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What are the best rivalries in the GAA?

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  • #62
    premierstone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    Browney7 wrote: »
    I think every Munster county loves beating Tipp to be honest just to slag them off after. How they have the gall to call themselves "The Premier" I'll never know.

    Because its not a claim or any such Browney its a fact, Tipperary were the first (as in premier) to win an AI Senior title.

    P.S. We are also the only county to have won a senior hurling AI in every single decade since the foundation of the GAA ( it was founded in Thurles, Co. Tipperary btw) ;)


  • #63
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,030 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Those Tipp boys would claim anything really.

    "The Home of Hurling" always bring smile to my face when I hear them say that. :rolleyes:

    EVENFLOW



  • #64
    Orizio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    As a Cork fan, the Cork vs Tipp/Waterford/KK have always trumped the Cork vs Kerry matches imo.


  • #65
    rebel girl 15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,247 ✭✭✭✭rebel girl 15


    Cork v Kerry games for me, though Dublin, Meath one was huge as well


  • #66
    premierstone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    adrian280582 wrote: »
    Those Tipp boys would claim anything really.

    "The Home of Hurling" always bring smile to my face when I hear them say that. :rolleyes:

    But its not a claim its a FACT, Thurles is the home of hurling, unless you have a different version to 1884???


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  • #67
    cruiserweight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭cruiserweight


    premierstone wrote: »
    But its not a claim its a FACT, Thurles is the home of hurling, unless you have a different version to 1884???

    Cuchulainn might disagree with you on where hurling started :p


  • #68
    premierstone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    cruiserweight wrote: »
    Cuchulainn might disagree with you on where hurling started :p

    Ah yes but it was homeless, like a wandering gypsie, untill that night in Hayes Hotel ;)


  • #69
    Browney7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭Browney7


    But you don't hear Limerick Calling themselves the "Premier" because they won the first all Ireland football or because they were the first county to win the Liam McCarthy cup.;);)


  • #70
    wackojacko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭wackojacko


    jesus lads its nothing to do with gaa. its because they were the leaders in any uprising.


    Tipperary is sometimes referred to as the Premier County, a description attributed to Thomas Davis, Editor of The Nation newspaper in the 1840s as a tribute to the nationalistic feeling in Tipperary and said that "where Tipperary leads, Ireland follows"


  • #71
    cruiserweight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭cruiserweight


    wackojacko wrote: »
    jesus lads its nothing to do with gaa. its because they were the leaders in any uprising.


    Tipperary is sometimes referred to as the Premier County, a description attributed to Thomas Davis, Editor of The Nation newspaper in the 1840s as a tribute to the nationalistic feeling in Tipperary and said that "where Tipperary leads, Ireland follows"

    Loads of counties have nicknames and in most cases it is nothing to do with GAA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_county_nicknames. But for the record the home of hurling stuff bugs me.

    Anyway back on topic. Wexford vs Kilkenny in the hurling is a good rivalry despite some of the recent results.


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  • #72
    Daysha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭Daysha


    cruiserweight wrote: »
    Loads of counties have nicknames and in most cases it is nothing to do with GAA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_county_nicknames. But for the record the home of hurling stuff bugs me.

    Agreed. I'll always have a soft spot for Tipp due to family connections (and we have a great record against them :D) but it does irk me sometimes. Putting it into context, when England begin every World Cup by proclaiming how football will be "coming home", they don't make many friends outside their country. Tipp's home of hurling stuff has the same kind of effect.


  • #73
    premierstone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    wackojacko wrote: »
    jesus lads its nothing to do with gaa. its because they were the leaders in any uprising.


