Tag: Tipperary GAA
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A game to define an era?
They say that time nor tide waits for no man or woman or child. However, there are moments in life – and not just sporting ones – that appear to make tlme stand still. The likes of the Moon Landing, 9/11, the Omagh bombing or the election of Barack Obama to the White House, you’ll…
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Sideline Cuts – 13
Back To Basics Approach Works Mention has often been made in this space on numerous occasions of how reading habits are sporadic at best. As if to underscore that fact, a sizable chunk of Davy Fitzgerald’s autobiography was ingested in a fairly quick time, only for the excellent collaboration with Vincent Hogan to be parked…
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Meath face familiar foes as ‘normal’ appears on the horizon
It will be a case of familiarity prompting caution when Meath take on either Longford or Carlow in their opening joust of the 2021 Leinster SFC. The road map for a return to the playing fields became a modicum clearer this week with the staggered roll out of the Championship draws in both football and…
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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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BOYLAN TALKS SPORT FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE YEAR
RAYMOND GALLIGAN – CAVAN 2. MICK FITZSIMONS – DUBLIN 3. OISIN MULLEN – MAYO 4. DAVID BYRNE = DUBLIN 5. JAMES MCCARTHY – DUBLIN 6. CIARAN BRADY – CAVAN 7. PADDY DURCAN – MAYO 8. BRIAN FENTON – DUBLIN 9. MATTHEW RUANE – MAYO 10. BRIAN FOX – TIPPERARY 11. CIARAN KILKENNY – DUBLIN MICHAEL…
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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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Logan and Dooher bring their own winning culture
Just days after Mickey Harte’s shock appointment in Louth, it has been announced that a joint ticket of Feargal Logan and Brian Dooher will replace him in his native county. This corner had initially thought that Peter Canavan might have gone for the role, but, chances are, the lure of Rupert Murdoch’s cheque book was…
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Looking on in either hope or despair
Talk about best laid plans going by the wayside. Anyone who saw my Twitter feed on Saturday morning will know that, in theory at least, I had the perfect day planned out. Encompassing watchling hurling, football, horse racing, rugby, soccer and darts. It was an ambitious agenda. So that some of it – namely the…
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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…