23. Win, lose or draw – you’re always proud of your county
Pic: INPHO/Donall Farmer
22. Unlike Clare fans with Brian Lohan in the ’90s, you didn’t let out quite the same throaty roar every time Kevin Kinahan cleared his lines
Sure isn’t that what he’s there for?
21. You’re not sure about giving Antrim that guard of honour after losing to them in 1989
Pic: INPHO/Billy Stickland
20. You reckon Tullamore’s Susan Moran was the greatest female basketballer of all time
Pic: INPHO/Lorraine O’Sullivan
19. You claim to have given Johnny Pilkington a pull of a cigarette at half-time in a league game in Birr
Pic: INPHO/James Meehan
18. And you have a strong opinion on the hurling being moved out of Birr
Pic: INPHO/Cathal Noonan
17. You loved the passion of the St Mary’s Edenderry winning speech when they claimed the All-Ireland colleges title last year
Pic: INPHO/Ryan Byrne
16. You’re proud of Birr’s Barry Glendenning for his work with AC Jimbo on the Guardian’s Football Weekly
YouTube: TheGuardian
15. And keeping on the TV punditry theme, you trust Regan and Duignan for hurling opinions
Pic: INPHO/James Crombie
14. You’re not happy about Matt Connor’s exclusion from the Teams of the Century and Millennium
Pic: INPHO/Billy Stickland
13. And you haven’t rated the All Stars since Brian Whelehan, 1994 Hurler of the Year, missed out on one that same year
Pic: INPHO
12. You’ve considered naming your first born Joachim after this man
11. You insist that John Troy was the wristiest hurler ever
Pic: INPHO/Billy Stickland
10. You have a stock of sheep euphemisms thanks to Babs Keating in ’98
9. You showed your county colours when supporting Shane Lowry as he won the Irish Open in 2009
Pic: INPHO/Cathal Noonan
8. And you’d throw your weight behind any campaign to get him on the Irish rugby squad
Pic: INPHO/Cathal Noonan
7. You regard club hurling bosses as legends
Pad Joe Whelehan (Birr)
Pic: INPHO
Kevin Martin (Tullamore)
Pic: INPHO/James Crombie
Danny Owens (Kilcormac-Killoughey)
Pic: INPHO/Ryan Byrne
6. You didn’t share the rest of the country’s joy at Clare’s breakthrough in 1995
5. You reckon the Offaly roots that this man has would enable him to shine as a hurler
Pic: Maxwells/PA Archive/Press Association Images
4. You had serious craic when sitting down on the Croke Park pitch on August 22nd 1998
3. You’re glad now that you didn’t leave the 1994 All-Ireland hurling final five minutes early
Go to 8.48
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2. You believe this book should be on the curriculum in Offaly schools
1. And you will always argue that Seamus Darby did not push Tommy Doyle in 1982
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