He’s just 21 years of age but there have already been a few watershed moments in Eoin Cody’s career. Thankfully for him, Kilkenny and Ballyhale, they’ve all worked out for the better. One was when he was very young and when he was looking up at his uncle Henry Shefflin, who was winning everything there […]

3 years ago

Nicolas Redmond feels very lucky that, at the drop of a hat, he can go for a few pucks with the boys. That, without allowing for two and a half hours to get there, he can head off to training in his own time. That, without writing off the whole weekend, he can play a […]

4 years ago

Would you dive to win a free? In the quiet corners of a dressing room, would you encourage a team-mate to ‘go down if they have to’? You probably would, wouldn’t you? It’s well and good to go on about morals and sportsmanship but at the end of the day, and in the sanctity of […]

4 years ago

“We’re never gone until the final whistle blows.” Eoin Cody says it because he believes it. And he proved it on Sunday afternoon when, with Ballyhale Shamrocks on a cliff-edge in Tullamore, he brought them back to the land of the living with a last gasp goal. It was incredible. It was so typical of […]

4 years ago

UCC 0-18 IT Carlow 2-11 UCC don’t do it the easy way but the hard way has never stopped them before. Fitzgibbon Cup champions for a record 40th time, the Cork college had to summon their Lazarus instincts once more to come from six points down to beat a gallant IT Carlow team. Darragh Fitzgibbon […]

6 years ago

God bless Keith Ricken. Hail him, clone him and worship that man to the high heavens. He’s a county manager who gets it. “I get requests to release players and I laugh,” he said recently to Balls.ie. “Because it’s like I’m a prison warden – I never have and never will stop a lad playing […]

6 years ago