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Eimear Ryan

Cork v Tipperary - Munster GAA Football Senior Championship Final

Eimear Ryan: I felt a little imposter syndrome jumping on the Tipperary football bandwagon

I’m probably not the only fair-weather fan who shed a tear or two on Sunday. It was almost too much

Wed, 25 Nov, 2020

Dublin v Kilkenny - Leinster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Semi-Final

Eimear Ryan: Kilkenny comeback was a thrilling plot twist in the drama that is Championship 2020

Will the All-Ireland final feature Galway or Kilkenny, as it has every year but one since 1998? Or will we ultimately be looking at a Munster Mash?

Wed, 18 Nov, 2020

Galway v Kilkenny - Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final

Eimear Ryan: Sideline specialists closing gap further between camogie and hurling

In hurling, converted sidelines have become, if not quite routine, then common enough; but in camogie they remain something of a freak occurrence.

Wed, 11 Nov, 2020

Tipperary v Limerick - Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Semi-Final

Eimear Ryan: Limerick and Tipperary serve up sodden war, but hurling remains as much dance as it is fight

Tipp fumbled profusely, but somehow Limerick did not; they seemed to be operating in different atmospheric conditions to their opponents

Wed, 04 Nov, 2020

Limerick v Clare - Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Quarter-Final

Eimear Ryan: The upside of a compressed hurling championship? Binge-watching it

This weekend’s slate of Dublin-Kilkenny, Galway-Wexford, Cork-Waterford and Tipp-Limerick is an almost dizzying lineup of action

Wed, 28 Oct, 2020

Cork v Tipperary - Lidl Ladies NFL Division 1 Round 3

Eimear Ryan: We'll need to work harder to hang onto our multi-sport stars

Though the dual player has essentially been eliminated from men’s hurling and football, it’s still a relatively common occurrence in the women’s codes

Wed, 21 Oct, 2020

Eimear Ryan: Keeping politics out of sport is not a luxury most sportswomen can afford

During the pandemic, so much time has meant spending on Instagram and listening to podcasts, but one of the more successful strategies has been subscribing to the newsletters of writers I admire

Wed, 14 Oct, 2020

St. Colmcille's v St. Patrick's Westport - AIB GAA Football All-Ireland Intermediate Club Championship Final

Eimear Ryan: There is something about injury that makes you feel estranged from yourself

It was only when I was walking off the pitch afterwards that I started to worry. My leg felt heavy — dead weight, like I was dragging it around the place.

Wed, 07 Oct, 2020

Cool Cotter calls checkmate but rules must change

Thank goodness for September Sundays. Even though the hurling championship, in its new compressed, more efficient form, no longer involves a September day out, we still have camogie. 

Mon, 10 Sep, 2018

One hurler’s achievement becomes another’s aspiration

It was Declan Hannon who said it, sitting in the victors’ banquet with the Liam MacCarthy Cup in front of him: ‘We’ve all marched behind the band out the back garden when we were four, five, six years of age.’

Sat, 25 Aug, 2018