LONG-SERVING MATTHEW O’Hanlon has announced his retirement from inter-county hurling.
The 33-year-old made his senior Wexford debut in 2011, and was the longest-serving member of the panel prior to his stepping away.
The St. James’ (Ramsgrange) clubman made 140 competitive appearances for Wexford at senior level, with exactly half of them coming in the championship. He captained Wexford from 2014, and shared captaincy duties with Lee Chin from 2017. The pair lifted the Leinster hurling title in 2019, the highlight of O’Hanlon’s Wexford career.
He was thrice nominated for an All-Star, in 2016, 2017, and 2019.
O’Hanlon also played football at underage level with Wexford, winning a Leinster U21 title in 2011.
“It’s with great difficulty, but also with immense pride and gratitude, that I announce my retirement from inter-county hurling”, said O’Hanlon. “It’s been a privilege to wear the purple and gold and one of the greatest honours of my life to have had the opportunity to lead this group. I’ve loved every minute of it and will cherish the friendships and memories I’ve made forever.
“I am incredibly grateful to all my teammates, managers, coaches, Wexford supporters, the County Board and all those behind the scenes who supported me and the team to be the best we could be over the years. Your hard work and dedication has been invaluable, thank you.”
England should keep Cleverly and always play him. It’ll be great to watch…..as an irish fan!
As u obviously support Liverpool who are an English team y wud u want England to lose when you support their league
I bet that racist wouldn’t stand in a pub in liverpool with gerrard on his back and cheer for Demark ?we love Liverpool no you Don’t news flash its in England!!!
Because supporting a team in the league and supporting the national team are not the same thing. Pretty obvious really
People in England support Ireland they don’t hate the Irish you lot who hate England are the one’s with the problem ?
David, it’s because Irish Barstoolers are often infected with a rare mental disease, known as ‘Cognitive Dissonance’. It’s very humiliating for Ireland and the Department of Health needs to do more to address this epidemic that is sweeping across our country.
How are supporting a club and supporting a country similar beliefs? Clubs have players from all nationalities so are completely different from national teams. Guarantee you if someone stood in a city pub in Manchester wearing a united jersey there would be issues regardless of which national team they were supporting. And to bring it closer to whom for the holier than though LOI lads, what would happen in a Rovers pub in Tallaght to some Irish supporter wearing a Bohs/Shelbourne jersey.
It only take one to spark it off.
Panda a Man U fan?
In fairness how cleverly is in the squad and Gareth barry isn’t is some joke
Not a fan of Cleverley. But in many ways I can’t agree with that. Barry hasn’t much to offer england anymore at this stage of his career whereas Cleverley will be around for the next ten years maybe.
“Cleverley will be around”
That quote sums up Tom Cleverly’s performance in every game he has ever been involved in.
“and man united start winning again”
you’ll be waitin a while so
10 days ! Not that long to wait …
Ahhhhhh!
Matthew I’m glad to hear that you have no ambition of winning this weekends game so, save yourselves for the visit of Liverpool.
Ted That was clearly aimed at willy , of course I would expect them to win this weekend
I honestly don’t.West Brom I think is it? Been takin points off bigger teams lately,though I suppose United aren’t considered a big team these days :)
Not a big club ? Why have they not won a league title for 20+ years or something
He mightn’t be the best player around but he’s still not the worst player. Having perditions like that and singling out one player is really unfair!