Six Foot Two and Eyes of Blue. . .

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Six Foot Two and Eyes of Blue. . .

. . . Jackie Tyrell’s coming after you. There was a superb moment for any would be manmarker watching at Croker the other Sunday at the hurling final It was just after half-time and the Cats were prowling about on the field having returned ahead of Tipp. Jackie Tyrell had assumed his position in round [...]

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Get Behind Your Favourite Team – Hunky Dory Style

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Get Behind Your Favourite Team – Hunky Dory Style

Taste it, Feel It Grab It. They said it not us, and it’s not fried and flavoured potato snacks they were talking about. Yes, their crisps may taste and look like corrugated cardboard, but those lads over at Hunky Dorys have proved once again that if you stick a big set on something – it [...]

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McGuinness Dancing at Lughnasa

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McGuinness Dancing at Lughnasa

I have been reading a lot about Jim McGuinness recently. We all have. Jim comes from Glenties, a place of which I have fond memories. We used to head down there for the craic when we were younger. The local people were mad for the craic too. They were also mad about the Tidy Towns [...]

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More and More Balls

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Kelly and Corbett Eoin Kelly and Lar Corbett are the cornerstones of Tipp’s exhilarating attacking play. Here, Jackie Cahill details their contribution and development over recent seasons. And, yesterday’s performance against the Dubs shows that even in a difficult day at the office, they didn’t go away. Read on…. Quote of the Week Anthony Daly [...]

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Good Call Ref!

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Good Call Ref!

Today, we bring news of great sadness. Although it has already been rumoured, Pat McEneaney, argumentatively the greatest GAA referee ever to blow a whistle, reckons that it’s time to give it up. Having hit the age of 50 Pat reckons life has other attractions and the National League certainly isn’t one of them although [...]

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He’s Not the Messiah, He’s a Very Doughty Boy

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He’s Not the Messiah, He’s a Very Doughty Boy

I went to the bookies on Saturday and stuck a fiver on Tipperary at 11-1 to score five goals against Dublin. Well when I say I went to the bookies it’s as dangerously simple these days as opening the Paddy Power app on the iPhone. The danger is in the simplicity. Bored earlier in the [...]

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Coverage Catch 22

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Coverage Catch 22

On Monday on Twitter, a few of the usual suspects, or Twats as one of the people here in the office calls them, have been complaining about the lack of coverage of Camogie on the Sunday Game. And they think they have problems. Bearing in mind now that both semi finals were broadcast live on [...]

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The Mayo Clinic

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The Mayo Clinic

Some counties have a natural swagger in their step; some believe they are born to greatness; others revel in their own nouveau richness having blinged their way to the tob table. Some are eternally optimistic  and believe that at some indeterminate point in the future they will have greatness thrust upon them. And then, there [...]

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Bogman of Laois Says GAA Hasn’t Changed That Much

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Bogman of Laois Says GAA Hasn’t Changed That Much

Thanks to cutting age techniques scientists in one of Ireland’s leading universities have been able to bring back to life the Bog Man of Laois found last week in the Cul na Móna Bog near Portlaoise. It is believed they used innovative stem cell injections similar to those received by Stephen O’Neill ahead of Tyrone’s [...]

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The Heretic O’Sullivan

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The Heretic O’Sullivan

Darren O’Sullivan I was watching the match on Twitter and the radio when I heard a mention of Darren O’Sullivan in the same breath as the Italian soccer boyo Gianfranco Zola. WTF I thought to myself, sticking on the SKY + to see what the hoor had been up to that merited comparison with a [...]

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