1. You always knew with a surname like Rainbow and with your jersey colours, this man was destined to manage your county’s footballers
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2. And he sets the bar high in trendy woolly hats
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3. There’s only one Tullow Tank
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4. And Sean O’Brien isn’t bad at the oul’ farming either
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5. You’ve heard legendary tales from your grandparents about 1944 when Carlow won their only Leinster football title
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6. You began taking an interest in Portuguese football when Padraig Amond joined Pacos de Ferreira
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7. You think that Johnny Nevin is harshly overlooked in debates about great dual stars
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8. You’re aware that some of the world’s finest horses are trained in Closutton, Bagenalstown
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9. They may not have won an All-Ireland but you know winning 5 Leinster club football titles between 1992 and 1999 made Eire Og great
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10. You bought everyone in your house Bernard Jackman’s autobiography for Christmas in 2010
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11. And you always tune into Newstalk when he’s on
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12. Otherwise, this is where you get all your sporting goodness (when you’re not on TheScore.ie)
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13. You’ll live off that U21 hurling victory over Dublin for quite a while
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14. You’re big into the Sydney Swans and the Irish International Rules side because of Brendan Murphy
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15. But you’re happy to see him back in county colours
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16. You watched RTE's Rapid as a child because of Kathryn Thomas and are only too delighted when she's on the telly
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17. You're not afraid to dress like a bit of a clown to support your county
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18. You're adamant Tom Daly and twins Bryan and Edward Byrne are the future of Irish rugby
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19. You know this arena will be remembered for staging the first Friday night GAA inter-county championship game
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You’ve drunkenly gotten very lost in the Foundry.
Me arse!!! C’mon the scallionaters… Till I die!! Curse n swear….
No mention of Brian Kearney from Lorum, runner up on 1994 Know Your Sport. Carlows greatest sporting fan. Also closely linked with The Town
What about Carlow rep on Blackboard Jungle? (Now more known as an interesting Sidney Poirier movie.)
You’re some Nicky Caaaahil
Do carlow have a gaelic football team?!! Who knew?!!!! I jest I jest! Relax! Did many gigs years ago in the foundry…..
No mention of Mark Mullins from The Town who went ahhnn to captain Cork. Ah lad…
Carlow? You mean the mythical county that exists like Brigadoon as no-one is quite certain where it is? Also the home of unicorns and honest Irish politicians.
Heh heh heh Carlow
Gavin your sum bender !
Nelson Mandela is about to die, I assume this is an advert to the main scoop. Poor one, mind….
Where’s Carlow again?
Any chance ye could do Longford and Sligo next – I want to put them in a little book for My dad!!
They should be called the reggae boys with county colors like that.
20. You support Cameroon at the World Cup ‘cos they’ve the same county colours..
Never knew that Woody Wannabe Jackson was from Carla ! One useless individual !