Event: Munster

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Anthony Daly
Anthony Daly: Do Tipperary have the savagery to go for back-to-back titles?
Ronan McCarthy fears football becoming Croke Park's poor relation
Ronan McCarthy fears football becoming Croke Park's poor relation
Cork manager Ronan McCarthy has criticised the second-rate structuring of the 2020 All-Ireland football championship, describing as unacceptable that football teams must make do with a straight knockout format whereas the hurling championship will have a backdoor.

Sun, 28 Jun, 2020

Croke Park capacity will be just over 30,000 at best
Croke Park capacity will be just over 30,000 at best
Croke Park’s capacity is expected to be reduced to just over 30,000 so long as social distancing is in place, GAA director general Tom Ryan has confirmed.

Sat, 27 Jun, 2020

Munster Senior Hurling Championship draw lopsided, says TJ Ryan
Munster Senior Hurling Championship draw lopsided, says TJ Ryan
Former Limerick manager TJ Ryan has described the Munster SHC draw as “lopsided”, pointing to Cork and Waterford as the big winners from Friday evening’s draw.

Sat, 27 Jun, 2020

Six-week prep for Kerry ahead of knockout Cork clash
Six-week prep for Kerry ahead of knockout Cork clash
Kerry football manager Peter Keane will have six uninterrupted weeks with his panel ahead of the county’s Munster semi-final against Cork, a knockout fixture Kerry chiefs have no issue with Cork having home advantage for.

Fri, 26 Jun, 2020

From Seanie O’Leary’s centenary poaching to Richie Bennis’ 65, 10 Munster final classics
From Seanie O’Leary’s centenary poaching to Richie Bennis’ 65, 10 Munster final classics
It will be almost five months before this year’s Munster SHC final takes place but at least there are plans to stage one. Not only did the pandemic threaten it but the GAA’s powers-that-be also appear to be moving against the provincial structures.

Fri, 26 Jun, 2020

Kerry set for winner-takes-all trip to face Cork at PĂĄirc UĂ­ Chaoimh
Kerry set for winner-takes-all trip to face Cork at PĂĄirc UĂ­ Chaoimh
Kerry will honour their home and away arrangement with Cork for November’s Munster SFC semi-final, a knockout fixture to be played at Páirc Uí Chaoimh which will spell the end of one team’s interest in the championship.

Fri, 26 Jun, 2020

All-Ireland finals fixed for December as GAA fixture plan revealed
All-Ireland finals fixed for December as GAA fixture plan revealed
The All-Ireland senior hurling and football finals have been fixed for Sunday, December 13, and Saturday, December 19, respectively.

Fri, 26 Jun, 2020

Munster and Leinster draw latest step on hurling’s road to return
Munster and Leinster draw latest step on hurling’s road to return
It will be a case of going back to 2017 this evening when the Munster and Leinster senior hurling championship draws take place on RTÉ’s Six One News .

Fri, 26 Jun, 2020

Kilkenny and Wexford to get Leinster semi byes
Kilkenny and Wexford to get Leinster semi byes
The Leinster Council are expected to hand semi-final byes to Kilkenny and Wexford for their senior hurling championship later this year. Prior to the introduction of the provincial round-robin stages in 2018, only the reigning Leinster winners were granted a bye into the semi-final. However, the council are looking at making the offer to last year’s finalists - Wexford beat the Cats by three poin

Thu, 25 Jun, 2020

Anthony Daly: Charisma and character oozed from every pore of Waterford's golden generation
Anthony Daly: Charisma and character oozed from every pore of Waterford's golden generation
W HEN Johnny Ryan blew the half-time whistle in the 2014 Dublin-Waterford league relegation final, the four members of the Waterford management surrounded Johnny as effectively as a Tyrone or Armagh blanket defence would have done when they first started gobbling up opposition forwards.

Mon, 22 Jun, 2020

Time is ripe for an open draw All-Ireland, says TomĂĄs Ó SĂ©
Time is ripe for an open draw All-Ireland, says TomĂĄs Ó SĂ©
Kerry great TomĂĄs Ó SĂ©, part of the last team to win a knockout All-Ireland in 2000 before the qualifier series, has urged the GAA to go a step further this year and introduce a full open draw.

Sun, 21 Jun, 2020

Wish you were beer: customers building pubs and playing snooker at home
Wish you were beer: customers building pubs and playing snooker at home
Although pubs will be back in business by the end of the month, they may be missing a few customers.

Tue, 16 Jun, 2020

Anthony Daly: It'd be a sin for the GAA to spend the rest of the year cat-calling, squabbling, and in-fighting
Anthony Daly: It'd be a sin for the GAA to spend the rest of the year cat-calling, squabbling, and in-fighting
After Clare defeated Wexford in the 2005 All-Ireland quarter-final, I walked over to Fr Harry Bohan in the Croke Park dressingroom and made a proud pronouncement, knowing full well it would rekindle an old flame in Harry’s soul, and reignite a dormant dream the man had chased so relentlessly three decades earlier.

