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ARTHUR GRIFFITH, ANTI-SEMITE

Simon Sebag Montefiore exposes the role of Sinn Fein’s founder in an Irish persecution of Jews

THERE IS a myth that the last anti- Semitic pogrom in the British Isles was in mediaeval York. It was far more recent than that: the long-forgotten Limerick pogrom happened in 1904. It began with a sermon given by a priest and gathered momentum because it was backed by Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Fein, friend of Michael Collins and first presi- dent of the Irish Free State. It is his part in the pogrom that gives it significance today as we negotiate with Sinn Fein.

The story of the Limerick pogrom (or ‘boycott’, as it is also known) has a special resonance for me because my grandfather and his family, the Jaffes, lived in Limer- ick then — though they never mentioned it. Indeed, Irish Jewry, including its most famous son, Chaim Herzog, late President of Israel, had protested that Ireland was the most tolerant land in Europe. Now it appears that they protested too much. The strangest thing of all is that the Jews of today’s Ireland are still frightened of telling this story. When I made a television film recently about the pogrom, most Irish Jews were too scared of ‘making trouble, attracting attention’ to take part in it.

I had always been proud of my Irish roots. My late grandfather, Henry Jaffe, who lost his Irish accent but kept his debonair Irish charm, used to say that he had seen mermaids at Ballybunnion, and Aunt Rose used to reminisce in an Irish brogue about the Limerick races. While talking to a distinguished Irish political writer, I mentioned that I was descended from Limerick Jews. He told me the story which became the basis of my film for Channel 4 about the origins of Sinn Fein.

Virtually the whole Jewish community in Limerick, numbering about 170, were from the village of Akmene in the Tsar’s Baltic territories which are now Lithuania — part of the Pale of Settlement, the only area where Jews were allowed to live. When in the 1880s Nicholas II stepped up his anti- Jewish legislation, my great-great-grandfa- ther Benjamin Jaffe and most of Akmene decided to leave before the Cossacks returned. Benjamin bought a ticket for New York, but when he arrived at the pic- turesque imperial British port of Queen- stown in southern Ireland (now called Cobh, whence the Titanic departed on its final voyage), he was told that he had arrived in the New World. ‘But that doesn’t look like New York,’ the Jews protested as they disembarked. ‘New York’s the next parish,’ they were told. When they discov- ered this was not the case, they settled in Limerick.

They lived together in considerable poverty in Calooney Street, which soon became known as Little Jerusalem. In the 1901 census, four years before the pogrom, my maternal family were registered as ped- lars. The patriarch, Benjamin, a magnifi- cent man with a long white beard, was a pedlar, though really he was the chazan (singer) and mohel (circumciser) of the lit- tle community. He lived at 64 Calooney Street and his son Max, aged 26, lived at Number 31 with his own family, which included my grandfather Henry, aged three, and my great-aunt Rose, aged one.

The family has always been proud that Max was a dentist, but I soon discovered that he was not technically qualified; the census called him, alarmingly, ‘dental mechanic’. It comments drily that the fami- ly could read and write. They must have been the most erudite pedlars who ever existed, for they were as scholarly as they were poor. My grandfather’s bar mitzvah speech is written in both English and in flu- ent ancient Hebrew, and filled with biblical references.

However hard it was to do business in Limerick, it seemed a safer sanctuary than Russia. But three years after the census, when my grandfather was six, hatred of this tiny Jewish community reached fever pitch amongst the very poor Irish to whom they sold their wares. They often sold on credit, and this caused savage resentment. Some- times when a Jew went to the surrounding countryside to collect a debt, peasant women would pull out their breasts, shout ‘Rape!’ and then the men would beat up the Jew. An ostentatious Jewish wedding apparently caused jealousy. The pogrom was the result of the Increasingly vicious agitation of the spiritu- al director of Limerick’s Redemptionist Order, Father John Creagh, whose church Overshadowed Little Jerusalem. The cli- max came when Creagh, ‘a speaker of fer- vid eloquence’, gave his sermon entitled ‘How the Israelites trade’, on Monday 11 January 1904. It reads like a grotesque Parody of anti-Semitism:

The Jews rejected Jesus, they crucified Him and called down the curse of His precious blood on their own heads… they did not hesitate to shed Christian blood. Nowadays they dare not kidnap and slay Christian chil- dren, but they will not hesitate to expose them to a longer and more cruel martyrdom by taking the clothes off their backs and the bit out of their mouths.

Then Creagh came to the Jews of Limerick:

Twenty years ago and less, Jews were known only by name and evil repute in Limerick. They were sucking the blood of other nations but those nations turned them out. And they come to our land to fasten themselves like leeches. Their rags have been exchanged for silk. They have wormed themselves into every business…the furniture trade, the milk trade, the drapery trade — and they have even traded under Irish names… The vic- tims of the Jews are mostly women… the Jew has a sweet tongue when he wishes… If you want an example, look to France. What is at present going on in that land?

The reference to the Dreyfus scandal is significant.

The injustice of it was little consolation to the Jews of Calooney Street when the thousand or so worshippers of Creagh’s church poured out, as they were to do daily for a month. A huge drunken mob gathered, wielding burning torches. They worked their way down Calooney Street smashing windows and front doors, and forcing their way into the houses which they then looted. For more than a month the Jews of Limerick waited, terrified in their own homes, almost starving, for Father Creagh had urged the people not to pay their debts. No one would do busi- ness with them. If they walked in the streets they were beaten. The only miracle was that no one lost his life, but for the Jews who had just escaped the Cossacks it was terrifying.

The police did very little at first. Only 14-year-old John Raleigh was arrested for stoning Rabbi Levin. But Raleigh was greeted after his one-month sentence by a mob that carried him on their shoulders. And the mayor and corporation of Limer- ick shamefully met to support Raleigh and Father Creagh.

The reaction in Dublin and London was confused. Michael Davitt, who represent- ed the liberal and tolerant Irish tradition which is more familiar to us, wrote at once a letter of powerful outrage, attacking Creagh. But Creagh replied with sermons of hysterical anti-Semitism. John Red- mond, The Irish leader in the Commons, weakly criticised the pogrom. The belea- guered Rabbi Levin bravely defied the mob. Soon the disturbances were raised in Parliament, where the Chief Secretary of Ireland, George Wyndham, languidly promised to protect the Limerick Jews. The Board of Deputies of British Jews managed to get the lay leader of British Catholics, the Duke of Norfolk, to inter- vene.

Bishop Dwyer of Limerick clearly sup- ported Creagh, but an important journalist in Dublin encouraged Creagh’s mob from the beginning, giving it intellectual and political legitimacy. Arthur Griffith claimed the boycott was only directed against the trading methods of the Jews, that the refer- ence to ritual murder was taken out of con- text and that Creagh’s object was noble. He described the Jews as ‘hideous. . . wild, sav- age, filthy forms. . . strange people, alien to us in thought.’ Griffith linked Limerick, Dreyfus and the South African Jews together to show that internationally they were evil. It was Griffith who propagated the vision of a Catholic Gaelic Irish race that could not include Jewish aliens — nor, by implication, Protestants. This was the ideology he brought to Sinn Fein. This was what Ourselves Alone meant to its founder. It has a strong bearing on the true philosophy of Sinn Fein today. Gerry Adams refused to discuss the founder of Sinn Fein with me.

Father Creagh left in honour in 1906 with his confraternity still acclaiming ‘his indomitable efforts to rescue the working classes of Limerick from the grasp of for- eigners’. In his next mission, to the South Seas, he notoriously ill-treated native pop- ulations. But 60 years later, after the whole story was suddenly told in an angry contro- versy in Limerick, the City of Limerick and the Redemptionist Order made peace with their history, Limerick City agreeing to maintain the small Jewish cemetery in atonement. The story has a melancholy end — Limerick’s Jewish community was broken. The families sent their children to England or moved to Dublin. My grandfa- ther went to live in Manchester. Now there is only one Jew in Limerick — and when Stuart Klein moved there in 1957, his Dublin friends were afraid for his life.

When my great-great-grandfather, old Chazan Benjamin Jaffe, died in 1915, his Jewish Chronicle obituary said bitter-sweet- ly that, during Father Creagh’s pogrom, ‘It was heard on all sides that if all the Jews in Ireland were of the type of Benjamin Jaffe, nothing but respect would be felt for them.’

The author writes for the Sunday Times. Witness: A Great Hatred will be shown on Channel 4 on 15 October at 9 p.m.

History of the Jews in Ireland

The history of the Jews in Ireland extends back nearly a thousand years. Although the Jewish community has always been small in numbers (always fewer than 4,000 by religion since at least 1891), it is well established and has generally been well-accepted into Irish life. Jews in Ireland have historically enjoyed a relative tolerance that was largely absent elsewhere in Europe.

The earliest reference to the Jews in Ireland was in the year 1079. The Annals of Inisfallen record “Five Jews came from over sea with gifts to Toirdelbach [king of Munster], and they were sent back again over sea”.[1] They were probably merchants from Normandy. Toirdelbachwas the grandson of Brian Boru, a previous High King of Ireland.

No further reference is found until nearly a century later in the reign of Henry II of England. That monarch, fearful lest an independent kingdom should be established in Ireland, prohibited a proposed expedition there. Strongbow, however, went in defiance of the king’s orders and, as a result, his estates were confiscated. In his venture Strongbow seems to have been assisted financially by a Jewish moneylender,[2]for under the date of 1170 the following record occurs: “Josce Jew of Gloucester owes 100 shillings for an amerciament for the moneys which he lent to those who against the king’s prohibition went over to Ireland”.

By 1232, there was probably a Jewish community in Ireland, as a grant of 28 July 1232 by King Henry III to Peter de Rivel gives him the office of Treasurer and Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer, the king’s ports and coast, and also “the custody of the King’s Judaism in Ireland”.[3] This grant contains the additional instruction that “all Jews in Ireland shall be intentive and respondent to Peter as their keeper in all things touching the king”.[4] The Jews of this period probably resided in or near Dublin. In the Dublin White Book of 1241, there is a grant of land containing various prohibitions against its sale or disposition by the grantee. Part of the prohibition reads “vel in Judaismo ponere” (prohibiting it from being sold to Jews). The last mention of Jews in the “Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland” appears about 1286. When the expulsion from England took place (1290), Jews living in the Pale of English Settlement may have had to leave English jurisdiction, but there is no evidence for this; and it would certainly have not been difficult for Jews to remain in Ireland in defiance of the 1290 Edict, simply by moving beyond the area of English settlement (the Pale) into the native Gaelic areas that England did not control. As the next paragraph elicits, Jews were certainly living in Ireland long before Oliver Cromwell revoked the English Edict of Expulsion nearly 400 years later, in the mid-seventeenth century.

A permanent settlement of Jews was definitely established, however, in the late fifteenth century. Following their expulsion from Portugal in 1496, some of these Marrano Jews settled on Ireland’s south coast. One of them, William Annyas, was elected as mayor of Youghal, County Cork, in 1555. There was also Francis Annyas (Ãnes), a three-time Mayor of Youghal in 1569, 1576 and 1581.[5] Ireland’s first synagogue was founded in 1660 near Dublin Castle. A plot of land was acquired in 1718[6] as a burial ground, called Ballybough Cemetery, it was the first Jewish cemetery. It is situated in the in the Fairview district of Dublin, where there was a small Jewish colony.[7]

18th and 19th century

In December 1714, the Irish philosopher John Toland issued a pamphlet entitled Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland.[8][9] In 1746 a bill was introduced in the Irish House of Commons “for naturalising persons professing the Jewish religion in Ireland”. This was the first reference to Jews in the House of Commons up to this time. Another was introduced in the following year, agreed to without amendment and presented to the Lord Lieutenant to be transmitted to England but it never received the royal assent. These Irish bills, however, had one very important result; namely, the formation of the Committee of Diligence, which was organized by British Jews at this time to watch the progress of the measure. This ultimately led to the organisation of the Board of Deputies,[10] an important body which has continued in existence to the present time. Jews were expressly excepted from the benefit of the Irish Naturalisation Act of 1783. The exceptions in the Naturalisation Act of 1783 were abolished in 1846. The Irish Marriage Act of 1844 expressly made provision for marriages according to Jewish rites.

