GAA calls to battle
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:30 pm
I’m not exactly sure what to entitle this but calls to battle seems apt. We all know the typical ‘Hon the Town/Parish/Village’ but I’d love to hear of any other examples anyone has.
2 of the more notable phrases from around the country that I can think of are from Ahane GAA of Limerick and Tullogher-Rosbercon of Kilkenny.
The phrase commonly used by Ahane (home of the Morrissey brothers and the great Mick Mackey) is ‘Come on Ahane, the spuds are boiling’.
From what I can gather, the origins date to the time of Mick Mackey when the kids would have spent all day hurling on the road.
To get Mick and his brother in for their dinner, their mother would shout out the front door ‘Come on Ahane, the spuds are boiling’. This interesting call has stood the test of time and is still commonly used by Ahane today.
Tullagher-Rosbercon’s (home of Walter Walsh) call is RIP Tullogher (pronounced as the word to tear or pull something apart).
I think I read before it came from the 1920s or 30s.
Tullagher showed up for a county football final in a truck against their neighbours Glenmore.
Someone from Glenmore had stuck a sign saying R.I.P. Tullogher to the truck, to which the Tullogher captain responded ‘To Hell with R.I.P. Tullogher, we’ll give them RIP Tullogher’.
They won the final and the phrase stuck.
From within Offaly the only slightly abnormal phrase I can think of is the ‘Cha Rynaghs’ which only seems to have emerged in the last few years but I’ve no idea what it relates to.
2 of the more notable phrases from around the country that I can think of are from Ahane GAA of Limerick and Tullogher-Rosbercon of Kilkenny.
The phrase commonly used by Ahane (home of the Morrissey brothers and the great Mick Mackey) is ‘Come on Ahane, the spuds are boiling’.
From what I can gather, the origins date to the time of Mick Mackey when the kids would have spent all day hurling on the road.
To get Mick and his brother in for their dinner, their mother would shout out the front door ‘Come on Ahane, the spuds are boiling’. This interesting call has stood the test of time and is still commonly used by Ahane today.
Tullagher-Rosbercon’s (home of Walter Walsh) call is RIP Tullogher (pronounced as the word to tear or pull something apart).
I think I read before it came from the 1920s or 30s.
Tullagher showed up for a county football final in a truck against their neighbours Glenmore.
Someone from Glenmore had stuck a sign saying R.I.P. Tullogher to the truck, to which the Tullogher captain responded ‘To Hell with R.I.P. Tullogher, we’ll give them RIP Tullogher’.
They won the final and the phrase stuck.
From within Offaly the only slightly abnormal phrase I can think of is the ‘Cha Rynaghs’ which only seems to have emerged in the last few years but I’ve no idea what it relates to.
