Kilkenny GAA Thread

speaking as a big GAA man and very involved in GAA in my locality moreso football but I absolutely love hurling and I worshipped the ground DJ walked on - for many a long year, until recent revelations let’s say …

I found the intrusion into his private life a bit unsavoury but it needs to be out there and in public.

He did so much damage and was such a “two faced rat” over the years - for example the Thai girl he brought over to work as a so-called au pair - I think we all know the subtext of what was going on there - the wife didn’t tolerate it.

Maybe the Thai was involved in some element of DJ various scams he had running? It might trigger a victim of his to come forward.

i was Dj number 1 fan for many years. So for me to say this is a turn up for the books.

Of course never nice to see it all down and dirty laid out like dirty underwear but RTÉ have good reasons.

That’s my 2 cents on it.

As stated above what sticks out most about DJ from the Documentary was his unbelievable ability at such a young age, the clips of him catching high ball at such a young age in the inside forward line created such an advantage, rarely seen underage nowadays, the side step, striking off his left and right, he had no problem working hard and getting stuck in either. He was way ahead of his time. The rest of it was a waste of time and an invasion of privacy to family members.

O'Connors are farmers but John has worked in formly Wexford Creamery now Tirlan for over 30 years I'd say, Jack is working for an animal health crowd I think in Lepoardstown and Grace is a nurse.

Ah ok, she must have finished or branched out.

Timmy Holihan added to the Kilkenny management as goal keeper coach ? Where has he worked previously

Has anyone heard anything about how this went?

Who is this Seamus O'Connor fella on the Dodger programme and what's his business being on it for?

Have never heard of him but apparently has worked with Limerick goalies over the past few years, so should be a decent addition.

What is the second part of the dj documentary people are talking about ?

Surely there was enough in the first part. Why are RTÉ going to town so much on DJ?

he did wrong yes and he is in prison. I understand the public interest. The book is sold out in newbridge Easons for example.

but Why the need to drag this all out?

Big win for Kierans over Good Counsel

Its up on the RTE player and there is nothing new in it. Its the author of the book that is pushing all this and apparently she is on two programmes tonight on Virgin promoting the book again. Sales must be slow.

Will the author be giving all the proceeds to a cancer charity?

Was he heavily involved in supporters club back then I think?

Super post. If the so called author cared so much about his victims why doesn't she give them the profits from the book?

I think theres definitely something in it anyway. It was winning awards before and we all remember the way the way it was left after the concert and that was the summer and before a underage all ireland. It was embarrassing at the time.The pitch was absolutely scandalous last wknd and would i be right in saying wexford park looked in far better condition? I take into account the weather and the over use of it due to lack of pitches but thats for another day and has being well published here about the failure of our county board to have a proper center of excellence not like the dump.Under 21 final could easily be played in callan and times during the year matches could of being played in club grounds and would have served up a better atmosphere. Timmy holihan will have to be a big improvement on michael rice as goal keeping coach but how did it take derek 4 years to acknowledge a proper goalkeeping coach was needed?it will probably be hard teach old dog new tricks because we all know scruff doesnt like them but are management brave enough to make big changes?i have my doubts. I think any work on short puckouts was met by resistance by a few players.We know owen wall,zach and billy drennan aren't part of the panel for next year. Billy and zach didnt accept the invitation. I know a fringe player who has seen very little gametime over the last few years also told derek he wasnt going back in but after a meeting and a promise to be shown more game time he went back in. I presume he is going to be tried in a different position. It seems loads of players were called in and some might benefit in the long term but unlikely to see any gametime this year,rory glynn,James walsh kilmacow,sean hunt,joe healy,anthony ireland.paddy langton,michael brennan,rory glynn,david barcoe theres loads more. Mikey carey seems to be the talk of going into full back but podge moylan will also deserve his chance. Anyone know why daragh corcoran played wing back last wknd? Maybe its something to do with the injury? It should be a good final. Shamrocks as we know arent the team they once were but are still very hard to beat. Adrian will obviously be huge but paddy should be back. He got stamped on when he came onto the pitch without boots during that schmoozel at the end against kk.