Win this weekend away to Kerry and the Down hurlers will be up to Division 1B.
Declan Bogue “I DON’T TAKE ANYTHING from the Down county board. I don’t take anything for the job. It’s my honour and privilege to do the job.”
I am doing this for the love of the game. It’s an honour. I accept that other people will need remuneration in terms of travel and all that and that is part of our set-up as well; we have people travelling significant distances and they get their travelling expenses. “But we are not paying 40 or fifty grand out to anybody for the Down hurling squad. That’s just not the way we operate.”
If Down hurlers get up – and again, this is highly likely stuff although nobody wants to put the scud on it – then there is a chance that they could be hurling against Clare, Wexford and Dublin in 2026. If there was a beginning for these two, it was when they met in the Christy Ring final of 2020. Kildare won that game, and there was a poignancy around those finals in November and December, the crowds silenced by Covid and the Centenary of Bloody Sunday hanging heavy in the air.
Not to get all Davy Fitz about it, but Down hurling was ‘on the floor’ when Sheehan succeeded Marty Mallon. But even on that day, Mallon wasn’t there himself. His selector and famous servant of Down hurling, Gary Savage, took charge as Mallon couldn’t get anyone to mind his butcher’s shop.Sheehan took over at the end of the 2018 season.
Down GAA Hurling Ronan Sheehan
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