In numbers: Twenty-five years of Tipperary hurling!
Over the course of the past 25 years (1987-2011 inclusive) Tipperary have played 99 championship games. A grand total of 138 different players (from 37 different clubs) have played championship hurling...
View ArticleWill the lettuce eat the rabbits?
Are Tipperary perfectly set up for a shock defeat? Are the circumstances right for a surprise Limerick win in Sunday’s Munster hurling quarter-final? Will we be treated to a dose of the lettuce eating...
View ArticleThirteen things you need to know about Shane Long
#1 Twenty-five years of age Shane was born in Gortnahoe, Tipperary and celebrated his 25 birthday on January 22nd. #2 He’s the one that got away Shane was an underage hurler of some renown with Michael...
View ArticleFar from a famine
The Tipperary-Cork rivalry was inaugurated on May 27th, 1888 with the latest instalment scheduled to take place in Páirc Uí Chaoimh next Sunday (4pm). There has never been a decaffeinated...
View ArticleWrong endings, metaphysical insults and Spain
Sport presents us with plenty of “wrong” results. A defeat for Spain, for example, at the hands of the Italians in Sunday’s Euro 2012 final would have been a tragedy, a metaphysical insult – only the...
View ArticlePrime numbers: is this Tipperary?
A selection of numerical nuggets for you to digest:- 0 – following the 2007 general election Tipperary was represented in Dáil Éireann by Michael Lowry (Independent), Noel Coonan (Fine Gael), Tom Hayes...
View ArticleFifty fabulous facts you didn’t know about the Tipperary hurlers
#One Toomevara’s John O’Brien is the youngest of nine children. His older brother Paddy also played for Tipperary. #Two In the 2009 Tipperary county senior hurling final James Woodlock (Drom &...
View ArticleKilkenny v Tipperary: the a-to-z guide
When Tipperary and Kilkenny met in the 2011 All-Ireland final the game marked the first instance in 108 years that the same teams had contested three deciders in-a-row – and yet, here we are facing...
View ArticleLet Lar Corbett tell his story
On November first Lar Corbett (@larcorbett) will launch his autobiography All In My Head and there is still sulphur in the air. You know the story: Tipperary, showing a collective will of purest...
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Hurling: is this the game we want?
Modern inter-county hurling rewards cynicism. The most effective hurlers are not the best players. Indeed, we have arrived at a point in the development of hurling which demands that the stakeholders...
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