Colm Keys
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1,811 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Colm Keys’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it was always on the premise, on the basis that they had a very, very strong 15th.
And once holes started to appear in that, obviously Hugh Lawler went travelling.
A real pillar of that Kilkenny team at fullback.
Billy Ryan, who had a really strong year last year, he went travelling.
And you have to say the TJ Reid of the past two decades almost.
That wasn't the TJ Reid that we saw this year.
Even when you were looking for a spark or something yesterday, he couldn't really provide it.
And obviously he's at an age now where most players are becoming managers or coaches of teams.
And he's done remarkably well in his career to stay as long as he had, but he just can't carry them anymore.
And they had Adrian Mullen on the bench.
So all of those excuses are there.
I don't think they'll be reaching for any of them.
The fact remains that the conveyor belt in Kilkenny...
has really ground to a halt.
Yes, they have players, but they don't have players of the standard that they once carried through, that just kept coming and coming.
There's not a Hugh Lawler there yet that improved out of Norway.
Hugh Lawler didn't play a minor for Kilkenny, but he became this great full-back.
There's no sign of anyone like that so far.
The 2022 All-Ireland Under-20 team that beat Limerick, a Limerick team without Kyle O'Neill.
hasn't really produced any players of any great consequence maybe Aidan Tallis in goals you know he'd probably be the future Kilkenny goalkeeper after one Murphy now but they haven't produced from that team by comparison to Limerick so it is an issue now you talk to people in Kilkenny and the likes of Tommy Walsh and Richie Power who are involved with academy and underage squads and they say at a certain age these players are coming and they're confident about it and even Derek Ling sounded that note of confidence yesterday
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