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Enda McEvoy

GAA journalist with a particular passion for hurling.

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

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

Ode to a joyous championship

The player

Sat, 25 Aug, 2018

Yes, the kids are (more than) alright

Final reflections with Enda McEvoy.

Mon, 20 Aug, 2018

The victors will be the worthiest All-Ireland champions in history. That’ll be Limerick.

The front of the Limerick Leader supplement got the tone pitch-perfect, its message as neatly manicured as one of those deliveries from the half-back line for Aaron Gillane or Seamus Flanagan to feast on.

Sat, 18 Aug, 2018