THE LATE JIMMY Doyle was given a touching send-off by Shamrocks GAA club in Cork on his final journey. The former Tipperary hurler passed away suddenly on Monday evening, aged 76.
Members of the Cork-based club lined either side of the village road as both young and old joined in the guard of honour to one of the icons of Munster hurling.
The club is located in the Shanbally/Ringaskiddy area, which is on the route to the crematorium in Ringaskiddy.
Hat tip to Chris O’Neill for sending us in the picture
No comments on this really striking compared to the rugby. Nobody cares about soccer anymore
@Gary Galligan: that’s your opinion you handycap
@Treaty Jim: most of the comments on rugby are from sad little Ewan McKenna ball fondlers in fairness. Wouldn’t say all the comments mean people are interested in rugby, just that a certain element with a chip on their shoulder hate it.
@Treaty Jim: Classy reply. I suppose it illustrates the different between a Rugby fan and…. well a premier league team fan.
@Treaty Jim: stay classy San Diego ya wouldn’t say it to me face big guy lol
@Gary Galligan: yes we’re good at rugby and I know its hard to draw comparisons on the two because they are completely different sports but I’m fairness just on the basis of participation it’s a lot easier to be better at rugby than. There’s about 10 competive test nations playing rugby and a few more on the periphery compare that to the strength in depth of international footballs teams and well obviously going to be a lot harder
@Gary Galligan: there’s a difference between not caring and not having anything new to say.
@Gary Galligan: brilliant.but ya the soccer is hard to watch when the rugby is on.
@Gary Galligan: watch out everyone Gary is a hard man
@Paul Linehan: oh the same Ulster fan that abused Brennan who subsequently broke his jaw, yeah classy
@Gary Galligan: kind of true i didnt even watch it
@Gary Galligan: The fact that the Irish footballers went on without a win for so long probably doesn’t help. The team (rather unfortunately) isn’t in the Irish public consciousness as much as they once used to be. Hopefully, those special times will come again someday! #COYBIG