    Tipperary is sometimes referred to as the Premier County, a description attributed to Thomas Davis, Editor of The Nation newspaper in the 1840s as a tribute to the nationalistic feeling in Tipperary and said that "where Tipperary leads, Ireland follows"

    Thanks wacko, how am i supposed to get a rise out of these lads with you around? :p


  • #74
    modric
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭modric


    Limerick Tipp hate! there is a certain scumy quality about Tipp folk


  • #75
    premierstone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    modric wrote: »
    Limerick Tipp hate! there is a certain scumy quality about Tipp folk

    lol, ''hello pot my name is kettle'' ;)


  • #76
    Daysha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭Daysha


    modric wrote: »
    Limerick Tipp hate! there is a certain scumy quality about Tipp folk

    The :rolleyes: smiley was made for posts like this :rolleyes:


  • #77
    smashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    modric wrote: »
    Limerick Tipp hate! there is a certain scumy quality about Tipp folk
    Read the charter. We don't appreciate comments like that here.

    Infracted.


  • #78
    evil-monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭evil-monkey


    modric wrote: »
    Limerick Tipp hate! there is a certain scumy quality about Tipp folk

    :rolleyes: wow...best GAA punditing i've ever heard. you my friend, will not last long here...


  • #79
    Browney7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭Browney7


    modric wrote: »
    Limerick Tipp hate! there is a certain scumy quality about Tipp folk

    lol!!!

    how subtle. We might not like them lad but I wouldn't call them Scummy.


  • #80
    Declan30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 220 ✭✭Declan30


    Limerick V Tipp is a fierce rivalry but I would not say it is the best as a lot of the supporters on both sides do not get on.
    I said both sides premier man just in case u get upset lol!!Image8.gif
    Kerry v cork in football for me would be one of the best .
    Galway and Tipp in hurling also is very good look at the 2005 win Galway had over Tipp.


  • #81
    premierstone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    Declan30 wrote: »
    Limerick V Tipp is a fierce rivalry but I would not say it is the best as a lot of the supporters on both sides do not get on.
    I said both sides premier man just in case u get upset lol!!Image8.gif
    Kerry v cork in football for me would be one of the best .
    Galway and Tipp in hurling also is very good look at the 2005 win Galway had over Tipp.

    How very diplomatic of you :D


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  • #82
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    on boards -

    kerry v the rest :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D


  • #83
    Daysha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭Daysha


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    on boards -

    Dublin v the rest :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

    Fix'd ;)


  • #84
    gabigeist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭gabigeist


    I'd love to see Northern Ireland tog out against the republic. There'd be proper rivalry there


  • #85
    smashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    gabigeist wrote: »
    I'd love to see Northern Ireland tog out against the republic. There'd be proper rivalry there
    You do realise that this is the GAA forum?


  • #86
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    gabigeist wrote: »
    I'd love to see Northern Ireland tog out against the republic. There'd be proper rivalry there

    interpros no???


  • #87
    premierstone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    interpros no???

    Not really, there are 9 counties in Ulster, but only 6 in Northern Ireland.


  • #88
    gabigeist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭gabigeist


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    interpros no???
    No. A proper international with anthems and all.
    You could even bring in a granny rule and get an British team of Irish lads with English grannies:D


  • #89
    smashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    gabigeist wrote: »
    No. A proper international with anthems and all.
    You could even bring in a granny rule and get an British team of Irish lads with English grannies:D
    As trolls go, you take some beating.

    Banned.


  • #90
    grenache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    For me, the Sunday World sponsored "Kerry-Dublin rivalry" is not a real living rivalry, its an artificial one, a throwback to the days of the late 70s. Those days are gone, yet some people seem content to live in the past.

    Dublin-Meath, Cork-Kerry, Tipp-Cork, Tipp-Clare, Tipp-Limerick, Armagh-Tyrone - these are natural rivalries that don't need to be hyped up by the media to draw the crowds.


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  • #91
    weebelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭weebelly


    btw - grenache - you missed a classic: Derry-Tyrone the accident of geography has some players from one county playing club football (and county football) in the other - you couldn't repeat the abuse those guys get in any public forum.
    Pretty much all (or most) of these rivalries are between counties that border on each other, whats the biggest modern rivalry where they don't share a border (i.e. modern - Kerry-Dublin doesn't count).


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