Hurling club poll
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2025 6:24 pm
I’m doing this poll purely out of curiosity so I’m not looking for any negative comments or anything like that.
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Agree with all of this, Lusmagh and Clareen for me too.Offaly Hero wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 2:32 pm Lusmagh get my vote too! Clareen an honourable mention.
Lusmagh is an amazing club fighting against the odds of small numbers, lack of finance, social demographics etc. After my own clubs results, I always look next for theirs.
Think they are fielding two adult hurling teams this year? Their best team being a very competitive senior B team. Not too sure about football this year but they fielded a team last year I think. Perhaps somebody can confirm. Remarkable.
I’m too young to remember them winning the championship in 1989. Imagine, beating another small club, Seir Kieran, by one single point. That must have been electric. And emotional. Imagine also being the home of John Troy!
If every club in Offaly had their attitude, we’d be in a good place.
jasus when you look back on the players that came out of both clubs down the years was unreal they were the best to play the game. and John Troy the jewl in the crown .faithfulfanatic wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 6:53 pmAgree with all of this, Lusmagh and Clareen for me too.Offaly Hero wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 2:32 pm Lusmagh get my vote too! Clareen an honourable mention.
Lusmagh is an amazing club fighting against the odds of small numbers, lack of finance, social demographics etc. After my own clubs results, I always look next for theirs.
Think they are fielding two adult hurling teams this year? Their best team being a very competitive senior B team. Not too sure about football this year but they fielded a team last year I think. Perhaps somebody can confirm. Remarkable.
I’m too young to remember them winning the championship in 1989. Imagine, beating another small club, Seir Kieran, by one single point. That must have been electric. And emotional. Imagine also being the home of John Troy!
If every club in Offaly had their attitude, we’d be in a good place.
Both tiny but proud clubs who need everybody pulling together to have any shot at survival.
In big clubs like ourselves, Kilcormac, Birr, Ferbane, Tullamore etc, lads can afford to move abroad or stop playing for a year or two when they like, knowing that someone else is there to fill in.
In smaller clubs like those, lads know that a couple of lads lost could decimate a team, and a parish.
John Troy Jim Troy Joachim Kelly Brendan Kelly Brendan Bermingham; Johnny Dooley Joe Dooley Billy Dooley Kevin Kinahan Joe Bergin. What a list between the 2. Both also pulling from 1 small national school each.
Unfortunately I believe numbers in both are dwindling even further.