Turns out you don’t know you belong to a club until the club gets fitted for a black hat and people start taking potshots at it
Na Fianna fan Eabha Staunton . Whatever happens tonight in the Leinster club hurling final, we’ll celebrate it. What else would we do? Photograph: Tom Maher/InphoOne day, you’re a card-carrying culchie – usually a Mass card that the mother gave you with a picture on it of a neighbour you haven’t heard tell of since you were 19, but sure look it’s no hardship to keep it in the wallet for six months and surely to God the poor divil will be through security by then.
So many of us grew up in other clubs in other parts of the country. But though we’d be slow to admit to being Dubs now, we are resigned to the fact that we are raising Dubs. The elastic that drags us back to our clubs of origin will never completely snap but the tension eases over time and eventually we have to face up to it. We are who we are.
It all came about because of a post on the Na Fianna social media pages during the week. We’re in the Leinster club hurling final on tonight and so the club is making a big day of it. Santa is coming to the nursery this morning, the Ireland-Aussie rugby match will be on in the bar in the afternoon, there’s a fan zone with face-painting and DJs and so on, all leading up to us marching together down to Croke Park for the game. So far, so wholesome.
“Arrogance,” pronounced one chap online. “Hope ye get trounced by KK. Arrogance with celebrations til late a week before the game,” said another. “Imagine they mentioned a rugby match too and they in a Leinster final only hours after, hope Kilcormac do the job,” said a third. A rugby match! Imagine! Na Fianna’s Ciaran Stacey celebrates scoring a late goal against Kilmacud Crokes in Championship final at Parnell Park. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho
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