Kilkenny's Shark Hanlon: 'The dream is very much alive and when it is, you stay playing it'
Exciting times ahead for Barrow Ranger's GAA Community Sports Park
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Exciting times ahead for Barrow Ranger's GAA Community Sports Park
I'm on the Kilkenny/Carlow border and my post is Carlow but I'm a Kilkenny man. The nickname 'Shark' came from a hurling game when I was 18 in Kilkenny. I was playing full forward - I wasn't much good but I was big and awkward and kept a full-back busy. A couple of balls came in and I was lucky enough to catch them and throw them to the corner forwards to score goals and Pa Dillon shouted on the sidelines: "Would someone cut the head off that shark and we can all go home now?!" I remember we won that final and came back to Paulstown, and they said the man of the match was the shark. ...