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Replying To grassroots01:  "Was in at the senior games in the park on Saturday and got chatting to a Gorey man and this came up in conversation. He made the point that there shouldn't be a need for a 2nd "town club" as there are lot of families playing with Gorey that should technically be playing with surrounding clubs based on the parish boundaries. Kilanerin/Rocks, St Patricks, Cranford, Castletown and Realt Na Mara and i think someone other club all come close into the town - apparently St Patrick's is right into where Gorey rangers has its pitch or close enough to there?"
If kids are going to schools in Gorey it's hard to say they should be playing for a club outside even if that's where they live. The Ballygarrett parish boundary goes into the Courtown Rd roundabout for the motorway I think or very close to it. Has to be difficult for Naomh Eanna to manage the kind of numbers they have underage too.

I know it's a disaster in Waterford with Ballygunner far too strong and some of the traditional town clubs struggling. Kilkenny seems to go ok with the various clubs picking up enough numbers in the town without one overly dominating.

Timbertony (Wexford) - Posts: 449 - 29/09/2025 17:26:01    2637868

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Replying To Viking66:  "https://ferns.ie/parish-map/

Might be helpful for you"
Need the townlands version :)

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 650 - 29/09/2025 18:12:12    2637874

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Replying To Viking66:  "Annes don't have any border with town. Taghmon is as close to town as they are.
Rosslare would be closer to town, and arent even Intermediate in either code.
Think you have Kilanerin the wrong way around as regards grades in codes!
There are only 3 other clubs with borders with Gorey, Craanford are Intermediate in hurling and football which is pretty good. St Pats have some good underage teams, and good coaches over them. Don't know much about Ballygarret tbh, but something must've gone wrong as they suffered successive relegations."
Did get Kilanerin wrong, you're right, copy and pasted the wrong line!

Anne's might not have a border with Wexford Town but they're hardly a million mile away

Craanford might find it difficult to stay Intermediate in football in the medium-term to long-term, I'm also struggling to think of a senior inter-county player ever produced by them

Was going to say Ballygarrett should be better than they are but probably a bit like Rosslare, a lot of their population is seasonal and the demographics of the place are probably more amenable to soccer than GAA

Do Pat's have good under-age teams?

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 650 - 29/09/2025 18:17:05    2637875

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Replying To Pikeman96:  "Yup. Think St. Anne's are too far down to get any "spillover" from Wexford town, and just to point out that you have the Kilanerin/Tara Rocks thing the wrong way round as regards hurling and football, but your point stands. Generally speaking, the other clubs around Wexford town are more attractive than the ones around Gorey.

Even more to the point is how you can go in any direction from Wexford town and find an "attractive" club. In Gorey, you could only go north, towards Kilanerin or Castletown. Go any other direction and you're looking at Craanford, St. Pat's, or Ballygarrett/Réalt na Mara. No disrespect to any of them, but a family with no strong ties to any of them would probably be more likely to send their children to Naomh Éanna instead."
But at what age are they deciding to send their children to Gorey ahead of Craanford/Pat's/Ballygarrett?

You'd imagine it ties in closely with the primary schools

Leaving out Dunbar for obvious reasons, how many curreny Gorey players are there who "should" in theory be playing for other clubs?

Have it in my head that the Doyles are from just outside Gorey (Father is a Craanford man) but whether they're in Gorey or Craanford parish, I don't know, fairly sure they went to primary school in Gorey though

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 650 - 29/09/2025 18:20:00    2637876

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Need the townlands version :)"
I have a proper parish map but not in a sharable format. It's around 2 foot square and printed! Just FYI the club boundaries arent determined by the current parish boundaries, but by the ones from around 100 years ago afaik.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17122 - 30/09/2025 07:48:46    2637895

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Did get Kilanerin wrong, you're right, copy and pasted the wrong line!

Anne's might not have a border with Wexford Town but they're hardly a million mile away

Craanford might find it difficult to stay Intermediate in football in the medium-term to long-term, I'm also struggling to think of a senior inter-county player ever produced by them

Was going to say Ballygarrett should be better than they are but probably a bit like Rosslare, a lot of their population is seasonal and the demographics of the place are probably more amenable to soccer than GAA

Do Pat's have good under-age teams?"
I'm involved with u14s and Pats had 2 teams at u14 this year, div2 and div6.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17122 - 30/09/2025 08:11:58    2637899

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "But at what age are they deciding to send their children to Gorey ahead of Craanford/Pat's/Ballygarrett?

