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Cork v Tipperary - Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Round 2

S Enda McEvoy: Cork more rock and goal with Brian Hayes on lead guitar

While Cork have become green-flag maniacs, Limerick remain bloodless and calculated.

Sat, 10 May, 2025

John McGrath celebrates 20/4/2025

S Enda McEvoy: Cork's glass half full, treasure Tipp's triggerman and closer

Sometimes it’s okay to stop and smell the roses and last weekend was great.

Sat, 26 Apr, 2025

Tipperary v Cork - Allianz Hurling League Division 1A Final

S Enda McEvoy: Post Limerick's peak, Cork's sense of mission can navigate the peril

The Rebels are, inarguably, approaching the summit. Limerick scaled the summit a long time ago. The past was yours but the future’s mine?

Sat, 19 Apr, 2025

Tipperary v Cork - Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Round 4

S Enda McEvoy: Cork were Cork. It’s time they were again.

Cork have to win. Defeat would not be a disaster but it would be an undeniable setback.

Sat, 05 Apr, 2025

Brian Duignan and Darragh Power 22/2/2025

Enda McEvoy: Offaly the good news story, but still no getting away from Limerick

It has been an indifferent Allianz Hurling League, but not one without high points.

Sat, 22 Mar, 2025

Tipp manager Babs Keating with players 26/8/1988

S Enda McEvoy: When Kilkenny were laughing at Tipp in the league at Nowlan Park

Here’s a tale of two Tipp trips to Nowlan Park 20 years apart.

Sat, 08 Mar, 2025

Cork v Kilkenny - Allianz Hurling League Division 1 Group A

S Enda McEvoy: Once were pharaohs - Cork and Cats now relics of the past

A combined 30 years without a single MacCarthy Cup triumph, it’s as though Shelley’s traveller from an antique land encountered not one but two massive dilapidated monuments.

Fri, 28 Feb, 2025

Limerick v Cork - GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Final

S Enda McEvoy: Cork to win hurling All-Ireland before the decade's end? Probably, but caveats exist

Cork are in the zone. Winning Liam MacCarthy has to happen sooner rather than later.

Sat, 22 Feb, 2025

Wexford v Cork - Allianz Hurling League Division 1A

S Enda McEvoy: Timeouts, scoring zones and a ban on the roll lift - does hurling need rule changes too?

Enda McEvoy canvassed a panel of the finest hurling minds to see what they'd change about the game

Sat, 01 Feb, 2025

John Kiely 7/7/2024

S Enda McEvoy: Limerick need a refresh, and Kiely to find a balance between loyalty and ruthlessness

When you eliminate the impossible, two probable Allianz Hurling League winners remain, Kilkenny and Galway

Sat, 25 Jan, 2025