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Know of any high profile current or past inter county players which never played minor for their county but went on to become established at senior? gaelicgab (USA) - Posts: 878 - 14/12/2019 17:54:06 2254841 Link 0 |
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Paul Murphy for the kingdom.
KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 14/12/2019 17:57:19 2254842 Link 3 |
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Brian Fenton, Bernard Brogan, Conor McManus, Drew Wylie, Damien Comer. Yondu (UK) - Posts: 845 - 14/12/2019 18:53:25 2254851 Link 0 |
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Am I right in saying Conor McManus, Lee Keegan and Brian Fenton did not make their county minor teams? GeniusGerry (Kerry) - Posts: 2105 - 14/12/2019 19:27:23 2254857 Link 6 |
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The story of Willie Joyce (Padraic's uncle) will be hard to beat. He never played underage football, not even at club level. The first match he ever played was for the Killererin junior team in 1967. They were a man short so they asked Willie to tog out just to make up the numbers. He was stuck in at full forward and he scored 4 goals! Within 2 years he was on the Galway senior team and was an automatic starter until his retirement in 1984, playing in 4 all-Ireland finals and winning a national league medal. Here is a link to a Hogan Stand article about Willie from 1995: Gaillimh_Abu (Galway) - Posts: 996 - 14/12/2019 19:27:59 2254858 Link 2 |
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Séamus Harnedy - Cork hurling. Does Ciarán McManus and Henry Shefflin fall into this category? bennybunny (Cork) - Posts: 3917 - 14/12/2019 19:38:00 2254861 Link 0 |
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MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 1062 - 14/12/2019 20:12:35 2254865 Link 0 |
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Karl O'Connell didn't even take up football at all until he was about 18 patk (Monaghan) - Posts: 936 - 14/12/2019 20:23:09 2254867 Link 0 |
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Henry Sheflin played both minor football and hurling for Kilkenny in 1997. Interesting Laois were reigning All Ireland champions that time and were pushed all the way by Kilkenny. Laois retained their title later that year
Son_of_sarsfields (Kildare) - Posts: 3 - 14/12/2019 23:09:26 2254894 Link 0 |
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Damien Comer Galway minor 2013
Son_of_sarsfields (Kildare) - Posts: 3 - 14/12/2019 23:14:00 2254897 Link 0 |
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Bernard Brogan hurled minor for the Dubs.
MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13705 - 14/12/2019 23:25:32 2254903 Link 4 |
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You're right about Lee Keegan Gerry, whatever about the other two.
Pericles (Mayo) - Posts: 2521 - 15/12/2019 08:46:41 2254928 Link 0 |
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Damien comes was overage for minor in 2013. And as previous posted said i believe he never mad Galway minor panel when he was underage for it.
sourmilk93 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1144 - 15/12/2019 14:40:21 2254973 Link 0 |
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Lee Keegan hamsterdean (Limerick) - Posts: 223 - 15/12/2019 15:01:40 2254976 Link 0 |
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You're right about McManus, he didn't play minor championship for Monaghan. It was a strange one as he was in the training panel but wasn't selected for the match day squad. And its not like he wasn't good back then as he was one of the best players on the team that won the county minor that year. Maybe the manager thought he was too slight then, but even then he was starting to play a bit with the Clontibret seniors and just 2 years later he came on in the Ulster senior final between Tyrone and Monaghan, and his physique wouldn't have changed much in those couple of years. Strange all round.
patk (Monaghan) - Posts: 936 - 15/12/2019 20:46:28 2255040 Link 1 |
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Donal Keoghan never played underage football with meath and prior to him Peader Byrne likewsie never played underage brian (Meath) - Posts: 1954 - 16/12/2019 09:08:39 2255085 Link 1 |
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Meaths John McDermott and Mark Reilly. seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2136 - 17/12/2019 21:17:53 2255416 Link 3 |
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We've had two all stars in O'Connell and McManus, while Drew Wylie didn't make it either. FarneyAbu16 (Monaghan) - Posts: 8 - 18/12/2019 00:13:08 2255430 Link 0 |
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Brian Fenton played minor. He was a sub on team that got to an All Ireland final
Groundball (Wexford) - Posts: 122 - 18/12/2019 11:52:54 2255462 Link 0 |
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Incorrect
TrueBlue35 (Dublin) - Posts: 206 - 18/12/2019 12:17:43 2255467 Link 0 |