Tag: All Ireland S. H. C.
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Old Cats for the well travelled road
Kilkenny… 1-25 Clare… 1-22 In the aftermath of Kilkenny’s victory in the Leinster SHC Final against Galway, one photo in particular attracted mass attention. The chap from Bredagh in Co Down who was kitted out as TJ Reid for a stag do, and because of same was able to blag his way past security and…
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The baseball cap finally retires to the peg
There are things in life which, even though you know they are coming, you are never quite ready for it. In Meath, that day arrived in September 2005 when Sean Boylan announced he wasn’t going forward for a 24th season as senior football manager. Hindsight, of course, has proven that it should never have come…
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Boylan Talks Sport Brain Workout – No. 23
All about All Ireland Finals this week.
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Rebel leader with a cause guides the troops home
Cork… 1-37 Kilkenny… 1-32 For a good few years, the 1994 meeting of Offaly and Limerick was beyond compare as the greatest game of hurling the one seeing eye has ever taken in. Thereafter, Kilkenny’s spells of dominance and breakthroughs for Clare and Wexford were momentous occasions in their own right, but in terms of…
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Limerick’s big men make their point
Limerick… 1-25 Waterford… 0-17 Peter Casey’s moment of madness will be the main talking point, but what shone through most was Limerick’s mental and physical strength as they qualified for a third All Ireland Final in four years. The corner forward saw red after becoming involved in a tangle with Waterford’s Conor Gleeson, but, as…
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Boylan Talks Sport Weekly Brain Workout – No. 9
With the draws for the 2021 All Ireland Championships taking place throughout the week and in so doing offered glimmers of hope on the horizon, what could be beter than to stir memories of summers past.
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Jab lift has hope in sight if we don’t self-destruct
Occasionally in life we encounter people, places or things which impact upon us far more than any of us realise. Or at least it takes a long time for the full effect thereof to fully dawn. What’s coming to mind in this instance – and not for the first time in this space – is…
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Take your points and you won’t need goals
Limerick… 0-30 Waterford… 0-19 All Ireland Hurling Final day in 1999 was atrocious. Windy, wet, and hardly condusive to open, entertaining hurling. Two weeks thereafter, the weather was identically drab, yet Meath and Cork managed to produce a close, exciting encounter worthy of the occasion. Highlighted by brilliant goals by Cork’s. Joe Kavanagh and Ollie…
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Selections for Naas – Dec. 14th 2020
12.25: ECHOES IN RAIN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.55: DELVINO – EW – (ADAM SHORT/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 1.25: PICTURES OF HOME – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/TED WALSH) 2.00: MONTYS MEADOW (SEAN O’KEEFFE/JIMMY MANGAN) 2.30: LORD ROYAL (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.05: THE CHAPEL FIELD (TREVOR RYAN (5)/WILLIE AUSTIN) 3.35: NORWIGI – EW – (DEREK O’CONNOR/ENDA BOLGER)
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The making of a Christmas cracker – Act II
Grimes, Joe Mc, Pairc Na nGaeil. Synonymous with Limerick. Two legends and an iconic sporting arena. All immortalised in a uniquely Irish sporting way. Facilitating the type of cross over which cements the special place sport commands in Irish life. Namely, having a horse named in their honour by J. P. McManus. There are many…