(Oldest Posts First)
further to the crazy choice od inniskeen for meath v louth. has anyone anymore unusal venues over the years for big intercounty games like league quater finals or semi finals or championship qualifiers? dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 739 - 21/05/2024 21:25:23 2546260 Link 0 |
Football: 1947 All Ireland final, Cavan v Kerry in Newyork. 2002 Leinster semi final and replay, Kildare v Offaly in Kilkenny. Hurling: 1987 Munster final replay, Tipp v Cork in Killarney. 1987 All Ireland semi final, Kilkenny v Antrim in Dundalk. Ollie2 (Louth) - Posts: 861 - 22/05/2024 07:39:22 2546281 Link 2 |
There have been quite a few leinster semi finals and finals in Nowlan Park. AI games too. Think the Gaelic Grounds were closed for work in 87. Dundalk is odd ok!!
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 13296 - 22/05/2024 07:52:12 2546285 Link 0 |
I think you're right, Viking, about Limerick being unavailable in 1987. Apparently, the Cork-Tipp home and away agreement lapsed after the drawn Munster final in Thurles and no new arrangement had been put in place. In fact, the Tipp-Clare semi-final, which would normally take place in Limerick, was also played in Killarney that year - both the drawn game and replay.
midlands (Westmeath) - Posts: 577 - 22/05/2024 10:08:08 2546313 Link 0 |
good calls there. 1993 All Ireland Hurling 1/4 final , Meath v Antrim in Castleblaney dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 739 - 22/05/2024 10:39:09 2546321 Link 0 |
Wembley hosted a few GAA games back in the 50s and 60s. Not sure were any of them championship though. shaggykev (Donegal) - Posts: 284 - 22/05/2024 10:52:39 2546331 Link 0 |
They were just tournament games.
Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1795 - 22/05/2024 11:00:52 2546335 Link 0 |
I recall Roscommon having to rapidly move a Dublin league game to Leitrim on the late morning of the game because Hyde Park was bogged. eslinchickenmaryland (Leitrim) - Posts: 194 - 22/05/2024 11:05:48 2546338 Link 0 |
Cavan borders Fermanagh too.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 13296 - 22/05/2024 11:12:59 2546341 Link 0 |
Kilkenny 7-7 Cork 2-9 Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2643 - 22/05/2024 11:49:33 2546358 Link 0 |
Donegal v Galway All Ireland Q/F replay 2003 Castlebar !!!!!..You couldn't make it up. gunman (Donegal) - Posts: 1105 - 22/05/2024 11:58:10 2546361 Link 0 |
All Ireland Club Camogie Semi Final 2022 - Sarsfields (Galway) v Slaughtneil (Derry).............venue Gorey, Co.Wexford. Onfor15 (Wexford) - Posts: 530 - 22/05/2024 12:45:27 2546378 Link 0 |
A lot of these aren't really unusual venues, more a case of "I feel the ground is unreasonably closer to one county than the other". CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1657 - 22/05/2024 13:21:23 2546384 Link 0 |
I agree. For example, there was a final of the Leinster 'B' championship in minor football (The Seamus Heaney Cup) played between Wexford and Louth last year in Aughrim, Co. Wicklow. It was a 20-minute drive for some of the lads from North Wexford, from the Kilanerin area. But if you had to come from North Louth instead, it would have been two and a half hours or more, including delays from having to travel the M50 at exactly the wrong time of day. But I still wouldn't nominate it as an 'unusual' venue, since Aughrim is a county ground. Think the idea here is to seek examples of 'properly unusual' venues being used, like Inniskeen. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2435 - 22/05/2024 14:03:29 2546403 Link 0 |
Putting any match under 20k,,(any match under 50k really) in Croker is quite odd,, albeit not unusual. Galway9801 (Galway) - Posts: 1942 - 22/05/2024 14:27:20 2546413 Link 0 |