Originally posted by manfromdelmonte:
er, clubs in a lot of other counties get coaches to go in voluntarily or pay them expenses. surely clubs in Limerick should be looking to supplement the work the county board is doing with more coaching of their own??

Originally posted by Prof Honeydew:
They can talk until they're blue in the face but nothing will happen until the County Board stands up to the couple of megaclubs who believe they've a divine right to cherry pick the entire city and suburbs. Three urban clubs disappeared over the past year with the active assistance of the City Board but the jobsworths who run Gaelic games in Limerick hadn't the guts to do anything about it in case they might upset a few votes at Convention.

Originally posted by The Serb:
Who are the 3 clubs that have gone Prof? You are a man who knows the situation on the ground in there better than anyone. What would be your solution to stop these super clubs taking all the players of the smaller clubs? In ten years its quite possible that Monaleen, Mungret, Na Piarsaigh and maybe a combination of St Pats and Claughaun might be the only clubs left in town. This would be catastrophic for the game in the city imo.

Originally posted by South Limerick Referee:
Can someone finally tell me what areas feed what clubs. As I see it, Ahane come to the bridge in Annacotty, and from there in Monaleen are to the left of the Dublin Road and Milford are to the right on the UL side. After Groody roundabout, St Pats are to the right of the Dublin Road and Claughaun are to the left. As you continue in towards Clare Street where do St Pats stop? Are Claughaun pulling from the Dublin road across to the Tipperary Road and over to the Kilmallock road. Who do people from the Fairgreen area play for? Who do the people down around Good Shepherd Convent play for? Am I to assume Christians and Ballincurra pull from a section from the Kilmallock Road to Punches Cross and going in as far as the Bus Station. Where does Mungret meet Ballinacurra/Old Christians? Who do people on the Dock Road and Inner city play for??

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Originally posted by Sky-Blue:
Na Piarsaigh don't leave 2 Primary feeder Schools Scoil JFK and Scoil Chriost Ri want for anything. Sliothars, Hurleys, Pitch use, and most of all volunteers to go in and assist or even as in JFK's case for last 4 or 5 years, run the teams. Caherdavin less dependent as they have excellent in house services of Liberties Shane O'Neill. JFK finding feet with some new teachers & prinicipal taking a big interestthis year.
Its the only way to go and Limerick hurling would be in a much healthier place if this template adopted throughout county.

Originally posted by Sky-Blue:
On this post, & indeed so many on this site who blame CB for all our ills, I would say "Ask not what your county & CB can do for you - ask what you can do for your club & county"

Originally posted by The Serb:
The whole Limerick city GAA boundaries has always been fairly complicated. The city county boundary that is soon to be gone was another factor that complicated things. I think any person that lived inside the city boundary could play for any of the clubs inside the boundary. These are St Pats, Claughaun, Ballinacurra, Old Christians, Abbey and LIT Sarsfields. Due to almost no new houses being built inside the boundary, the suburban clubs have benefited from this outdated rule. I remember that say for instance a child from a Claughaun family was living out across the boundary in Castletroy he had to play for his parish in Monaleen eventhough his parents wanted him to play for Claughaun. He was living in the city but wasnt! SLR, Geographically you have covered the clubs cacthment areas fairly well but from what i can see, other factors come into it in the city apart from where you live such as where you go to school and family ties to clubs. Technically the Dock Road and inner city would be Ballinacurra Gaels and Old Christians. Ballinacurra Gaels would be St Josephs Parish whose Church is on O Connell Avenue plus they get their players from Model School, CBS and the school beside Mary I. Of course St Pats and Claughaun draw from CBS also. Mungret St Pauls starts when you cross over the motorway just before Crescent SC. Fairgreen area usually play for St Pats as do children around Watergate and Good Shepard convent. Abbey draw from Island Field and Corbally but St Pats and Abbey both draw from the Park area. LIT Sars if still there are meant to draw from Moyross/Thomondgate

Originally posted by South Limerick Referee:
Another question. Where do the rural clubs kick in.I know that Ballybricken stretches to the main Limerick/Tipperary road near Killonan. Where do Liberties meet the City?

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Originally posted by The Serb:
Old Christians and Ballinacurra have a big geographical pick but the areas are very fairly old now. Id say if you look at the school going population here it is relatively small compared to St Pauls, Cahirdavin ect. When South Liberties first were formed it had all the South Liberties area of the city which was present day Janesboro, Rathbane, Southill ect. Since the new estates and churches and parishes mushroomed in these areas i dont think they can pick from there anymore. Bernie Hartigan played for Old Christians and his brother Pat played for Liberties. Their father was involved with Christians which was set up day one to be a bit like Mount Sion where it was an old boys club of Sexton St School. Actually i remember reading one time that it was the first GAA club to bring in a club like this following the rugby clubs such as Old Crescent and Old Wesley. Is there any other GAA club with the word Old in it? The Hartigans father played with Limerick and Young Irelands, another successfull old Limerick city club now gone. I always wondered why South Liberties wasnt in the city division. It surely is more of a city club than Kildimo/Pallaskenry, Crecora and Ballybrown!!

Originally posted by South Limerick Referee:
I think originally there were two divisions, East and West. How they broke into four divisions then I do not know, but it was presumably for geographical reasons in times where travelling wasnt as easy and perhaps the troubles contributed to this. I have often wondered about the makeup of the divisions, and some clubs have changed divisions. Castletown/Ballyagran were in the west and Knockane were in the South. The City Division in particular is unusual. On one side Ahane and Liberties etc. are outside the City Division. That said Monaleen was outside the City Council area and I guess the City had not grown that far when the divisions were drawn up. That does not explain the likes of Pallaskenry, Kildimo, Patrickswell, Ballybrown and Crecora who would have been a long way out from the old City pre Raheen, but Crecora are Mungret Parish. If the City Division was to be redrawn in the morning, I would imagine that it may include Ahane and possibly Liberties.