Daniel O’Connell is best known for the campaign for Catholic Emancipation; but he also supported similar efforts for Jews. In 1846, at his insistence, the British law “De Judaismo”, which prescribed a special dress for Jews, was repealed. O’Connell said: “Ireland has claims on your ancient race, it is the only country that I know of unsullied by any one act of persecution of the Jews“.

During the Great Famine (1845–1852), in which approximately 1 million Irish people died, many Jews helped to organize and gave generously towards Famine relief[citation needed] . A Dublin newspaper, commenting in 1850, pointed out that Baron Lionel de Rothschild and his family had,

…contributed during the Irish famine of 1847 … a sum far beyond the joint contributions of the Devonshires, and Herefords, Lansdownes, Fitzwilliams and Herberts, who annually drew so many times that amount from their Irish estates.[11]

Since Ireland’s Jews were city folk, businessmen, professionals and merchants, they bought their food instead of growing it and were thus not badly affected by the famine themselves.

In 1874, Lewis Wormser Harris was elected to Dublin Corporation as Alderman for South Dock Ward. Two years later he was elected as Lord Mayor of Dublin, but died 1 August 1876 before he took office.[12]

Twentieth century

There was an increase in Jewish immigration to Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1871, the Jewish population of Ireland was 258; by 1881, it had risen to 453. Most of the immigration up to this time had come from England or Germany. A group who settled in Waterford were Welsh, whose families originally came from Central Europe.[13] In the wake of the Russian pogroms there was increased immigration, mostly from Eastern Europe (in particular Lithuania). By 1901, there were an estimated 3,771 Jews in Ireland, over half of them (2,200) residing in Dublin. By 1904, the total Jewish population had reached an estimated 4,800. New synagogues and schools were established to cater for the immigrants, many of whom established shops and other businesses. Many of the following generation became prominent in business, academic, political and sporting circles.

Jewish wedding at the Waterford Courthouse, early September 1901.

The Jewish population of Ireland reached around 5,500 in the late 1940s, but has since declined to about 2,000, mainly due to assimilation and emigration. The Irish Jewish population saw a large drop in numbers in 1948 after the establishment of Israel; a large percentage of Irish Jews moved there out of ideological and religious convictions. In the subsequent decades, many other Jews would also emigrate to Israel, the United Kingdom, and United States due to the decline of Jewish life in Ireland and for better economic prospects. In addition, rates intermarriage and assimilation, including conversion to Catholicism in order to marry, were also high.

The Republic of Ireland currently has four synagogues: three in Dublin, one in Cork. There is a further synagogue in Belfast in Northern Ireland.

Limerick Boycott

The economic boycott waged against the small Jewish community in Limerick City in the first decade of the twentieth century is known as the Limerick Boycott (and sometimes known as the Limerick Pogrom), and caused many Jews to leave the city. It was instigated by an influential Redemptorist priest, Father John Creagh who called for a boycott during a sermon in January 1904. A teenager, John Raleigh, was arrested by the police and briefly imprisoned for attacking the Jews’ rebbe, but returned home to a welcoming throng. According to an RIC report 5 Jewish families left Limerick “owing directly to the agitation” and 26 families remained. Some went to Cork, where trans-Atlantic passenger ships docked at Cobh. They intended to travel to America. Gerald Goldberg, a son of this migration, became Lord Mayor of Cork in 1977.

Grave of an unknown Jew in Castletroy, Limerick

The boycott was condemned by many in Ireland, among them the influential Standish O’Grady in his paper All Ireland Review, depicting Jews and Irish as “brothers in a common struggle”. The Land Leaguer Michael Davitt (author of The True Story of Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia), in the Freeman’s Journal, attacked those who had participated in the riots and visited homes of Jewish victims in Limerick.[14] His friend, Corkman William O’Brien MP, leader of the United Irish League and editor of the Irish People, had a Jewish wife, Sophie Raffalovic.

Father Creagh was moved by his superiors initially to Belfast and then to an island in the Pacific Ocean. In 1914 he was promoted by the Pope to be Vicar Apostolic of Kimberley, Western Australia, a position he held until 1922.[15] He died in Wellington, New Zealand in 1947. Joe Briscoe, son of Robert Briscoe, the Dublin Jewish politician, describes the Limerick episode as “an aberration in an otherwise almost perfect history of Ireland and its treatment of the Jews”.[16]

Since 1983, several commentators have questioned the traditional narrative of the event, and especially whether the event’s description as a pogrom is appropriate.[17][18] Historian Dermot Keogh sympathised with the use of the term by the Jews who experienced the event, and respected its use by subsequent writers, but preferred the term “boycott”.[19][20] It should be noted that Creagh’s anti-Semitic campaign, while virulent, did not result in the decimation of Limerick’s Jewish community. The 1911 census records that, not only were 13 of the remaining 26 families still resident in Limerick six years later but that 9 new Jewish families had joined them.[21] The Jewish population numbered 122 persons in 1911 as opposed to 171 in 1901. This had declined to just 30 by 1926.

War of Independence

Many Irish Jews supported the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the First Dail during the Irish War of Independence. Michael Noyk was a Lithuanian-born solicitor who became famous for defending captured Irish Republican prisoners such as Sean MacEoin. Robert Briscoe was a prominent member of the IRA during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. He was sent by Michael Collins to Germany in 1920 to be the chief agent for procuring arms for the IRA. Briscoe proved to be highly successful at this mission, and arms arrived in Ireland in spite of the British blockade.[22]

Irish Free State Senate

In an effort to provide minority communities with political representation in parliament (as was the case with minority Christian denominations) Ellen Cuffe (Countess of Desart), a member of the Jewish community, was appointed for a twelve year term by William T. Cosgrave to the Irish Senate in 1922. She sat as an independent member until her death in 1933.[23] She was also an advocate for the Irish language and served as President of the Gaelic League.

Irish Government

The Irish Constitution of 1937 specifically gave constitutional protection to Jews. This was considered to be a necessary component to the constitution by Éamon de Valera because of the treatment of Jews elsewhere in Europe at the time.[24]

The reference to the Jewish Congregations in the Irish Constitution was removed in 1973 with the Fifth Amendment. The same amendment removed the ‘special position’ of the Catholic Church, as well as references to the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian Church, the Methodist Church, and the Religious Society of Friends.

Northern Ireland

A committee organised the Kindertransport. About ten thousand unaccompanied children aged between three and seventeen from Germany and Czechoslovakia were permitted entry into the United Kingdom without visas. Some of these children were sent to Northern Ireland. Many of them were looked after by foster parents but others went to the Millisle Refugee Farm (Magill’s Farm, on the Woburn Road) which took refugees from May 1938 until its closure in 1948.[25]

World War II and aftermath

The Irish envoy to Berlin, Charles Bewley, appointed in 1933, became an admirer of Hitler and National Socialism. His reports contained incorrect information on the treatment of Jews in Germany, and he was against allowing Jews move to Ireland. After being reprimanded by Dublin, he was dismissed in 1939.[26]

The Irish state was officially neutral during World War II, known within the Republic of Ireland as “The Emergency” although it is estimated that about 100,000 men from the state took part on the side of the Allies,[27] while a handful may have taken the part of their opponents. In Rome, T.J. Kiernan, the Irish Minister to the Vatican, and his wife, Delia Murphy (a noted traditional ballad singer), worked with the Irish priest Hugh O’Flaherty to save many Jews and escaped prisoners of war. Jews conducted religious services in the church of San Clementeof the ‘Collegium Hiberniae Dominicanae’, which had Irish diplomatic protection.[28]

There was some domestic anti-Jewish sentiment during World War II, most notably expressed in a notorious speech to the Dáil in 1943, when newly elected independent TD Oliver J. Flanagan advocated “routing the Jews out of the country”.[29] On the other hand Henning Thomsen, the German chargé d’affaires, officially complained of press commentaries. In February 1939, he protested against the Bishop of Galway who had issued a pastoral letter, along similar lines, accusing Germany of[30]“violence, lying, murder and the condemning of other races and peoples”.

There was some official indifference from the political establishment to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust during and after the war. This indifference would later be described by Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell as being “antipathetic, hostile and unfeeling”.[31] Dr. Mervyn O’Driscoll of University College Cork reported on the unofficial and official barriers that prevented Jews from finding refuge in Ireland although the barriers have been down ever since:

Although overt anti-Semitism was not typical, the southern Irish were indifferent to the Nazi persecution of the Jews and those fleeing the third Reich….A successful applicant in 1938 was typically wealthy, middle-aged or elderly, single from Austria, Roman Catholic and desiring to retire in peace to Ireland and not engage in employment. Only a few Viennese bankers and industrialists met the strict criterion of being Catholic, although possibly of Jewish descent, capable of supporting themselves comfortably without involvement in the economic life of the country.[32]

Two Irish Jews, Esther Steinberg and her infant son, are known to have been killed during the Holocaust, which otherwise did not substantially directly affect the Jews actually living in Ireland. The Wannsee Conference listed the 4,000 Jews of Ireland to be among those marked for killing in the Holocaust.

See also: The Emergency (Ireland) § Irish victims of the Holocaust

Post-war, Jewish groups had great difficulty in getting refugee status for Jewish children, whilst at the same time, a plan to bring over four hundred Catholic children from the Rhineland encountered no difficulties.[33] The Department of Justice explained in 1948 that:

It has always been the policy of the Minister for Justice to restrict the admission of Jewish aliens, for the reason that any substantial increase in our Jewish population might give rise to an anti-Semitic problem.[34]

However, De Valera overruled the Department of Justice and the one hundred and fifty refugee Jewish children were brought to Ireland in 1948. Earlier, in 1946, one hundred Jewish children from Poland were brought to Clonyn Castle in County Meath[35] by Solomon Schonfeld.[36] In 2000 many of the Cloyne Castle children returned for a reunion. In 1952 he again had to overrule the Department of Justice to admit five Orthodox families who were fleeing the Communists. In 1966, the Dublin Jewish community arranged the planting and dedication of the Éamon de Valera Forest in Israel, near Nazareth, in recognition of his consistent support for Ireland’s Jews.[37]

In 2006 Tesco, a British supermarket chain, had to apologise for selling the notorious antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in its stores in Britain and Ireland. Sheikh Dr Shaheed Satardien, head of the Muslim Council of Ireland, said this was effectively “polluting the minds of impressionable young Islamic people with hate and anger towards the Jewish community”.[38]

Sport

Dr. Bethel Solomons played rugby union for Wesley College and for Ireland earning 10 caps from 1907-1910.[39][40]

The Lithuanian born Louis Bookman (1890–1943) who moved to Ireland as a child, played soccer at international level for Ireland (winning the Home International Championship in 1914), as well as playing at club level for Shelbourne and Belfast Celtic, he also played cricket for Railway Union Cricket Club, the Leinster Cricket Club and for the Irish National Cricket Team.

