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Lesson Plans
created by Fiona Kirwan
An Initiative from NewsBrands Ireland.
14 Lessons 18 & 19
Material to be used
Sport Read through pages 32 to 35.
Pages: After these have been read, either silently and independently, or
with the group as a whole each student should take a newspaper
32 33 34 35 and do the following
Optional Sports Writing Tutorial:
1. Write down the name of their paper and date published.
2. Source a piece of sports writing in their paper.
3. Identify whether it is a match report, interview or sports
feature article.
4. Write down the headline/ sub head and byline (if they are
40 -80 mins present).
Options for discussion/ analysis:
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nlo • If looking at a match report, select words and phrases the
w writer used to ‘set the scene’.
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Handout for • Assess how clearly or accurately the writer captured the
Click to
analysing Sports action.
Writing.
• Note any factual details included.
PDF to print/
photocopy • If analysing an interview piece select words and phrases the
writer used to ‘set the scene’ for the interview.
• Choose questions asked by the interviewer which were
particularly good in your opinion.
• Decide were there any questions which could have been left
out or write some that you’d have liked answered.
www.presspass.ie @newsbrandsirl
Analysing Sports Writing 2017/
2018
1. Write down the name of your paper and the date of publication..
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2. Source a piece of sports writing in your paper.
3. Identify whether it is a match report, interview or sports feature article.
______________________________________________________________________________
4. Write down the headline/ sub head and byline (if they are all there)
Headline: _______________________________________________________________________
Sub Head: ______________________________________________________________________
Byline: _________________________________________________________________________
Match Report: (not all the prompts will suit your article) :
• Select words and phrases the writer used to ‘set the scene’ for the match? (where the game was being
played, significance of the game, key players named etc.)?
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• How well did the writer capture the action in the match described? (note phrases or words that
helped you understand the sequence of events or the build-up in tension.)
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• What kind of factual details were included in the match report?
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2017/
2018
Interview:
• Select words and phrases the writer used to ‘set the scene’ for the interview? (where the interview
was taking place and when, how they introduce to the person they are interviewing, key information on
the person given etc.)
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• What questions asked by the interviewer did you think were particularly good?
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• Were there any questions you’d take out of the interview or were there any that you’d like to add in?
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• What was the most interesting thing you learned about the person from this interview?
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In pairs or small groups decide the following:
• Which match report/ interview/ or article did you prefer?
______________________________________________________________________________
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2017/
2018
• Compare the way the pieces of sports writing were similar using the points you made when analysing
the pieces earlier..
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• Which would be the preference in the group; match reports, interviews or in-depth articles on a sports
topic? Why do you think this is the preferred one??
______________________________________________________________________________
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• To what extent did photos and layout add to or take from the appeal of the pieces of sports writing you
looked at? Explain your answer.?
______________________________________________________________________________
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Sport
What makes
a good sports
journalist?
The ingredients that make a sports
reporter are similar to that of a decent
stew. An unorthodox comparison,
but bear with us! No one dominant
component brings about that
delectable flavour, more a combination
of everything flung into the pot. A good
sports reporter possesses every kind of
spice you will find in a kitchen cabinet,
and more.
You can write, sure, but can you
investigate? Can you sniff out a back
page lead? Can you ask the hard
questions? Can you go where no one
else is willing to go? Above everything
else, are you willing to do all of the
above?
Many exceptional writers didn’t or don’t
have the work ethic to cut it. Sports
reporting does not entail sitting at
your desk, waxing lyrically about your
favourite soccer team.
Heck, most sports reporters have never
seen the inside of an office. You are on
the beat all day, every day and you have
to know how to utilise that. If Henry
Shefflin is cutting the tape on some new
clubhouse in the middle of nowhere, get
yourself there and ask him how long his
injury will keep him out of action.
Come away with a story. Objectivity is
another important rule. Credit where
credit is due and likewise, criticise when
criticism is called for. Last, but by no
means least, a good sports reporter
is one who is prepared to start at the
bottom and work their way up.
Ewan MacKenna and Vincent Hogan
all started somewhere and you can
be sure it wasn’t on the pages of this
country’s most respected national
newspapers. All-Ireland finals and Six
Nations clashes are covered by those
with years of experience. Be prepared
for U10 soccer games and schools
camogie finals. The path ahead is long
and winding, but know that when you
eventually reach the summit, the view is
out of this world.
32
AFTER THE BATTLE by Dan Sheridanirishmirror.ie/sport
THURSDAY 13.07.2017
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PAT.NOLAN@TRINITyMIRROR
.COM The story behind Gaelic games
Top man Colm
deserves more farce is just
tip of the
ULTIMATELY, Clare footballers
didn’t get
over the line against Mayo
last Saturday
but the fact that they threatened
long periods, having earlier to for
pushed
all the way, should be recognised Kerry
triumph of Colm Collins’ as a
management.
Clare’s progress in recent
seasons may
have been bracketed with
iceberg
Tipperary’s but
Collins (above) isn’t working
with players of
the pedigree that Liam
Kearns has.
