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Tag: GAA Hurling

  • ‘Spoggy’s one liner still rings true

    ‘Spoggy’s one liner still rings true

    For those of you who might not be aware, yours truly walked with a walking aid between 1986 and 1991. That coming about after major corrective surgery on my legs. They had been tangled in an x shape from the time I was born. The manner in which the procedure was carried out was barbaric…

  • Boylan Talks Sport Hurling Team Of The Year

    STEPHEN O’KEEFFE – WATERFORD 2. SEAN FINN – LIMERICK 3. DAN MORRISSEY – LIMERICK 4. RONAN MAHER – TIPPERARY 5. TADHG DE BURCA – WATERFORD 6. CILLIAN BUCKLEY – KILKENNY 7. KYLE HAYES – LIMERICK 8. MICHAEL BREEN – Tipperary 9. JOHNNY COEN – Galway 10. JOE CANNING – GALWAY 11. CIAN LYNCH – LIMERICK…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Sometimes cliches are unavoidable

    A couple of months ago, I was contacted regarding a developing story relating to club football in Kildare. Facts were reported as they were presented, but, when one of the parties to whom the matter related got in touch voicing their unhappiness with some of the material contained therein, the ‘offending’ information was willingly and…

  • No significant occasion would be complete without a Paul poem!

    In the column immediately preceding this one, comment was passed on the challenges facing and progress made by other Leinster counties in hurling in the recent past and which appear to be ongoing. My initial intention was to examine the malaise a couple of Munster counties currently find themselves in also. However, instinct is that…

  • In this case it may be worth trotting out the old cliché

    In Dunboyne’s first year back in the Meath SFC after a near 40-year hiatus, 1993, the encountered then champions Skryne in the last eight and gave them a right run for their money. Until, as was mentioned in a previous offering, an occurrence which has been added to the annals locally brought things to a…

  • The merits of anything depend on perspective

    #GAA What’s more than two decades ago, two great occasions in the story of #Meath hurling occurred. As far as can be recalled, it was under the stewardship of John Davis – who latterly brought camogie glory to the county – that National League victories were annexed over then All Ireland champions #Offaly and #Wexford.

  • Amidst talk of evolution, basics are still paramount

    In the early stages of the 1994 All #Ireland SHC Final, Limerick corner forward Damien Quigley appeared to be going to obliterate the #Offaly defence single handed. The Na Piarsaigh clubman had already amassed 2-2 when, if recollection is correct, the Faithful County’s great goalkeeper of that era, Jim Troy, thwarted his attempts at a…

  • Maybe no dancing, but there’s a buzz at the crossroads

    One of the most treasured gems of information – for me at least – pertaining to the history of St Peter’s GAA Club in Dunboyne is the inexorable link between the establishment of things in the locality in 1902 and Bob O’Keefe. A native of Mooncoin, Co Kilkenny, he was teaching in the town at…