Tag: GAA 2020
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The debate is part of the attraction
If you click into the ‘Categories’ tab, head for GAA and go through my Football Team of the Year (posted December 26th) there’s not a whole pile of differences between what appeared here and the ‘official’ lineup announced on Friday. But differences there were. In the old world, where we had at least some control…
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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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A different flavour to Mayo but they’re still too generous
“There won’t be a cow milked in Clare for a week” is surely one of the most famous lines ever uttered during a sports commentayy in this country. So much so that it is regularly trotted out in the most ill-fitting of scenarios going. The quip has aged much better than he who spoke the…
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Two contrasting epics, one mouthwatering outcome – Act I
Though it seems a lifetime ago now and maybe even a tad unbelievable, Brian Cody actually lost his first All Ireland SHC Final as Kilkenny manager in 1999. In possibly the worst such contest this writer can recall. Not that it mattered a jot to Cork. It doesn’t matter how you win once you win.…
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Understanding must not open the gate to the slippery slope
In the course of rounding up last weekend’s events in the National Football League, this corner had no problem expressing solidarity with the Leitrim footballers in their decision to concede a walkover to Down as they were seemingly unable to fulfill the fixture. At the time, my thinking was that even the mere mention of…