Month: September 2021

IF DIARMUID O’KEEFFE has learned anything from being an intercounty hurler during the rolling lockdowns of the past year, it is an increased admiration for “‘Running on the roads around Wexford town, I was genuinely broke up’ – From lockdown to hurling”

LIMERICK’S ALL-STAR winning defender Sean Finn believes hurling referees face a tough challenge in enforcing the new sin-bule rule as the league is set to “Sin bin challenge, hurling v rugby in Limerick and All-Ireland glory with a difference”

Click:web novel REIGNING ULSTER CHAMPIONS Cavan will travel to Omagh to face Tyrone on Saturday, 10 July, and get their provincial title defence underway at “Holders Cavan face Saturday evening trip to Omagh as Ulster championship fixture details confirmed”

GAA UNDERAGE COUNTY teams have been given the green light to resume collective training from next Monday 10 May. Counties have been informed by the “GAA U20 and minor county sides can return to training from next Monday”

Cork’s Patrick Collins and Waterford’s Billy Nolan. Source: INPHO IN JUNE 2014, the spotlight fell on both hurling goalkeepers in action in Thurles. Anthony Nash “Who will step forward for Cork and Waterford hurlers as new goalkeeper era begins?”

TOMMY DUNNE WAS Tipperary’s All-Ireland winning captain in 2001 and the Toomevara player won three All-Star awards during a glittering hurling county career. In the “‘I was sick of getting beaten with Tipp all my life and it wasn’t going to happen today’”

CAVAN CAMOGIE MANAGER Jimmy Greville says the logistics of the association’s controverisal proposed 2021 fixture plan will “never work” and says that his side does “‘It’ll never work… The last thing the players want is not to play next Saturday’”

WEXFORD MANAGER DAVY Fitzgerald has named his side for tomorrow’s Division 1B National Hurling League clash against Laois. The Yellowbellies welcome Seamus ‘Cheddar’ Plunkett’s side “Davy Fitz and Cheddar Plunkett name sides for tomorrow’s Wexford-Laois clash”

Limerick 0-20 Tipperary 0-20 RETURN WAS THE key word of the day. A return to competitive hurling in 2021, a return to action on their “Forde hits 0-14 for Tipperary but Limerick recover for draw with late Reidy point”

BETWEEN LAST YEAR and this one, Brian Cody has probably endured more hurling-free weekends than he did in the rest of his 66 years combined.  “‘It’s just great to be out there’ – you could tell Brian Cody missed it”