You'd imagine it ties in closely with the primary schools

Leaving out Dunbar for obvious reasons, how many curreny Gorey players are there who "should" in theory be playing for other clubs?

Have it in my head that the Doyles are from just outside Gorey (Father is a Craanford man) but whether they're in Gorey or Craanford parish, I don't know, fairly sure they went to primary school in Gorey though"
If someone lives in Craanford and their child goes to school in Craanford they can't play for Gorey.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17122 - 30/09/2025 08:13:03    2637900

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Glynn / Oulart very disappointing at the weekend - both bet before they took the field. Glynn even more so. I also think it may be the end of the road for St Annes in that they were championship contenders over the last 5/6 years but they seemed to have lost their chance - a rebuilding process. That said I said the same about Ferns and they have limped along into a semi final but will not beat Martins. Gorey impressive .. Rathnure and Martins very impressive. It should lead to a very good conclusion to our senior and intermediate championships - the county finals over the last few years (especially senior) haven't really lived up to expectation. I do think Martins are slightly ahead of the other two - but on their day either will beat the Martins. It will be difficult to call Gorey / Rathnure game - On paper Rathnure will be favourites but there is a lot of class in that Gorey team. Can't see McDonald getting the same space as against the Annes but would like to see himself and AJ Redmond battle it out

MyOhMi (Wexford) - Posts: 234 - 30/09/2025 09:10:05    2637906

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "But at what age are they deciding to send their children to Gorey ahead of Craanford/Pat's/Ballygarrett?

You'd imagine it ties in closely with the primary schools

Leaving out Dunbar for obvious reasons, how many curreny Gorey players are there who "should" in theory be playing for other clubs?

Have it in my head that the Doyles are from just outside Gorey (Father is a Craanford man) but whether they're in Gorey or Craanford parish, I don't know, fairly sure they went to primary school in Gorey though"
Checking has the parish rule been scrapped in Wexford? I know it is not in place in Dublin but I didn`t see where it had been done away with in Wexford. I see comments where people are not playing in the parish where they live.

wexfordwin (Wexford) - Posts: 194 - 30/09/2025 09:56:51    2637913

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Replying To Viking66:  "If someone lives in Craanford and their child goes to school in Craanford they can't play for Gorey."
Another couple of important points, using the same two places as the example. Under the Wexford bye-laws:

If somebody lives in Gorey parish and the child goes to school in Craanford, then the child can play for Craanford.

However, if somebody lives in Craanford parish and the child goes to school in Gorey, then the child can't play for Gorey.

The thing about "you can play with the club in the place you go to school" applies to rural schools only. The idea is to prevent exactly the kind of situation being talked about there, where somebody outside the town boundaries decides to send their child to the school and the club in that town anyway, instead of the club where they "should" be going.

I don't know anywhere near enough about the current Gorey players to know where they grew up or where they "should" be playing, but just because somebody has always played for Gorey doesn't mean they were actually entitled to join them in the first place. And just in case anybody thinks I'm having a cut at Gorey, remember am just using them as an example here, and exactly the same applies everywhere else too.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3134 - 30/09/2025 10:35:32    2637921

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Replying To Graham915oc:  "I dont know what everyone else thoughts are on this and I dont know if it has been discussed before but I just went on to buy my ticket for the weekend Quarter Final..... €18 absolutely scandalous. They are pricing people out of seen their clubs. If your team makes it to final this year it will have cost €138 to see every game. For any game I have been to in Wexford Park this year it has been about 1/4 full. Surely if they lowered the price from €18 or €15 for the group games down to even €10 you would get more at the games."
I agree with you 18 euro is a scandalous price. We should be encouraging people to go to games. In my opinion it should be capped at 10 euros and 15 euros for the county final is plenty. If its 18 euros for the quarter final it will surely be 20 to 25 euros for the county final which in my view is way too much for club matches

Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 705 - 30/09/2025 10:41:18    2637922

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Replying To wexfordwin:  "Checking has the parish rule been scrapped in Wexford? I know it is not in place in Dublin but I didn`t see where it had been done away with in Wexford. I see comments where people are not playing in the parish where they live."
No its not scrapped. And no recent bylaw changes.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17122 - 30/09/2025 11:23:47    2637926

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Replying To Pikeman96:  "Another couple of important points, using the same two places as the example. Under the Wexford bye-laws:

If somebody lives in Gorey parish and the child goes to school in Craanford, then the child can play for Craanford.

