All Ireland Semi-Final
The End of a Season – But the Start of an Era
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THE look of devastation on the faces of the Dublin hurlers said it all. And it tells us everything we need to know about Dublin in 2011 that they can be so disappointed about a year which ended in a four point semi-final defeat to the All-Ireland champions just six weeks after Tipp had delivered one of the most sensational displays ever seen in Championship hurling. This was no ordinary year for Dublin hurling, hence the prevailing sense of an opportunity lost. When you consider the miserable exit to Antrim in July of last year that looked, to some, like...
Rising Blues give Ryan’s men timely reality check
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TIPPERARY 1-19 DUBLIN 0-18 THE outcome was predictable but not the manner in which the winners achieved it. Installed at ridiculous odds of 1/16 to reach the All-Ireland final for a third successive year, Tipperary became the latest to discover that Dublin are now a really substantial force in hurling, one which will exert a major influence on the destination of all the big prizes over the coming years. Indeed, as the Dublin squad filed out of Croke Park after securing third place on the 2011 ratings (they deserve to be ahead of Waterford for winning the Allianz League and...
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Daly can take heroic Dubs to next level
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Dublin played in the style of their manager Anthony Daly by never taking a backward step. IT was nothing short of a heroic effort from Dublin in Croke Park yesterday. Despite everything that went against them, between injuries to several of their front-line players and the concession of a very soft early goal, they produced a display that franked their status as one of the front-runners of the pack looking to close the gap on Tipperary and Kilkenny. After Peter Kelly’s stumble that let Lar Corbett in for his usual goal in a championship match, you might have feared the...
Minor progress to All-Ireland decider
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GOAL: Cormac Costello scores his 4th goal DUBLIN 6-19 WATERFORD 5-13 Dublin minor hurlers have reached the All-Ireland MHC final for the first time since 1983 when they outclassed Waterford in Sunday’s semi-final at Croke Park. The game was effectively settled in the opening half after Dublin led 4-12 to 0-7 at the interval. It was an advantage they had extended to 21 points, 5-14 to 0-8, six minutes after the restart and with 20 minutes to go were 5-14 to 0-11 clear. However, Dublin feell asleep as the Decies throw caution to the wind over the remainder of the...
Dublin fly close to Premier class
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Tipperary’s Lar Corbett scores an early goal despite the attentions of Dublin’s Peter Kelly and goalkeeper Gary Maguire during yesterday’s semi-final at Croke Park. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho THE HURLERS of Tipperary have kept their appointment. On September 4th, the reigning All-Ireland champions will meet Kilkenny, the supreme team of the previous four years, in what promises to be a monumental struggle between the timeless custodians of the game. The friction emanating from Urlingford and right along the border should match that of the San Andreas fault line over the next few weeks. In the advance publicity for the All-Ireland final,...
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Vincent Hogan: The method in Daly’s madness
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MAYBE revolution is, above all, a state of mind. When Richie Stakelum thinks about what it is that Anthony Daly has brought to their lives, he suspects it to be something as simple as the nobility of struggle. All the words in the world can fall from a man’s mouth, but, without little acts of selflessness, they become nothing more than stones. He remembers one January day in ’09 and, from early evening, snow leaking from a sky of velvet black. The M50 became a pocket of Antarctica. It took him three hours just to get home from Citywest and,...
Hard to see depleted Dubs living with Premier quality
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It seems a long time ago now, and many’s the battle they fought in the interim, but 1993 was the first occasion today’s managers crossed swords in a big competitive game. Anthony Daly was full-back on the Clare team that was absolutely demolished by Tipperary in that year’s Munsterfinal. With Declan Ryan pulling the strings at centre-forward, a potent Tipperary attack ran up a massive 3-27 tally in an 18-point victory. Yet, just four weeks later, and red-hot favourites for the All-Ireland, Tipperary were out of the championship, well beaten on the day by what was, on paper at least, an...
Hurling: ‘We dare to dream’: Mission Impossible? Blues ready to give it a right go
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IF JOHNNY McCaffrey was destined for greatness, days like Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final were still an awful long time in coming. As a minor, he captained both the Dublin hurlers and footballers in the same season (2005), a feat which reflected not just his natural leadership abilities, but also his potential in both codes. SHOWPIECE Five years after making his senior hurling championship debut in a disastrous Leinster defeat by Westmeath in Portlaoise, he’s leading out Dublin against the reigning All-Ireland champions for a spot in September’s annual showpiece. “To be honest, I always believed we could make the breakthrough,” McCaffrey...
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True blue dawn inching ever closer
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GAVIN CUMMISKEYof the Irish Times on how the sure and steady work at club, colleges and development squad level is beginning to pay dividends for Dublin WE NEEDED proof that hurling in the capital city has changed irrevocably. We needed to see it. It’s August 2011 and the long- suffering, yet enduring group known as The Friends of Dublin Hurling sought to organise an open training session nine days out from the All-Ireland semi-final against Tipperary. Anthony Daly acquiesced. Entering Parnell Park we estimated numbers in the high hundreds, spread along the far terrace. As Daly’s charges wind up a...
Target looks a little too lofty for Dublin
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THIS ISN’T as Dublin envisaged the great breakthrough. Twelve months ago had Anthony Daly been told that he would lead the county to not just a retained place in Division One but the actual title, followed by a first All-Ireland hurling semi-final in over 60 years he would presumably have been more than happy. Those achievements remain and will always add up to a great season and significant progress for the county at the same time as it is also contending at the last four stage of the minor and under-21 championships. But the wind gusting behind Dublin three months...
Dublin team to play Tipperary
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Ryan to start against Tipperary 12 Aug 2011 | hill16.ie Liam Ryan has been handed his first start of this summer’s championship in Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Tipperary in Croke Park (3.30). The experienced O’Toole’s man comes into the team at full-forward and in the reshuffle Maurice O’Brien loses out. Ryan, who captained Dublin to victory in this year’s Walsh Cup final against Kilkenny last February, started against both Wexford and Offaly in the Allianz NHL. His last championship start was against Kilkenny in the 2010 Leinster SHC semi-final Alan McCrabbe and Johnny McCaffrey will partner each other at...
Daly: Dubs must give it their all
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ANTHONY DALY has called on his players to produce their most compelling performance of the season on Sunday as they face down the might of All-Ireland champions, Tipperary for a place in the All-Ireland final. “Every player that wears the blue jersey on Sunday has to be getting the maximum out of himself, or at the very least, close to it,” writes Daly in his column in the Herald today. “Sixout- of-10s won’t do. Everybody has to be hitting the eight or nine mark and hopefully that will be enough to bring us down to the wire and if we...
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