Two-time All-Ireland winner Michael Duignan will go head to head with incumbent Tommy Byrne for the position of Offaly GAA chairman at next month’s county convention.

Spurs, for many, has long been a byword for a particular sort of flaky flashiness, a sense of style over substance, of glamorous underachievement.

Former Kilkenny captain Eoin Larkin said it’s natural that some pundits want to believe the county are hitting a fallow period but warned Brian Cody has other ideas.

Cyril Farrell has tipped Joe Canning to win hurler of the year — but believes Galway’s Gearóid McInerney should have been one of the three players nominated.

Bumper preview of Galway v Waterford with a host of guests.

Kilkenny’s Cillian Buckley has suggested that Davy Fitzgerald may view his eight-week suspension as a ‘blessing in disguise’ come the championship.

Captaining Tipperary means facing up to searching questions on and off the field. Brendan Maher has been doing that all year, and when you ask him if the Premier County’s record against Kilkenny is something he’s conscious of, he doesn’t back down at all.

Michael Moynihan looks at the old and new factors in today’s meeting of these storied rivals...

These three contests could decide the destination of the Liam MacCarthy Cup...

It’s the morning of the 1916 All-Ireland hurling final. The Tipperary hurlers are in Dublin — they walk down the quays and turn left onto Sackville Street.

He’s more of an iceman on the field but off it Paul Murphy would be closer to an icebreaker.

Irish Examiner Sport continues its extensive build-up to Sunday’s All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final with a bumper edition podcast.

Galway County Board officials are hoping the possibility of alterations to Anthony Cunningham’s backroom team will appease the players and persuade them to get behind the manager.

What constitutes sledging? The buzzword-in-chief of the 2015 championship made an unexpected intrusion into Newstalk’s build-up to the weekend’s hurling.

Speaking to Newstalk last month, resident hurling pundit Daithi Regan made a telling remark about the state of refereeing in hurling.

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Wexford County Board chairman Diarmuid Devereux has slammed the proposed changes to the National Hurling Leagues.

Former Offaly hurler Daithi Regan believes Davy Fitzgerald’s attitude towards match officials will end up costing Clare an All-Ireland title.

Daithí Regan and Johnny Pilkington may have soldiered together for years as midfield partners for both Birr and Offaly, but they’ll be in opposition next weekend when Regan’s Shinrone meet Pilkington’s Birr side in the quarter-finals of the Offaly SHC.

Strict broadcasting rights meant TV3 were unable to show extra-time in the Clare-Wexford game in Thurles on Saturday.

As a player, Daithí Regan was a force to be reckoned with, and as an analyst, the Offaly man is proving equally formidable. But there’s a deeper, reflective side to Regan the public rarely gets to see

Former Offaly All-Ireland winner Daithí Regan has taken a swipe at his county’s management, while the players weren’t spared from criticism either.

Former Offaly star Daithi Regan has blasted the county’s senior management for the manner of the team’s Allianz Hurling League defeat to Limerick on Sunday.

Ground hurling and urban development.

Former Offaly hurler turned pundit Daithi Regan has predicted the county will be relegated to the Christy Ring Cup within five years.

Cork are currently stuck in detention in the school of hard knocks, but Seán Óg Ó hAilpín reckons it could be a lot worse.

Jackie Tyrrell insists Kilkenny aren’t paying any attention to pundits criticising their style of play.

Hurling pundit Daithí Regan claims Brian Cody attempted to influence referees with his pre-Division 1 final comments earlier this month.

Daithí Regan has described Offaly’s match-day operations in Sunday’s Division 1B game against Clare as “p*** poor”.

Cork and Tipperary will face each other for the third time this season — and the second time in three weeks — in a Division 1 semi-final later this month.

TV3 and its sister station 3e will broadcast English and Irish commentaries of this year’s All-Ireland minor hurling and football finals.

The tradition of live TV broadcasts of the GAA All-Ireland Minor finals in Irish will continue after an announcement by TV3 today.

WEXFORD defender Aindreas Doyle has accused the GAA of attempting to censor his team-mate Anthony Masterson.

All-Ireland SHC winner Daithi Regan has backed Joe Dooley and the Offaly senior hurlers in their current dispute with the County Board over training access.

OFFALY legend Daithí Regan has blasted the county board for their treatment of the county’s hurling teams.

CLOCKS go forward at 1am tomorrow morning. Thirteen and a half hours later, championship-esque fare comes early for Offaly and Wexford as they meet in a battle which will have a major say on their hurling for the next couple of years.

RELEGATION-threatened Offaly hurlers have received a massive boost with ace forward Shane Dooley set to return to action in Sunday’s league clash with Wexford at Tullamore.