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PM O’Sullivan

Galway’s inverted T can crack open Waterford faultline

There was no discussion in print of a Galway innovation against Wexford in 2017’s Leinster Final, writes PM O’Sullivan.

Fri, 01 Sep, 2017

Northern blues forgotten as attention moves elsewhere

Are we fiddling with sweeper systems while Ulster hurling burns?

Fri, 25 Aug, 2017

Taking sides in the sweeper debate

Hurling justice delayed, while not ideal, is still justice.

Fri, 18 Aug, 2017

Déise lack fury to negate Cork panache

Galway are there. Cork and Waterford are nearly there. Hurling is taking its August turns. Lovely late summer cadences.

Fri, 11 Aug, 2017

Sunny side up for the men of Galway

Here we are, eyeing one of this decade’s most intriguing hurling contests.

Fri, 04 Aug, 2017

Davy Fitzgerald has a funny record when it comes to logic

Ducking the issue of Sunday’s performance, Davy Fitzgerald seized the underdog factor, writes PM O’Sullivan.

Fri, 28 Jul, 2017

Clare and Wexford may find themselves all at sea

Four go down to the Lee, as a Cork band of the 1980s was not called.

Fri, 21 Jul, 2017

A misstep from Clare in the dance of percentages

Lacking immediate inter-county action to contemplate, I got thinking about tangles subsumed under the heading ‘tactics’. 

Fri, 14 Jul, 2017

Clare look a ballwinner light

Waterford should win but might not. Their main difficulty is their convex tradition against Kilkenny in championship encounters, writes PM O’Sullivan.

Fri, 07 Jul, 2017

Unfamiliar territory as Brian Cody doesn’t know his best team

While hurling qualifiers easily swerve into a labyrinth, that place of uncertainty and hesitations, Monday’s draw produced straight and narrow terrain, writes PM O’Sullivan.

Fri, 30 Jun, 2017