Louis Collins Jacobson played cricket for Ireland opening the innings on 12 occasions, and also at club level in Dublin as the opening bat for Clontarf C.C. and earlier, for Carlisle Cricket Club in Kimmage which was made up of members of the Dublin Jewish community.[41]

Dublin Maccabi was a Soccer team in the Kimmage/Terenure/Rathgar areas, they played in the Dublin Amateur Leagues, only players who were Jewish played for them, Maccabi played their games in the KCR grounds which opened in the 1950s, they disbanded in 1995 due to dwindling numbers and disputes over fees, and many of their players joined the Parkvale F.C.

For a time Dublin Jewish Chess Club played in the Leinster leagues in 1936 winning the Division 3, Ennis Shield.

There was also a Dublin Jewish Boxing Club, on the south side of the city. It was based for its whole existence of many years, in the basement of the Adelaide Road Synagogue, which was the largest synagogue in the country. Many fine boxers were produced, amongst whom were Sydney Curland, Freddie Rosenfield, Jerry Kostick, Frank and Henry Isaacson, and Zerrick Woolfson. As a boxer, Jerry Kostick represented Ireland at the 1949 Maccabiah Games and the 1953 Maccabiah Games and, representing Trinity College Dublin, won two Universities Athletic Union titles. Kostick also played rugby and football for Carlisle for over ten years, while Woolfson also played cricket for Carlisle C.C. for several years, and, in 1949 for Dublin University, when he bowled a hat-trick in his first match. As reported in the newspapers, he dismissed J.V.Luce, Mick Dargan and Gerry Quinn with 3 successive balls. They were all very competent, current international players. He also played first division table-tennis for Anglesea T.T.C. as the #3 player, joining Willie Heron and Ernie Sterne, both international players, on the 1st team.

Antisemitic incidents

  • In March 2012 an antisemitic video about the then Minister for Justice Alan Shatter was uploaded to YouTube. The video, which starts off with a picture of Shatter and the Israeli flag, contains a string of abusive texts while Jewish folk music plays in the background. The video was later removed. On April 2014 Alan Shatter (who is the only Jewish member in the Irish parliament) was the victim of another antisemitic attack, when an envelope with white powder and a photograph of Nazi soldiers at a rally was sent to his home. The package caused a massive security alert at the south Dublin estate with the Army Bomb Disposal Team called to the scene.[42][43]
  • On 5 February 2014, a racist graffiti was painted around the corner at the Bank of Ireland on College Green. Communications manager for the council Jerry O’Connor said that: “After verbal abuse, graffiti is the most common form of racism in Ireland.”[44] A year before, on 6 June, a huge antisemitic graffiti was sprayed on the Anglo Irish Bank headquarters in Dublin’s docklands.[45]
  • On 18 July 2014 a window of the synagogue in north Belfast was smashed. The day after, the replacement window was smashed too.[46] Less than a month later, a house in the city with a plaque honoring former Belfast-born Israeli president Chaim Herzog on it was targeted by anti-Israel protesters who threw items on the house, scrawled racist graffiti and tried to take down the plaque with a crowbar. Eventually it was removed by the community out of concern to the residents living in neighboring houses.[47]

Demographics

Historical Irish Jewish population
Year Pop. ±%
1891 1,506 —
1901 3,006 +99.6%
1911 3,805 +26.6%
1926 3,686 −3.1%
1936 3,749 +1.7%
1946 3,907 +4.2%
1961 3,255 −16.7%
1971 2,633 −19.1%
1981 2,127 −19.2%
1991 1,581 −25.7%
2002 1,790 +13.2%
2006 1,930 +7.8%
2011 1,984 +2.8%
Source:

  • [48]
  • Info is from various Irish censuses (and enumerates Jews by religion)
% population Jewish[48]
Year % Jewish
1891 0.04%
1901 0.09%
1911 0.12%
1926 0.12%
1936 0.13%
1946 0.13%
1961 0.12%
1971 0.09%
1981 0.06%
1991 0.04%
2002 0.05%
2006 0.05%
2011 0.04%
% of total Irish Jewish population living in Dublin (since 1891)[48]
Year % Jewish
1891 70.19%
1901 72.16%
1911 77.92%
1926 85.46%
1936 89.94%
1946 89.86%
1961 94.13%
1971 93.09%
1981 91.77%
1991 87.48%
2002 68.16%
2006 63.01%
2011 65.42%

According to the 2011 Irish census, Ireland had 1,984 Jews by religion in 2011, of whom 1,298 (65%) lived in its capital, Dublin.[48]

Prominent Irish Jews

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  20. Jump up ^ Keogh (2005), pp. xv-xvi.
  21. Jump up ^ Fr. Creagh C.S.S.R. Social Reformer 1870-1947 by Des Ryan, Old Limerick Journal Vol. 41, Winter 2005
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The Limerick Pogrom

The Limerick Boycott, sometimes known as the Limerick pogrom, was an economic boycott waged against the small Jewish community in Limerick, Ireland, for over two years in the first decade of the twentieth century. It was accompanied by a number of assaults, stone throwing and intimidation, which caused many Jews to leave the city. It was instigated in 1904 by a Redemptorist priest, Father John Creagh. According to a report by the Royal Irish Constabulary, five Jewish families left Limerick “owing directly to the agitation” while another 26 families remained.[1]

There were seven Jews living in Limerick City in 1790.[2] Census returns record one Jew in Limerick in 1861. This doubled by 1871 and doubled again by 1881. Increases to 35, 90 and 130 are shown for 1888, 1892, and 1896 respectively.[3] A small number of Lithuanian Jewish tradespeople, fleeing persecution in their homeland, began arriving in Limerick in 1878. They formed an accepted part of the city’s retail trade, centred on Collooney St.[4] The community established a synagogue and a cemetery in the 1880s. Easter Sunday of 1884 saw the first of what were to be a series of sporadic violent antisemitic attacks and protests. The wife of Lieb Siev and his child were injured by stones and her house damaged by an angry crowd for which the ringleaders were sentenced to hard labour for a month.[5] In 1892 two families were beaten and a stoning took place on 24 November 1896.[5] In 1903 a reception was held in Limerick to mark the emigration of Bernard Wienronk (a Zionist) to South Africa. The former Mayor of Limerick John Daly (Fenian) was asked to preside. He proposed a toast on the night to “Israel A Nation”.[6] Many details about Limerick’s Jewish families are recorded in the 1901 census that shows most were peddlers, though a few were described as drapery dealers and grocers.[7]

In 1904 Father John Creagh, a Redemptorist, gave a sermon attacking Jews.[8] He repeated many historical myths about Jews, including that of ritual murder, and said that the Jews had come to Limerick “to fasten themselves on us like leeches and to draw our blood”.[9] Dermot Keogh describes what happened after Creagh delivered his lecture calling for a boycott on 11 January 1904.

Colooney Street where most Limerick Jews lived, was only a few minutes walk from the Redemptorist church. The hundreds who left the church after the meeting had to pass the top of Colooney Street on their way home; many were fired up by Creagh’s incendiary sermon. The Jewish community immediately sensed the menacing mood of the crowd turned mob and remained locked in their homes as the church militants passed by. Jewish shops, however, remained open and their owners felt menaced. One old Fenian – a member of the confraternity – single-handedly defended a shop from attack until the police arrived to mount a guard.[10]

John Raleigh, a teenager (15 years of age), was arrested and incarcerated in Mountjoy Prison for one month for throwing a stone at the Jews’ rebbe (leader) (which struck him on the ankle). Once released he returned home to a welcoming throng who were protesting that the teenager was innocent and that the sentence imposed was too harsh. While in prison Raleigh was called a “Limerick Jew slayer” by a warder, but Raleigh, who claimed he was innocent, was insulted by this and reported the incident to the chief warder.[11] Later, after 32 Jews had left Limerick due to the Boycott,[1] Creagh was disowned by his superiors, who said that “religious persecution had no place in Ireland”.[12] There was a voice of opposition among the local population which was expressed in an anonymous letter to the Redemptorists labelling Creagh a “disgrace to the Catholic religion”.[13] The economic boycott of the Jewish community lasted over two years. Dermot Keogh suggests that the name ‘Limerick Pogrom’ derives from the experience of Lithuanian Jews in their homeland, and was used even though no one was killed or seriously injured in Limerick.[8] Limerick’s Protestant community, many of whom were also traders, supported the Jews at the time,[not in citation given] but, despite this, five Jewish families (numbering 32 persons) left the city because of the boycott.[14] Some went to Cork, intending to embark on ships from Cobh to travel to America.[citation needed]

Some of the families that left the City of Limerick due to the Boycott were the Ginsbergs, the Jaffés (to Newcastle), the Weinronks (to South Africa) and the Goldbergs (to Leeds).[15] The Goldberg family ended up leaving Leeds and settling in Cork and Gerald Goldberg, a son of this migration, became Lord Mayor of Cork in 1977,[16] and the Marcus brothers, David and Louis, grandchildren of the boycott, would become hugely influential in Irish literature and Irish film, respectively.[17][18] Among the Jaffé family that left Limerick due to the Boycott was the grandfather (Henry Jaffé) of the journalist and popular historian Simon Sebag Montefiore.[19] But Montefiore’s great-great-grandparents (Benjamin & Rachel) remained in Limerick and were living in Catherine St. in 1911[20] along with his great-grandparents (Marcus & Leah) who at this time employed two local Roman Catholics who were resident at the same address.[21] Marcus Jaffé, who was a dentist, was still practising in Limerick in 1925.[22] The boycott was condemned by many in Ireland, among them the influential Standish O’Grady in his paper All Ireland Review, depicting Jews and Irish as “brothers in a common struggle”. The Land Leaguer Michael Davitt (author of The True Story of Anti-Semitic Persecutions in Russia), in the Freeman’s Journal, attacked those who had participated in the riots and visited homes of Jewish victims in Limerick.[23] His friend, Corkman William O’Brien MP, leader of the United Irish League and editor of the Irish People, had a Jewish wife, Sophie Raffalovic. A supporter of the Limerick Boycott was Arthur Griffith who founded the Sinn Féin party the following year. Father Creagh was moved by his superiors initially to Belfast and then to an island in the Pacific Ocean. In 1914 he was promoted by the Pope to be Vicar Apostolic of Kimberley, Western Australia, a position he held until 1922.[24] He died in Wellington, New Zealand in 1947.

Since 1983, several commentators have questioned the traditional narrative of the event, and especially whether the event’s description as a pogrom is appropriate.[25][26] Historian Dermot Keogh sympathised with the use of the term by the Jews who experienced the event, and respected its use by subsequent writers, but preferred the term “boycott”.[27][28] It should be noted that Creagh’s anti-Semitic campaign, while virulent, did not result in the end of Limerick’s Jewish community. The 1911 census records that, not only were 13 of the remaining 26 families still resident in Limerick six years later but that 9 new Jewish families had joined them.[29] The Jewish population numbered 122 persons in 1911 as opposed to 171 in 1901. This had declined to just 30 by 1926.

