Are We Breeding A Generation Of Sports Superhumans…?

Girls U16s Rugby Leinster Champs!

f proof were needed that we’re producing a race of superhumans around here, with our insistence on clean living, healthy foods plus plenty of outdoor runs, jumps, swims and chasing pigskins, this weekend had it in spades.

Every time we posted one major title sports win, another popped into our inbox, or paraded, horns blaring, up our main street.

First it was the girls winning the All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championships, then the boys down at Éire Óg Greystones U15 boys went and won the Wicklow Féile Group 1, landing a place in the national finals come June.

And, just to make sure the town was completely and utterly full of cheer and chants, the Greystones Girls U16s rugby team only went and beat Kilkenny to find themselves crowned Leinster League Division 1 Champions. Only to become double champions a week later by defeating Barnhall 36-26 in Blackrock to bag the Metro League title too.

What the hockey puck is going on here…? When GG was a lad, we were all happy with one or two trophies for the town in any given year. Not three in one weekend!

It’s always the ginger…

Back then, we knew our limits, and the importance of being out of breath and needing to rest for a month or two after every match.

So, reckon it’s time to put these super-healthy teens running amok around our town on 20 Major a day for the next six months. If nothing else, it would bring some peace and quiet back to our daily lives. Beyond the constant wheezing and coughing, of course.

More importantly, it would give tired old GG a chance to have his much-needed feckin’ naps at the weekends…