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Posts Tagged ‘Cork hurling’

Learn a little if not everything about the Cork hurlers

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Blood Brothers by Michael Moynihan
 
You’d think that a book documenting the last 10 years of the Cork hurlers at the time of the latest impasse between the county’s hurling team and the county board would benefit from time.
You’d think that it would benefit from time the way last year’s book about the rich history of [...]

There’s no point being right if you’re in the minority

Monday, November 24th, 2008

IT was a summer evening a few years ago. Nothing significant about it, just a fine evening to play hurling and our group were strung out across the half of the field that housed our games of backs and forwards.
Except I was out in the middle, one of three that weren’t picked among the 12 [...]