National Hurling League
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Oct 23, 2026
Michael FoleyHOST
I'll tell you what, the Christie Ring story, if you like, in terms of the Cork senior hurling team, started on this very week in 1939.
Michael FoleyHOST
He made his very first competitive start for Cork in the National Hurling League against Kilkenny on the 22nd of October 1939 in the old Cork Athletic Grounds, now of course known as Super Value Parky Cleve.
Michael FoleyHOST
It all, well, you know, it's too glib to say it all started there.
Michael FoleyHOST
But that was his first proper turnout for Cork.
Michael FoleyHOST
So, like, you know, goals, goals, goals.
Michael FoleyHOST
So, he misses the next game for Cork, comes back in for the following match in the league, and he ends up winning his very first medal for Cork the following spring in the league.
Michael FoleyHOST
They win this particular National League.
Michael FoleyHOST
Cork win it.
Ciaran O'HaraHOST
They had to wait a while for that, but this was the beginning of the renaissance because if you think of where they began that season, they were playing in Division II, and they've finished their Munster campaign with the famine over.
Ciaran O'HaraHOST
The following year they win a National League, a Division I National League, and the year after that they win the first of two All-Irelands-
Michael FoleyHOST
Yeah
Ciaran O'HaraHOST
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Melanie BrowneHOST
Ida's, and the people of Cork.
Melanie BrowneHOST
Now, with his time with the seniors, he unfortunately did not win an All-Ireland, but he won four Munster Senior Hurling Championship titles, a National Hurling League medal, and he had three All-Stars.
Melanie BrowneHOST
He, of course, was captain in that twenty eighteen Munster final, and he will be sorely missed.
Melanie BrowneHOST
He was very unlucky this year.
Frank MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I mentioned earlier my father's friendship with Fan's father Paddy, but I had never raised this subject with Fan.
Frank MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was in charge as referee of a National Hurling League semi-final between Kilkenny and Wexford in Carlow.
Frank MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And in the early minutes of the game, Fan made an almighty swing back with his hurley.
Frank MurphySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No contact was made.
Kevin SheehyGUEST
So look, it's just another side note in, in what's going to be probably, you know, 15 of them across the hour.
Derek LynchHOST
And Tommy, like that, even that element of the potential of Shane Woods picking up Connor Cleary, the current intercounty fullback that plays full forward for his club, versus the up-and-coming fullback that a lot of people will probably be seeing, will we get to see some time for him in the National League? So the two of them might have their own little personal battle to play out as well.
Tommy GuilfoyleGUEST
Yeah.
Tommy GuilfoyleGUEST
And they will.
Louise MacDonaldGUEST
But my granddad played with Clare in the late 1940s.
Louise MacDonaldGUEST
He also won a league medal with Clare as well, a National League medal.
Louise MacDonaldGUEST
And Jimmy Smith has been a key part of that.
Louise MacDonaldGUEST
The name associated with Rowan and the two of them were great friends growing up.
Michael FoleyHOST
It was utterly stunning.
Michael FoleyHOST
Now, we had had a hint of it in the National Hurling League final earlier in the year when there was a socks down protest.
Michael FoleyHOST
It, it all sounds so harmless now, but a socks down protest where in the parade before the league final, it was, in inverted commas, "agreed" that both Cork and Kilkenny would march with their socks down in protest ab- at...
Michael FoleyHOST
Well, again, it, it's, it's all welfare issues.