Tag: Kilcormac/Killoughey

  • One brave warrior’s special day exposes GAA bluff

    One brave warrior’s special day exposes GAA bluff

    Early April, 1999, but it’s more like a day in November. Wind and rain sheet into the old disabled viewing area in Croke Park. The corner where the Nally Stand and Hill 16 meet. The kindly old Steward, Bobby, who da and I had got to know from years of being in and out, says…

  • Mixed emotion wintry Sundays

    Mixed emotion wintry Sundays

    Adam Screeney and Rory Beggan were probably never mentioned in the same sentence previously, but such is the magic woven by the AIB All Ireland Club Championships that here we are. Now read on… There are 10,000 reasons why hurling is the greatest sport in the world, but among the most basic is it really…