Mon, 15 Jun, 2020

Gerald McKenna: 'I can’t see a way the Association could be successful if it became professional.'
Gerald McKenna: 'I can’t see a way the Association could be successful if it became professional.'
Few if anyone has served the GAA for as long as Gerald McKenna. The current president of the county board recalls those times and discusses where the GAA is now with John Fogarty.

Sat, 13 Jun, 2020

Cork's wing wizard Tony O’Sullivan: 'I don’t think of the Double as 30 years ago'
Cork's wing wizard Tony O’Sullivan: 'I don’t think of the Double as 30 years ago'
Forget the Double’s 30th anniversary for a minute. For Tony O’Sullivan the real jolt came earlier in the year, before the world shut down for coronavirus.

Fri, 12 Jun, 2020

Waterford ace Maurice Shanahan determined to prove Liam Cahill wrong
Waterford ace Maurice Shanahan determined to prove Liam Cahill wrong
Maurice Shanahan is refusing to call time on his inter-county hurling career and says he is determined to prove new manager Liam Cahill wrong by forcing his way back into the Waterford squad.

Wed, 10 Jun, 2020

Liam Cahill: County managers will breach GAA's return-to-training date
Liam Cahill: County managers will breach GAA's return-to-training date
Waterford senior hurling manager Liam Cahill says anyone who expects county managers to adhere to the September 14 training restart is naive.

Mon, 08 Jun, 2020

What the rest of the 2020 GAA season could look like
What the rest of the 2020 GAA season could look like
John Fogarty looks at how the rest of the GAA calendar will play out.

Fri, 05 Jun, 2020

Irish provinces enter three-week summer break hoping for PRO14 clarity
Irish provinces enter three-week summer break hoping for PRO14 clarity
A Guinness PRO14 board meeting next week is hoped to provide guidance for the four Irish provinces when they are set to resume training at the end of their summer breaks.

Tue, 02 Jun, 2020

Kieran Shannon: We know the GAA has more pressing worries, but...
Kieran Shannon: We know the GAA has more pressing worries, but...
As much as we’d come to associate this time of year with glorious hurling weekends magnified by the sport’s highly satisfying new format, we may have forgotten the soundtrack that usually accompanied football around now: the din of complaints and demands for a “new championship structure”.

Thu, 28 May, 2020

John Fogarty: Helmets have hurt hurling's personality
John Fogarty: Helmets have hurt hurling's personality
As it would have for most people, Seán Óg Ó hAilpín’s appearance on The Sunday Game this past weekend evoked memories of his greatest days in a Cork jersey.

Tue, 26 May, 2020

Munster hockey titles for Cork C of I and UCC
Munster hockey titles for Cork C of I and UCC
Cork C of I’s men and UCC’s women were awarded the Munster Division One titles over the weekend on a percentage basis having both run up perfect records in the top provincial competition.

Mon, 25 May, 2020

Impossible not to feel sympathy for the boys of summer
Impossible not to feel sympathy for the boys of summer
In a Covid-19-free world, the Munster minor hurling championship would have thrown-in over the weekend, hurling’s latest batch of bright young things ushered into the championship arena at Páirc Uí Chaoimh and Walsh Park.

Mon, 11 May, 2020

Anthony Daly: We look at Cork differently now - they’re no longer the feared machine they once were
Anthony Daly: We look at Cork differently now - they’re no longer the feared machine they once were
“To mention putting hunger into Cork players shouldn’t be a problem. If they’re not hungry now, when are they going to be hungry? Or how are you going to put the hunger into them?"

Mon, 11 May, 2020

'The craic just seemed to follow him around' - TomĂĄs Ó SĂ© on his uncle PĂĄidĂ­
'The craic just seemed to follow him around' - TomĂĄs Ó SĂ© on his uncle PĂĄidĂ­
I wouldn’t have boasted about him in school or anything, but I was hugely proud of him. His greatest lesson to us was to win with grace and to lose with grace, and not to be blowing your own trumpet.

Fri, 08 May, 2020

Hurling Hands: Jamesie O’Connor - 'Liam Doyle had unbelievable hands. Doyle was a hurling man’s hurler'
Hurling Hands: Jamesie O’Connor - 'Liam Doyle had unbelievable hands. Doyle was a hurling man’s hurler'
"I went through a phase where I’d dislocate the very top of the fourth finger on my catching hand, just taking the eye off the ball."

Thu, 07 May, 2020

Kieran Shannon: Time to give serious thought to writing off the season
Kieran Shannon: Time to give serious thought to writing off the season
On the eve of the GAA’s decision to cancel a series of national league games back in mid-March, this column immediately speculated how the coronavirus would likely alter the format and timing of the championship too.

Thu, 07 May, 2020

Cox has not regret about missing Kerry's 2014 All-Ireland triumph
Cox has not regret about missing Kerry's 2014 All-Ireland triumph
Asked directly by Ó SĂ© if he felt that decision in 2014 to head to the States cost him with Fitzmaurice in future years, Cox shrugged.

