21. You have been known to say ‘we’re a hurling/football county now’ depending on the fortunes of your senior county teams
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20. You remember Colm Browne and the Laois footballers bringing the National League trophy into Portlaoise’s Top Square on the back of a lorry in 1986 after beating Monaghan in the final in Croke Park
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19. And you remember exactly where you were only a few weeks later when Wicklow shocked the county footballers in the famous ‘Battle of Aughrim’ and dumped them out of the Leinster Championship and All-Ireland
18. You’ve owned a hat just like Sean Cuddy’s
17. And a mustache just like Seamus Cheddar Plunkett’s
16. You regret not getting a round in with Seve at The Heritage
15. Though you’re more than happy with the tourists it brings in
14. You tell anyone who will listen that Stephen Hunt may be a proud Deise man but that he was born in Laois
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13. As was Colm Begley, despite the Aussies trying to poach him
12. Now if only they’d let go of Zach Tuohy
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11. You’ve had your teeth done by Ian Fitzgerald
10. Your hair done just like Wooly’s
9. And your favourite radio show starts every weekday evening at 7
8. You wonder what has gone wrong since that run of great minor teams
7. You were sorry Paul Cahillane’s soccer career didn’t work out but it was nice to see him back in the blue and white all the same
6. You’ve seen Robert Sheehan dressed like this when he goes to watch the Town
5. You know where you were Alison Miller helped the Irish women create history
4. You know that there will never be a better-named hurler than Paddy Ruschitzko, who had a Polish dad, an Irish mum, was born in New York and played on the last Laois hurling side to reach an All-Ireland final in 1949
3. You’re absoluely convinced that Brian Rigney would have won far more caps for Ireland had his rugby career not been cut so short by injury
2. You know that Anne Keenan-Buckley was one of the greatest distance runners this country has ever produced
1. And you’re sure that Hughie Emerson was the coolest, toughest dude around in the GAA in the 1990s
Shout out to Laois native and friend of TheScore.ie Brendan for his help with this.
