Jan 16
Talking Balls
Beached or Just Washed Up in Cork? This week, a new feature for Talking Balls – By the Short and Curlies. Our team of reporters round the land shine a light into the orifices of the GAA to look at those small but insignificant details that make the GAA the world’s greatest sporting organisation (unless [...]
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Jan 12
Talking Balls
GAA Stalwart Eamon Dunphy – Out of His Depth Again RTE’s special Late Late Show to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the GAA on Friday night was limper than an old men’s nursing home the night before the viagra’s dished out. And that Pat Kenny wouldn’t know an O’Neills size five if it had bounced [...]
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Jan 12
Talking Balls
The Club Committee – Little has Changed Since the Early Days Around the Country, GAA-folk will be gathering together these wet weekends to take part in that yearly GAA ritual – the Club Annual General Meeting. The one time of the year when gnarled oul fellas that you haven’t seen in a long twelvemonth appear [...]
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Jan 07
Talking Balls
John Morrison and the Leitrim Squad on a Team Building Exercise Shock news in Derry as popular Co Board Chairman Seamus McCloy announces he’s to hold a Co Board meeting. Ladbrokes, the new Oak Leaf shirt sponsors, are offering a range of spread bets on the number of county board meetings there will be in [...]
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Jan 07
Talking Balls
Rebel Strikes. Triggs to Fetch? Following Crossmaglen’s shock defeat by fourteen points to Drom, manager Donal Murtagh reveals he was caught out by how mobile the Limerick men were. Sez Donal: “In Ulster club football, we’re used to big strong boys playing against us and trying to knock the shite out of us. Club football [...]
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Jan 07
Talking Balls
Pat McEneaney in typical pose. Will he succumb to repetitive stress injury? Ahead of the Championship Babs Keating and Joe Kernan chair a seminar for managers on the success of the new rules. “It’s easy for them to blether, they don’t have any teams to manage,” one well known under pressure Bainisteoir from Down was [...]
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Jan 07
Talking Balls
Nicky Brennan – Travel Show Host The Dublin bandwagon is creating its own momentum as usual, with the Evening Herald devoting an entire issue to ‘The Dubs’ and the Road to Croker focusing exclusively on them for an entire month. Rumours abound of a new series on TV3 called ‘I’m a Culchie, Get Me out [...]
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Jan 07
Talking Balls
Traffic Wardens in Kerry seek safety in numbers The Kerrymen wake up and hammer the blue bejasus out of Waterford, Limerick, Clare and Cork in the new round robin Munster Football Championship. Tommy Walsh is at his explosive best replete with his new style sleeveless vest. Paul Galvin is arrested outside Fitzgerald Stadium for slapping [...]
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