First off, congratulations to Aidan Walsh on winning this year’s Bord Gáis Energy Breaking Through Player of the Year.   Aidan was superb in this year’s Munster final, scoring eight points, including that fantastic last minute equaliser. He was up against players of serious talent but I don’t think anyone can begrudge Walsh. He is a [...]

Now that the dust has settled on the Bord Gáis Energy All-Ireland U-21 Hurling Championship, I guess it is time to take stock and look back on the season just gone. Over the past few years the U-21 Championship has really proven itself as a top class competition and this year was no exception. For [...]

It’s All-Ireland final time again and as many predicted it is a repeat of last year’s final with Kilkenny and Tipperary meeting in Croke Park this weekend to battle it out for All-Ireland glory. With the exception of Tipperary’s semi-final clash with Dublin, both sides have yet to be truly tested, so Sunday should be [...]

One of the highlights of last year’s Championship was Marty’s cameos! Be it as the MC for the Crossbar Challenge or through his blogs so I decided to invite him back again and once again he doesn’t disappoint! Enjoy! Joe Do you ever feel that life is passing you by? Do you ever feel that [...]

It’s that time of the year when the country goes hurling mad. We have been kept entertained by the two senior All-Ireland semi-finals over the past couple of weekends so this Saturday it is the turn of the U-21s. There are two Bord Gáis Energy U-21 semi-finals taking place this Saturday, with Dublin facing Antrim [...]

Thanks to Bord Gáis Energy ambassador Noel McGrath for writing last week’s blog. Noel has had a cracking summer so far and hopefully he can carry on the form he has shown of late into the business end of the Championship. With Noel taking on the responsibility of last week’s blog, I haven’t written a [...]

It’s been a tough week on the back of the loss against Waterford so I thought I would invite a much more upbeat Noel McGrath to write this week’s blog. Noel has an All-Ireland semi-final to look forward to following Tipp’s win over Waterford in the Munster Championship final so I’ll leave you in his [...]

There is no point in hiding from the fact that I was incorrect with both of my predictions last week. To rub salt into the wound I’m now down 13-8 to Ger Cunningham in our head to head battle which sees us predict the winner of each game during the Bord Gáis Energy U-21 Championship. [...]

Thanks again to Joanne Cantwell for taking on last week’s blog. It was certainly interesting reading her points on Galway’s inclusion in the Leinster Championship. For me, I think there is no doubt that our inclusion has had a positive effect on our own performances. The more games we play at this level the sharper [...]

As fans of Dublin and Wexford hurling shake off the disappointment of a weekend of defeat in the senior Championship, with some Dubs wondering were they really as good as their League campaign and Leinster victory over Galway.