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Not officially MHC games for the record. That was a qualifier competition.
Sloweddie (Kilkenny) - Posts: 18 - 14/04/2026 22:42:47 2666464 Link 0 |
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Football was a made up game for those who were not skilled enough to grace the hurling fields. It's such a poor game it required a total overhaul in rules. Call out the 20 plus counties who suppress our national sport. From reading this forum from time to time you seem to have all the answers
Sloweddie (Kilkenny) - Posts: 18 - 14/04/2026 22:54:18 2666466 Link 2 |
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u14 hurling panel announced, 55 players and 14 clubs represented. Great to see Dheen (Westmeath) - Posts: 1113 - 15/04/2026 10:28:36 2666504 Link 1 |
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Its part of the same competition, not a separate one. Any of those teams could progress/win the competition. Check Leinster website - listed as Walter hanrahan cup.
old yellar (None) - Posts: 2650 - 15/04/2026 11:11:15 2666516 Link 0 |
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Hurling flourishes where Cricket was previously strong. Kilkenny had loads of Cricket clubs before hurling was officially morphed into what it became under GAA rules
Greengrass1 (Westmeath) - Posts: 54 - 15/04/2026 12:38:41 2666543 Link 0 |
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Cricket is 500 years old, hurling is over 3,000 years old. Hurling has been around longer
Dheen (Westmeath) - Posts: 1113 - 15/04/2026 13:50:29 2666563 Link 0 |
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I don't disagree but hurling strongholds mirror where cricket was strong. Cork,Tipp,Kilkenny,East Galway,West Offaly and in our own county North Westmeath. Its not that long ago that there were multiple cricket clubs in Westmeath
Greengrass1 (Westmeath) - Posts: 54 - 15/04/2026 14:46:53 2666581 Link 0 |
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I was with you in thinking the game should be in Cusack Park (and not because I was afraid Kilkenny might go home again if the surface wasn't to their liking) but Phase 1 of the Leinster Minor Hurling Championship was in fact the Championship.
Maroooned (Westmeath) - Posts: 9 - 15/04/2026 15:00:54 2666587 Link 0 |
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Hurling is an ancient sport. Cricket is a sport only found in British colonies. It was used as part of the process to impose cultural dominance on invaded nations. To an extent Gaelic Football is a compromise rugby soccer alternative a made up game to counter this culture. Fact remains we get more abuse about the strength of football in KK when the treatment of Hurling within the GAA is a far greater issue. It's a much better game to play and watch and is a second class citizen within the GAA fact
Sloweddie (Kilkenny) - Posts: 18 - 15/04/2026 15:11:17 2666590 Link 0 |
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Grossly incorrect to suggest hurling was morphed from cricket. Yes there are some geographical links between areas where cricket was popular and current hurling stronghold areas but nothing to do with one game morphing into the other under GAA Rules as suggested (more to do with topography, lifestyles and rural population densities than any evolution between the sports). Regardless, hurling was already a hugely popular sport throughout the whole county of Kilkenny before cricket started to become popular in around the city and Castlecomer areas in the mid-19th century. Hurling had been popular in Kilkenny for many centuries before that, with the English specifically banning it in Kilkenny as far back as 1366, such was its popularity. So, Kilkenny is definitely not a good example to be using if trying to show any evolution between the sports. In fact, cricket was much more widely popular throughout the county of Westmeath in the late 1800s than it was throughout the county of Kilkenny but unfortunately when cricket declined rapidly in the early 1900s the cricketers turn to football outside of the north of our county, as they didn't have the hurling traditions to fall back on in those areas. What a missed opportunity, eh? Maroooned (Westmeath) - Posts: 9 - 15/04/2026 16:10:36 2666597 Link 0 |