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Hurling
Follow our interviews, analysis, match reports and liveblogs from the 2023 provincial championships before the cream of the crop battle it out for Liam MacCarthy in the 2023 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.
Hurling’s history of violence: ‘Some of the belts I got were criminal. My skull was fractured. It was madness’
Revulsion at scenes in Páirc Uí Chaoimh before Cork and Tipperary’s championship tie a fortnight ago reflect how the game’s values have changed - incrementally
Nicky English: Clare on the edge as Munster reaches sudden death
Tipp can exploit Clare’s injury problems but it’s finely balanced
GAA head of hurling William Maher: ‘A colleague said he never got an opportunity to hold a hurl. That’s just crazy’
‘If you can build hurling in Dalkey, you can build it anywhere,’ says man appointed by GAA to increase participation in the sport
Former Limerick hurler felt ‘emasculated and mentally destroyed’ after workplace accident, High Court hears
Mark Keane, who is taking High Court action against Johnson & Johnson, has not worked since sustaining injuries
Documentary on GAA referee abuse lets players, coaches and fans off the hook
Television review: GAA referee David Gough provides fascinating insights but overall this film needs to dig deeper
Gaelic Players Association’s support of amateur status cannot be guaranteed, Parsons warns
Report finds intercounty players are incurring average expense loss of €4,602
Ciarán Murphy: Return of jeopardy breathes new life into hurling league
Plenty of realistic scope among Division 2 counties to aspire to a higher level
Seán Moran: Hurling may regard the FRC as an irrelevance but history suggests otherwise
Football has had most of the problems but its solutions have often been universal
GAA Sunday as it happened: Galway and Kerry secure wins over Mayo and Derry
Carlow cause shock of the day beating Waterford in the Allianz Hurling League, while Tipp get the better of Wexford at Semple Stadium
Na Fianna beat Sarsfields in All-Ireland club hurling final: As it happened
Dublin champions deserved winners after a superb display at Croke Park
GAA appoints Tipperary’s Willie Maher as new national head of hurling
GAA president Jarlath Burns welcomed the appointment on Thursday
Peter Queally’s Waterford reign to begin with charity game against Cork in Dungarvan
Clash between keen Munster rivals in aid of former Déise stalwart Brian Greene, who is undergoing treatment for lung cancer, and Waterford Hospice
Clare take home six hurling All Stars at the end of a memorable year
Clare’s Shane O’Donnell and Galway’s Paul Conroy are named players of the year at awards ceremony
Back to the future for Thomastown, as Farrell celebrates late career highs
Experienced centrefielder has been a huge influence as the club strikes echoes of its past
‘He turned, a ball of rage, preparing to floor me’: Richie Hogan on Kilkenny, Shefflin and tense exchanges with Cody
Former Kilkenny hurler talks about his new autobiography, being part of Brian Cody’s dressingroom and life after playing intercounty
‘It’s a whole different ball game’: Hurling Shinty International promises to be an old-school throwback
Twelve counties represented in Irish team for Saturday’s game against Scotland in Ennis
Joe Canning: ‘The drinking shouldn’t have happened ... but to then run the crap out of us was madness’
Galway hurler Joe Canning writes about the ‘off-the-wall intensity’ of Ger Loughnane’s training regime, how the game takes players to the rawest of places and the infamous story of the Dew Drop 15 in this extract from his new book
Should penalty shoot-outs in hurling get the bullet?
Ronan Sheehan’s Down won the first shoot-out in 2020. He would prefer an alternative means of resolution
Bonner Maher the ‘bread winner’ for a talented Tipperary generation
Patrick ‘Bonner’ Maher retires after a career that yielded three senior All-Irelands
Hurling Development Committee must aim for small, meaningful wins to end sport’s inertia
A 2015 report stated the GAA has been “doing the game of hurling an injustice for a long time”
GAA to appoint a Head of Hurling as part of plan to grow the game
New job’s brief is to be centred on the overall strategic development of the game
Micheál Donoghue set for return as Galway senior hurling manager
Donoghue had been managing Dublin for the past two years but unexpectedly stepped down
Seán Moran: Hurling has presented a wonderful shop window - so why aren’t more people buying?
Seán Moran: A spectacular championship and popular champions can’t hide the reality of national failure to promote the game of hurling
Strength in science: how Lukasz Kirszenstein helped Clare reach the promised land
The Pole headed the Banner’s strength & conditioning this season, following past All-Ireland successes with Tipperary and Galway
Davy Fitzgerald’s arrival is good but Antrim hurling needs ‘the whole thing’, says ‘Sambo’ McNaughton
Former Antrim player and manager says county must do more to develop young playing talent
Davy Fitzgerald set to be appointed as Antrim hurling manager
Clare native expected to go before club delegates for ratification on Monday night
Micheál Donoghue steps down as Dublin hurling manager
The Galway man departs after two seasons in charge
Kilkenny’s Cillian Buckley retires from intercounty hurling
Former county captain won three All-Irelands, eight Leinster titles and five league medals in a celebrated career
Limerick hurler Kyle Hayes charged with dangerous driving in Co Cork
Barrister for five-time All-Ireland winner tells court that Kildimo man willing to plead to a lesser charge of careless driving
‘The players now are immortal’: Clare welcomes hurling champions home
Clare fans celebrate as the Liam MacCarthy cup is brought to the county for only the fifth time
The Italian Cork fans heading to Croke Park to cheer ‘forza ribelli’
Riccardo Ribaldi says he and his family have been devoted Cork fans since discovering hurling during a visit to West Cork
‘I’m not aiming 17 years towards one day’: For Patrick Horgan, hurling is about more than the big games
This is Horgan’s 17th season playing for the Cork senior hurlers, and possibly his last chance to win an All-Ireland medal
Tipperary claim extra-time victory over Kilkenny to take minor title despite two red cards
Goal from the outstanding Billy O’Brien three minutes from the end of extra-time proved to be the decisive score
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