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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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Why datatainment is the future of sports writing
Richard Ayers (@richardayers), a digital pioneer working with Manchester City, has coined a term to encapsulate a new departure in sports reporting/journalism – ‘datatainment’ revolves around presenting fans with intelligent data in a visually engaging
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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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Can Fantasy Football be a force for good?
Question: can Fantasy Football be a force for good? When Luis Suarez spurns a goal-scoring opportunity for Liverpool and a thirty-something reacts with a meltdown which would put a small child to shame you would have
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How can you thank a writer?
On September 18th last Con Houlihan was dropped off in the car park at the back of the Cusack Stand. Once he mounted himself on his crutches he struggled to traverse 20 feet or so
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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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The Olympics top ten tearjerkers
Journalist Adrian Deevoy (Enough to make a grown man cry) once asked Seán Connery what made him cry. The inimitable Scot fell silent for a moment before explaining that athletics could reduce him to
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