Footnotes

  1. Keogh (1998), pps. 51
  2.  Feeley, Pat (1980). “Rabbi Levin of Colooney Street”. Old Limerick Journal Vol. 2. Retrieved 04/09/2013. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. Keogh (1998), p. 11
  4. Keogh (1998), p. 31
  5. Keogh (1998), p. 19
  6. Ryan, Des (1984). “The Jews of Limerick”. Old Limerick Journal Vol. 17. Retrieved 04/09/2013. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  7. Keogh (1998), pps. 12–14
  8. Keogh (1998), pps. 26–30
  9. Paul Bew, Ireland: The Politics of enmity 1789–2006, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 364
  10. Keogh (1998), pp. 39
  11. Keogh (1998), pps. 113
  12. Fisk, (1985), p. 430–431
  13. Ferriter, Diarmaid (05/03/2008). “Review by Diarmaid Ferriter of ‘Limerick Boycott 1904’ by Dermot Keogh & Andrew McCarthy”. The Irish Times. Retrieved 04/09/2013. Check date values in: |date=, |accessdate= (help)
  14. Shalom Ireland: a Social History of Jews in Modern Ireland by Ray Rivlin, ISBN 0-7171-3634-5, published by Gill & MacMillan
  15. Keogh (1998), pps. 125–126
  16. “Provosts, Mayors and Lord Mayors of Cork”. Cork County Council. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  17. Raferty, John (27 September 2001). “Oughtobiography by David Marcus”. RTÉ. Retrieved 5 August 2008.
  18. de Valera, Síle (3 November 1999). “Louis Marcus resigns as Film Board Chairman”. Press Release. Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism. Retrieved 5 August 2008.
  19. Montefiore, Simon Sebag (10 October 1997). “Arthur Griffith, Anti-Semite”. The Spectator. Retrieved 04/09/2013. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  20. “Census of Ireland 1911”. National Archives of Ireland. Retrieved 04/09/2013. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  21. “Census of Ireland 1911”. National Archives of Ireland. Retrieved 04/09/2013. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  22. Cork and Munster Trades Directory. Dublin: Trade Directories, Ltd. 1925. p. 24.
  23. James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity by Neil R. Davison, p. 37, published by Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-521-63620-9
  24. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcreagh.html
  25. Magill Magazine Issue 1, 2008, 46–47
  26. Jewish envoy says Limerick pogrom is ‘over-portrayed’, Limerick Leader, Saturday 6 November 2010
  27. Keogh (1998), p. 26
  28. Keogh (2005), pp. xv–xvi.
  29. Fr. Creagh C.S.S.R. Social Reformer 1870–1947 by Des Ryan, Old Limerick Journal Vol. 41, Winter 2005

References

Cork have opted for an experimental lineup ahead of their McGrath Cup clash

Ballincollig’s Dingleman George Durrant starts following his man-of-the-match performance in the county final.

John Hayes starts for Cork in attack this weekend.
John Hayes starts for Cork in attack this weekend.
Image: Cathal Noonan/INPHO

CORK GAA HAVE announced their team to face Mary Immaculate College (MIC) in the Preliminary Round of the McGrath Cup at Mallow for their season opener this Sunday.

Ballincollig GAA and Dingle native George Durrant starts following his man-of-the-match performance in the county final, while teammates Liam Jennings, Stephen O’Donoghue and Noel Galvin are also included.

Michael Cussen of Glanmire features in midfield, while John O’Rourke gets the nod in attack.

Cork are restricted to a degree in the competition, with CIT and UCC players unavailable for selection.

CORK TEAM:

1.  Ken O’Halloran (Bishopstown)

2.  Liam Jennings (Ballincollig)
3.  Stephen O’Donoghue (Ballincollig)
4.  Noel Galvin (Ballincollig)

5.  Daniel Hazel (O’Donovan Rossa)
6.  Padraigh Hodnett (Carbery Rangers)
7.  Jamie O’Sullivan (Bishopstown)

8.  Fintan Goold (Macroom)
9.  Michael Cussen (Glanmire)

10. Kevin O’Driscoll (Tadgh MacCarthaigh)
11. John O’Rourke (Carbery Rangers)
12. George Durrant (Ballincollig)

13. Fiachra Ó Deasuinaigh (Bishopstown)
14. John Hayes (Carbery Rangers)
15. Brian Hurley ( Castlehaven)

Subs:

16. Ryan Price (O’Donovan Rossa)
17. Eoin Cadogan (Douglas)
18. Michael Shields (St. Finbarrs)
19. James Loughrey (Mallow)
20. Tom Clancy (Clonakilty)
21. Mark Collins (Castlehaven)
22. Colm O’Driscoll (Tadgh MacCarthaigh)
23. Donncha O’Connor (Ballydesmond)
24. Colm O’Neill (Ballyclough)

HASTINGS CUP ROUND 1

HASTINGS CUP ROUND 1   03/01/2015


Kerry 0-13 Roscommon 1-10
Kerry Under 21 Footballers began their preparation for the Munster Football Championship meeting with either Limerick or Cork on March 18th when a late Roscommon point deprived the Kingdom of victory in this Hastings Cup Rd. 1 game in Gort on Saturday evening. The tournament, organised by the Longford County Board, has sixteen counties taking part broken down into groups of four with Kerry grouped with Roscommon, Cavan and Meath.
Kerry had got off to the better start and led by 4 points to 1 after 16 minutes with Conor Keane getting two of those scores. Roscommon had the better of the scoring during the second quarter and actually led at the break by 6 points to 5.
Points by Micheál Burns, Brian Crowley and Jack Savage saw the sides on level terms at the three quarter stage but then a Roscommon goal put three points between the sides. The sides swapped three points each with Crowley, Savage and Dara Roche contributing to Kerry’s total and a point by Micheál Burns in the 59th minute looked to have given Kerry victory but Roscommon were not to be denied the draw with a late equaliser.
Kerry:
Darragh O’Shea (Ballydonoghue), Cathal Murphy (Rathmore), Gavin Crowley (Templenoe), Cormac Coffey (Kerins O’Rahillys), Padraig O’ Conchúir (Dingle), Ronan Murphy (Beaufort), Conor Jordan (Austin Stacks), Barry O’Sullivan (Dingle), Greg Horan (Austin Stacks), Micheál Burns (Dr Crokes), Brian Crowley (Templenoe), Matthew Flaherty (Dingle), Dara Roche (Glenflesk), Niall Sheehy (John Mitchels), Conor Keane (Killarney Legion). Subs: Tom O’Sullivan (Dingle), Eanna O’ Conchúir (An Ghaeltacht), Brian Ó Beaglaoich (An Ghaeltacht), Jack Savage (Kerins O’Rahillys), Killian Spillane (Templenoe).
Round 2, against Cavan, is fixed for Emo outside Portlaoise on Saturday next (2pm) and the final group game is on January 17th against Meath at a venue yet to be decided.

2013 McGrath Cup Quarter Final

McGrath Cup Quarter Final – Kerry 2-12 UCC 0-10

Curtin and Cox catch Fitzmaurice’s eye as Kerry advance

By Michael Moynihan for the Irish Examiner newspaper

Kerry 2-12 UCC 0-10

Kerry boss Eamon Fitzmaurice was in the unusual position of enjoying performances of players on both sides yesterday, as his Kingdom side eased past UCC in a McGrath Cup quarter-final at a misty Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney. Two first-half goals from impressive full-forward Patrick Curtin ended the game as a contest but UCC’s top forward, Conor Cox of Listowel Emmets who ended with six points, is also a Kingdom prospect and one of seven in the college’s starting 15. “Conor played well,” said Fitzmaurice after the game. “So did all of the UCC lads who are in with us. I know Conor kicked a share of scores and we know well the quality he possesses. “He is going to have a busy schedule now, between the Sigerson with UCC, he is involved with Darragh [Ó Sé), with the U21s and he is in and out with us as well so I suppose for the next while it’s going to be about balancing commitments, to ensure that he is not over extended at any stage.”

As might be expected of a team with Sigerson commitments looming, UCC were sharper out of the blocks and ran up a three-point lead courtesy of a Cox free, Gavin O’Grady (45) and a fine Brian Coughlan effort from play. Kerry were slow to get into their stride but Darran O’Sullivan’s opener, a free from wide right, sparked his team-mates to action. Michael Geaney and Paddy Curtin levelled matters and Paul Geaney edged Kerry ahead. Kerry struck for the first goal at the end of the first quarter, Kieran O’Leary feeding Curtin, who played a one-two with Paul Geaney before finishing emphatically. The Kingdom radar then let them down, with four consecutive wides and Darran O’Sullivan hitting the woodwork, but Curtin hit his second goal on the half-hour. Cox added two points for UCC but two Geaney points either side of a Johnny Buckley effort left it 2-7 to 0-5 at the half.

The second half fizzled out, with heavy underfoot conditions taking a toll on UCC. Kerry hit some good points to take their total to 2-12, while Cox started and ended UCC’s scoring. But the biggest cheer of the afternoon came when Kieran Donaghy was substituted, the PA announcer wishing him well in his wedding next weekend. In his absence Fitzmaurice will shuffle the deck against Limerick in next Sunday’s semi-final. “Anthony Maher will be back in with us next weekend and the Crokes lads are going back training with Crokes this week, but there will be a few of them available to us for the game next weekend, if we want them.” “It’ll be a more physical test, but in fairness to UCC they were quite physical in the second half and they have a share of pretty senior players around that are well conditioned, the likes of Niall Daly and JB Spillane, and they had a couple of big men like Peter Acheson who have played senior inter-county, and Peter Crowley.”

Scorers for Kerry: P Curtin 2-2, P Geaney 0-3 (1f), J Buckley 0-2, M Geaney, D O’Sullivan (f), K O’Leary, M O’Donoghue and BJ Keane 0-1 each

Scorers for UCC: C Cox 0-6 (3fs), G O’Grady 0-2 (1 45), B Coughlan, P Acheson

KERRY: B Kealy; M Ó Sé, M Moloney, F Fitzgerald; J Lyne, J Sherwood, K Young; K Donaghy, J Buckley; M Geaney, D O’Sullivan, M O’Donoghue; K O’Leary (c), P Curtin, P Geaney.

Subs: BJ Keane for D O’Sullivan (ht), T Ó Sé for Fitzgerald (50), P O’Connor for O’Leary (50), A O’Mahony for O’Donoghue (57), A Garnett for Donaghy (64).

UCC: S Mellett (Carrigaline/Cork); J O’Sullivan (Bishopstown/Cork), P Galvin (Ballymacelligot/Kerry), F McNamara (Austin Stacks/Kerry); P Crowley (Laune Rangers/Kerry), N Daly (Padraig Pearses/Roscommon) T Clancy (Fermoy/Cork); P Acheson (Moyle Rovers/Tipperary), D O’Sullivan (Dingle/Kerry); K O’Driscoll (Tadhg McCarthaigh/Cork), B Coughlan (Kinsale/Cork), JB Spillane (Castlegregory/Kerry); C Cox (Listowel Emmets/Kerry), E Buckley (St Michael’s/Cork), G O’Grady (Glenbeigh-Glencar/Kerry).

Subs: M Reen (Rathmore) for Buckley (53), P Lucey (Legion) for Coughlan (59).

