GAA - You can chose your county (take 3)

[HeeAirO]

How can a fermanagh man (Rory Gallagher) play for Cavan having already played for Fermanagh.
How can a Roscommoon man (Frankie Dolan) play for Westmeath having already played for Roscommon.

Is there something amiss.

Did Larry Tompkins do this?

[STEVIEG]

Everyone knows Rory Gallagher is from Cork (Sort of)

[RonnyB]

How can a fermanagh man (Rory Gallagher) play for Cavan having already played for Fermanagh.
How can a Roscommoon man (Frankie Dolan) play for Westmeath having already played for Roscommon.

Is there something amiss.

Did Larry Tompkins do this?

I think Larry played for Kildare. Shea Fahy was also 'imported'.

From the hurling side of the county Mark Mullins was form Carlow I think.

[elwood blues]

Larry and Shay both played for Kildare.
Is it only allowed if you are playing for a club in the county.
They both played with Castlehaven at the time that they turned out for Cork I believe.

[northmallexile]

How can you legally, or how can you morally?

[Paddy Wagon]

Larry Tompkins was born in Wexford played for Kildare and moved to Cork for Work, tis a fair old trek to make it up and down to Kildare back then so he joined up with the Haven and played with Cork.. Shay Fahey was also a Kildare man who played with NEMO...

[POL]

How can you legally, or how can you morally?if you are living and working 150 miles away it makes sense

[Edmund Blackwater]

Legally? I don't think the law cares.
GAA rules state that if a player hasn't represented his county for a certain period of time then he can switch counties.
It may or may not be 18 months.

[Paddy Wagon]

AFAIK the player should be playing in the county he wants to represent if he is to switch.. ie Kieren McGeeney and Kevin O Neill for example could play for the Dubs if the Mayo & Armagh county boards backed it, which I doubt would happen...