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Offaly hurlers’ draw with Galway yesterday maintains the longest unbeaten home record in division 1 of the NHL but the wait continues for Offaly’s first ever win over top 9 opposition at O’Connor Park. This result scarcely seemed possible when Offaly had to endure a torrid second quarter when only f...

Sorry to bump up am old topic but I see Birr GAA club have a planning application in this week's Tribune for permission to build terracing either side of the stand, at the town end and the 'road' side of the ground. Looks like SBP will be closed for some time yet and I'll have to get used to travell...

See the front cover of the current issue of Phoenix!

Lone Shark wrote:Seriously, we have to arrange that photo op. No idea how, but it has to be done.

I wasn’t going to come out of my winter hibernation until the hurling resumed in earnest but I want to clear something up here. I recall Alan Kelly played championship hurling with Dublin against Wexford in 1992. Kelly was a Kilmacud Crokes clubman by then. While his father was a regular umpire for ...

I've watched that incident on television again. Mullins stepped two yards outside the small square when pucking out into the gale (in fact he was on the line when he threw up the ball to hit it) and the umpires raised their hands. If I was doing umpire in conditions like that I'd be lenient with the...

I know what ye're saying but it would make no sense to me to fix a possible Intermediate final between Ballyskenagh and Killavilla for O'Connor Park. Several rural hurling clubs have successully hosted inter and junior finals over the years and have a good operation in place for stewarding such even...

Any significant motions passed?

Please tell me Kilcormac's proposal to have all hurling finals played in O'Connor Park failed. I couldn't face another autumn driving across that bog road.

We had this debate before the start yesterday. Would you have played wih or against the wind in the first half if ye were captain of either side yesterday? Personally I'd always prefer to have the wind in my favour in the second half when the oter team have 'posted their innings' so-to-speak, and yo...

I watched it a number of times. It’s difficult to tell as, while the Ballyboden forward had a new hurl, Watkins had an older one and you can’t make out if the ball struck Watkins’ hurl in the darkness. Macdara MacDonnacha was convinced it hit Watkins’ hurl on the way out. Time was up anyway as it ha...

Superb. Well done.

I We’ve been down this road already this year. An Offaly team beat the hosts in Nowlan Park to qualify to meet a Dublin side in the final. This time it’s the respective Offaly and Dublin county champions going head to head. Birr are aiming to go into the outright lead in the Leinster club hurling ro...

If that Kilkennyman's short attention span had allowed, he would have heard the rest of the quote which was something like (I'm paraphrasing) - I showed how to beat Kilkenny - hit them hard and keep the ball moving . . ." Earlier that week 'The Clareman' was appointed Offaly manager which was g...

Best way to estimate the lenght of a GAA pitch is the see how far apart the two 65 metre lines are. It's difficult to estimate the width. The minimum length of a GAA pitch is 130 metres (where there is one 65m line which doubles as the halfway line). The maximum is 150 metres, where there is twenty ...

I don’t normally pick teams of the year or all-Stars but I was thinking of this as I drove along recently. I saw where John O’Callaghan picked his team of the year in the paper, picking something like six from each of Birr and Kilcormac along with Odhran Kealey, Brian Carroll and Damien Murray. I’ve...

I want to pick up on this, as it’s an interesting point. The issue I have with OCP is its length rather than the width, but anyways. Logic would suggest that the shorter/narrower pitch would keep the scoreline down, as it would aid packed defences. I hadn’t thought of it seriously until I saw the wi...