last year for the league trouncing they gave us. And also very humble after their defeat in August.

Because they've been brought up with amongst class and winning tradition. There's no airs or graces about them they know what's what.

Contrast the supporters of the kingdom with others who have only recently discovered major success and there'll no doubt be a gulf in class. Always had a lot of time for Kerry supporters myself. I remember Donegal beating them in Ballybofey in the league a couple of years ago and a big bus of Kerry Supporters stopped in Donegal town on the way back. Great folk, very sporting towards the beating they got and not worried in the slightest about the long journey ahead of them, happy to take in the scenery apparently!

Samsforthehills (Donegal) - Posts: 1075 - 13/03/2013 15:25:24    1348840

hound
County: Meath
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1348827 For me it would have be Meath Hurlers beating then All Ireland champions, Offaly in Athboy in a NHL game in February 1995.

Sorry but what relevence has that got to this thread???

ConnollyDub (Dublin) - Posts: 2007 - 13/03/2013 15:30:03    1348842