Dunderry connections to Christy Ring meath team.

Unfortunately for Meath they are often actors in situations where referees make a shambles of things.
Going back to the first All Ireland in which sometime in the 1890's  Pearse O Mahony's ,including Barney M Cabe from the Curragh Boreen as a player,drew with Arravale Rovers ,but in which the referee got it wrong  and awarded the game to Arravale and via the shambles against Louth ,where the referee in contravention of rule allowed a blatant thrown ball to the net to stand as a valid score, until last Saturday when nearly everybody knew the game against Antrim was a draw and that extra time was needed,but the referee initially called it wrong and allowed Meath to be proclaimed Champions ,Meath are put in the eye of the storm.
I have been a lifetime promoting the GAA and have always stressed the ideal of honour in all aspects of life.Very often of course this is easier said than done but you do your best.
The game was a draw.Meath are well fit to reconfirm their ability to win any replay  and in my humble opinion this is what ought happen.
I m fully aware of the long frustration and abiding passion that huirling folk in the County have for the game and the prejudices that certain football folk have against the sport as most famously espoused by football legend Gerry MC Entee ,to his eternal discredit ,and my heart goes out to those who soldiered with the small ball game over the years.
Now to the Dunderry connections.
1.Luke Martyn was on the official panel and well worth his place on it.He stuck with it even though he got little match time during the year.He is a son of Guss and Olive Feeney.
2.Ciaran Fitzsimons and his brothers played their juvenile hurling here until they emigrated to Athboy.He was an immensely talented hurler when he was here.He too was also on the panel.
3.Gerry Mc Loughlin is bagman and general  factorum for the team for many years now,A hurling fanatic he won every medal possible with Dunderry in his day bar a Senior Championship.
4.Kevin Dowd was for many years a player and until recently a selector with the County Team,
5.Not many would know this but John Andrews was for a very brief period manager of our SENIOR HURLING TEAM.No doubt his brief spell here helped considerably in honing his selectorial talents for Meath.
No more than myself he finds Tipp referees sometimes strange.
And on the same day that Meath hurlers created history two products of our Camogie arm ,the Misses Minogue and Daly of Connells Cross  ,were part of a Meath setup which won the Leinster Intermediate Champoinship.
Not so bad all round.