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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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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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Twenty-five years of Tipperary players!
During the past twenty-five years (1987-2011 inclusive) 138 different players have played championship hurling for Tipperary. Top 25 appearances during the past 25 years 67 Brendan Cummins (Ballybacon-Grange) 54 Eoin Kelly (Mullinahone) 48 Lar
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