1 Maurice Fitz for me!!
2 Padraig Joyce
3 Colm o Rourke


Saw Niall Buckley mentioned there, another classy player

ki ki musampa (Meath) - Posts: 55 - 26/07/2010 21:51:46    724815

From Meath it would have to be Martin O'Connell and Trevor Giles, and from the rest Mickey Linden, Michael Donnellan, Anthony Tohill and Sean Kavanagh

GreenGael (Meath) - Posts: 108 - 27/07/2010 08:57:15    724876

dan shanahan eugene cloonan tony browne henry shefflin and dj carey cant really pick a winner between all of them!!

pullhard44 (UK) - Posts: 20 - 27/07/2010 09:39:00    724899

Dermot Earley, Glen Ryan , Niall Buckey , Larry Tompkins Kildare

Other counties- Brian Dooher, Maurice Fitzgerald, Graham Geraghty, Colm Cooper, Ken McGrath, Seanie McMahon, Tommy Walsh

LilySavage (Kildare) - Posts: 114 - 27/07/2010 09:40:00    724900

I would put a big bet on the gaelicmeath actually being pomeroyplunkett, trying to double bluff us he is dell. Sad sad man.

Derry_ledd (Derry) - Posts: 2093 - 27/07/2010 09:51:12    724912

Seamus Moynihan - literally carried Kerry on his shoulders for 10 years - pure heart.

traleeexile (Kerry) - Posts: 732 - 27/07/2010 09:54:20    724915

Giles and Moynihan, the two most intelligent footballers of their generation, real thinking peoples footballers. For out and out class and skill Fitzgearld and Cooper.
Other greats for me Martin OConnell, Peter Canavan. For 1 player that might not have been seen as a great in everyones eyes but certainly in mine, Paul Curran.

JohnMitchel (Dublin) - Posts: 178 - 27/07/2010 10:42:19    724986

Mick Lyons and Darren Fay the greatest ever no.3's :P. Liam Harnan, Gerry McEntee and Kevin Foley. Outside of my own county, Bomber Liston and Frank McGuigan.

goalmouth10 (Meath) - Posts: 55 - 27/07/2010 10:47:36    724999

I would have to say from a Meath perspective of heros

1. Mick Lyons
2.Colm O'Rourke
3. Bob O'Malley
4. Graham Geraghty

Beautiful.Meath (Meath) - Posts: 537 - 27/07/2010 10:50:01    725006

Corcaigh: Fionán Murray!!

Ger 'Redser' O'Grady - Tipp
Willie Joe Padden - Mayo

choctaw (Cork) - Posts: 274 - 27/07/2010 10:52:07    725013

Dermot Earley Jnr & Snr
Glenn Ryan
Darren Fay
Colm O'Rourke
John McDermot

Tobealily (Kildare) - Posts: 125 - 27/07/2010 10:54:25    725019

Damien Fitzhenry

gigoer (Wexford) - Posts: 1998 - 27/07/2010 11:09:46    725047

brian dooher graham geraghty colm o rourke graham canty tommy dowd

sam1996 (Meath) - Posts: 436 - 27/07/2010 11:16:18    725060

Declan Browne

Star Gazer (Tipperary) - Posts: 436 - 27/07/2010 11:29:39    725080

My early heroes were Frank McGuigan and John Lynch (a hard as nails Tyrone defender of the 80's). I also had an admiration of Brian Mullins and Jack O'Shea.

caughtredhanded (Tyrone) - Posts: 602 - 27/07/2010 11:38:40    725094

My gaa hero is a fella from my own club. Everyone probably knows someone like this but this fella is a legend. He is 38 and has played 22 seasons of championship football, winning two out of three junior championships in our history. He also captained the club to only our second intermediate championship ever scoring 5 out of 8 points in the final from centre forward. He even managed the team for a couple of years!

recently he got a bad injury- a collapsed disc in his back. We thought he'd retire as he was due to get an operation and would be unable to walk for a couple of months. Luckily he got through the injury and came back at the start of the year. Its a testament to the man that two weeks before the championship he got a bang on his leg and it got infected. he had to spend three nights in hospital, but to two weeks later he togged out for the first round of the championship...played a stormer as usual.

patmcgee (Longford) - Posts: 520 - 27/07/2010 11:42:56    725102

So many...

Football
Maurice Fitz
Dermet Early snr
Sean cavanagh

Hurling
Tony Browne
Tommy Walsh
King Henry
Ken Mcgrath
Seanie Mcmahon
Gary Kirby
Ciaran Carey

Gazzo (None) - Posts: 98 - 27/07/2010 11:43:00    725103

My Dad, never much of a player from what I can gather from his brothers( he was well in his 40s when I arrived so I never saw him play) and he had a son(me) who was never much of a hurler, (more the big awkard fellow you put up front in the hope he might "do a bit of damage"). However he was involved in the club for donkey's years, never had aspirations to be an officer, but was the kind of fellow you see on the sideline with hurleys, on the field committee and minded the gate into the pitch. As a result I spent half my summer Sundays on the sidelines myself, carrying water bottles for the juniors or whoever was playing. We may not have been great players but he instilled in me and my sister a love of the GAA and especially of hurling that will never die. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have been in Croker last Sunday. That's my hero.

mpsox (Carlow) - Posts: 20 - 27/07/2010 12:26:49    725202

Padraig Joyce, Moynihan and John Mullane

nok02 (USA) - Posts: 534 - 27/07/2010 12:33:29    725227

Beautiful.Meath
County: Meath
Posts: 150

725006 I would have to say from a Meath perspective of heros

1. Mick Lyons
2.Colm O'Rourke
3. Bob O'Malley
4. Graham Geraghty



In reply to your meath heros list
Are You serious Mick lyons was above thuggery and Graham Geraghty has to be no.1 a footballer of the finest skill and quality Geraghty if he bodered could still be making the meath team and would still disect the posts from anywhere! Have you ever seen Graham play bad in a meath shirt i certainly have not!!

stfechin (Meath) - Posts: 74 - 27/07/2010 12:55:47    725261