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Let Lar Corbett tell his story

Let Lar Corbett tell his story

Brian McDonnell October 21, 2012 Comments Off

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!

Gorbachev would give the GAA summit to think about!

Brian McDonnell October 3, 2012 Comments Off

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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Kilkenny v Tipperary: the a-to-z guide

Kilkenny v Tipperary: the a-to-z guide

Brian McDonnell August 8, 2012 Comments Off

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

Fifty fabulous facts you didn’t know about the Tipperary hurlers

Brian McDonnell August 4, 2012 Comments Off

#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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