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Hurling: is this the game we want?
Modern inter-county hurling rewards cynicism. The most effective hurlers are not the best players. Indeed, we have arrived at a point in the development of hurling which demands that the stakeholders in the game
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Let Lar Corbett tell his story
On November first Lar Corbett (@larcorbett) will launch his autobiography All In My Head and there is still sulphur in the air. You know the story: Tipperary, showing a collective will of purest marshmallow, lost
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Gorbachev would give the GAA summit to think about!
Is it time to place the club at the very centre of the GAA’s national competition structure? Twenty-four years ago former Armagh manager Peter Makem, in an article published in the Irish Independent, suggested that
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The twenty greatest sports books ever written
Sports books are big business – as Jason Cowley pointed out in a superb 2005 article (Knockout prose) we will never “cease trying to explain the mystery of sport: why it means so much
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Kilkenny v Tipperary: the a-to-z guide
When Tipperary and Kilkenny met in the 2011 All-Ireland final the game marked the first instance in 108 years that the same teams had contested three deciders in-a-row – and yet, here we are
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Fifty fabulous facts you didn’t know about the Tipperary hurlers
#One Toomevara’s John O’Brien is the youngest of nine children. His older brother Paddy also played for Tipperary. #Two In the 2009 Tipperary county senior hurling final James Woodlock (Drom & Inch) collided with
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Wrong endings, metaphysical insults and Spain
Sport presents us with plenty of “wrong” results. A defeat for Spain, for example, at the hands of the Italians in Sunday’s Euro 2012 final would have been a tragedy, a metaphysical insult –
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Far from a famine
The Tipperary-Cork rivalry was inaugurated on May 27th, 1888 with the latest instalment scheduled to take place in Páirc Uí Chaoimh next Sunday (4pm). There has never been a decaffeinated Tipperary-Cork clash. Indeed, the
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Thirteen things you need to know about Shane Long
#1 Twenty-five years of age Shane was born in Gortnahoe, Tipperary and celebrated his 25 birthday on January 22nd. #2 He’s the one that got away Shane was an underage hurler of some renown
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Will the lettuce eat the rabbits?
Are Tipperary perfectly set up for a shock defeat? Are the circumstances right for a surprise Limerick win in Sunday’s Munster hurling quarter-final? Will we be treated to a dose of the lettuce eating
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