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Driven Daly still leading from the front
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THE PROBLEM with lighting up the sky is that everybody sees it. They see it and they talk it out and they ladle their own layers of meaning across it. Anthony Daly knew for sure the league final had changed things when friends started asking him would his Dublin side beat the handicap against Offaly. Not would they win but would they beat them by more than five points. It’s one thing having to defend a poor team; he’s done it plenty of times. It’s quite another having fend off chatter about a good one. “Jesus, I was running a...
Impressive Dublin continue on their upward curve
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Dublin 0-19 Galway 2-7: SO DUBLIN keep intact their unbeaten championship record against Galway. That’s actually the last thing this game was about, but no harm noting it. What really mattered here was courage and intent and reputation – and Dublin also keep all that intact going into the Leinster final showdown against Kilkenny. Anyone still doubting whether Dublin are the real deal must surely have got their answer here on Saturday evening – because the only criticism of this performance is that Dublin should have won by more. For Galway the opposite is becoming ominously apparent. The look on...
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Dublin Blow Galway away
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Dublin proved beyond doubt that there is substance to the hype. They played Galway off the park for 55 minutes and then passed a real test of character in the final quarter, dealing with the concession of a second goal against the run of play and the sending off of Ryan O’Dwyer to book their place in the Leinster GAA Hurling Championship final. Although Galway inevitably came at Anthony Daly’s side in the closing stages, Dublin never looked troubled. In the end, the six-point winning margin didn’t do their superiority justice. Galway were toothless in attack, relying almost exclusively on...
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Daly delighted with Dublin display
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Dublin hurling manager Anthony Daly admits he was ‘thrilled to bits’ with the Leinster semi-final win over Galway in Tullamore. Speaking to RTÉ’s Clare MacNamara following his team’s comprehensive 0-19 to 2-07 win over the Tribesmen the Clareman admitted: ‘I’m thrilled to bits. It was a great victory tonight’. ‘I suppose we were the best team throughout, but it’s hard to know. We were in the lead nearly all the way, but when we were down to 14 men and Galway scored their second goal it got a bit helter-skelter, but we held our nerve and held out to win.’...
Dublin 0-19 Galway 2-07
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Thirteen points from corner-forward Paul Ryan sent league champions Dublin into the Leinster final and confined a poor Galway to the qualifiers. Goals in either half from Joe Canning and Joe Gantley kept the Tribesmen in contention, but the sharp shooting of the Ballyboden St Enda’s man set up a rematch of the league final against Kilkenny. Dublin had Ryan O’Dwyer sent off in the second-half seconds after Galway’s second goal from an impressive Gantley, but Anthony Daly’s men had too much for Galway from start to finish. With the Cats waiting in the wings for the victors it was...
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Rushe leads hurlers to victory over Galway
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DUBLIN 0-19 GALWAY 2-7 Dublin’s ascent towards hurling’s summit continued with this confident six point victory over Galway in Saturday evening’s Leinster SHC semi-final at O’Connor Park, Tullamore. In the build up to the game the message from the Dublin camp was simple – “We need to take a big scalp” and that’s précised what they did in resounding fashion as they outhurled the Tribesmen for the majority of this duel. The loss of Tomás Brady (subbed in the 11th minute), when he injured his ‘good’ knee, did not knock Dublin off their stride – it was an early double...
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Brilliant Dubs down Galway
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Dublin 0-19 Galway 2-7 14-man Dublin ousted Galway from the Leinster SHC this afternoon at Tullamore to set-up a mouth-watering provincial final with Kilkenny on July 3. Anthony Daly’s team were full value for their victory at O’Connor Park, where Ballyboden ace Paul Ryan starred with 0-13 and Galway were made to rue a tally of 15 wides on a day when Joe Canning and many of his forward colleagues were simply ‘off’, despite the Portumna sensation registering 1-3 for his side. Canning’s goal was all that kept the Tribesmen in contention at half-time, as they trailed by seven points...
Dublin v Galway, LSHC Preview
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Dublin have enjoyed an excellent league campaign so far, but with that success comes pressure and Galway represent the first of three major tests the Metropolitans face in order to reach their first Division 1 final since 1946. The Dubs have racked up wins against Tipperary, Offaly and Wexford, with a draw down in Waterford leaving them as the sole remaining unbeaten team. However they now must take on the Tribesmen before facing off against the traditional powers of Kilkenny and Cork. There were positives and negatives for Dublin boss Anthony Daly to take from the win over Wexford. He...
Dublin look capable of claiming a major scalp
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Galway will believe they can win this but the evidence doesn’t really back that up, writes NICKY ENGLISH THIS EVENING in Tullamore is really a game to forward to, as it has all the ingredients of a great contest. Up until last week both counties would have seen this year as a great opportunity to win Leinster. I’m not sure that’s still as obviously the case as I was more impressed by Kilkenny last week than I expected to be, even allowing for Wexford’s shortcomings. But it’s still a huge match for both counties. In John McIntyre’s third year Galway...
Nicky English gives Dubs his Seal of Approval
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ANTHONY Daly’s Dublin hurlers have been given a massive endorsement from Tipp legend Nicky English as the heat of the Championship challenge gets seriously turned up this weekend. English believes the Dubs are a match for any of the top hurling teams and even believes Daly’s men would be capable of beating Kilkenny in a Leinster final – if they manage to see off Galway this Saturday. “I was delighted for Dublin and thought it was great for hurling that they won the league. They are better than people think. There is an expectation out there that it was only...
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Brady’s back to take on Canning
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DUBLIN’S full-back lynchpin Tomás Brady will be fit to start Saturday’s Leinster SHC semi-final with Galway in Tullamore (7.0), but his Na Fianna colleague Joey Boland looks certain to miss out. The influential defensive pair missed Dublin’s maiden championship victory over Offaly two Sundays back and while Brady’s medial knee ligament injury is now almost fully healed, Boland’s shoulder is still some way short of optimum health. Dublin boss Anthony Daly revealed that Brady is a “nailed-on” certainty to line out at full-back but conceded that Saturday’s first ever Leinster championship clash with the Tribesmen will “probably come a few...
Dublin have to draw on reserves of character
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Dublin 2-21 Offaly 1-20: ONE OF those days in Croke Park – the outcome both fulfilling and at the same time defying the predictions. Dublin won, Offaly lost, though not exactly the way either of them would have envisaged. When Offaly drew level early in the second half it looked as if Dublin were in trouble. When Dublin pulled eight points clear with 10 minutes to go it looked all over. And yet this rollercoaster of a game still wasn’t decided going into injury-time. It’s hard to tell how all this will wrestle with Dublin’s confidence. The danger is Offaly...
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