Tag: Kilkenny GAA
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Treat people like fools and you’ll look like one yourself
Exhibit A: Clones, July 1993, what was to become known as the mudbath Ulster (SFC) Final. How St Tiarnach’s Park was ever passed as playable I’ll never know. It can only be assumed whoever arrived at the decision came from a land of draught. Exhibit B: Dunboyne, May, 2002. A hotly anticipated local derby between…
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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,…
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What should be the greatest day is now an inconvenient afterthought
As somebody who has been strapped into the rollercoaster that is mental health battles for longer than one cares to remember, the concept of a likelihood of playing into the wind at specific times of the year is all too familiar. Indeed, there are parts of life which, though they might set the pulse racing…
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A snippet of the opening round fixtures in the Allianz Leagues
All Ireland football champions Dublin will welcome Monaghan to Croke Park (presumably) in the opening round of the NFL, it was revealed this evening as some details of the fixtures in the perceived secondary competition were released on Friday afternoon. The Farney Army have caused the all conquering Dubs more problems than most over the…
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Don’t try to figure it out just admire it
Limerick…0-30 Kilkenny…2-15 Any hurling aficionados among you might recognise the above headline. It has been here before. On the occasion Meath defeated Antrim for the first time in the Christy Ring Cup Final some years back before a re-fixture was ordered over some cock up with the full time score. But Meath were so good…
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Old Cats for the well travelled road
Kilkenny… 1-25 Clare… 1-22 In the aftermath of Kilkenny’s victory in the Leinster SHC Final against Galway, one photo in particular attracted mass attention. The chap from Bredagh in Co Down who was kitted out as TJ Reid for a stag do, and because of same was able to blag his way past security and…
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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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Watching, admiring, hoping
Did you ever watch somebody, sporting or otherwise, and just get an inkling straight away they were destined for stardom? Off the top of my head I could name a plethora, quite a few of them close to home. Graham Geraghty and Emma Duggan are two that jump off the page. On a larger scale,…
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Selections for Gowran Park – Oct. 18th 2022
1.30: STATIC CHARGE (GARY CARROLL/JOE MURPHY) 2.00: YOUNG IRELAND – EW – (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER) 2.30: JEANIEMACARONEY – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.00: STORMIE OUTLOOK – EW – (BILLY LEE/EDDIE O’GRADY) 3.30: SHEILA – EW – (JOEY SHERIDAN (3)/DENIS HOGAN) 4.00: FACETHEPUCOUT (EMMET MCNAMARA/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 4.35: ENGAGEMENT RING (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.10: STAR OFFICIAL…
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Oh Hurling, don’t ever change!
David Dunne, Gareth Ghee, Mickey Cunniffe, Eamon Devlin and Gerry Keegan all share a common bond. Yet few outside of their realm will have even heard of them. They either are, or have been, the most recognisable hurlers in Louth, Longford, Roscommon, Tyrone and Kildare respectively throughout my lifetime. They undoubtedly have contemporaries in every…