However, if somebody lives in Craanford parish and the child goes to school in Gorey, then the child can't play for Gorey.

The thing about "you can play with the club in the place you go to school" applies to rural schools only. The idea is to prevent exactly the kind of situation being talked about there, where somebody outside the town boundaries decides to send their child to the school and the club in that town anyway, instead of the club where they "should" be going.

I don't know anywhere near enough about the current Gorey players to know where they grew up or where they "should" be playing, but just because somebody has always played for Gorey doesn't mean they were actually entitled to join them in the first place. And just in case anybody thinks I'm having a cut at Gorey, remember am just using them as an example here, and exactly the same applies everywhere else too."
Thanks Pikeman. I thought that only applied to Wexford town.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17122 - 30/09/2025 11:24:25    2637927

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Did get Kilanerin wrong, you're right, copy and pasted the wrong line!

Anne's might not have a border with Wexford Town but they're hardly a million mile away

Craanford might find it difficult to stay Intermediate in football in the medium-term to long-term, I'm also struggling to think of a senior inter-county player ever produced by them

Was going to say Ballygarrett should be better than they are but probably a bit like Rosslare, a lot of their population is seasonal and the demographics of the place are probably more amenable to soccer than GAA

Do Pat's have good under-age teams?"
To be fair to Ballygarrett, you probably couldn't get more of a contrast between quite a rural parish and then Courtown/Riverchapel these days. I know they have tried quite a bit to get a foothold into Riverchapel school and there's a GAA pitch in that new-ish estate. Whether there's more they could or should do I couldn't say.

Rocks/Kilanerin and Castletown wouldn't be far off senior club hurling if the championship format was changed. Switching every two weeks, football will always take priority.

Timbertony (Wexford) - Posts: 449 - 30/09/2025 11:31:56    2637929

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I know that amongst rural clubs, certain views of town teams are held but the funny thing is just how many town teams "legally" have players from rural areas

Am open to correction but don't think any of Jippo, Nick Doyle, Alan Tobin, or Ed Tobin were born and reared in the town of Enniscorthy proper and fairly sure Kevin Foley went to primary school in either Davidstown or Courtnacuddy (Although have it in my head that his father was a Rapps man, could be mistaken on that one)

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 650 - 30/09/2025 12:51:34    2637947

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "I know that amongst rural clubs, certain views of town teams are held but the funny thing is just how many town teams "legally" have players from rural areas

Am open to correction but don't think any of Jippo, Nick Doyle, Alan Tobin, or Ed Tobin were born and reared in the town of Enniscorthy proper and fairly sure Kevin Foley went to primary school in either Davidstown or Courtnacuddy (Although have it in my head that his father was a Rapps man, could be mistaken on that one)"
Honestly don't know where any of the ones you mention grew up or went to school, so won't comment on the legality or otherwise of them playing with the Rapps/Starlights. But will repeat what I said above - just because somebody has always played with a club doesn't mean they were actually entitled to join that club in the first place.

And even if these are all indeed legal - I'll add that I can immediately think of three others over the past 20 years or so, who all played senior hurling with Rapps, but who should have been with either Marshalstown or Duffry Rovers instead, because they were from too far out the Milehouse Road to actually be part of Enniscorthy Parish.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3134 - 30/09/2025 13:37:00    2637961

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Replying To Pikeman96:  "Honestly don't know where any of the ones you mention grew up or went to school, so won't comment on the legality or otherwise of them playing with the Rapps/Starlights. But will repeat what I said above - just because somebody has always played with a club doesn't mean they were actually entitled to join that club in the first place.

