Hugh Farrelly
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 25 Apr
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And Marius might try and run him.
So it should be very entertaining.
I just want, you know, we're here to pay homage to the AAL and I would mention one thing that didn't come up earlier when we were talking about the good old days.
I think that Shannon team of the 90s, which I was unfortunate enough to play against a few times, was one of the greatest teams I've ever seen.
I was with Lansdowne in 94 when we went down there and got beaten 39-0.
And we had Angus McKean, Eric Elwood, Conor O'Shea, Brian Glennon, Stephen Rooney.
We had a good team, and they wiped the four of us.
The late, great Anthony Foley was phenomenal that day.
He got capped a few months later.
And that team went on to win four in a row.
It got so bad, John, at the end, they were passing the ball like soccer, going, way, way.
I always remember walking shell-shocked over to a line-out, and this Limerick Shannon fan looks at me and goes, safe home now, boy, thanks for coming.
they were a phenomenal team and one of your regular contributors Alan Quinlan who gets you know whenever his career comes up you talk about Munster Ireland you want to see him playing for Shannon he was phenomenal and he'd never shut up like yap yap yap he never shut up anyway he'd be there like you Terry Kingsborough he'd just be in your ear the whole time but what a player what a player
Brian Driscoll played a couple of times?
Brian Driscoll played twice, as far as I know, for Black Rock, and I happened to be playing that day.
He'd just been capped by Ireland on the summer tour to Australia in 99, and then he went to the World Cup, and he was there for the loss to Argentina in Lawns, whatever.
And we had a Kiwi coach called Scotty Holden, who didn't rate Irish rugby.
He was like, don't mind this Driscoll kid, he's overrated.
But Driscoll then intercepts a ball and runs 75 metres for a try, like this.
And as he was walking back, we had a hooker, Conor Toomey,
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