A well known sports guru tweeted modestly last week that his podcast “is like mental medicine. Hope you get a chance to download and listen.” Then “tune into Radio One, the Brendan O’Connor show tomorrow to hear more from me on developing […]

The reaction to last Sunday’s piece about the changing role of the goalkeeper caught me by surprise. A lot of people had tales to tell about characters from the past. You’d need to be at least 50 years old to remember most of them, though, […]

Seán Stack was in charge of the Clonlara hurling team that reached the 2015 county final, where they lost to Sixmilebridge. At the start of the year, he hit on the idea of using John Conlon as the team’s centre-back. Stack played that position […]

The performance of the county team invariably draws comment at annual convention and Cork’s latest failure to capture an All-Ireland hurling title didn’t go unheeded last December. The 31st win is taking its time. As he ruminated on another […]

All-Ireland champions Limerick salvaged a draw at the Gaelic Grounds as they began their bid for a third league title in a row yesterday.

A familiar script with Dublin exuberant and throwing everything at Kilkenny but ultimately coming up short. Mattie Kenny’s side huffed and puffed and could not blow the Kilkenny house down. Again, a water break seemed to impact negatively on a […]

CLEARLY, Galway don’t feel like there’s much time to waste in the new hurling year, which began today in Mullingar and a surprisingly brutal destruction of the home team, Westmeath in Division 1A.

Follow all the action on the opening day of the Allianz National Hurling League.

It’s more than two years since Mairéad Daly pulled on the Offaly shirt, but with a second ACL recovery behind her, the St Rynagh’s forward is aiming to inspire a revival in the county’s football fortunes.

In Cork, a changing of the goalkeeping guard has been so rare that there can almost be something of a coronation feel to it.

The surprise element is no longer in Waterford’s favour after a whirlwind 2020 which saw them parachute all the way to the All-Ireland final out of nowhere, but Liam Cahill will love nothing more than rubbishing any notion of a second-season […]

Tipperary boss Liam Sheedy has shaken things up for tomorrow’s mouth-watering Allianz HL Division 1 Group A opener against reigning All-Ireland champions Limerick with a sprinkling of new faces set to be on show at the LIT Gaelic Grounds (5.30).

Limerick won everything available to them in 2020 and John Kiely’s men remain rock-solid favourites to stockpile again this year. For ever other manager, the season about to begin carries a different grade of pressure.

Davy Glennon remembers the date vividly: February 4, 2020, the day before his 29th birthday. Shane O’Neill had been ratified as Galway hurling manager in November and now, some three months later, he was calling with bad news.

A well known sports guru tweeted modestly last week that his podcast “is like mental medicine. Hope you get a chance to download and listen.” Then “tune into Radio One, the Brendan O’Connor show tomorrow to hear more from me on developing […]

The reaction to last Sunday’s piece about the changing role of the goalkeeper caught me by surprise. A lot of people had tales to tell about characters from the past. You’d need to be at least 50 years old to remember most of them, though, […]

Seán Stack was in charge of the Clonlara hurling team that reached the 2015 county final, where they lost to Sixmilebridge. At the start of the year, he hit on the idea of using John Conlon as the team’s centre-back. Stack played that position […]

The performance of the county team invariably draws comment at annual convention and Cork’s latest failure to capture an All-Ireland hurling title didn’t go unheeded last December. The 31st win is taking its time. As he ruminated on another […]

All-Ireland champions Limerick salvaged a draw at the Gaelic Grounds as they began their bid for a third league title in a row yesterday.

A familiar script with Dublin exuberant and throwing everything at Kilkenny but ultimately coming up short. Mattie Kenny’s side huffed and puffed and could not blow the Kilkenny house down. Again, a water break seemed to impact negatively on a […]

CLEARLY, Galway don’t feel like there’s much time to waste in the new hurling year, which began today in Mullingar and a surprisingly brutal destruction of the home team, Westmeath in Division 1A.

Follow all the action on the opening day of the Allianz National Hurling League.

It’s more than two years since Mairéad Daly pulled on the Offaly shirt, but with a second ACL recovery behind her, the St Rynagh’s forward is aiming to inspire a revival in the county’s football fortunes.

In Cork, a changing of the goalkeeping guard has been so rare that there can almost be something of a coronation feel to it.

The surprise element is no longer in Waterford’s favour after a whirlwind 2020 which saw them parachute all the way to the All-Ireland final out of nowhere, but Liam Cahill will love nothing more than rubbishing any notion of a second-season […]

Tipperary boss Liam Sheedy has shaken things up for tomorrow’s mouth-watering Allianz HL Division 1 Group A opener against reigning All-Ireland champions Limerick with a sprinkling of new faces set to be on show at the LIT Gaelic Grounds (5.30).

Limerick won everything available to them in 2020 and John Kiely’s men remain rock-solid favourites to stockpile again this year. For ever other manager, the season about to begin carries a different grade of pressure.

Davy Glennon remembers the date vividly: February 4, 2020, the day before his 29th birthday. Shane O’Neill had been ratified as Galway hurling manager in November and now, some three months later, he was calling with bad news.