The Southern Star this week carries an article on the Carbery Football of the 1970s at the West Cork GAA awards. the Millstreet team are highly praised as fine adversaries :
… Millstreet were probably the strongest club team in the county with a handful of county players like the great Dinny Long, Humphrey Kelleher, John Coleman and Connie Hartnett and they fought some great battles with Carbery.
Who will ever forget the clash between Donal Hunt and Humphrey Kelleher in Macroom. Two iron men, neither backing down from the challenge, we can still hear the thump. Of course, those were the days when referees allowed the physical in football and there was a definite place for tough men. The pity was that such a fine Millstreet team never got to win the county …
Read the full article which contains the above excerpt on the Southern Star website.
In another article also in the Southern Star and also at the West Cork GAA awards:
Paudie Palmer, C103, acted as Fear an Tí for the function and the first speaker introduced was John Corcoran, who spoke as Gaeilge and Béarla. He recalled attending the 1971 county final between Carbery and UCC as a young, if not very small, boy and he reminded the listeners of the great encounters between Carbery and a star-studded Millstreet side, games that had engendered a love of Gaelic games in many young lads of that generation.
read the full article of the above excerpt which is by Tom Lyons