And even if these are all indeed legal - I'll add that I can immediately think of three others over the past 20 years or so, who all played senior hurling with Rapps, but who should have been with either Marshalstown or Duffry Rovers instead, because they were from too far out the Milehouse Road to actually be part of Enniscorthy Parish."
Are you sure that the bylaw restricting lads from playing for Wexford town clubs even if they attend school in town actually applies to Enniscorthy and Gorey? Does it apply to New Ross?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17122 - 30/09/2025 14:38:35    2637971

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Replying To Viking66:  "No its not scrapped. And no recent bylaw changes."
Thanks. In Dublin, if there is any doubt about the legality of a player the opposing club would appeal very quickly. Would have thought the same applied in Wexford.

wexfordwin (Wexford) - Posts: 194 - 30/09/2025 14:40:28    2637972

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Realistically, what is stopping a child who lives in Craanford from playing for Gorey, or a child that lives in Ballymoney and plays for Kilanerin? Do they do a background check to see if they're actually living in the address they provide? Do they even provide an address when enrolling into a club?

Some club transfers in recent years have gone through with no questions asked, despite it being common knowledge that the players don't live or have any connection to the club they're moving to.

Maybe there is someone policing it? I don't know.

I was speaking to a big Ballgarrett Realt Na Mara clubman last year in killenagh. He told me they get very little from riverchapel and courtown. Literally no one. Alot of the kids that live in Killenagh got to school in Ballycanew, and as a result play for St.Pats. He believes they're only going in one direction! Adult results tells the story.

I remember hearing rumors of Buffers Alley and Ballgarrett amalgamating a few years ago? Can't imagine the Alley entertaining it.

Hurling from the weekend.

Rathnure and St.Martins moving very well but haven't been tested yet. Gorey are coming at the right time and will give Rathnure a proper senior hurling game. Martins will beat Ferns in 3rd gear.. winner of the championship comes from Rathnure vs Gorey I feel. Gut is telling me Gorey with the Anne's and the Rathnure game under their belt going into a final. Proper championship games. Whereas St.Martins first proper championship game comes in a county final.

Intermediate is wide open. Cloughbawn are no Rathnure in comparison to last year. Bunclody got very close to them in the final round of the group,all beit a glorified practice match (like all group games) and by all accounts Tara Rocks were leading the entire match until 9 minutes to go and having a goal disallowed which would have put them 6 ahead in the final 10 min. Liam Mellows lost to fethard by a last second free from Cian Byrne. Apparently Liam Mellows were attacking seconds before the final free and a hurl was blatantly thrown to put the Mellows man off but referee and linesman didn't see it? Result could have been the other way around. I was in Bellfield on Sunday. The Alley are nowhere near senior, Horswood had the chances to see them out but didn't take them. The Jimmies never die attitude is amazing. Goal at the very end and took over in ET. If Matt O'Hanlon was in the country they'd finally breakthrough and get into senior hurling. But he's not and in my eyes it's going to be cloughbawn by the skin of their teeth.

Inter A is looking like Monagear. County finalists last year that they probably felt they threw it away and a crazy square ball decision! Duffry moving well too.

Championship as a whole has been disappointing. Hammerings in quarter finals and absolutely no edge to the games during the summer. Referring in our club games are shocking in comparison to Kilkenny/tipp/cork club games.

Trueblue123 (Dublin) - Posts: 29 - 30/09/2025 15:29:06    2637986

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Replying To Viking66:  "Are you sure that the bylaw restricting lads from playing for Wexford town clubs even if they attend school in town actually applies to Enniscorthy and Gorey? Does it apply to New Ross?"
100%, Viking. I'll give the full text from the relevant bye-law. Your Club Secretary would have the whole lot too, if you want to see for yourself.

It's bye-law 6 and it defines "other relevant connection" for the purposes of legally being able to join a club in the first place:

A player shall be considered to have an Other Relevant connect with a Particular Club if:
(1) That Club is in the Catchment Area where the player attended or is attending a rural National School; or
(2) either of the player's parents were at the time of their birth permanently resident in the present Catchment Area of that Club.

So as previously stated, the idea of "you can play where you go to school" applies only if you attend or attended a rural National School. And this bye-law applies equally across the whole county. The one which relates only to Wexford town is a different bye-law altogether, and in any case, it relates to transfers rather than other relevant connections.

I'm guessing that you're suddenly thinking of a few "country chaps" who go to school in town and who play with the town club, when they really shouldn't. But I won't go asking for details.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3134 - 30/09/2025 15:46:58    2637988

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