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Anthony Daly: We’ve a chance to bring joy into people’s lives, so why not try?

Anthony Daly: We’ve a chance to bring joy into people’s lives, so why not try?

The counter-argument is how much more difficult will it be to suppress emotion — all around the county — after a Munster final or All-Ireland win? I don’t see that being a problem.

Sat, 24 Oct, 2020

Glen Rovers v Blackrock - Cork County Premier Senior Club Hurling Championship Final

Anthony Daly: Through all their epic glories, did Blackrock ever have to fight like this?

The Rockies had a difficult start. They looked nervous early on. They shipped two goals. Then things changed

Mon, 05 Oct, 2020

Ronan Keane and Ciaran Hassett celebrate 27/9/2020

Anthony Daly: In the strangest of times, county titles have never been more treasured

Joanne Cantwell asked me at one stage during commentary if I was whispering. I was just so conscious of the subs and the management teams below me hearing what I might be saying about them

Tue, 29 Sep, 2020

Offaly fans protest 22/8/1998

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

Manager Ger Loughnane 7/7/2007

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

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?

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

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

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