Referee: D O’Mahony (Tipperary)

For the Record

Kerry UCC
2012 McGrath Cup Performance Did not take part Defeated Limerick by 1-19 to 0-10 before losing to Tipperary in the semi-final by
1-15 to 0-10
Number of McGrath Cup Senior Football titles 3 0
Last McGrath Cup Senior Football Title 2011 N/A
McGrath Cup Senior Football Record since 2000 Played – 14
Won – 12
Lost – 2
Drawn – 0		 Played – 15
Won – 7
Lost – 8
Drawn – 0
Last meeting in the McGrath Cup 2010 Final – January 30th at Austin Stack Park Tralee
Kerry 1-11 UCC 0-9 – Match Report

Fixtures and Results

Preliminary Round

Saturday January 5th

@ Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney       Kerry 4-22 IT Tralee 0-10

Sunday January 6th

@ Miltown-Malbay                            Clare 1-19 LIT 1-2
@ Cork IT GAA Grounds                 Cork 1-15 CIT 0-10

Quarter-Finals (Extra time)

Sunday January 13th

@ Foynes                                          Limerick v Clare                                                        @ 2:00pm

@ Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney       Kerry v UCC                                                              @ 2:00pm

@ Pairc Ui Rinn                                Tipperary v Cork                                                       @ 2:00pm

@ WIT GAA Grounds Carriganore Waterford v UL                                                          @ 2:00pm


Semi-Finals (Extra time)

Sunday January 20th

Limerick or Clare v Kerry or UCC

Venue Permutations

Limerick v Kerry – Kerry venue

Clare v Kerry – Clare venue

Limerick v UCC – Limerick venue

Clare v UCC – Clare venue

Cork or Tipperary v Waterford or UL

Venue Permutations

Cork v Waterford – Waterford venue

Tipperary v Waterford – Tipperary venue

Cork v UL – Cork venue

Tipperary v UL – Tipperary venue

Final (Extra time)

Sunday January 27th

McGrath Cup Senior Football – Odds and Ends

Since 2000, Cork’s McGrath Cup success rate is 89% (best of any county) with 17 wins out of 19 in the competition.  In the same period, Kerry have won 12 of their 14 matches (a 86% success rate).

Despite a goal-less final, there was an average of 2.4 goals per match in the 2012 McGrath Cup competition (22 goals scored in total). This contrasts with 16 goals scored in the 2011 competition over 11 matches (an average of 1.4 goals per match).

The record of the Third Level Colleges in the McGrath Cup since entering in 2005 is Won 21, Lost 47 (31% success rate). None of the six colleges have a winning record in the competition during that period. UCC have the best record, winning 7 of their 15 matches (47% success rate) while UL have won 5 of their 12 matches (42% success rate).

Since 2011, the record of Third Level Colleges when playing an Inter-County team in the McGrath Cup is Won 2, Lost 14 (13% success rate)

Kerry have not lost a match in the McGrath Cup since the 2006 final where the Kingdom lost to Cork by 1-9 to 0-6 at Pairc Ui Rinn.

Limerick footballers have won 1 of their last 6 matches in the McGrath Cup. Waterford have won 1 of their last 5 matches.

Tipperary is the only team to have won at least 1 match in the last 3 years of the McGrath Cup with a 66% record during that period, Won 6 Lost 3.

Clare footballers have won 5 of their last 7 matches in the McGrath Cup over the last two seasons. During that span, Clare have scored 4 goals and conceded 4 goals.

McGrath Cup Senior Football Roll Of Honour

Clare (12) – 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2008

Cork (6) – 1998, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Limerick (5) – 1985, 1987, 2001, 2004, 2005

Tipperary (3) – 1989, 1993, 2003

Kerry (3) – 1996, 2010, 2011

Waterford (1) – 1981

London (1) – 1988

Visit the Munster GAA web site History section to view the complete Roll of Honour since the competition began in 1981 – http://munster.gaa.ie/history/mcgrath-cup-football/

McGrath Cup

Presented by Joe McGrath on June 21st, 1981 for the promotion of Senior Football in Munster

McGrath Cup – 2013 Scorers

Paul Geaney (Kerry) 2-4 (0-1 free)
Patrick Curtin (Kerry) 1-5Shane McGrath (Clare) 0-7

Michael Geaney (Kerry) 1-1
Colm O’Neill (Cork) 0-4 (0-2 frees, 0-1 45)
Donncha O’Connor (Cork) 1-1 (0-1 free)

Alan Clohessy (Clare) 0-4 (0-1 45)
Donal Óg Hodnett (CIT) 0-4 (0-3 frees)

Johnny Buckley (Kerry) 0-3

Paul O’Connor (Kerry) 0-3 (0-1 free)

Brian Looney (Kerry) 0-3 (0-1 45)

Gary Brennan (Clare) 1-0

I McInerney (Clare) 0-3 (0-1 free, 0-1 45)

Alan O’Donoghue (IT Tralee) 0-3 (0-3 frees)
Tommy McCarthy (LIT) 1-0

 Barry John Keane (Kerry) 0-2S Carroll (IT Tralee) 0-2 (0-1 free)
Odhran Mulrooney (Cork) 0-2

Paul Kerrigan (Cork) 0-2

Pearse O’Neill (Cork) 0-2

P McMahon (Clare) 0-2

Enda Coughlan  (Clare)  0-2

Brian O’Regan (CIT) 0-2

Darran O’Sullivan (Kerry), Conor O’Driscoll (Cork), Sean Kiely (Cork), Andrew O’Sullivan (Cork), Liam Shorten (Cork), J Dowling (Clare), N Kelly (Clare), Brendan Pott (IT Tralee), Darren Wallace (IT Tralee), Ruairi Deane (IT Tralee), Sean Killeen (IT Tralee), Sean McCarthy (IT Tralee), Colin Lyons (CIT), Jerry O’Connor (CIT), Donagh Leahy (CIT), Micheal Vaughan (CIT), Anthony Sweeney  (CIT) (0-1 free), Brian Coleman (LIT) (0-1 free), C Wallace (LIT) 0-1 each.

2013 McGrath Cup Semi Final

McGrath Cup Semi Final – Kerry 3-17 Limerick 1-11

Winter progress pleases Kingdom’s new boss

By Diarmuid O’Flynn for the Irish Examiner newspaper

Kerry 3-17 Limerick 1-11

Grinding their way gradually up through the gears, that’s this new-look Kerry team under new manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice. Yesterday’s McGrath Cup semi-final over Limerick marks three successive wins in three successive weeks, albeit all on home turf in Killarney, the opposition becoming more testing in every game. First it was IT Tralee, then UCC, yesterday it was their first inter-county opposition of this competitive year, all dismissed with equal aplomb by a Kerry team featuring a plethora of new faces. It all combines to make Fitzmaurice a very happy man.

“The real value of the McGrath Cup is that they’re getting a sustained run which is good for the likes of Jack (Sherwood) at centre-back as that helps his development and his confidence, just getting used to the lads around him. ” We’re very happy with the way they’re progressing so we’ll keep at it. The idea of the McGrath Cup was to look at the younger players and give them a few games which would strengthen our hand and strengthen our panel. “We’ve definitely accomplished that and we have a game again next week (McGrath Cup final against Tipperary) and that’s great for us. I don’t know exactly how many players we’ve used over the past number of weeks but it’s certainly in the high 20s so that’s great, considering there are a lot of absentees at the moment.”

Marc Ó Sé and Aidan O’Mahony were picked to play yesterday but neither started (Aidan came on as a late sub, as did Tomas Ó Sé), though yet another of the veterans, midfielder Bryan Sheehan, did make an earlier than expected return. “Aidan is a bit asthmatic, had a bit of a reaction yesterday so we didn’t start him; Marc had a hamstring problem all week and we decided not to risk him when the day was so cold. We hadn’t expected to see Bryan for a good bit longer to be honest but he trained very hard on his own with Paudie Corcoran, who works with the injured players in the background. Paudie, the physios and the medical team did great work with Bryan, so we were able to give him a run-out today.”

Some run-out. With Sheehan and Anthony Maher dominating midfield, a strong five minutes before half-time during which they scored 2-1 helped Kerry to a two-goal half-time lead (2-7 to 0-7), even while playing into a stiff breeze. The dashing Darren O’Sullivan had the first major, his blistering pace taking him in on goal while James O’Donoghue had the second with a superb finish after snapping up a breaking ball. Given that they themselves were also fielding an experimental side, it left Limerick with a small mountain to climb. “We were caught in a Catch 22 situation,” explained unhappy manager Maurice Horan: “We had to rest our experienced guys, the likes of Pa Ranahan, Stephen Lavin, Mark Riordan, Eoghan O’Connor, Stephen Kelly, and Ger Collins. If the game was next week they would all be available to us but we just cannot jeopardise the league.

“We’re on the back of two injury-ravaged league campaigns so we want to try and keep all our main players as injury-free as possible. The two goals before half-time were killers, particularly the second goal but the biggest problem for me today wasn’t the loss, it was the three lapses in concentration in the second-half after we had come back to within three points — suddenly it was an eight-point gap again.” Limerick did start the second half well, a fine goal by youngster Darragh Treacy then a pointed Ian Ryan free bringing them with a single score (2-7 to 1-7). Then came those concentration lapses by Limerick and in a 12-minute purple patch Kerry scored 1-8 without reply — O’Donoghue getting his second and Kerry’s third goal. Sets the Kingdom up nicely for the final next week, albeit in Tipperary, but also strengthens Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s hand with the league opener against Mayo just a week later.

Scorers for Kerry: J O’Donoghue 2-5 (5f); D O’Sullivan 1-1; M Geaney 0-3; BJ Keane 0-3; B Sheehan 0-2 (2f); M O’Donoghue 0-2; P Curtin 0-1.

Scorers for Limerick: I Ryan 0-6 (5f); D Treacy 1-0; D O’Connor, D Neville, J Riordan, J O’Meara, L O’Dwyer, 0-1 each.

KERRY: B Kelly; F Fitzgerald (c), M Moloney, D Culhane; J Lyne, J Sherwood, K Young; A Maher, B Sheehan; M Geaney, D O’Sullivan, M O’Donoghue; J O’Donoghue, P Curtin, BJ Keane.

Subs: K O’Leary (O’Sullivan inj. 53); T Ó Sé (Sheehan 54); A O’Mahony (Moloney 61); B Looney (J O’Donoghue 61); A Garnett (Maher 61).

LIMERICK: B Scanlon; C Cody, J McCarthy, P Browne; L O’Dwyer, M Sheehan, J Riordan; T Lee, B O’Brien; J O’Meara, D Treacy, D O’Connor; D Neville, S O’Carroll, I Ryan.

Subs: M O’Keeffe (Sheehan 33); P Kinnerk (O’Brien 54); S Sheehan (Neville 65); D O’Dea (Lee 67); B McCarthy (O’Meara 69).

Referee: C Lane (Cork)

Team News

The Kerry Senior Football Team to play Limerick in the Munster GAA McGrath Cup Semi Final in Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday shows 5 changes from the side that saw action in the Quarter Finals on Sunday last. Brian Kelly comes into goal in place of Brendan Kealy, Aidan O’Mahony takes over at full back from Michael Moloney, there is a new midfield partnership in Anthony Maher and Bryan Sheehan who replace Johnny Buckley and Kieran Donaghy and the one change up front sees James O’Donoghue replace Kieran O’Leary.

