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He was. He started the second match against Clare, it didn't go well for him and he was taken off during the first half. He withdrew from the panel for the third match against Clare but was brought back on the panel for the final. as an aside Lads/lasses, was Ger Oakley not a panellist in 98? My rec...

I wholeheartedly agree. His commitment to the county was top class. T'wont be the same without him.

Kevin wrote:Thanks to Gary for his years of service and for contributing to some great times. As mentioned above the 2000 semi was an amazing display.

Best of luck in the future Gary.

The under 21 hurlers aren’t going to have it easy either, being drawn to hurl the winners of the special competition at an away venue. That will probably be Carlow, though possibly Kildare. In addition it is fixed for the Wednesday after the seniors hurl Laois and with the number of under 21’s on th...

That's a very salient point Bordy. The real awareness though comes from the supporting player running to get into a position where the man in possession but under pressure is FACING the supporting runner. He will then lay off the handpass and the supporting runner places the ball to another runner f...

To reply to the query about the guard of honour afforded to Antrim. It was more the symbolism it sent out that Offaly ‘didn’t mind’ losing to Antrim, or other so-called ‘weaker’ counties. Now while that defeat hurt that Offaly team, some of whom saw their chance to finish their careers with an All I...

I don’t know an awful lot about the relative merits of either side’s 2008 minor hurling vintage but there’s a caveat here. Carlow hurling is on the crest of a wave at the moment, particularly at underage. Bagenalstown CS recently won the Leinster Senior Colleges ‘B’ competition while Tullow VS reach...

I'll kickstart the 'who are they' queries which accompany the under 21 championships! Who are St. Malachy's? For what it's worth, 'Cronan' is spelt with an 'a'. Sunday 30th March 2008 U-21 Hurling Championship St Cronin’s v Kilcormac/Killoughey Moystown M Mahon 12.00 Coolderry v St Malachy’s Coolder...

Just to conclude on the club All-Ireland . . . Portumna are a super super side. They have few weaklinks- the full back line didn’t cover themselves in glory during the first quarter but they settled down when Ollie Canning was able to ‘cover off’ for Gill and McEntee. The goalkeeper doesn’t look the...

Obviously it’s very disappointing to lose by such a big margin to Limerick. However, the league in its present format is all about momentum and any momentum was lost last week in losing to Laois. The best thing to be done now is to grin and bear the Easter Sunday visit from Clare and then draw a lin...

In recent years club hurling finals have tended to be drab affairs. This has been due to a variety of reasons – one of the teams being an inexperienced team who was overawed by the occasion and Croke Park, or a team was missing players due to injury or suspension or carrying injuries. Not so this ye...

I don’t know how the ‘Daily Cork’ defines ‘constant tweaking’. This is the eleventh year of the current system with two groups in division 1. While there have been some changes such as reducing the number of counties from fourteen to twelve and introducing the now defunct ‘second phase’ system used ...

Aweflee, I wasn’t aware of it at all until a Carlow fella posted something of that effect on the gaaboard some weeks ago. Even then I thought nothing of it. It was only last week that I was looking up the GAA’s official site looking up dates for this summer’s qualifiers when I saw a menu for NHL det...

Offaly have struggled for scores in their previous two matches in this year’s NHL, scoring 2-8 and 3-9 against Tipperary and Galway respectively. At the very least I would like to see Offaly being more creative up front, perhaps scoring something like fifteen or sixteen scores. The day is promised w...

I see Ciaran Groome is now on the inter-county hurling list. Where’s he from and what experience has he? I don’t recall him refereeing any senior club matches.

I must admit I know nothing about Dunloy’s current team, so I’m not going to do any kind of an analysis. That said, Birr will be keeping an anxious watch on the weather forecast. The Clones pitch will likely be heavy and sticky, and will be a great leveller on Sunday. Antrim hurling is on a roll at ...