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by Coolestown1562
Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:06 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Leinster Club Football
Replies: 14
Views: 11702

Re: Leinster Club Football

naasmanxrhode wrote:Just for 6 weeks in early December. They will be back in plenty of time for the All Ireland Semi's?????.

Sweet Jeasus... but I hope your wrong :mrgreen:
by Coolestown1562
Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:58 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Sean Robbins & Dowling Cups
Replies: 7
Views: 7831

Re: Sean Robbins & Dowling Cups

Something tells me you know more about this than I do. Anyway, the only reference in The Music of the Ash is to a county board meeting held on 2nd December 1923 at which a resolution was passed calling for the release of prisoners including Sean Robbins and several others and that Robbins had been ...
by Coolestown1562
Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:26 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Sean Robbins & Dowling Cups
Replies: 7
Views: 7831

Re: Sean Robbins

Sean Robbins is described in Music of the Ash as a driving force of Offaly GAA in the earlier half of the last century. A Birr native, he served two terms as county chairman and served as Leinster Council chairman between those two terms when he succeeded Bob O'Keeffe. He was also a President of th...
by Coolestown1562
Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:57 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Sean Robbins & Dowling Cups
Replies: 7
Views: 7831

Sean Robbins & Dowling Cups

With Rory Hannify and Roy Malone ( :x ) heading off into the sunset again with the respective cups, it got me thinking about the history of the cups. Every year club players come together with the intention of claiming either cup, but most of us are unaware of the men behind the cups. Any 'brains' o...
by Coolestown1562
Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:04 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Richie Connor set to become new manager
Replies: 49
Views: 34568

Re: Richie Connor set to become new manager

P Kellaghan has retired from intercounty football (see earlier post) He has declined an invite and stated that regardless of who got the job he was finished at this level. Personally, his point from the 21 yard line against Laois in O'connor park some years back was the highlight. Maybe if Eamon Hor...
by Coolestown1562
Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:59 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Richie Connor set to become new manager
Replies: 49
Views: 34568

Re: Richie Connor set to become new manager

Perhaps division 2? :?:

What a year for Ferbane- League final and avoiding relegation- are ye training for it? Rhode will use it as good prep for the leinster club
by Coolestown1562
Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:53 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Minor Semi's
Replies: 25
Views: 21230

Re: Minor Semi's

[quote][/quote] DD said 'There is truth in this and I dearly hope these people get their comeuppance, it's not before time that some of those involved are given life bans. They poison the Edenderry club and are an embarrasment to anyone from the town' Here, here...and about time to. Sad to see what ...
by Coolestown1562
Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:14 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Richie Connor set to become new manager
Replies: 49
Views: 34568

Re: Richie Connor set to become new manager

So with all the games over for the forseeable future, threads such as this will lend a hand to filling the void and various players will be discussed who are 'potentialy' worth a shot on Senior panel. The thirty odd players that have been posted by a prveious poster are probably close enough to the ...
by Coolestown1562
Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:39 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: All Ireland Reports
Replies: 4
Views: 4586

Re: All Ireland Reports

I have access to the Times and other newspaper archives. Both the Times and the Independent go back well before Offaly's first all ireland wins