Tag: Kyle Hayes
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Please watch your step, you’re on thin ice
There’s an episode of The Simpsons in which Mr Burns brings the staff of the power plant to a resort up in the snow-capped mountains for a bonding weekend. As these things also tend to be in real life, the few days were dominated by tasks which had to be done, at a minimum in…
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Support your man by all means but be mindful of how you do it
No secret has ever been made of how grateful yours truly feels to have many who were once heroes admired from afar become treasured friends. Yes, a lot of them are, shall we say, ‘colourful’ characters but then, it would be my genuine belief that if there wasn’t a bit of a maverick in myself,…
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Guts and effort not enough to trump instinct and knowhow
Limerick… 0-27 Galway… 1-21 Inches. That’s often all the separates glory from gloom. If the break for you, it’ll be the former scenario. The ball breaking one inch the wrong way and your dreams are dashed. Finite margins. Early on, Conor Cooney fails to rise a 25 metre free, wasted. HawkEye takes a point apiece…
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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…
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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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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…