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Any Examples Of Players Who Live In One County But Their Local Club Is In Another County?

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Replying To leitrim4sam:  "Bornacoola in Leitrim. A third of the parish is in County Longford."
Any of the Bors ever play for Longford?
I found the map very interesting, other that the village itself I didn't know Leitrim Gaels had a catchment area as such, that if you lived in the Kiltoghert parish you had a choice of the Gaels or Marys..

gaelsboy (Leitrim) - Posts: 669 - 04/08/2025 22:11:44    2630076

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Replying To Viking66:  "Don't know the lad but you will probably find his family are Cork people. He's a great player, his parents or some other members of his family must've been a big influence on his hurling at a young age. It's very rare for someone to get that good coming from a non gaa background. If they were Limerick people I'm sure he'd of hurled for Limerick."
I think his Dad hurled for Charleville, and in fairness the Charleville GAA grounds are far closer to where he lives than Kilmallock, Bruree, or Castletown Ballyagran club grounds so of course he plays for Cork (much as we would love him in Limerick).

LimerickandProud (Limerick) - Posts: 199 - 05/08/2025 12:37:20    2630134

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Jack McCarron. Lives in Tyrone. Plays his club football for the United Parishes in Co Monaghan.

ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 750 - 05/08/2025 12:48:19    2630138

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Replying To LimerickandProud:  "I think his Dad hurled for Charleville, and in fairness the Charleville GAA grounds are far closer to where he lives than Kilmallock, Bruree, or Castletown Ballyagran club grounds so of course he plays for Cork (much as we would love him in Limerick)."
Think any county would be delighted to have him play for them.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16768 - 05/08/2025 13:06:17    2630144

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Replying To gaelsboy:  "Any of the Bors ever play for Longford?
I found the map very interesting, other that the village itself I didn't know Leitrim Gaels had a catchment area as such, that if you lived in the Kiltoghert parish you had a choice of the Gaels or Marys.."
Seamus Flynn who was a legend of the 1960's for Longford and Clonguish was from Bornacoola. The late great Bertie Allen was responsible for getting him and his brothers across the divide to play their football in Longford.

LongfordgaaAbú (Longford) - Posts: 626 - 05/08/2025 15:05:21    2630173

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Laois won a Leinster SFC in 1937 with five players from county Carlow on the starting 15: Martin Farrell, Jim Slater, Tommy Murphy, Mick Haughney and Jack McDarby.

The reason they were playing in Laois was that Carlow had suspended their club- Graiguecullen-eleven years earlier after a man was killed during a county final against Milford.

Ironically, Carlow had won the Leinster Junior in 1923, with six Graiguecullen players on the starting team. Including the captain Barney Hennessy (who had also won it in 1913). In those days there were only six senior teams in Leinster, so the junior was a sort of partial early version of the Tailteann Cup.

Tommy Murphy's grandson (Jody Morrissey) and great-grandson (Jordan Morrissey) would go on to be important players for Carlow. But they played for Eire Og, not Graiguecullen.

CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 873 - 06/08/2025 14:58:13    2630284

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