Páirc Uí Chaoimh's Field of Dreams lets the side down

My hopes and dreams were wrapped up in the prospect of bringing my son to the big game in the bright, new shining Páirc Uí Chaoimh. The County Board put paid to that, writes Michael Clifford.

AT THE height of the alleged summer let’s escape from grim current affairs and turn to the business of annual rituals, to be performed when the hay is saved and somebody or other is bate.

Tomorrow tribes will descend on the town of Thurles, transforming it from a sleepy Midlands settlement into a pulsing mass of humanity.