The team captained by Fionn Fitzgerald is as follows:

1. Brian Kelly Killarney Legion

2. Marc Ó Sé An Gaeltacht

3. Aidan O’Mahony Rathmore

4. Fionn Fitzgerald Dr Crokes (Captain)

5. Jonathan Lyne Killarney Legion

6. Jack Sherwood Firies

7. Killian Young Renard

8. Anthony Maher Duagh

9. Bryan Sheehan St Marys

10. Michael Geaney Dingle

11. Darran O’Sullivan Glenbeigh/Glencar

12. Michael O’Donoghue Spa

13. James O’Donoghue Killarney Legion

14. Patrick Curtin Moyvane

15. Paul Geaney Dingle

16. Brendan Kealy Kilcummin

17. Tomás Ó Sé An Gaeltacht

18. Kieran O’Leary Dr Crokes

19. Michael Moloney Dr Crokes

20. Barry John Keane Kerins O’Rahillys

21. David Culhane Ballylongford

22. Andrew Garnett Spa

23. Brian Looney Dr Crokes

24. Shane Enright Tarbert

Manager: Eamonn Fitzmaurice; Trainer/Selector: Cian O’Neill; Selectors: Diarmuid Murphy, Mikey Sheehy

The Limerick Senior Football team to play Kerry is as follows –

1 Brian Scanlan, Gerald Griffin’s.

2 Cian Coady Na Piarsaigh.

3 Johnny McCarthy St. Kieran’s.

4 Michael Sheehan Fr. Casey’s.

5 Stephen Lavin Adare.

6 Paudie Browne Fr. Casey’s.

7 Pa Ranahan Ballysteen.

8 Thomas Lee Ballylanders.

9 Bobby O’Brien Bruff.

10 John Riordan Fr. Casey’s.

11 Darragh Treacy St. Kieran’s

12 Seamus O’Carroll Cappagh Kilcornan.

13 Eoghan O’Connor St. Mary’s/Sean Finns.

14 Derry O’Connor Fr. Casey’s.

15 Ian Ryan St.Senan’s.

For the Record

Kerry Limerick
2012 McGrath Cup Performance Did not take part Lost to UCC by 1-19 to 0-10 in the Quarter-Final
Number of McGrath Cup Senior Football titles 3 5
Last McGrath Cup Senior Football Title 2011 2005
McGrath Cup Senior Football Record since 2000 Played – 15
Won – 13
Lost – 2
Drawn – 0		 Played – 26
Won – 16
Lost – 10
Drawn – 0
Last meeting in the McGrath Cup 1999 First Round – January 23rd at Abbeyfeale
Limerick 1-6 Kerry 0-5

Fixtures and Results


Preliminary Round

Saturday January 5th

@ Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney       Kerry 4-22 IT Tralee 0-10

Sunday January 6th

@ Miltown-Malbay                            Clare 1-19 LIT 1-2
@ Cork IT GAA Grounds                 Cork 1-15 CIT 0-10

Quarter-Finals
Sunday January 13th

@ Foynes                                          Limerick 2-16 Clare 2-13 (after extra time)

@ Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney       Kerry 2-12 UCC 0-10

@ Pairc Ui Rinn                                Tipperary 2-9 Cork 1-9

@ WIT GAA Grounds Carriganore Waterford 0-16 University of Limerick 0-12 (after extra time)


Semi-Finals (Extra time)

Sunday January 20th

@ Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney                   Kerry v Limerick                                            @ 2:00pm

@ Sean Treacy Park Tipperary Town        Tipperary v Waterford                                   @ 2:00pm

Final (Extra time)

Sunday January 27th

Kerry or Limerick v Tipperary or Waterford

Venue Permutations

@ Tipperary venue                           Kerry v Tipperary (last meeting – 2010 S-Final in Killarney)
@ Limerick venue                             Limerick v Tipperary (last meeting – 2007 Q-Final in Cahir)
@ Waterford venue                           Kerry v Waterford (last meeting – 2010 Q-Final in Killarney)
@ Limerick venue                             Limerick v Waterford (last meeting – 2004 S-Final in Ardmore)

McGrath Cup Senior Football – Odds and Ends

Since 2000, Kerry have won 13 of their 15 matches (a 87% success rate – best of any county). In the same period, Cork’s McGrath Cup success rate is 85% with 17 wins out of 20 in the competition.

In the 7 games to date in the 2013 McGrath Cup, there has been an average of 2.3 goals per game. This compares with 2.4 goals per match in 2012 and 1.4 goals per match in 2011.

The record of the Third Level Colleges in the McGrath Cup since entering in 2005 is Won 21, Lost 49 (30% success rate). None of the six colleges have a winning record in the competition during that period. UCC have the best record, winning 7 of their 16 matches (44% success rate) while UL have won 5 of their 13 matches (38% success rate).

Since 2011, the record of Third Level Colleges when playing an Inter-County team in the McGrath Cup is Won 2, Lost 16 (11% success rate)

Kerry have not lost a match in the McGrath Cup since the 2006 final where the Kingdom lost to Cork by 1-9 to 0-6 at Pairc Ui Rinn.

Limerick footballers have won 2 of their last 7 matches in the McGrath Cup. Waterford have won 2 of their last 6 matches.

Tipperary is the only team to have won at least 1 match in the last 4 years of the McGrath Cup with a 70% record during that period, Won 7 Lost 3.

McGrath Cup Senior Football Roll Of Honour

Clare (12) – 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2008

Cork (6) – 1998, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Limerick (5) – 1985, 1987, 2001, 2004, 2005

Tipperary (3) – 1989, 1993, 2003

Kerry (3) – 1996, 2010, 2011

Waterford (1) – 1981

London (1) – 1988

Visit the Munster GAA web site History section to view the complete Roll of Honour since the competition began in 1981 – http://munster.gaa.ie/history/mcgrath-cup-football/

McGrath Cup

Presented by Joe McGrath on June 21st, 1981 for the promotion of Senior Football in Munster

McGrath Cup – 2013 Scorers

Patrick Curtin (Kerry) 3-7Paul Geaney (Kerry) 2-7 (0-2 frees)
Ian Ryan (Limerick) 1-7 (0-4 frees)
Podge McMahon (Clare) 2-3
Barry Grogan (Tipperary) 1-6 (0-4 frees)

Conor Cox (UCC) 0-6 (0-3 frees)
Donncha O’Connor (Cork) 1-5 (0-3 frees)
Shane McGrath (Clare) 0-7
Alan Clohessy (Clare) 0-7 (0-1 free, 0-1 45)
Seamus O’Carroll (Limerick) 1-3 (0-2 45s)
Ian McInerney (Clare) 0-6 (0-4 frees, 0-1 45)
Alan Moloney (UL) 0-6 (0-2 frees, 0-2 45s)

Johnny Buckley (Kerry) 0-5
Michael Geaney (Kerry) 1-2

Gary Hurney (Waterford) 0-5 (0-1 free)
David Tubridy (Clare) 0-5 (0-2 frees)

Gary Brennan (Clare) 1-1

Colm O’Neill (Cork) 0-4 (0-2 frees, 0-1 45)
Ciaran Sheehan (Cork) 1-1

Donal Óg Hodnett (CIT) 0-4 (0-3 frees)

Paul O’Connor (Kerry) 0-3 (0-1 free)

Brian Looney (Kerry) 0-3 (0-1 45)
Barry John Keane (Kerry) 0-3
Bill Maher (Tipperary) 1-0
Paul Whyte (Waterford) 0-3 (0-2 frees)
Liam Shorten (Cork) 0-3

Alan O’Donoghue (IT Tralee) 0-3 (0-3 frees)
Tommy McCarthy (LIT) 1-0

 Darran O’Sullivan (Kerry) 0-2 (0-1 free)Derry O’Connor (Limerick) 0-2
Ger Collins (Limerick) 0-2
Eoghan O’Connor (Limerick) 0-2
Philip Quirke (Tipperary) 0-2 (0-2 frees)
Gavin Nugent (Waterford) 0-2
Darren Guiry (Waterford) 0-2
Tony Grey (Waterford) 0-2
Shane Ahearne (Waterford) 0-2 (0-1 free)

S Carroll (IT Tralee) 0-2 (0-1 free)
Odhran Mulrooney (Cork) 0-2

Paul Kerrigan (Cork) 0-2

Pearse O’Neill (Cork) 0-2
Fintan Goold (Cork) 0-2 (0-2 frees)

Enda Coughlan  (Clare)  0-2

Brian O’Regan (CIT) 0-2
Gavin O’Grady (UCC) 0-2 (0-1 45)
Ed Walsh (UL) 0-2
Denis Keohane (UL) 0-2
Michael O’Donoghue (Kerry), Kieran O’Leary (Kerry), Philip Austin (Tipperary), Conor O’Driscoll (Cork), Sean Kiely (Cork), Andrew O’Sullivan (Cork), J Dowling (Clare), N Kelly (Clare), Brendan Pott (IT Tralee), Darren Wallace (IT Tralee), Ruairi Deane (IT Tralee), Sean Killeen (IT Tralee), Sean McCarthy (IT Tralee), Colin Lyons (CIT), Jerry O’Connor (CIT), Donagh Leahy (CIT), Micheal Vaughan (CIT), Anthony Sweeney  (CIT) (0-1 free), Brian Coleman (LIT) (0-1 free), C Wallace (LIT), Brian Coughlan (UCC), Peter Acheson (UCC), Liam McGovern (UL), John O’Rourke (UL)  0-1 each

2013 McGrath Cup Final

McGrath Cup Final – Kerry 1-12 Tipperary 1-5

Tried and tested set to return after Kingdom stroll

By Jackie Cahill for the Irish Examiner newspaper

Kerry 1-12 Tipperary 1-05

The time for experimentation is almost over. Eamonn Fitzmaurice has vowed to field his strongest possible teams over the next two weekends as Kerry open their Allianz Football League Division 1 campaign against heavyweights Mayo and Dublin. The Kingdom manager has run the rule over a number of young players during a successful McGrath Cup campaign but now, only the strongest can survive. Some of his emerging young stars will see game time, for sure, but Fitzmaurice hinted that he’s a ‘horses for courses’ man. He’s anxious to get off to a good start in Castlebar next Sunday and it should be an experienced team that trots out at McHale Park.

Of course, Fitzmaurice’s hand could be forced to an extent as a number of his players are involved in Sigerson Cup matches over the next few days. But in his head, Fitzmaurice has probably settled on the starting 15 for an attractive opening fixture against last year’s beaten All-Ireland finalists, with Killian Young and James O’Donoghue likely to be fit in time. Reflecting on the McGrath Cup campaign as a whole, Fitzmaurice said: “With these lads, it’s trying to get a bit of game time into them.

Sometimes that can be hard in the National League when you have a very competitive panel. Human nature being what it is, you’re going to go with the experienced fellas that have been there, done that. But the lads have got a good chance and have definitely stuck their foot in the door going forward.” That’s not to say that Kerry’s young guns don’t deserve a chance, because they do. Jonathan Lyne and Jack Sherwood have done well in defence so far this year while up front, Michael O’Donoghue and Paul Geaney are lively prospects.

But when push came to shove against Tipperary at Sean Treacy Park on Saturday, it was the men who’ve been around the block that got the job done. Darran O’Sullivan scored 1-3 while the Ó Sé brothers Marc and Tomás marshalled a mean defence as Kerry claimed a third title in four seasons. Tipp, chasing a first McGrath Cup title since 2003, didn’t score from play until the 47th minute. At the other end, Kerry finished with eight different scorers.

Fitzmaurice reflected: “We’re happy with January. What we’ve done with each game is taken stock each week. We’ve trained, seen who’s available, we’ve checked the knocks. There are Sigerson games going on again on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week and a lot of the lads will be involved in them. So, we’ll take stock again on Thursday, see who’s available to us. We’ll put our strongest possible team next weekend but we have two seriously tough games coming up, away to Mayo and at home to Dublin.”

Right now, Kerry’s squad looks solid. This team, after all, was only a couple of points off Donegal in last year’s All-Ireland quarter-final, when they general consensus was that Kerry didn’t play well. The Dr Crokes contingent will return from club duty to provide Fitzmaurice with fresh options and Kerry should be in good fettle when they meet Tipperary again in May, in the quarter-finals of the Munster SFC.

Kerry elected to play with the breeze in the first half last Saturday, in front of 839 spectators in Tipp town. They were 1-7 to 0-2 clear at half-time, with O’Sullivan firing home a clinical 16th minute goal. Tipp managed just two pointed frees from Barry Grogan, scorer of 2-12 in his two previous matches. Marc Ó Sé stuck to Grogan like glue throughout and although the Aherlow forward registered 1-4, he managed to escape just once for a point from play. A number of frees he’d normally pop over drifted wide too but Grogan did goal from a 45 in the 57th minute, with Kerry goalkeeper Brendan Kealy at fault as the ball floated into the net.

