Carlow Hurling Club
Pierce Freaney captained St. Kieran's to an All-Ireland Colleges
title in the late fifties and is one of the skippers featured in Gerry
Buckley’s recently published ‘Story of the 'Croke Cup’ an excellent read
and a first class record of the prestigious secondary school
competition.
“I played with a club in Carlow called the Pearce’s but it was
called after the patriot not me” Pierce told Buckley and to-day we
feature that Pearce’s team as our Classic Photo, a Pearce’s team that
won the 1963 Carlow Senior Hurling Championship.
However, before we go any further let us put on record that a
Pearce’s Senior hurling club never existed! Yes, everyone referred to
them as the Pearce’s, same as People nowadays talk about the O’Hanrahans
as the Blues, but the official name on the 1963 county hurling champions
was Carlow Hurling Club.
The late Jimmy Phelan, the driving force behind the club,
explained that a minor hurling club called Pearce’s was once affiliated
and this name attached itself to the senior team too.
Whatever the name, they were some hurling team, winning the
championship in 1961 and 1963, beating St Mullins on both occasions, the
team looking out at you to-day blitzing the Southerners by a stunning
9-9 to 4-10, Eamou Long scoring a massive 5-1, a county final record
that stands to this day.
- Leo McGough
-
Carlow Nationalist Feb 2007
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