Person: Tadgh de Burca

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This is not year one for Waterford. It’s year now

After Dublin lost to Clare in the 2012 qualifiers in Ennis, Jamesie O’Connor wrote in his newspaper column the following day that Dublin had played “caveman hurling”.

Tipperary come back to life after Ger Loughnane’s kiss of death

Is this shadow boxing before temperature rises in summer?

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Westmeath star Niall O’Brien shines as DIT prevail

The Tadgh de Búrca factor is a game-changer for Waterford

Waterford’s steady progress to join top table

Why Waterford shouldn’t lose faith

I was walking out by Barry’s Hotel after yesterday’s All-Ireland semi-final when I came across a group of Waterford supporters, broken up and beaten down by the result.

Mon, 08 Aug, 2016

What Waterford must do to drive over the edge and into utopia

I saw an interview with Ken McGrath during the week where he expressed the hope Waterford would just go for it tomorrow against Kilkenny. 

Sat, 06 Aug, 2016

Hurling is the game that just keeps on giving

That rolling bet between myself and John Mullane is still rolling. I didn’t take the €20 off him yesterday because we are going doubles or quits for the championship match on June 5th.

Mon, 09 May, 2016

Do they sell Panadol tablets under the old stand in Thurles?

The first year I was manager of Clare, our opening championship match took place the week after the league final between Waterford and Galway. 

Sat, 30 Apr, 2016

Patience paramount as Limerick build for the future

Working with the Limerick underage hurling academy, and being on the ground so often around Limerick, it’s very easy to pick up on the oscillating mood and trends in a county desperate for success.

Sat, 16 Apr, 2016

Tadhg de Búrca and Briain Ó Beaglaoich among UCC award winners

Last year’s young hurler of the year. Tadhg de Búrca, is one of 10 stellar talents honoured in the annual sports awards, to be presented tonight by University College, Cork.

Mon, 04 Apr, 2016

A good team but Johnny Glynn can count himself unlucky to lose out

A fleece of us in Clare got nominated for All Stars in 1998 and the county board obligingly decided to fly us up on the Friday and back down on the Saturday.

Thu, 05 Nov, 2015

Galway saying to themselves: Why not us this year? And it could be

My day got off to a bad start. The Limerick minors were beaten by Galway. It was disappointing but we could have no real complaints.

Mon, 27 Jul, 2015

There’s nothing to match the magic of Munster final day

Yesterday in Thurles was my first time involved in a Munster final since I captained Clare in the 1999 decider against Cork.

Mon, 13 Jul, 2015

Cork must regroup as traditional game thing of the past

When GAA historians reflect on the changes that hurling has undergone, will they mark down Sunday, May 3, 2015 as the day when the conventional game with the traditional positions of six, two, six finally died?

Tue, 05 May, 2015

Waterford make the leap from pretenders to serious contenders

When Dublin won the league title in 2011, the final ended in pretty much the same manner as it did for Waterford yesterday; a big score, the game in the bag down the home straight, the option of emptying the bench was on the table. 

Mon, 04 May, 2015

Facing a League final with one eye on summer

When we played Cork in the 1998 league semi-final, what I remember most is that we wore white togs and yellow socks. We had never worn white togs before in our lives, not even as minors. I don’t know where the yellow socks came out of it, they were dire. We were worse. We were cat.

Sat, 02 May, 2015

Who did I meet on the road to Kilkenny...

I was down in Kilkenny yesterday morning for a challenge game with the Limerick minors. The match was fixed for James Stephens’ new ground on the Kells road but I hadn’t a clue where I was going, so I ended up in their old place in the city, writes Anthony Daly.

Mon, 23 Mar, 2015