It was the highlight of Tipp’s afternoon and their manager Peter Creedon admitted that the Premier County could have few complaints with the end result. He argued that Tipp’s opening Division 4 fixtures, at home to Carlow next Sunday and away to Waterford six days later, are much more important than a McGrath Cup final. “We had a good campaign; two good wins and there were reasonable parts about today as well. But we have to get promotion — that’s it. The next two games are way more important.”

Scorers for Kerry: D O’Sullivan (1-3, 0-1f), P Geaney 0-3 (1f), T Ó’Sé, A Maher, B Sheehan (f), M Geaney, M O’Donoghue & P Curtin 0-1 each.

Scorers for Tipperary: B Grogan 1-4 (1-0 45, 0-3f), L McGrath 0-1.

KERRY: B Kealy; M Ó Sé, A O’Mahony, S Enright; J Lyne, J Sherwood, T Ó Sé; A Maher, B Sheehan; M Geaney, D O’Sullivan, M O’Donoghue; B.J. Keane, P Curtin, P Geaney.

Subs: D Culhane for Sherwood (47); A Garnett for Sheehan (57); BJ Walsh for Keane (57); P Murphy for Lyne (58); B Kelliher for O’Donoghue (59).

TIPPERARY: P Fitzgerald; A Morrissey, P Codd, J Coghlan; B Fox, S Kennedy, C McDonald; G Hannigan, L Egan; S O’Brien, P Quirke, B Maher; L McGrath, B Grogan, C Sweeney.

Subs: H Coghlan for Egan (h.t.), A Campbell for Kennedy (h.t.), B O’Brien for S O’Brien (53), B Jones for Hannigan (59), A Matassa for Sweeney (67).

Referee: J Bermingham (Cork)

Kerry cruise to McGrath Cup final victory

Round-up from the GAA.ie web site

McGrath Cup Final: Kerry 1-12 Tipperary 1-5

Kerry were comfortable winners in the McGrath Cup final against Tipperary on Sunday at Seán Treacy Park in Tipperary Town. Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s side led from start to finish, and had seven points to spare at the end. It is the fourth time in their history they have won the competition, and is their third title in the last four years. They led 1-3 to 0-1 midway through the first half. Their goal came from the lively Darran O’Sullivan, who had a fine game from his centre-half-forward berth, and who ended up with 1-3 for the day.

The Kingdom were in total control at half-time, leading 1-7 to 0-2, and the second half was a fairly stale affair as a result. Barry Grogan was Tipperary’s best player, and he pulled them closer to Kerry with a goal in the second half which came directly from a 45′. However, it made little impact on the result and Kerry cruised to the finish to give Fitzmaurice his first piece of silverware as boss.

Team News

The Tipperary Senior Football team to play Kerry in the McGrath Cup final on Saturday next at Sean Treacy Park Tipperary Town shows 3 changes from the team which defeated Waterford in the semi-final. Brian Fox, Ciaran McDonald and Lorcan Egan come into the team instead of John O’Callaghan, Alan Campbell and Aldo Matassa. The team is as follows:

1. Paul Fitzgerald (Fethard)

2. Andrew Morrissey (Galtee Rovers)

3. Paddy Codd (Killenaule) Captain

4. John Coghlan (Moyne Templetuohy)

5. Brian Fox (Eire Og Annacarty)

6. Seamus Kennedy (Clonmel Commercials)

7. Ciaran McDonald (Aherlow)

8. George Hannigan (Shannon Rovers)

9. Lorcan Egan (JK Brackens)

10. Steven O’Brien (Ballina)

11. Philip Quirke (Moyle Rovers)

12. Bill Maher (Kilsheelan Kilcash)

13. Liam McGrath (Loughmore Castleiney)

14. Barry Grogan (Aherlow)

15. Conor Sweeney (Ballyporeen)

The Kerry team to play Tipperary in the Munster GAA McGrath Cup Final on Saturday next in Tipperary Town at 2:30 shows 6 changes in personnel from the side that defeated Limerick in the semi final on Sunday last:

Brendan Kealy returns in goal in place of Brian Kelly, Marc Ó Sé, Aidan O’Mahony and Shane Enright resume in the full back line for David Culhane, Michael Moloney and Fionn Fitzgerald, Tomás Ó Sé comes in for the unavailable Killian Young at No. 7 and up front Paul Geaney comes in for James O’Donoghue who is also unavailable.

1. Brendan Kealy Kilcummin

2. Marc Ó Sé An Gaeltacht

3. Aidan O’Mahony Rathmore

4. Shane Enright Tarbert

5. Jonathan Lyne Killarney Legion

6. Jack Sherwood Firies

7. Tomás Ó Sé An Gaeltacht

8. Anthony Maher Duagh (Capt)

9. Bryan Sheehan St Marys

10. Michael Geaney Dingle

11. Darran O’Sullivan Glenbeigh/Glencar

12. Michael O’Donoghue Spa

13. Barry John Keane Kerins O’Rahillys

14. Patrick Curtin Moyvane

15. Paul Geaney Dingle

16. Brian Kelly Killarney Legion

17. David Culhane Ballylongford

18. Andrew Garnett Spa

19. Barry John Walsh Kerins O’Rahillys

20. Paul Murphy Rathmore

21. Breandán Kelliher Dingle

For the Record

Kerry Tipperary
2012 McGrath Cup Performance Did not take part Defeated LIT, WIT and UCC before losing to Cork in the Final.
Number of McGrath Cup Senior Football titles 3 3
Last McGrath Cup Senior Football Title 2011 2003
McGrath Cup Senior Football Record since 2000 Played – 16
Won – 14
Lost – 2
Drawn – 0		 Played – 25
Won – 13
Lost – 12
Drawn – 0
Last meeting in the McGrath Cup 2010 Semi-Final – January 24th at Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney
Kerry 0-13 Tipperary 1-9Kerry: B Kealy; P Reidy, T Griffin, A O’Connell; M Corridan (0-1), A O’Mahony, K Young; S Scanlon (0-2), M Quirke; D Walsh (0-2), Declan O’Sullivan (0-2), B Looney; K O’Leary (0-1, free), K Donaghy, P O’Connor (0-4, three frees).
Subs: P Galvin for B Looney (half-time), J O’Donoghue for K O’Leary (50 mins), BJ Keane (0-1) for D O’Sullivan (50 mins), Alan O’Sullivan for S Scanlon (58 mins)

Tipperary: P Fitzgerald; C Morrissey, N Curran, A Morrissey; C McGrath, R Costigan, C Aylward; G Hannigan (1-0), C Dillon; S Carey, S Hahessy (0-1, free), P Acheson; C Sweeney (0-4, frees), B Coen, B Grogan (0-1).
Subs: A Rockett (0-1) for C Dillon (28 mins), S Grogan (0-2) for S Hahessy (half-time), J Cagney for S Carey (39 mins), H Coghlan for C McGrath (50 mins), E Kearney for P Acheson (58 mins).

Referee: M Collins (Cork)

Fixtures and Results

Preliminary Round

Saturday January 5th

@ Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney     Kerry 4-22 IT Tralee 0-10

Sunday January 6th

@ Miltown-Malbay                       Clare 1-19 LIT 1-2
@ Cork IT GAA Grounds             Cork 1-15 CIT 0-10

Quarter-Finals
Sunday January 13th

@ Foynes                                   Limerick 2-16 Clare 2-13 (after extra time)

@ Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney     Kerry 2-12 UCC 0-10

@ Pairc Ui Rinn                           Tipperary 2-9 Cork 1-9

@ WIT GAA Grounds Carriganore Waterford 0-16 University of Limerick 0-12 (after extra time)


Semi-Finals
Sunday January 20th

@ Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney               Kerry 3-17 Limerick 1-11

@ Sean Treacy Park Tipperary Town     Tipperary 1-12 Waterford 2-8 (after extra time)

Final (Extra time)

Saturday January 26th

@ Sean Treacy Park Tipperary Town     Kerry v Tipperary                         @ 2:30pm

McGrath Cup Senior Football – Odds and Ends

Since 2000, Kerry have won 14 of their 16 matches (a 88% success rate – best of any county). In the same period, Cork’s McGrath Cup success rate is 85% with 17 wins out of 20 in the competition.

Tipperary is the only team to have won at least 1 match in the last 4 years of the McGrath Cup with a 73% record during that period, Won 8 Lost 3.

In the 9 games to date in the 2013 McGrath Cup, there has been an average of 2.6 goals per game. This compares with 2.4 goals per match in 2012 and 1.4 goals per match in 2011.

The record of the Third Level Colleges in the McGrath Cup since entering in 2005 is Won 21, Lost 49 (30% success rate). None of the six colleges have a winning record in the competition during that period. UCC have the best record, winning 7 of their 16 matches (44% success rate) while UL have won 5 of their 13 matches (38% success rate).

Since 2011, the record of Third Level Colleges when playing an Inter-County team in the McGrath Cup is Won 2, Lost 16 (11% success rate)

Kerry have not lost a match in the McGrath Cup since the 2006 final where the Kingdom lost to Cork by 1-9 to 0-6 at Pairc Ui Rinn.

Tipperary’s last victory over Kerry in the McGrath Cup came on January 16th 2005 – 1-10 to 0-8 was the final scoreline in a Quarter-Final match played in Clonmel Sportsfield. See the teams and scorers below –

Scorers: Tipperary: D. Browne 1-5 (0-3 frees, 0-1 45); D. O’Brien, P. Morrissey, E. Hanrahan, J. Shanahan, P. Cahill 0-1 each. Kerry: D. Quill 0-4 (0-2 frees); R. O’Connor, M. O Se, A. O’Mahony, P. Kelly 0-1 each.

Tipperary: B. Enright; D. Byrne, N. Curran, P. King; P. Morrissey, N. Fitzgerald, R. Costigan; E. Hanrahan, K. Mulryan; A. Fitzgerald, F. O’Callaghan, P. Cahill; J. Shanahan, D. Browne, D. O’Brien.

Subs: T. Doyle for O’Brien; L. England for Cahill; S. Collum for Fitzgerald; B. Hahessy for Costigan.

Kerry: K. Cremin; P. Reidy, S. O’Sullivan, M. Lyons; B. Guiney, A. O’Mahony, M. O Se; S. Scanlon, K. Donaghy; P. Kelly, N. Kennelly, D. O’Dwyer; D. Quill, R. O’Connor, D. Doona.

Subs: E. Brosnan for Scanlon; D. O’Sullivan for D. O’Dwyer; A. O’Sullivan for Kennelly; A. O’Connell for S. O’Sullivan; D. Daly for Donaghy.

