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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I'm surprised he went down another year in one respect.
Obviously, he wanted to tidy up the loose ends of dropping down to McDonagh Cup last year and the competitor in him obviously wanted to fix that problem.
But it's a bit mindful to me of when Paddy O'Shea went to Clare and when Mick O'Dwyer went to Clare at the end of great managerial careers and it was just a step too far.
I was talking to Pat Bennett a few weeks ago at an event and Pat was the Carlow manager, is the Carlow manager now and great friends, has been Davey's accomplice and was with him in Antrim last year and obviously was in Wexford and Waterford.
And he was saying that Davey was getting...
Four trains to go and train Coach Antrim.
Limerick to Dublin, the Lewis across to Connolly, the train up to Belfast and another train out to be picked up close to Dunsilly.
I found it unbelievable that after all his time on the road,
That this year he was taken.
That's some logistics to get up to Antrim.
So he likes the challenge, but this was a challenge much too far for him.
And I think it'll be difficult for Davey to get back in as an inter-county manager, possibly as part of a coaching team somewhere.
He obviously spent a year with the Cork Camogie team.
team a few years back he's been involved in inter-county hurling either as a player as a minor or as a manager he obviously went from Clare Goldkeeper or reserve Clare Goldkeeper in 2007 he quit in the middle of that season and then took over a year less than a year later as Waterford manager so every year since the late 80s since 87 I think it is he's been involved he's had some involvement in inter-county hurling or as it was for that year with Camogie as well
There may be a project out there for him at some of the lower levels, but the idea that he would go from Clare up to Antrim, difficult.
And obviously he had the voices of some past players that were militating against him.
And they're obviously doing it.
They're on the ground there.
They sense what they feel and the direction it was taking.
So all around, I think it was a step too far.
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