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Why hurling needs to follow football by linking league to championship (opens the original)
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IT WAS NOT that long ago when the job of a national hurling committee chairperson was not so much to conduct a review rather than just rejoice at the heavenly state the game was in. Back in 2014, Liam Sheedy, at the behest of the late Liam O’Neill, chaired the Hurling 2020 committee and when the report was published, apart from the existential developmental issues, the game’s health was professed to be in as rude health as ever. As its sibling wore its black hair-shirt, or at least its black car
Obsessed with 'energy': Kerry's 2027 reboot could be Jack O'Connor's greatest trick yet (opens the original)
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IN THE END, Jack O’Connor hunted down some back-to-back history this year, just not the kind he wanted. Cian O’Neill’s departure from the Kerry set-up has meant he has lost his last two All-Ireland winning coaches and all inside two seasons. In truth, that stroke of misfortune was not entirely by accident. Paddy Tally, who played such a key role in Kerry’s 2022 triumph, had his hand partially forced when he was demoted from head coach to performance coach as a result of O’Neill’s arrival in the
Liam O'Neill was a man truly befitting of the GAA role he served and the legacy he left (opens the original)
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ONE OF THE less endearing characteristics of this profession is the amount of times you get to mount a high horse. We have saddled plenty in our time, but one which stands out was when we went for a gallop back in 2014, after the GAA’s CCCC fixed the Kerry/Mayo All-Ireland football semi-final replay for the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. The GAA’s decision was not some time-delayed tribute to Charlie McCreevy’s infamous plans for decentralisation, but one which was forced upon it because Croke Park
Mayo have raised the football bar; Kerry now must figure out how to respond (opens the original)
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AS IT WAS in the beginning, it may also have been at the end. If there is a moment in time when Kerry decided to take the Keys to the Kingdom and thrust them into Jack O’Connor’s hands, it was almost certainly that iconic passage of play in the 2003 semi-final, when all of Tyrone swallowed up Dara Ó Cinnéide and Eoin Brosnan. As Pat Spillane reached for his sick bucket in the RTÉ Studio, the Kerry board reached for Jack’s number in the belief that a new way was needed. Last Sunday, there may not
Kerry-Mayo must be seen as this glorious year’s finale, not some tired sequel from the past (opens the original)
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IN THE CROKE Park press box, there are no colours but that does not mean that those who sit on the good seats are still of heart when their own are playing in an All-Ireland final. When the final whistle blows, good manners rather than protocol dictates that journalists from the winning county are offered a congratulatory hand, while those from the losing one are offered the sympathetic one. This column has received both on more than one occasion over the years, but, in a week when that game has
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