The success of a fine Tipperary number seems to have led to a questionable cottage-on-a-shirt industry
on Sunday afternoon to see, in stark relief on a dark afternoon in Ennis, the royal blue of Clare’s away jersey.
This newly released blue kit is steeped in history, according to the O’Neill’s website, and has been designed to honour and commemorate the founder of the GAA. It “takes inspiration from his cottage located in the heart of the Burren”, there’s a watermark image of Cusack on the left sleeve, “while the cottage is showcased front and back” ... all of which leads me to suggest that the closer one gets to this thing, the less inclined you’d be to buy it.
I refer you once again to the breathless commentary on the O’Neill’s website – “history is woven into the jersey with the names of the players, management and board officials from Galway’s first All-Ireland proudly displayed in gold”. If that remains one of the dafter items of GAA apparel , Tipperary’s Bloody Sunday green and white jersey, in which they won the 2020 Munster football final, was legitimately very nice, although an image of Michael Hogan on the sleeve highlighted the obsession with watermarking in GAA jerseys that seems to show no sign of slowing down.
I believe my last day wearing a county jersey to a match may have been the All-Ireland hurling final of 2015, and given I was 31 by the time that game was played, I really have no excuse. There’s no such thing as a hard and fast rule in relation to these things, but surely your 30th birthday is as good a time as any to say good night to that particular habit.
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