Does Cork produce the greatest sports people in Ireland

DellyBelly

After watching the rowing today and seeing the efforts of those 2 cork boys it got me thinking does cork produce the best athletes in this country. I'm not Fri cork myself bbut in fairness to them they must be best sports county in the country.

Water John

Cork seems to have a wide range of sports.
A great long tradition in a wide range. That's why they tend to some one or team from Cork in most things.

GLaDOS

Conor McGregor isn't from Cork?


/runs

tomwaterford

Nah....their shte at hurling

#upthedeise

badabing106

If Katie Taylor, Brian o Driscoll, and Rory McIlroy are from Cork, then Yes

Turtyturd

Some great runners from Cark.

Sonia O'Sullivan won a couple of medals...Roy Keane ran out on a few teams.

jackwigan

If you re-arrange the letters in ROG you get GOD, if you add a D and remove the R that is...

Water John

To say we are best, would be ridicolous. It is the range of sports partaken in Cork tends to throw up performers in various disciplines.
GAA for example does not have the draw on the best athletes in the county. There is a strong rugby club with close to a century of tradition in almost all towns.

Mentioning rowing, There is also a big participation in the other rowing event of open/sea water rowing in Cork.

ThisRegard

Just think how much quicker they'd be without those chips on their shoulders over not being the bestest and only capital city.

Mahony0509

Yes. The 'Real' Capital.

SebastianT

Turtyturd wrote: »

Some great runners from Cark.

Sonia O'Sullivan won a couple of medals...Roy Keane ran out on a few teams.

Running anywhere with 7 Premier League, 4 FA Cup and a Champions League medal in your back pocket is great going.

ThisRegard

Mahony0509 wrote: »

Yes. The 'Real' Capital.

And as if by magic......

Mahony0509

ThisRegard wrote: »

And as if by magic......

Must have been a coincidence.

buried

Don't forget Denis Irwin. Class act

ygolometsipe

Kerry Immigrants?

downwesht

Cork people are great competitors and it is in their nature to strive for perfection.
There is a "no give in" attitude in Cork and it is this makes us the best county in Ireland.
Living and working in Skibbereen and being from Cobh (Sonia land) I think that I am more than qualified to have this opinion!!!!!
"Close the eyes and pull like a dog!!!"

Water John

You mention Sonia and Roy. But Denis Irwin would have been rated higher for his team by Alex. Derval O'Rourke also performed so well in key International athletic events. The fastest woman in Ireland.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Sonia"The Big D"O'Sullivan,
Christy Ringpiece...the list goes on.


Yes,true champions the lot of them.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Water John wrote: »

You mention Sonia and Roy. But Denis Irwin would have been rated higher for his team by Alex. Derval O'Rourke also performed so well in key International athletic events. The fastest woman in Ireland.

Ferguson would only say something like that because Keane and him don't get on.Nothing to do with actual ability and influence on a team.

GerryDerpy

They have produced their fair share. I spend a lot of time in cork and can see the general passion for sport. I like that they aren't pure GAA heads, they have a well rounded interest in all sport. I guess that has a lot to do with the fact that it has a large urban area.

I hate when GAA heads bash soccer. As a young urban Dub, spending hours on the road trying to simply keep possession of the football was everything. I can't think of any other sport that you can just play anywhere on a whim. Another thing they bash about is the diving and label players as pansies. They are far from soft, they are simply acting to cheat the ref. That is the fault of the governing bodies and rule makers. We were far from soft playing schoolboy soccer. You'd have to punch a lad to just get a yellow card!

Joe prim

Don't forget the Ballinacurra Hare, John Joe Somethingorother, wasn't he from Cork too, or somewhere down the bog inanyways ?

GerryDerpy

Water John wrote: »

You mention Sonia and Roy. But Denis Irwin would have been rated higher for his team by Alex. Derval O'Rourke also performed so well in key International athletic events. The fastest woman in Ireland.

Present day Ferguson yes. But back when Keane was playing he knew damn well that he was the most important player he ever managed!

Water John

This was long before they fell out. Alex said Irwin's name was the first down on the team sheet every game. Absolutely dependable and took the penalties.

Dirty Dingus McGee

GerryDerpy wrote: »

They have produced their fair share. I spend a lot of time in cork and can see the general passion for sport. I like that they aren't pure GAA heads, they have a well rounded interest in all sport. I guess that has a lot to do with the fact that it has a large urban area.

I hate when GAA heads bash soccer. As a young urban Dub, spending hours on the road trying to simply keep possession of the football was everything. I can't think of any other sport that you can just play anywhere on a whim. Another thing they bash about is the diving and label players as pansies. They are far from soft, they are simply acting to cheat the ref. That is the fault of the governing bodies and rule makers. We were far from soft playing schoolboy soccer. You'd have to punch a lad to just get a yellow card!

My experience of the internet has shown me that despite many many people saying "GAA heads" like to bash soccer it is mainly the other way around.

boardsuser1

Only in Cork boy!!!!!!!

Dirty Dingus McGee

Water John wrote: »

This was long before they fell out. Alex said Irwin's name was the first down on the team sheet every game. Absolutely dependable and took the penalties.

