They’re were a few u16s on this years minor panel, Ben Walsh, Jayden Casey, Barry Walsh, cathal hallihan and one other not sure who played for the u16s over the weekend though
Ben Walsh and Jayden Casey played both minor championship games v Limerick & Clare. I'm sure the other 3 you refer were on the extended panel but not on the match day 25 and Cathal Hallihan was ruled out of championship due to injury.
Ibane Gaels are Barryroe/Argideen Rangers
In the Arrabawn Cup, Limerick were very lucky to beat one of the Cork teams. Limerick won by 2 points in the end and it was a joke. Sliotar crossed the line by about a meter, limerick keeper picked it clean off the ground and hand passed it to a defender who cleared it. Refs not even rigged out and no linesmen and a smattering of occasional umpires at the Mallow facility. Cork shudda won. I was there. Also what stood out to me was not the physicality of limerick (Galway are bigger) but the gear, training tops, trackers, best of gear etc. in fairness they were a fine team, and the pregame drills showed that, but Christ Cork should have beaten them.
How many Cork teams was there?
. I can understand the idea of giving as many lads as possible the chance to be exposed to intercounty, but 4 seemed excessive to me. This comprised 2 teams from City West and 2 from North East. There was some parents quite annoyed that apparently John meyler, who is the manager for both regions and trains both regions midweek, strongly favours city west and when they are playing away, he will travel Wit them every time and not the north east regional team, and only lets city emwrst wear the red Cork jerseys. Seemed odd that on Saturday last during the competitive games when 2 cork teams were against each other that he warmed up the city west team and ignored the north east team. Not saying it’s wrong but parents (mainly GAA heads) believe that it makes the north east team feel like second best. Yet it was north east A team that had the beating of limerick and went so close. Hope they have a better year as u16’s. Not sure how it works now. Do they have trials again or do they retain the u15 as the core and bring new guys if they are doing it at club level going forward