The only thing more boring than watching a cagey game, is listening to pundits harp on about how boring it is. The Ulster championship is the only saving grace in terms of the provincial structures that are currently in place at the moment, with Leinster and Munster edging on the verge of pointless. Connacht is […]

4 years ago

Brought to you by Centra “The three assassins up front.” The Sunday Game panel has named their Hurling Team of the Year, with Tipperary and Kilkenny players taking up 10 of the 15 slots. Amid torrential rains and thankful bursts of sunshine, Tipperary roared back from a slow start to defeat Kilkenny with a scoring […]

7 years ago

Former Waterford manager Derek McGrath is the latest pundit to condemn Conor Gleeson’s first yellow card during Waterford’s 2-30 to 0-18 defeat to Tipperary on Sunday. Gleeson was dismissed after receiving his first yellow card for a skirmish with Tipperary forward Seamus Callanan before receiving a second yellow card for taking down Patrick Maher while he was […]

7 years ago

The 2018 championship has finished, you may go in peace. As expected Dublin are once again All-Ireland champions, they can celebrate this week, but one imagines that the ‘drive for five’ wheels will be in motion soon enough. In truth, the 2018 football championship wasn’t one of the best in living memory. It was one […]

8 years ago

Should Tyrone upset the odds and collect their fourth Sam Maguire cup win on Sunday then one of the biggest All-Ireland traditions will be thrown up in the air. Mickey Harte has declined to speak with RTE since 2011 after an ill-advised comedy sketch mocking Harte was aired not long after the death of his […]

8 years ago

It is first blood to Limerick in the All-Ireland hurling final. The game has started frantically with both teams going hammer and tongs to get their hands on Liam McCarthy. The Treaty men started the brighter of the two teams, just about edging the opening 15 minutes before bagging the first goal of the 2018 […]

8 years ago