COCahair O'Kane

1. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · By Cahair O'Kane

   Cahair O’Kane: Ed Sheeran, Beoga and Ireland v Israel - the price of taking a stand (opens the original)

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   AS the war on Millionaires’ Row raged over their heads, massive chunks of debris rained down on those that felt their true weight. It is perhaps wrong to compare what happened between Ed Sheeran and Macklemore to the events in Gaza over which they became entangled. But in any conflict, the egos and ideals of the rich collide while the rest look up and wonder how their lives will be affected by it. Beoga are a group of traditional Irish musicians that nine years ago had the good fortune of havi

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2. Article · Jul 19, 2026 · By Cahair O'Kane

   How Limerick set up a middle-third kill zone and Galway marched right into it (opens the original)

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   All-Ireland SHC final: Galway 1-18 Limerick 1-29 “For every thousand hacking at the leaves, there is one striking at the root.” EARLY on, the fruitful leaves of Jason Rabbitte looked like they might choke Limerick. Mike Casey, enlisted solely for the task, fouled him three times in the opening ten minutes.It was the yellow card for Damien Cahalane that turned Galway’s semi-final win. Everything changed when Cork had to reorganise their plans. Limerick had no such issues but Rabbitte or no

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3. Article · Jul 5, 2026 · By Cahair O'Kane

   Sublime Galway crack Hayes code to leave Cork facing another winter of harsh recrimination (opens the original)

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   All-Ireland SHC semi-final: Galway 2-26 Cork 1-17 THE game’s first moment. Darren Morrissey is where Shane Barrett’s shadow used to live. Flicks the ball away. Tom Monaghan flings it over at the Canal End. There were about ten first-half minutes when Cork were in this semi-final as a unit. The rest of it, they hoped Brian Hayes would find unveil something from a cavernous box of magic tricks. And he did, for a while. Daithi Burke was on the ropes. He’d won two of the first three balls off

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