Top 20 Gaa Moments

the_funkyguy

did anyone see the final on sunday??? i'd love to know who one. i got through half of the show and had to head out!

thirdmantackle

Michael Donnellan - he didn't even score the point!!

It was a joke. who cares about Cork scoring into an empty net?

Or Babs not wearing boots?

Canavan coming back onto the pitch in the All-Ireland final?

If you are talking about genuine moments, then legendary stuff like Leitrim winning the Connacht title in 1994, Cork doing the double in 1990. Three in a row for Galway and Down footballers. It was heavily biased due to the people who selected the top 20 moments

Maurice Fitz should have won the award.

Big Ears

John Fenton should have won , what a ****ing goal .

Waylander

I think that Maurice Fitz point is one of the most over rated things in GAA. Do not get me wrong, it was a good score but that is allit was. I think the man was a genius with a ball and did things that were alot more impressive to me then that point was.

kaimera

I assume tis the point Fitz scored from the sideline from 50 odd yards yer on about?

I was there for the minor final that year > imo the greatest score I've seen : never thought he'd kick for a feckin' score let alone put it over with oodles to spare. Amazing but he was a genius with a football.

angry_fox

Maurice Fitz point was a stroke of genius. The Top 20 GAA program was really drawn out. They were interviewing to many people and must of them didn’t look to comfortable in front of the camera

seabee

I'm surprised that jack o'sheas score against offaly did not finish higher in the poll. It was a great team effort and I though it was better than Mick Donnellans "moment". Maybe its just that it was a kerry score...

the_funkyguy

I agree, i don't think the momment were well selected at all. The list was very much influenced by those who made it. The Maurice Fitzgerald point, which has came up in arguments before, is a great individual effort, and some will argue that momments aren't made from individuals but by a team because its a team sport. however, this is a the top 20 moments and a moment is far more than just one person or a team. its the whole moment in time and what lead up to it and what happen after it. i can't say who one because the list only contains some classic gaa moments and i'd like to see more before casting an opion. After all the gaa has been around for longer than 20 years :rolleyes: (though looking at the list you wouldn't know it!!!!)

Flukey

Seamus Darby's goal was a great moment. The stopping of the 5-in-a-row was brilliant. They had the songs written and the t-shirts printed, and it didn't happen. I was at that final. I was sitting on a step on the top of the Cusack Stand. When that goal went in I jumped up in delight. As a Dubliner, it was great to see them beaten. They said of Kerry that year, that after winning 4 All-Irelands in a row, that thirty one and a half counties wanted to see them lose. It was a great match, and a fantastic result, and that goal was the key to it. Truly a great moment in sport.

angry_fox

My dad been a kerry man swears Seamus Darby gave Tommy Doyle a push in the back.

Flukey

He may have given him a little shove at most, but Kerry have done worse themselves. If that ball had not resulted in a goal you can be sure they would not have been asking for a free.


An interesting thing about Offaly's win is that in each of the previous number of years they had got one round further than the previous one. They won the final in 1982, lost it in 1981, lost the semi-final in 1980, lost the Leinster final in 1979 etc.

That 1979 Leinster final was a great match too. Dublin won it with a late goal, scored by Bernard Brogan. They had been a bit behind but clawed back Offaly's lead, point by point. The final score was Dublin 1 - 8 Offaly 0 - 9. Jimmy Keaveney had been sent off in the match. They wrote a song about that game:

On hill 16 we never gave up hope,
Without Jimmy Keavney the man we call the pope,
The last six minutes the hill was going mad,
But Offaly and the Hogan they were looking very sad.

Chorus:
There was 14 on 14 was off,
Jimmy on the sideline havin a gawk,
Heffo and the boys were working out a plan,
How to beat the Offaly lads without the extra man..

Oh,of the second half oh Dublin should be proud,
We put it in the net twice to get the goal allowed,
Oh dubs may come ,and dubs may go,
But history was made six lenister's in a row.

Chorus

And then came the goal,it came from centre-field,
Briany fists a tall ball down to Pat O’Neill,
Anto O’Toole’s past I never will forget,
Bernard Brogan hit a bomber and it landed in the net.

Chorus

Were with them when we win,were with them when we lose,
Roscommon and Kerry watch out for superblues,
We won’t be easy beatin as long as we can yield,
As long as there a man to kick the ball upon the field.

Chorus.

It was a great match. I was at it too, on the Canal End, which is where that goal was scored. I've been going to Croke Park for a long time and yes, I'll be there on Sunday, my 4th visit so far this year. I love summer Sundays, as well as the odd summer Saturday and Bank Holiday Monday!

Lemlin

Missed that programme. Read that it was heavily biased though due to text voting and that an e-mail went around encouraging people to vote for Donellan's score.

Was there any mention of Cavan winning the All Ireland against Kerry at the Polo Grounds in New York in 1947? Surely that should of ranked up there.

Flukey

No, it was only games from the television era, starting from the 60s. It was the best TV moments as opposed to best moments. Even at that a lot of the moments were very modern and the people that would have been voting, especially texting, would not have been of the older vintage. Seamus Darby's goal still has to be the moment, even if it didn't win.

phil

Waylander wrote:

I think that Maurice Fitz point is one of the most over rated things in GAA. Do not get me wrong, it was a good score but that is allit was. I think the man was a genius with a ball and did things that were alot more impressive to me then that point was.

That was a great point. You have to remember that was a last-second score in the game. It truly was an unbelievable score, but it was heightened by the game itself, who Fitzgerald was, and the opposition they were playing against. Context man, context! It's all about the context!

The best point, on technical merit I've seen has to be Frankie Dolans point against Kildare in that thriller in Portlaoise.

I'm no Roscommon man, but that was probably one of the best points I've seen scored _ever_. You need to have a set of balls, or be very stupid to take a point like that in a Championship match with so much at stake. At times, I'm not sure which Frankie has, it seems to change from one game to the next

Phil.

Camogie Playa

What about Ciaran Careys point against Clare?Definitly deserved to be included considering some of the other choices!Sheer class and skill, to go for a score like that in the dying seconds of a match!!Can still picture it in my mind to this day!What a legend!Pity we dont have a few more like him, but in my opinion Paul O Grady is very similar to him, blistering solo runs, going for the important scores out the field!

Flukey

Kevin Broderick scored a marvellous point for Galway against Kilkenny in their Hurling semi-final in 2001. It was a beautiful run and he lofted the ball over a player and caught it again, all on the hurley. An inspirational point. Unfortunately they didn't repeat the dose against Tipperary in the final. Galway hurlers so often do that, follow a great performance with a poor one.

Big Ears

Flukey wrote:

Kevin Broderick scored a marvellous point for Galway against Kilkenny in their Hurling semi-final in 2001. It was a beautiful run and he lofted the ball over a player and caught it again, all on the hurley. An inspirational point. Unfortunately they didn't repeat the dose against Tipperary in the final. Galway hurlers so often do that, follow a great performance with a poor one.

Ah yes Kevin Broderick (or egg and spoon man as I have nicknamed him since that performance and in perticular that score ) , in the final Tipp had an incredible performance from Mark O'Leary scoring 2-1 , unfortunatly he has never played very well for Tipp since .