Gerry Armstrong, Antrim senior footballer, all Ireland vocational schools hurling winner, also played soccer for his country.

- He's an uncle of Galways Sean Armstrong.


RealGAA
- Cillian Sheridan is the celtic player from Cavan, and i think Richie Foran is the Motherwell player you're thinking of.

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12311 - 15/01/2009 11:58:00    181043

County: Cork
Posts: 141

180962 I see here that Rob Kearney played for a team in Louth is he a native of Louth ?
he is indeed.hes from the cooley area in north louth.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 15/01/2009 13:34:49    181161

Cavan_Slasher
County: Cavan
Posts: 1283

180771 Ollie and Jayo, I saw Cooley playing a few times in the 70's and 80's and they had a good team. Won a few County Finals and i attended two. They were a hard enough team and did'nt pull back in the tackle (or row). I'd say it was only a small step down for him to be able for the rugby !!
they did indeed have a good team.they reached two leinster club finals in 70s.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 15/01/2009 13:38:16    181165

Yeh Breffni39, It is Foran. Anyone know where he is now? It was really funny at the time as terry butcher was going mental. It brought some publicity to the GAA in scotland. As Brendan Behan said "the only bad publicity is an obituary column"

Gerry Armstrong actually made a comeback to gaeic games in London when he retired. He lasted one game getting himself sent off.

realgaa (UK) - Posts: 128 - 15/01/2009 13:54:08    181173

Ben Traynor won All-Ireland Colleges hurling with Dublin Colleges, and Leinster Senior Cup rugby with Blackrock College in the same year. Also Redmond Barry played Senior Cup rugby at Cistercian Roscrea.

icehonesty (Wexford) - Posts: 2573 - 15/01/2009 14:25:38    181201

gianfranco
County: Offaly
Posts: 18

181022 Peter Bracken, prop with Harlequins, formerly Bristol and Connacht, played club football and hurling in Offaly. A big man. Huge.

Thats right. he played Minor Football for Offaly.

Faithful_Fan (Offaly) - Posts: 34 - 15/01/2009 14:56:55    181252

dhorse
County: Laois
Posts: 896

180672 was there a kerry man that went to play American football, as a place kicker???

No that was an Offaly Man. The legendary Martin Furlong's brother Tom was making a name for himself until he injured his knee.......

Here's the link..

http://www.terracetalkireland.com/profiles/tom-furlong.htm

Faithful_Fan (Offaly) - Posts: 34 - 15/01/2009 15:01:16    181260

Faithful_Fan
County: Offaly
Posts: 18

Great story. but somewhere in my mind,muddled, i recall a kerry chap doing trhe same, or maybe he came from U.S. to play with kerry??

Thers a lad from ferbane looking after the pitch at chesterfields ground

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 15/01/2009 17:06:24    181489

Supprised nobody has mentioned one of the greatest Irish footballers of all time Denis Irwin was a class underage hurler for the great St Finbarrs club in Cork

Redhot (Cork) - Posts: 739 - 15/01/2009 17:42:59    181566

I must admit I would not play for Rangers either. What with all those Italians and Spaniards and such, they probably spend most of the week at mass and novenas, and lighting candles and all that crack.

Not for me.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 15/01/2009 18:02:52    181601

Redhot
County: Cork
Posts: 142

181566 Supprised nobody has mentioned one of the greatest Irish footballers of all time Denis Irwin was a class underage hurler for the great St Finbarrs club in Cork

did he win a colleges medal

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 15/01/2009 18:03:29    181604

Connaught hooker Joe merrigan played underage club football for killanin in galway no real skill but he was huge in full forward he left me on my backside a few times in a minor game

pumakings (Galway) - Posts: 37 - 15/01/2009 18:47:05    181664

johnny murphy who is playing rugby for leicester and should soon be playing for ireland used to play football with ellistown in kildare,fionn carr once of leinster and now with connaught was playing football with ardclough as recently as 2007 and timmy murphy the jockey used to play underage football with two-mile-house in kildare,thats just a few i can think of it anyway!!

der_bomber (Kildare) - Posts: 149 - 16/01/2009 00:45:27    181968

Dhorse - yes Denis Irwin must have won a medal a college level because he played for one of the top college's in Cork that was Colasti Chroist Roi and he also marked Niall Quinn in a underage All Ireland Hurling final between Cork and Dublin

Redhot (Cork) - Posts: 739 - 17/01/2009 11:49:02    182928

they all play gaelic growing up to help build up the strength.

a lot of young rugby lads over like to play gaelic when the rugby closes to keep fit and build up strength getting used to hits etc, granted the hits in rugby would be different and harder.

pronane (None) - Posts: 324 - 17/01/2009 12:18:54    182936

JayoCluxton
County: Dublin
Posts: 2496

180502 Eric Miller played ballyboden,
christy77 , 14/01/2009 at 17:17
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How did he fare out - did he win?

was there a kerry man that went to play American football, as a place kicker???
dhorse , 14/01/2009 at 22:01
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No dhorse - you're thinking of Dinny Bán O'Sé - a fisherman out of Dingle who landed a big job in a US fishing port. His main job was keeping the decks clear of dead fish and he thus became the first Kerryman employed in the US as a plaice kicker!



ah jayo- awesome stuff,love a bit that ! keep it up
upsheflew- up the village

Rhodejim (Offaly) - Posts: 2888 - 17/01/2009 12:30:34    182942

Redhot
County: Cork
Posts: 143

182928 Dhorse - yes Denis Irwin must have won a medal a college level because he played for one of the top college's in Cork that was Colasti Chroist Roi and he also marked Niall Quinn in a underage All Ireland Hurling final between Cork and Dublin
Think that might have been 83 minor semi final ?, galway beat dublin in final. i met him at world cup a few years back, was still very much into the hurling

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 17/01/2009 13:45:15    182990

During Irwin's playing days he turned up at a underage hurling game in Cork once while home on holidays there were some many people queing up to get his autograph that he could not watch the game so he told them he would give them his autograph after the game had finished

If Roy Keane was there he would have been ran out of the place

Redhot (Cork) - Posts: 739 - 19/01/2009 12:42:08    183697

I would have always loved to be the wee fat guy with the long hair who does nothing but throw the ball in from the sideline!!

hatchetfield (Antrim) - Posts: 51 - 19/01/2009 12:51:15    183712

they didnt switch from hurling to rugby. they played both and left one to concentrate on the other

honouryclareman (Clare) - Posts: 15 - 19/01/2009 14:04:28    183771