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Dubs take their place at hurling’s top table
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NICKY ENGLISH HURLING ANALYST: The winning margin didn’t flatter Anthony Daly’s men and this final signals a major shift in the balance of power SO, NOW, we know for sure: Dublin hurlers are the real deal! The easy thing to say about yesterday’s win by Dublin is that this was a great day for hurling, and that’s absolutely true. But this is more, much more than that. This is maybe the start of a changing of the guard in Leinster hurling and we can now add Dublin’s name to the list of genuine championship candidates. This National League win by...
Dublin hurling had it hard for long enough, those days are over
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Not everyone in the GAA in Dublin is thrilled by hurling’s revival in the county, writes Damian Lawlor Last Sunday, just as Dublin turned the screw in the League final, Conal Keaney hit three showbiz points. For the Ballyboden man, it was the climax of a phenomenal campaign. The return to his hurling roots coincided with the team landing a national title just eight months after a traumatic championship defeat to Antrim. With game-time limited under county football manager Pat Gilroy, Keaney’s decision to switch codes was an obvious one. But his old football team-mates must have been left to...
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Capital blueprint can serve other counties
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There is no denying the historic impact nor the merit of Dublin’s victory in last Sunday’s National Hurling League final against Kilkenny, writes SEAN MORAN IT’S INTERESTING how often teams making a breakthrough in hurling lose all inhibitions at the approach of the final whistle. Dublin ransacked Kilkenny for six points from play in injury-time in last weekend’s hurling league final. That surge of self-belief was never more appropriate, given the circumstances of defeating a county that eight months ago was on the verge of winning the fabled five-in-a-row. The most celebrated examples of breaking into the light before Dublin at...
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Dubs crowned Champs in Special day of Deliverance
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Days like this are a rare and special thing. Dublin are the new national hurling league champions – their first title and first national crown since 1939.  For those of us who’ve lived through some of the darker chapters of that interim 72 years it’s a surreal moment. But no, it wasn’t a dream. The longer Sunday’s match with Kilkenny went on, the more freedom crept into their play and the more the weight was lifted the better they hurled on what will go down in history as a special day of deliverance for Dublin. This is one of those...
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Hard work through lean years pays off
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IT’S NOT quite 10 years since the Dublin County Board launched a new plan for hurling in the county: Blueprint for Change and Success was prepared by the Dublin Hurling Review Group, chaired by former county manager Michael O’Grady, and contained several lofty aspirations. Part of its mission was to make hurling the number one Gaelic sport in Dublin by 2010, to ask dual players to commit exclusively to the game, and also to win a national senior title within 10 years. At the time many people felt it was mostly outlandish and yet with an uncanny sense of timing...
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Daly pays tribute to Dublin hurling family
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Dublin hurling boss Anthony Daly says Sunday’s Allianz NHL Division 1 success was “payback” to all those who have invested so much time and dedication into hurling in the capital in recent times. “We worked awful hard but now the targets have to be raised. Today is for the lads and it is also for all the people who put in the work. Everyone knows the work and time and all the effort that went into promoting hurling in Dublin. This is a payback for those lads.” Daly admitted that he was close to ‘calling it a day’ following last...
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McCrabbe focus now on the main prize
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DUBLIN All Star hurler Alan McCrabbe has set his sights on winning a Leinster medal to go with his recently-earned Allianz Division One honour. The Craobh Chiaráin man, who only returned from injury in the last round game against Cork, said there is no fear of the Blues getting complacent after Sunday’s heroics against Kilkenny. Anthony Daly’s side pulled off a fine win over Clare in the qualifiers last year before being shocked by Antrim. However, McCrabbe maintains the team are confident of going on and winning a provincial title. “Oh yeah,” he said, “but we can only take one...
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Kettle: Dubs ride to rescue
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DUBLIN County Board chairman Andy Kettle has claimed Anthony Daly’s hurlers saved the GAA’s bacon following the Leinster rugby team’s qualification for the Heineken Cup final on Saturday. Kettle believes the Allianz Hurling League Division 1 final victory over Kilkenny, the county’s first piece of senior national silverware in 16 years, went a long way to subdue the amount of coverage given to Leinster’s win against Toulouse. “In the context of the Leinster win on Saturday,” said Kettle, “if we hadn’t won on Sunday they would have had all the publicity in the world and the GAA in general would...
Anthony Daly Celebrates NHL win
Dubin can stand amongst the Top Teams
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Anthony Daly struggled to hide his delight after his side ended Dublin’s 72-year wait for a League title at Croke Park on Sunday. The Clare man, however, was wary of placing too much emphasis on beating Kilkenny by 12 points, clearly conscious that his team will from now on be subjected to the scrutiny and hype that attends hurling’s big sides. And yet, Daly admitted the win would give his side the confidence to take their place amongst the best teams in the country. “We would try and think that today would be a confidence day. Big days like today...
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Daly feeding on the confidence but steering clear of the hype
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Dublin were happy to enjoy the victory but minds are already on the championship, writes KEITH DUGGAN THE ODD thing was that after this day of days for Dublin hurling, it fell to two men with accents shaped by Munster land to explain what it all meant. In marched Ryan O’Dwyer, man of the match after yesterday’s thunderous match and bearing a cut on his mouth as a memento. After him, Anthony Daly sauntered in, grinning at the sight of his centre forward in full flow and quipping: “Ya never saw a shy Tipp fella, did ya.” All the years of...
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Dubs heroes party like it’s 1939
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IT might have been 72 years coming — but Dublin’s hurlers gave the Kilkenny Cats a good scalding and brought some silverware home at last. Coming a week after Dublin’s footballers lost against All-Ireland champions Cork in the final few minutes of their Allianz NFL Division One final, the Blues managed to bring a smile to hard-pressed fans in the capital with their first National League hurling title since 1939. The Dubs took on the Cats at HQ and gave fans a thrilling day out after securing a 0-22 to 1-7 scoreline. Although the odds were firmly in Kilkenny’s favour,...
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Super Dubs Skin the Cats
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Dublin powered past a lethargic Kilkenny team to capture the Allianz NHL1 league title in Croke Park on Sunday afternoon – for the first time since 1939 in front of a crowd of 42,030. The Dubs were the superior team throughout and by half-time had built a six-point lead . Paul Ryan was outstanding in the first half scoring seven points which included four frees. Eoin Larkin was dismissed in the 25th minute by referee Michael Wadding who also controversially blew for half-time with Dublin on the attack . Conor McCormack finished to the net only to have the goal...
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