Football/hurling Clubs Co Clare!

Marmalade79

We are thinking of relocating to Co Clare and are looking at a house in Inch, being from Mayo we are very anxious that our kids have the option to play both football & hurling, we understand some clubs only play Hurling including Kilmaley which is connected to Inch. What is the etiquette as regards playing hurling with one and travelling to another for football or is it a done thing? Or where would be the best place to love in order to have the best of both worlds!! TIA for your help!

caddy16

It would be fairly common for kids to play hurling with their home club and football with a neighbouring club or vice versa. I think the Banner club would be very close to Inch and probably your best option for football.

Clareman

Marmalade79 wrote: »

We are thinking of relocating to Co Clare and are looking at a house in Inch, being from Mayo we are very anxious that our kids have the option to play both football & hurling, we understand some clubs only play Hurling including Kilmaley which is connected to Inch. What is the etiquette as regards playing hurling with one and travelling to another for football or is it a done thing? Or where would be the best place to love in order to have the best of both worlds!! TIA for your help!

No problem at all, Kilmaley players traditionally played with Lissacasey and vice versa, Colin Lynch would be an example. There was a relaxing of the other clubs rule though so you could play with other clubs if you wanted, The Banner and Eire Og in town would probably be the most likely.

There isn't many dual clubs, around Ennis would probably be your best bet, for example players from Miltown play with Kilmaley as it'd be the closest hurling club.

Conor Clancy, who won the most medals for Clare is from Inch by the way and is still heavily involved in the club

ger664

Kilmaley would be the nearest Hurling. While lissycasey is traditionally where the footballers go, the Banner is probably closer to Inch and they have a good juvenile setup since the abandonment of the Urban league.

Clareman

The Banner would be a lot closer to Inch, there's a couple of backroads to get to, Woodstock Golf Club is right next to the Banner if you want to check out the location, they really are doing great things at underage.

Inch is part of Kilmaley parish so if you wanted to play hurling for another club you could run into difficulties, this wouldn't be anything to do with local rules but more the overall GAA rule book.

Reputable Rog

Clareman wrote: »

No problem at all, Kilmaley players traditionally played with Lissacasey and vice versa, Colin Lynch would be an example. There was a relaxing of the other clubs rule though so you could play with other clubs if you wanted, The Banner and Eire Og in town would probably be the most likely.

There isn't many dual clubs, around Ennis would probably be your best bet, for example players from Miltown play with Kilmaley as it'd be the closest hurling club.

Conor Clancy, who won the most medals for Clare is from Inch by the way and is still heavily involved in the club

Colin Lynch also played for Eire Og. There should be no problem playing football with another club if your hurling only, some of the Clonlara players play football with Meelick.

Marmalade79

Thanks everyone, really appreciate all your replies, my poor husband was loosing sleep over the two boys never getting to kick a ball!!..it's hard to knock the football out of a Mayo man!

Clareman

Marmalade79 wrote: »

Thanks everyone, really appreciate all your replies, my poor husband was loosing sleep over the two boys never getting to kick a ball!!..it's hard to knock the football out of a Mayo man!

I was talking to a friend of mine from Inch there and he told me that there's a regular car pooling/bus from different places to football training a couple of times a week, there's lot of competition between different clubs to get the numbers

There's also a couple of guys who drink in the local pub/hotel that are massive football lads and will happily welcome another cast away into their mist

blowin3

I would opt with Eire og. They have a strong underage setup in both hurling training (Friday night) and football( Monday night). To keep the Mayo hubby happy they also have an under age coach from his neck of the woods.

Clareman

Could run into difficulty playing hurling for Eire Óg though, it's fairly set in stone that unless you have a parent/sibling playing for a team you can't play for them, there was a massive case in Kerry a couple of seasons ago.

Sunny Disposition

Your obvious hurling club in Inch would be Kilmaley and Lissycasey for football. But don't mind that aul football;)