Tag: Billy Drennan
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The best day of the sporting year
Dear Larry McCarthy, Please leave well enough alone. Thank you. The dust had hardly settled on the best day of the sporting year when the outgoing GAA President started blurting about fixing it that the Leinster and Munster SHC Finals wouldn’t be on the same day again. Utter idiocy. It’s not as if people attending…
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The GAA’s poor relations
When a ‘Back Door’ system was first introduced to hurling in 1997, aside from the usual and expected negative, entrenched, old-fashioned mindsets declaring it the ruination of hurling as we knew it, the other fascinating factor was the fixtures it threw up. In that sense, the meeting of Tipperary and Down. As a contest, of…