Referee: Martin Collins (Cork)

McGrath Cup Senior Football Roll Of Honour

Clare (12) – 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2008

Cork (6) – 1998, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Limerick (5) – 1985, 1987, 2001, 2004, 2005

Kerry (3) – 1996, 2010, 2011

Tipperary (3) – 1989, 1993, 2003

Waterford (1) – 1981

London (1) – 1988

Visit the Munster GAA web site History section to view the complete Roll of Honour since the competition began in 1981 – http://munster.gaa.ie/history/mcgrath-cup-football/

McGrath Cup

Presented by Joe McGrath on June 21st, 1981 for the promotion of Senior Football in Munster

McGrath Cup – 2013 Scorers

Barry Grogan (Tipperary) 2-12 (0-7 frees)
Patrick Curtin (Kerry) 3-8Ian Ryan (Limerick) 1-13 (0-9 frees)
Paul Geaney (Kerry) 2-7 (0-2 frees)
James O’Donoghue (Kerry) 2-5 (0-5 frees)
Podge McMahon (Clare) 2-3
Gary Hurney (Waterford) 0-9 (0-5 free)
Michael Geaney (Kerry) 1-5
Donncha O’Connor (Cork) 1-5 (0-3 frees)
Shane McGrath (Clare) 0-7
Alan Clohessy (Clare) 0-7 (0-1 free, 0-1 45)
Paul Whyte (Waterford) 1-4 (0-3 frees)
Darran O’Sullivan (Kerry) 1-3 (0-1 free)

Barry John Keane (Kerry) 0-6
Conor Cox (UCC) 0-6 (0-3 frees)
Seamus O’Carroll (Limerick) 1-3 (0-2 45s)
Ian McInerney (Clare) 0-6 (0-4 frees, 0-1 45)
Alan Moloney (UL) 0-6 (0-2 frees, 0-2 45s)

Johnny Buckley (Kerry) 0-5
David Tubridy (Clare) 0-5 (0-2 frees)

Gary Brennan (Clare) 1-1

Colm O’Neill (Cork) 0-4 (0-2 frees, 0-1 45)
Ciaran Sheehan (Cork) 1-1

Donal Óg Hodnett (CIT) 0-4 (0-3 frees)
Liam Ó Lionain (Waterford) 1-1

Brian Fox (Tipperary) 0-3
Bill Maher (Tipperary) 1-0
Paul O’Connor (Kerry) 0-3 (0-1 free)

Brian Looney (Kerry) 0-3 (0-1 45)
Michael O’Donoghue (Kerry) 0-3
Liam Shorten (Cork) 0-3

Alan O’Donoghue (IT Tralee) 0-3 (0-3 frees)
Tommy McCarthy (LIT) 1-0
Shane Ahearne (Waterford) 0-3 (0-2 frees)
Tony Grey (Waterford) 0-3
Darragh Treacy (Limerick) 1-0
Derry O’Connor (Limerick) 0-3

 Bryan Sheehan (Kerry) 0-2 (0-2 frees)
Philip Quirke (Tipperary) 0-2 (0-2 frees)
Ger Collins (Limerick) 0-2
Eoghan O’Connor (Limerick) 0-2
Gavin Nugent (Waterford) 0-2
Darren Guiry (Waterford) 0-2
S Carroll (IT Tralee) 0-2 (0-1 free)
Odhran Mulrooney (Cork) 0-2Paul Kerrigan (Cork) 0-2

Pearse O’Neill (Cork) 0-2
Fintan Goold (Cork) 0-2 (0-2 frees)

Enda Coughlan  (Clare)  0-2

Brian O’Regan (CIT) 0-2
Gavin O’Grady (UCC) 0-2 (0-1 45)
Ed Walsh (UL) 0-2
Denis Keohane (UL) 0-2
Liam McGrath (Tipperary), Hugh Coghlan (Tipperary), Ciaran McDonald (Tipperary),
Kieran O’Leary (Kerry), Philip Austin (Tipperary), Conor O’Driscoll (Cork), Sean Kiely (Cork), Andrew O’Sullivan (Cork), J Dowling (Clare), N Kelly (Clare), Brendan Pott (IT Tralee), Darren Wallace (IT Tralee), Ruairi Deane (IT Tralee), Sean Killeen (IT Tralee), Sean McCarthy (IT Tralee), Colin Lyons (CIT), Jerry O’Connor (CIT), Donagh Leahy (CIT), Micheal Vaughan (CIT), Anthony Sweeney  (CIT) (0-1 free), Brian Coleman (LIT) (0-1 free), C Wallace (LIT), Brian Coughlan (UCC), Peter Acheson (UCC), Liam McGovern (UL), John O’Rourke (UL), D Neville (Limerick), J Riordan (Limerick), J O’Meara (Limerick), L O’Dwyer (Limerick) 0-1 each

Bourbon vs. Whiskey Because there is a difference

There’s nothing better on a cold winter’s eve than curling up in your buffalo-checked onesie in front of a fire and sipping a nice glass of bourbon. Or is it whiskey? Is there really a difference?

In short, all bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon.

Bourbon is corn-based and must be made in the U.S. Originally, bourbon could only be called such if it was produced in Bourbon County, Kentucky. However, nowadays Bourbon can be made anywhere in the U.S. as long as it’s made of 51 percent corn and distilled properly–in charred oak barrels over a period of three months to two years.

Our bourbon picks: Knob Creek, Woodford Reserve or Pappy Van Winkle, which is aged longer (15 to 23 years) and hard to come by when a batch is finally released.

Whiskey is wheat-, rye-, corn- or barley-based and can be made anywhere in the world. It must also consist of 51 percent of one specific grain and be aged in an oak barrel.

Our whiskey picks: The Glenlivet (Scotch) or Jameson (Irish) are the consistent choices. But let’s not discount American made ones like Balcones (Texas), Jack Daniel’s (Tennessee), Kovalc (Illinois) or Pine Barrens (New York).

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2011 McGrath Cup Football Semi Final

McGrath Cup Football S-Final – Kerry 2-11 Cork 1-11

Kerry shade the shadow boxing

By Fintan O’Toole for the Irish Examiner newspaper

Monday, January 24, 2011

Kerry 2-11 Cork 1-11

THERE was a distinct pre-season air to the first Cork and Kerry football instalment of 2011 at Dr Crokes’ home in Killarney yesterday. The McGrath Cup hardly sets the pulse racing in either camp and this semi-final clash was a tame affair when placed against the fire and brimstone ties of recent summers. The bragging rights, such as they were, belonged to Kerry, thanks to a resurgent second-half performance, yet they were not ecstatic in victory, just as Cork were hardly crushed by the defeat. The teams will square off in a fortnight in a National League opener and there are favourable prospects that their paths will cross during the summer. Those are the games on which Jack O’Connor and Conor Counihan will be judged. For O’Connor the prospect of a final date with Clare next Saturday was the primary source of his satisfaction as he gets another chance to survey nascent talents.

“It was good to win as it means we have another game next weekend. That’s what fellas want. They don’t want to just train away so it’s good to have another game. We won’t really have too many sleepless nights if we don’t win the McGrath Cup. It’s a good way for trying to prepare for the league and get our panel in shape.” O’Connor will be heartened by the manner in which this game shifted towards his side in the second-half. Trailing by 1-8 to 0-8 at the interval, Kerry were forced to yield to Cork’s supremacy early in the second period. A beautifully struck point by Kevin McMahon in the 44th minute nudged Cork 1-10 to 0-9 ahead but for the heroics of Brendan Kealy in goal, Kerry’s situation would have been perilous. The Kilcummin netminder was in fine form all day, beating away an Alan O’Connor drive in the 26th minute and smothering a Fiachra Lynch shot in the 39th minute.

Kerry took over in key areas in the second-half. Tomás Ó Sé, efficiently controlling play, was a familiar sight at centre-back while optimism for the future was provided by the effectiveness of Jonathan Lyne alongside him. Further upfield it was Darran O’Sullivan who emerged as the offensive figurehead. His electric pace created early first-half points and in the second-half he began the move that led to a tidy goal by Donncha Walsh in the 48th minute. O’Sullivan signed off on an impressive day’s work when he was fouled for the 66th minute penalty that David Moran converted to seal Kerry’s victory. After a brief sojourn in defence, the Glenbeigh-Glencar man has returned to a familiar terrain.

“We played him in the backs the first day because we were stuck there”, remarked O’Connor. “He’s in a good patch of form at the moment. We are playing him more centrally so that when he does run, he’s going for the goals. It seems to be working.” Cork may have exited the competition but they could still reflect on useful workouts over the last three weekends. In the opening-half they looked on the brink of capsizing as Kerry’s midfield superiority paved the way for a 0-8 to 0-3 lead after 20 minutes. The introduction of Kieran O’Connor provided valuable experience in defence and they settled to the rhythms of the match. Denis O’Sullivan bombed forward from his right half-back berth at will while Fiachra Lynch inflicted some scoring damage.

The standout operator though was Mark Cronin, handed a starting jersey after sparkling substitute showings. In the first-half he curled over two points from play, landed two frees that he had earned himself and was impeded for a penalty in the 26th minute. Lynch rifled home a goal from that opening and Cork were full value for their three-point interval lead. Cork maintained that tempo early in the second-half yet failed to press home that advantage on the scoreboard. Selector Terry O’Neill pinpointed that phase as critical but was mindful that the inter-county arena is a new experience for these players. Cork’s big guns, who were in action in a challenge against Meath on Saturday, will be back in harness soon and could be augmented by some of the newcomers. “Three points in the second-half wasn’t going to be enough to win. We had 10 minutes there when we should have got a goal on the board and three points out of it. At this level you just can’t afford to miss those chances. We were disappointed but inexperience probably told during the period. “But you couldn’t say they didn’t put in a battling performance all round. We’d be very happy to have got three games over the last few weeks. It’s a long year ahead yet, we’re only in the third week of January now.”

Scorers for Kerry: D Geaney 0-5 (0-4frees), D Moran 1-1 (1-0 pen), D Walsh 1-0, Darran O’Sullivan 0-3, P Geaney 0-2.

Cork: F Lynch 1-2 (1-0 pen), M Cronin 0-4 (0-2 frees); D Goold (0-1 ‘45), K McMahon 0-2 each, G Spillane 0-1.

KERRY: B Kealy; P Reidy, Danny O’Sullivan, S Enright; J Lyne, T Ó’Sé, E Hickson; A Maher, S Scanlon; A O’Sullivan, Darran O’Sullivan, D Walsh; D Geaney, D Moran, P Geaney.

Subs: P O’Connor for Enright (28), G Sayers for A O’Sullivan (half-time), K O’Dwyer for Hickson (49), M O’Donoghue for D Geaney (59).

CORK: D Lordan; I Jones, G Spillane, E Cotter; D O’Sullivan, R O’Sullivan, AJ O’Connor; E Keane, A O’Connor; D Goold, T O’Neill, K McMahon; M Cronin, F Lynch, C O’Driscoll.

Subs: K O’Connor for AJ O’Connor (21), D O’Connor for O’Driscoll (52), N Murphy for O’Neill (57), J Sexton for Lynch (inj) (63), B Shanahan for Jones (69)

Referee: Rory Hickey (Clare)

Team News

KERRY TEAM FOR MCGRATH CUP SEMI FINAL

Jack O’Connor has announced The Kerry team for The McGrath Cup Semi-Final vs. Cork

1. Brendan Kealy (Kilcummin)

2. Padraig Reidy (Scartaglin)

3. Marc Ó Sé (An Ghaeltacht)

4. Shane Enright (Tarbert)

5. Jonathan Lyne (Legion)

6. Tomás Ó Sé (An Ghaeltacht) Captain

7. Eamon Hickson (Annascaul)

8. Anthony Maher (Duagh)

9. Seamus Scanlon (Currow)

10. Alan O’Sullivan (Tuosist)

11. Darran O’Sullivan (Glenbeigh/Glencar)

12. Donnacha Walsh (Cromane)

13. David Geaney (An Daingean)

14. David Moran (Kerins O’Rahilly’s)

15. Paul Geaney (An Daingean)

16. Tomás Ma An tSaoir (An Ghaeltacht)

17. Gary Sayers (Keel)

18. Barry O’Grady (Ballyduff)

19. Kevin Dwyer (Waterville)

20. Michael O’Donoghue (Spa)

21. Danny O’Sullivan (Kerins O’Rahilly’s)

22. Colin O’Mahony (Ballydonoghue)

23. Pa McCarthy (Austin Stacks)

24. Padraig O’Connor (Legion)