If you regularly read my blog, you will know that I have done a few posts over the months on some of my old bits and pieces from my childhood. I happened upon a few old boxes in my parent's house a while back.
One Winter's evening, I called to see my folks and they weren't in. I was about to turn on my heel and go home, but my three boys were with me and asked if they could see my old room as they like to do sometimes, and so we popped upstairs in my parents house. The boys had a root around and asked some questions and then we found some stuff from my childhood.
There were old photos, sticker books, mementos and old equipment, including old cameras and a wireless as they were called then, we call them radios now! I got the old equipment handed down as I thought they looked really cool back in the day.
This post is about the match and racing programs I found and today it's about this match programme from 2005. It was an All All Ireland Hurling Semi Final between my home county Galway and Kilkenny.
This was a semi final, but is remembered by many as one of the great games of hurling of the modern era. 9 goals between the two teams, 18 points a piece and not a drop of sweat or blood left to be given, as both teams gave it everything.
It's a game I'm proud to say I was at. You can read more about it here.
What a bloody game it was.
Galway 5-18 - Kilkenny 4-18
Unfortunately we didn't go on to win the Liam Mccarthy cup and fell at the final hurdle like so many times before! Although, I've a sneaky feeling Galway will win it this year and our Footballers won't be too far off either, with Kerry likely knocking us out whenever we meet. I think we'll beat anyone else, so hopefully someone does us a favour and knocks them out!
Here's a trip down memory lane from twenty years ago in Ireland reading through the match day programme.
The images used throughout are all my own captured on my Samsung Smartphone
