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Does Cork produce the greatest sports people in Ireland

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  • #102
    Bret Hart
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    I guess we all now,know the answer to that question ;).


  • #103
    [Deleted User]
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    Bret Hart wrote: »
    I guess we all now,know the answer to that question ;).

    "Sport".

    WWE, MMA and Strictly Come Dancing don't count, they're "entertainment".


  • #104
    Duckworth_Luas
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    Bret Hart wrote: »
    I guess we all now,know the answer to that question ;).
    Frank "The Tank" McCarthy's victory in the wellie throwing contest at the recent Ballycotton Harvest Festival tells us that Cork are still on top!


  • #105
    Ted_YNWA
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    Joe prim wrote:
    Don't forget the Ballinacurra Hare, John Joe Somethingorother, wasn't he from Cork too, or somewhere down the bog inanyways ?

    John Joe Barry, the Ballincurry Hare, was from Tipperary.


  • #106
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    The greatest intercounty hurler of all time was Christy Ring. He played for the Cork Senior hurlers from 1939 to 1963. Retiring from intercounty at 43 years of age.

    A legend.

    8 All Ireland medals.

    9 Munster.


  • #107
    tomwaterford
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    The greatest intercounty hurler of all time was Christy Ring. He played for the Cork Senior hurlers from 1939 to 1963. Retiring from intercounty at 43 years of age.

    A legend.

    8 All Ireland medals.

    9 Munster.

    It hurts me to say
    ....but I'm pretty sure Henry shuffling wipes the board with him when it comes to all Ireland's


  • #108
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    tomwaterford wrote: »
    It hurts me to say
    ....but I'm pretty sure Henry shuffling wipes the board with him when it comes to all Ireland's

    He wasn't the player Christy was though, different times and a different game. Christy played in a time when Tipp were just as good as them. That's part of of his legend, Munster was a battle every year, you'd good Waterford and Limerick teams in there to boot.

    Tipp's John Doyle later beat Ring's record with 8 AI medals and 10 Munsters.

    But no man woman or child would ever deny that Ring was the greatest hurler ever to pick a piece of Ash.


  • #109
    Avatar MIA
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

    But no man woman or child would ever deny that Ring was the greatest hurler ever to pick a piece of Ash.

    You can't really compare, whatever about relative competition I'd surmise that modern hurlers would be better/stronger athletes. CR may have excelled, but he would also have had to adapt to a different game.

    A Corkonian (In Exile)


  • #110
    Father Hernandez
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    "Sport".

    WWE, MMA and Strictly Come Dancing don't count, they're "entertainment".

    HA :confused:


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