Inspired by a Limerick minor hurler with perhaps the greatest GAA name we’ve ever seen, we’ve cobbled together a team made-up of fantastically named players playing Gaelic Football and hurling right now.
Watching the Munster Minor Hurling Semi-Final last week, we came across a man with a simply wonderful name playing for Limerick. Andrew La Touche Cosgrave is possibly the coolest name we have heard uttered on a GAA pitch and it created an intense yet thoroughly enjoyable debate here in JOE headquarters.
What would a GAA team consisting of GAA players with the coolest names look like? The result is below.
GK: Clinton Hennessy (Waterford) – Clinton Morrison is a personal hero of JOE’s so we wanted to put him in goal, but that would be cheating. We think Clinton Hennessy’s name is almost as cool.
RCB: Jonny Cooper (Dublin) – This is just a really strong name. Like Max Power from the Simpsons, Jonny Cooper is the man whose name you’d love to touch… but you mustn’t touch. His name sounds good in your ear… (You know how this goes)
FB: Drew Wylie (Monaghan) – Full-back isn’t the most romantic of positions on a GAA pitch, but we can easily imagine Monaghan’s Drew Wylie starring in a 19th century English period drama as the shy yet dashing country gent bound to an arranged marriage to a woman he doesn’t love, before escaping with the butler’s daughter and living happily ever after.
LCB: Charlie Harrison (Sligo) – He sounds like the frontman of a pop group. Charlie Harrison, all the girls want him and all the guys want to be him.
RWB: Andrew La Touche Cosgrave (Limerick) – The man who started this whole revolution. We owe it all to him; hence he takes his spot as captain in his preferred position in the half-back line.
CB: Daniel St Ledger (Carlow) – This just sounded too sophisticated to leave out. We bet he has many leather bound books and his apartment smells of rich mahogany.
LWB: Karl Lacey (Donegal) – Meaning no offence, but he sounds like the guy in prison who can get you whatever you need. You need smokes, new shoes, McDonalds? Lacey can sort you out.
MF: Dick Clerkin (Monaghan) & Dan Gordon (Down) – This dynamic duo are included together because they sound like two detectives working on the mean streets of New York during the ‘60s. Will Clerkin and Gordon do what’s necessary to clean up the mean streets?
RWF: Walter Walsh (Kilkenny) – Walter Walsh/Walter White, the resemblance is too uncanny to ignore. Although here at JOE Towers we do hope that is where the similarities end.
CF: Tony Kelly (Clare) – Not many people can claim to have a cooler name than Tony Kelly, the simplicity of it combined with the fact it sounds like the name of a wise auld lad who sits down the pub debating whether or not Brian Cody is the greatest hurling manager ever (Hint, he is).
LWF: Fintan Gould (Cork) – An automatic inclusion simply because he sounds like a character from a romantic comedy. We can easily imagine the voiceover for a movie trailer, ‘Julia Roberts falls for the fabulous Fintan in Digging for Gould’.
RCF: Benny Coulter (Down) – Phil Coulter, do we need to say anymore? We are big fans of The Town I Loved So Well in JOE and the fact that his first name is Benny makes the decision a whole lot easier.
FF: Richie Power (Kilkenny) – A mixture of Richie Rich and Max Power is always going to be a winning combination in our books.
LCF: Redmond Barry (Wexford) – A man whose first and last names can be interchanged and still sounds normal, what’s not to like about it?
Have we forgotten any gems? Feel free to let us know.
