Tag: Ben O’Connor

  • Joyce jolt and Downey downtime could derail Rebel redemption

    Joyce jolt and Downey downtime could derail Rebel redemption

    Without having the Co-Op Superstores Munster Senior Hurling League results to hand, it can still be said with a fair degree of certainty that the hurlers of Cork and Limerick have met three times already this season. It would be a very brave – or foolish – individual who would bet against them having at…

  • Thanks ‘Hoggy’ the pleasure has been all ours

    Thanks ‘Hoggy’ the pleasure has been all ours

    I’ve no connection to Co Cork. Save for being transported there while still in the Moses Basket because my sister was competing in athletics in The Mardyke. Also competing on same ‘card’ that day was one G. Geraghty (Kentstown AC). Isn’t it funny the way the wheels of life turn? Other than that, the other…

  • Pursuit of ‘keeper trio underlines the competition

    Pursuit of ‘keeper trio underlines the competition

    Never is, I think, one of those trick words put into the English language that none of us like using but not doing so is quite literally impossible. To put a degree of context on the rest of what will appear, many moons ago, it would have been said in this corner that there were…

  • What was once a fortress now has swinging saloon doors

    What was once a fortress now has swinging saloon doors

    MUNSTER… 17 BEYONNE… 17 If there were any positives, let’s get them out of the way first. Which, you suspect, is exactly what Graham Rowntree will be doing when the debrief begins. If he hasn’t got the paint stripper out already. So here goes. Even though it was the French side who put the first…