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Enda McEvoy: Seldom has failure been so glorious

Ireland didn't make it to Spain '82 - but one Irishman who did go saw the beautiful game at its beautiful best

Mon, 04 Jan, 2021

Limerick v Waterford - GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final

Enda McEvoy: Righting the wrongs of 2019 never looked to good

The losing of the 2019 All-Ireland semi-final was the winning of the 2020 All-Ireland

Mon, 14 Dec, 2020

Limerick v Waterford - Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Final

Enda McEvoy: Limerick’s pragmatism and remorseless functionality to carry the day

Not romantic, alas, but neither are they. It’s part of what makes Kiely’s Limerick Kiely’s Limerick.

Sat, 12 Dec, 2020

Cork v Tipperary - GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Qualifier Round 2

Enda McEvoy: What kind of tallies will a team have to be posting to win the Pandemic All-Ireland?

Galway and Tipp at the business end of the championship. Got to be a one-point outcome, right?

Fri, 20 Nov, 2020

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

Enda McEvoy: Victory tonight would constitute one of Brian Cody’s most satisfying successes

Kilkenny, facing opponents who deployed a spare defender lost a 16-point lead in the second half against Dublin two weeks ago. Reckon they watched Limerick the following day?

Sat, 14 Nov, 2020

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

Enda McEvoy: Have Kilkenny found a philosophy to end their goal drought?

How many goals will Kilkenny score against Dublin on Saturday?

Sat, 31 Oct, 2020

Wexford v Kilkenny - Allianz Hurling League Division 1 Group B Round 3

Enda McEvoy: Hurling has never been less important. Hurling has never been more important.

It would have been the ultimate firestarter. Over 40,000 partisans descending on the Ennis Road for El Midwestico.

Fri, 23 Oct, 2020

Clare v Limerick - Guinness Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final

Enda McEvoy: A collection of lines that never grow old

A collection of lines that never grow old RTÉ’s umpteenth screening recently of the 1995 episode of Reeling in the Years prompted the usual tut in our house

Mon, 05 Oct, 2020

Clare v Offaly - All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

A pity no study was carried out on the psychological effects of this day 25 years ago on Clare folk

Today marks the 25th anniversary of Clare's breakthrough All-Ireland win

Thu, 03 Sep, 2020

Sean Boylan 23/6/2016

Enda McEvoy: Seán Boylan's story received the perfect treatment

An RTÉ documentary on a prominent sporting figure in a primetime viewing slot on a Thursday night. How gratifying. How surprising. Official Ireland doesn’t really do sport, y’see. Unofficial Ireland, the Real Ireland, does and always has.

Mon, 10 Aug, 2020