dennis hurley

**nismo** · 31/03/2008, 6:05 PM

or watever his name is... did anyone else see his piece in the echo today about the match? i never read so much **** in my life...

between him and spillage where do the echo get them?

**luka** · 31/03/2008, 6:14 PM

Leave him off. I read it too. Biased to say the least. I have a challenge for 'Mister' Hurley the next time we play City at Colmans Park.

**rambler14** · 31/03/2008, 6:30 PM

Not a good article IMO. Spillane for once was spot on though.

Hurley seems to be very biased toward Cork City where as Ken O'Connor's article focused on both teams.
Hurley picked out all the offensive yet clever chants which City had and when it came to Ramblers he reduced us to a "dodgy keeper" and "Who are ya?". There were much better chants reseerved Mick Devine which Hurley ignored like "Whose the sumo in the goal?" and my personal favourite "We'd rather have Dave the Save than Devine!!".

Like luka i'd challenge him over his article, next time I saw him.

**MojoPin** · 31/03/2008, 6:42 PM

wanky wanky ramblers is quite funny

**alansmithccfc** · 31/03/2008, 6:50 PM

Originally Posted by MojoPin

wanky wanky ramblers is quite funny

Its terrible

Typical of our "new breed".

I thought he was right about his criticism of the pa fella. Alan Kearney

As for the cobh chanting I didn't even notice any

**luka** · 31/03/2008, 6:57 PM

Next time you decide to quote me on the City Forum MR alan make sure you quote me correctly. I don't like being misquoted. Now crawl away back into whatever hole you came out a few days ago because quite frankly old chap you're beginning to annoy me. You sure your not Seablue in disguise.

**ramsfan** · 31/03/2008, 7:00 PM

well said luka

**MojoPin** · 31/03/2008, 7:23 PM

Originally Posted by alansmithccfc

Its terrible

Typical of our "new breed".

ah its stupidly funny

**nismo** · 31/03/2008, 9:57 PM

on a side note regarding the "new breed" i had to laugh at the city 'ultras' that arrived in cobh before the game setting off french bangers and running around with there arms out and hoods up...they really thought they were on the football factory... a real shame cause all they were doing was giving city a bad name..muppets

**bellavistaman** · 31/03/2008, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by MojoPin

wanky wanky ramblers is quite funny

i never heard a worse song in my life, well r14's dave the save one was brutal.

Originally Posted by luka

Now crawl away back into whatever hole you came out a few days ago because quite frankly old chap you're beginning to annoy me. You sure your not Seablue in disguise.

Chill pill there luka!!! No need for that abuse were not like that

**rambler14** · 31/03/2008, 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by bellavistaman

i never heard a worse song in my life, well r14's dave the save one was brutal.

It wasn't that bad. It wasn't true but it wasn't that bad because I would actually prefer Devine ahead of Dave the Save anyday.

**bellavistaman** · 31/03/2008, 11:19 PM

Devines class and showed it with the save at the end

**ramsfan** · 01/04/2008, 1:53 PM

i read hurleys piece last night what a load of rubbish he is the roddy collins of journalists , thinks he knows it all thinks hes funny and believes he is good at his job. when he fact he writes poorly and disjointed. are the echo really that stuck as to have him write for them , he seems to pop up with gaa reports as well, the echo is really sliding when they use this crap

**bellavistaman** · 01/04/2008, 1:59 PM

I wanted to email the echo but couldnt get a email address for this hurley lad, or spillane. I dont know how in the name of god the echo can justify such contrasting reports of the same game within 2 pages of each. As somebody posted on the city forum it was like a schoolboy essay, with this happened then this happened then they said this then they said that. With terrbile humour too. And a bias not unknown to the echo but certainly alot more bias spillane ever shown, even the shed end fella gave a completely honest report.

**rambler14** · 01/04/2008, 2:02 PM

Originally Posted by bellavistaman

I wanted to email the echo but couldnt get a email address for this hurley lad, or spillane. I dont know how in the name of god the echo can justify such contrasting reports of the same game within 2 pages of each. As somebody posted on the city forum it was like a schoolboy essay, with this happened then this happened then they said this then they said that. With terrbile humour too. And a bias not unknown to the echo but certainly alot more bias spillane ever shown, even the shed end fella gave a completely honest report.

Spillane's piece was good as was Ken O'Connor's but what Denis Hurley wrote was just crap, it was so different to the other articles it just wasn't funny.

If you have a problem with Denis Hurley then the person to contct would be John McHale who is the Sports Editor at the Evening Echo. McHale gives the final say on all articles so he must have approved Hurley's pile of crap.
I found his e-mail on their website: john.mchale@eecho.ie. It might even be worth a shot to try denis.hurley@eecho.ie seeing as all other contacts listed at the echo involve the persons name.

**TommyGaynor** · 01/04/2008, 2:54 PM

Sorry, I've only come across this thread now, my apologies. Yes I am a City fan, but I didn't set out to be biased in the piece. You will see I said the chanting about Wanky Ramblers and the Stephen Henderson one. The bit about the roof of the stand was a joke, I reported what the PA said accurately. I was sitting in the middle of the stand and so couldn't hear most of the Ramblers chanting. My email address is denishurley@eecho.ie if anybody wishes to contact me. Apologies for upsetting any Ramblers fans.

Denis Hurley

**ramsfan** · 01/04/2008, 3:21 PM

fair dues for comin on but what you wrote was biased and structureless a pity when ok game was poor but everything else went off without incident it was a credit to 2 sets of supporters. yet you chose to have a dig instead of giving credit

**bellavistaman** · 01/04/2008, 3:23 PM

ive already said my piece on the city forum. So i wont repeat myself

**depor** · 01/04/2008, 4:40 PM

fair dues for coming on and giving your email address but that article was a disgrace, completely biased and negative. very poor sports journalism. maybe you should have walked around the ground to take in the crowd, i did at half time and im not a journalist at all.

**TommyGaynor** · 01/04/2008, 4:43 PM

That's a fair cop depor, something to learn for next time (if I'm given another chance!). I didn't set out to write the article with bias but re-reading it I accept it looks that way