A completely disingenuous opinion though.Put a gun to his head and he'd want Keane on his team every time ahead of Irwin.

GerryDerpy

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

My experience of the internet has shown me that despite many many people saying "GAA heads" like to bash soccer it is mainly the other way around.

There is a bit of that I will admit. Personally my favourite is soccer but I am a big Dublin football fan and I play hurling with friends.

runnerholic

Yes Cork have produced Irelands best sportspeople without a shadow of a doubt. W

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The Rape of Lucretia

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Sonia"The Big D"O'Sullivan,
Christy Ringpiece...the list goes on.

What, to a full stop? You've got both of them there.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Cork has won more medals at the Olympics in the last 24 hours than Ireland has in the last four years.

So there.

Pablo Escobar

And not one mention of Olympic Bronze medalist and world champion Rob Heffernan yet!

Specialun

If doing heroin was a sport then dublin would be class at it

The Rape of Lucretia

Specialun wrote: »

If doing heroin was a sport then dublin would be class at it

Its not one of the Olympic drugs. The IOC offers so many to choose from, turns a blind eye to tests, etc, but heroin just isnt one of them.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Specialun wrote: »

If doing heroin was a sport then dublin would be class at it

Nowhere near world championship level though. We'd be a small fish in a big pond.

Might have more chanve with tea-drinking.

XR3i

does cork really exist, i knmow i heare people talking about it and people have allegedly been un cork, but thats only hearsay, no further questions, your honor

Beasty

Belfast hasn't done badly with the likes of George Best, Alex Higgins and Carl Frampton

andekwarhola

If they manage to get whining inferiority complex classified as an Olympic sport, there will be no hope for the rest of the country.

billie1b

Specialun wrote: »

If doing heroin was a sport then dublin would be class at it

Actually latest figures show that Galway has the biggest heroin problem in Ireland followed by Cork and then Dublin. If having a chip on your shoulder was an olympic event Cork folk would be gold medalists

TheRiverman

Former Taoiseach Jack Lynch was one of the greatest Cork sportsmen ever.Just check out his achievements in both Gaelic Football and Hurling.

Pablo Escobar

billie1b wrote: »

Actually latest figures show that Galway has the biggest heroin problem in Ireland followed by Cork and then Dublin. If having a chip on your shoulder was an olympic event Cork folk would be gold medalists

Just another medal to add to the list then

everlast75

*taps mic*

"did you hear about the man from Cork with an inferiority complex?

He thought he was the same as everybody else"

thank you and goodnight...

Sir Osis of Liver.

In fairness to Cork,if hot chicks were an Olympic sport they'd be contenders for the gold.
(yes,I married a hot cork bitch)

If annoying fcuking accents were an Olympic sport,they would also be contenders for the gold.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

TheRiverman wrote: »

Former Taoiseach Jack Lynch was one of the greatest Cork sportsmen ever.Just check out his achievements in both Gaelic Football and Hurling.

One of the best in the world, I believe.

mackcracknsack

Harrington
O'Driscoll
Roche
Robbie Keane
Paul McGrath
John Giles
Katie Taylor

To name but a few........
Forget about it Cork!!!!

Arsemageddon

TheRiverman wrote: »

Former Taoiseach Jack Lynch was one of the greatest Cork sportsmen ever.Just check out his achievements in both Gaelic Football and Hurling.

He might have been handy at the ga, but he was a sh1t Taoiseach - same as most FF lads who got that job I suppose

Pablo Escobar

mackcracknsack wrote: »

Harrington
O'Driscoll
Roche
Robbie Keane
Paul McGrath
John Giles
Katie Taylor

To name but a few........
Forget about it Cork!!!!

Is that a 'Rest of Ireland' selection?

andekwarhola

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

yes,I married a hot cork bitch.

You silver-tongued rogue, you.

Duckworth_Luas

This thread shows how far Cork has regressed.

Once they would have believed they were the greatest sports people in the world!

andekwarhola

Beasty wrote: »

Belfast hasn't done badly with the likes of George Best, Alex Higgins and Carl Frampton

Joey Dunlop and Danny Blanchflower too.

Arcade_Tryer

An inferiority complex combined with a strong nationalist sentiment often results in success in sport.

So Cork is in with a shout.

John_Rambo

Ireland. Super cool Ireland, cities, provinces, counties, towns, villages and hinterlands.

A small Island on the Western seaboard training hard, working hard, performing hard, winning gold, winning silver, winning bronze... from all the four corners of the island... boxing, sailing, rugby, rally driving, athletics, swimming, soccer, rowing, cycling... and all other forms of sport, inside and outside of the Olympics, professional and amature... yellow jerseys, Worldwide recognition, respect and kudos.

Unified in glory? No. Lets divide it up and dampen the spirit and pick a parish that we've perceived is better than another one.

Fook off Princess Consuela Bananahammock. We, as a nation and as an Island are punching way above our weight. And, we're doing all right. We're together and cheering each other on. And will continue to do so!

COYBIG COYGIG. United in sports.