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Club Hurling Championships start on Sunday. Players from the top four clubs have been training for over 2 months. Their next game will be in 3 months time. It is probable that the first real competitive game for our stronger clubs will be the County Quarter Final in September. In senior football al...

If Offaly qualify from Round Robin and lose Leinster Q-Final there will be a four week gap to their first game in qualifiers. Surely a provision should have been made to play a round of senior championship in that 4 week window. The inter-county players would probably welcome it as a break from trai...

I was of the belief that there was only one round of the SHC pencilled in for April. All the better if there is two. However I'd be quite surprised if the county management allowed a round of SHC to be played 2 weeks before first round robin game considering they wouldn't allow ANY panel members to ...

To clarify, players who are not on the 26 are NOT released to their clubs for challenge matches. By GAA rules they must be released for club league games, however no such rule exists for challenge matches.

If you look closely at the County Board's release, you will note that a 'panel' is named.This goes for the footballers as well as the hurlers. It merely allocates jersey members and offers no indication as to the fifteen who will start or how the team will line out. Which is fine. It doesn't offer ...

Just short of 2,000 paying customers at the Offaly vs Kilkenny U21's in the Walsh Cup in SBP and just over 1,400 at Offaly's biggest league game of the year vs Laois in OCP. That's a 30% drop in attendance if we're going to be sensible and compare attendances between the two venues this year.

Having attended the game Sunday I have to say there was a couple of positives to take from it. Our two corner backs were excellent. We really have two top class performers in Niall Wynne and Paddy Rigney. Although it seems Rigney is practically in with the panel by default as he was dropped and brou...

Looking at the distribution of John Leahy’s voted following his elimination in the 2011 GE, 24% of those went to MCK, but 11% went to Sinn Féin’s Brian Stanley. They are not so ‘transfer repellant’ as they used to be. With Sinn Féin likely to get a ‘party’ vote, a repeat of the 2014 Council results...

Yep, Id say that's the jersey alright. I saw it on sale in Tullamore over the weekend.

Be wary, they are very big fitting. Unless you go for the player fit option on the O'Neills website.

Greenairfield,

Do you have any idea what you just said about those hurlers you've just named?

I'd take down that list of names pretty quickly before you get yourself and this site into serious bother.

And since when did Birr and St Rynaghs become lesser clubs?

Come on lads, do the maths here. We beat DIT by a cricket-score, DIT beat the Kilkenny Under 21 comfortably, ergo this will be a comfortable win for Offaly. In reality this will be a senior inter-county team vs an U21 inter-county team. And before anyone thinks the Kilkenny U21 team is some sort of ...

I've heard that management weren't willing to carry Conor Mahon on the panel while he continues his recovery from injury. How accurate this report is I can't clarify. If it is the case it really is really short-sightedness on their behalf. On the captaincy issue James Dempsey seemed to be the captai...

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As you may have figured by the final score today's game in O'Connor Park was a farce. So here's the team that started and I think that's the only thing of interest from the game. 1. James Dempsey 2. Emmet Nolan 3. Chris McDonald 4. Niall Wynne 9. Shane Kinsella (sweeper) 5. Pat Camon 6. Conor Dougha...

3 home league games for Offaly in the hurling league. Games vs Laois and Limerick in OCP, game vs Kerry in SBP. Maybe it's just me but I nearly find that a bigger insult than having no games in SBP. There's no way the attendance of the Laois or Limerick games will come anywhere near 5,000. Just play...