Tag: Billy Ryan

  • The real Super Sunday delivers but also highlights glaring unfairness

    The real Super Sunday delivers but also highlights glaring unfairness

    “I didn’t interrupt you, boy”. And there it was, Donal Og Cusack’s arrogant ignorance got in the way of meaningful analysis and reasoned debate. Worse still, he was let away with it by  Joanne Cantwell. But then, how she ended up with the most prized job in Irish sports broadcasting ahead of either Jacqui Hurley,…

  • There’s no system to decommision simplicity

    There’s no system to decommision simplicity

    Kilkenny… 2-26 Clare… 0-20 When Dunshaughlin were a distance ahead of the pack in Meath football under Eamonn Barry, the highly successful and unfairly maligned coach had inculcated in his players the belief that 16 points was the very minimum required to win matches. It would be very interesting to see what the comparative score…