Home thoughts after first win

IT was celebration time in the GAA on Sunday on the exact date of that famous meeting in Hayes Hotel in Thurles 125 years ago.

Home thoughts after first win
Tue, 03 Nov, 2009 - 00:00
Tony Considine

But I’d safely say, nowhere were the celebrations more hectic than in Cusack Park in Ennis.

Three years after that date in Thurles the Cratloe club was founded. Yesterday, 122 years later, we won our first county senior title.

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