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Anthony Daly

Anthony Daly: After a summer of madness, the fire finally went out

In the second of a two-parter, Anthony Daly revists the Offaly trilogy of '98, the 'sit-in' and what haunts him most from a painful year.

Mon, 27 Jul, 2020

Clare v Waterford - Guinness Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final Replay

Anthony Daly: 'Ger Loughnane pumped his fist and stirred the crowd into a craze'

In the first of a two-parter, Anthony Daly revisits the tumultuous and controversial hurling season of 1998

Mon, 20 Jul, 2020

Anthony Daly: You nearly always felt Galway were looking for a row, searching for an excuse...

In July 2008, I was upstairs in my sports shop in Ennis looking for runners to put out on display when my phone beeped with notification of a voicemail. I didn’t recognise the number of the missed call but I dialled into my inbox.

Mon, 13 Jul, 2020

Anthony Daly: Offaly were codding us, and themselves, as a culture of indifference set in

Last autumn, I got a call from someone on the committee established to find the next Offaly hurling manager. The guy I spoke to was full of ambition and intent. They were only in the early stages of the process but he wanted to know if I’d be interested in speaking to them. I politely declined.

Mon, 06 Jul, 2020

Anthony Daly: Do Tipperary have the savagery to go for back-to-back titles?

When Clarecastle met Newmarket-on-Fergus in the 1992 championship, we went into the game as raging hot favourites, not just because we were reigning county champions, but because of the way the modern tradition between the clubs had been emphatically turned on its head.

Mon, 29 Jun, 2020

Anthony Daly: Charisma and character oozed from every pore of Waterford's golden generation

W HEN Johnny Ryan blew the half-time whistle in the 2014 Dublin-Waterford league relegation final, the four members of the Waterford management surrounded Johnny as effectively as a Tyrone or Armagh blanket defence would have done when they first started gobbling up opposition forwards.

Mon, 22 Jun, 2020

Anthony Daly: It'd be a sin for the GAA to spend the rest of the year cat-calling, squabbling, and in-fighting

After Clare defeated Wexford in the 2005 All-Ireland quarter-final, I walked over to Fr Harry Bohan in the Croke Park dressingroom and made a proud pronouncement, knowing full well it would rekindle an old flame in Harry’s soul, and reignite a dormant dream the man had chased so relentlessly three decades earlier.

Mon, 15 Jun, 2020

Diarmaid Byrnes and Tom Morrissey Limerick’s unlucky duo

There’s usually less debate about the hurling All-Stars than you get with the football All-Stars.

Sat, 03 Nov, 2018

Joy for Imokilly but it’s a strange kind of glory

On the way into the match yesterday, I met Mark Landers, who was doing co-commentary for local radio, writes Anthony Daly.

Mon, 15 Oct, 2018

Cork need to put steel fist into silk glove

When Cork finally hit a rhythm and a groove in the second quarter yesterday, everybody around me was probably thinking the same as the entire hurling community. ‘Yeah, Cork have finally got it together now. They’ve weathered the storm. They’ll drive on. They’ll win this handy.’ And the Cork players certainly seemed to think the same.

Mon, 27 Aug, 2018