Sun, 03 May, 2020

Poc Fada may help ease longing for GAA, says Donnelly
Poc Fada may help ease longing for GAA, says Donnelly
Long-time Poc Fada sponsor Martin Donnelly believes the competition is best placed to mark the return of Gaelic Games activity.

Fri, 01 May, 2020

Tributes paid to ‘most progressive man to ever hold senior office in the GAA’
Tributes paid to ‘most progressive man to ever hold senior office in the GAA’
The late Noel Walsh has been described as "the most progressive man to ever hold senior office in the GAA”.

Thu, 30 Apr, 2020

Kieran Shannon: How there still will be Munster finals and All-Ireland finals this summer
Kieran Shannon: How there still will be Munster finals and All-Ireland finals this summer
We really are playing the long game now, writes Kieran Shannon

Thu, 23 Apr, 2020

Net gain: The evening Stapleton back-heeled a vital goal for the Republic
Net gain: The evening Stapleton back-heeled a vital goal for the Republic
For every Packie Bonner penalty save or immortal score in a Munster hurling final there are a million more half-remembered but magical moments that had us leaping from from our seats. Brendan O'Brien kicks off a weekly 'Moment in Time' series by digging up memories of a dramatic ending to a difficult day in Malta 37 years ago.

Wed, 22 Apr, 2020

Flashpoints and fury: Clare and Tipp’s time of trouble
Flashpoints and fury: Clare and Tipp’s time of trouble
By now, Nicky English’s facial expression after scoring a late point in Tipp’s 18-point hammering of Clare in the 1993 Munster final has been interpreted as much as that of the Mona Lisa.

Mon, 20 Apr, 2020

Dalo: No Nicky on this selection but he’d be on my all-time team
Dalo: No Nicky on this selection but he’d be on my all-time team
Anthony Daly opted for John Mullane over Nicky English in his Munster ‘Railway Cup’ dream team of the last 30 years but says the Tipp great would be on his all-time selection.

Fri, 17 Apr, 2020

Ladies football campaigns set to be delayed
Ladies football campaigns set to be delayed
The Munster and Ulster ladies football championships will not be run off across May and June, as scheduled, while it is becoming increasingly likely the new All-Ireland ladies football championship structure will be shelved until 2021.

Fri, 17 Apr, 2020

Dalo's GAA Show: Picking a Munster Railway Cup dream team 1990-2020
Dalo's GAA Show: Picking a Munster Railway Cup dream team 1990-2020
Mark Landers and TJ Ryan join Anthony Daly to pick their ultimate Munster selection from the last 30 years.

Thu, 16 Apr, 2020

Flahive left frustrated by extended waiting game
Flahive left frustrated by extended waiting game
The postponement of Championship action until July, at the earliest, has changed little for Cork footballer Kevin Flahive.

Wed, 15 Apr, 2020

Easterby hopeful Leinster can survive short-term implications of revenue loss
Easterby hopeful Leinster can survive short-term implications of revenue loss
Guy Easterby is confident that Leinster will be able to weather the worst of the financial storm caused by the coronavirus pandemic, including the loss of two hugely lucrative home games at the Aviva Stadium this month.

Wed, 15 Apr, 2020

Paul Flynn says goal against Cork was deliberate
Paul Flynn says goal against Cork was deliberate
Former Waterford hurler Paul Flynn has ended years of debate - he was going for goal in their 2004 Munster final win over Cork.

Tue, 14 Apr, 2020

Sunday's TV Highlights: Wolf Hall, Stephen Hawking and a classic Munster final all feature
Sunday's TV Highlights: Wolf Hall, Stephen Hawking and a classic Munster final all feature
Wolf Hall, a Stephen Hawking biopic and a classic Munster final between Cork and Waterford all feature among today's best.

Sun, 12 Apr, 2020

Ronan O'Gara: All aboard the post-virus rugby fun bus
Ronan O'Gara: All aboard the post-virus rugby fun bus
These are challenging times, tough times.

Fri, 10 Apr, 2020

Tipperary All-Ireland winner Tom Larkin passes away
Tipperary All-Ireland winner Tom Larkin passes away
Tributes have been paid to a former All-Ireland winner who played a key part in one of the most bizarre hurling championships ever played.

Tue, 07 Apr, 2020

John Fogarty: When there is difficulty, there is opportunity
John Fogarty: When there is difficulty, there is opportunity
Money, or the lack thereof, is a problem that is going to exercise plenty of minds in the GAA for some time to come but there are some positives to be gleaned from the current lay-off, writes John Fogarty.

Mon, 06 Apr, 2020

Anthony Daly: In 1990 all I knew was abject misery and disappointment as a Clare hurler
Anthony Daly: In 1990 all I knew was abject misery and disappointment as a Clare hurler
In 1990 all I knew was abject misery and disappointment as a Clare hurler

Mon, 06 Apr, 2020

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