Tips to
Clare have never won the
Munster
under-21 title while their
last victory at
minor level was way back
in 1953.
This year they reached
the Munster
minor final but their previous
appearance
at that stage was in 1994.
in Offaly
The last time they reached
a provincial
under-21 decider was in
2002. In the
interim, Tipperary have
been in eight minor
finals, claimed a pair of
under-21 titles and
competing in seven Munster
finals at that
grade since 2007.
Having also guided Clare
to Division Two DON’T TELL
and a first All-Ireland quarter-final
appearance last year, Collins
THE WIFE
has made so Pat Flanagan was
much from so little. told by his other
And while it was embarrassing half that he had
Clare hurlers’ support was that the lost his job as
becoming
so heavily Offaly football
outnumbered in Thurles
on Sunday, the AMID the fallout surrounding boss
fact that Mayo fans swamped
the home Pat Flanagan, a far Offaly Hurling Pathway, a
crowd in Ennis the day
before was arguably
controversy in Offaly
greater document which was 39-page GAA website proved to be an Offaly GAA receives a €40,000
even worse. officially exhausting challenge
slipped under the radar. GAA submitted to the county
board on finally acted upon. before it was grant from the Leinster Council
is no limit
April 1, 2015. which is supposed to go
Could Flanagan’s departure The report wasn’t acted A clear the air meeting was towards
senior football manager have as held AIT’s
however, as the board sat on, on May 9, at which the need for moneyS&C work, so where is this
IT could be a long five years handled better? Possibly. Was been hands before it was leaked on its communicat ion
between the
is going?
for the GAA. it the It’
Criticism of the broadcasting biggest scandal to have
hit several media outlets, includingto committee and the board to thats one of a number of questions
deal with GAA in recent years? It wasn’tOffaly improve dramatically Mirror Sport
Sky Sports has been steady
since the pair the biggest of last week. even this one, a full 13 was Offaly GAA only to has put to
first hooked up in 2014, months later, belatedly stressed. be told there
but it’s grown would be no response, as the
louder this year and is On Friday it emerged that humiliating the That the committee
increase in the coming
only likely to
Offaly Hurling Implementat the into adopting board didn’t hear from an c ounty ’s f l a gship hurlin g
summers, with the ion it. teams continue
five-year arrangement Committee, chaired by The Offaly Hurling elected board official to fall well off the
due to run until
2021. Hogan and containing Liam I m p l e m e n t a thereafter proved to be
pace.
other tion While there are very capable
After being granted a number former Offaly hurlers Committee, comprising a tipping point.
of
matches in recent years, of dud
Sky has enjoyed a
recent vintage in Brian more many of the same people
Another was the some involved with Offaly GAA,
Carroll,
the best
are hopelessly
better quality this summer
particularly,
David Kenny and Michael members as the review lack of
Brian Carroll underageprogress with asked to be a square overworked or
helped by Kilkenny’s rare
presence in the
among others, had steppedVerney, c o m m i t t e e , w a development hole. peg in a round
down. s
hurling qualifiers while
also securing one of It’s a tribute to these people’s then established to couldn’t get an squads, for whom has For the past year the county
the Munster hurling semi-finals. patience that it took so long roll out the pathway underage paper Athlone IT was to had no PRO.
With ‘Super 8’ in 2018 meaning before report, o v e r s e e st re n g t h At the end of 2016, outgoing
football games and the more
it finally cracked. with Carroll’s published secretary Tommy Byrne was
hurling After a dismal showing appointment as and c onditionin g
Championship also set
to be expanded, the 2014 Championship, the in the director of hurling coaching having entered an reappointed as chairman 12 years
after first holding the
broadcasting rights will
have to be revised Hurling Review CommitteeOffaly cornerstone of the project. a arrangement with Offaly
GAA. when a player strike broke
position,
and the strong likelihood
is that Sky will formed in the hope of revivingwas Initially, things appeared The committee questioned
the in frustration at out
enjoy exclusivity for more the be progressing well before to sparsity of work being a number of
than just 14 county’s flagging fortunes. the in this regard and carried out issues, including the treatment
games from next year on. Diarmuid Healy, who inspired resurfacing of the board’s lack learned only managers. of
It wasn’t surprising that
Paraic Duffy their breakthrough in of tolerance for the committee, last week that the individual
the responsible for rolling You could describe
didn’t engage in a debate
with pundits who was brought on board though80s, which felt repeatedly undermined. process out this hi s
pilloried the Sky deal this and others eventually he Carroll produced a thoroughly in the college had moved re-election as Offaly’s Donald
week. quit in in-depth player on several Trump moment but that
But, with more stick inevitably
on the frustration at the county
board. pathway document adequate months ago,with no be wholly unfair would
way, that stance won’t
be sustainable for Hogan remained for players aged from four replacement to work on the US
to 18 with the Offaly underage electorate.
the GAA all the way to
2021. spearheaded the production a n d but even requesting something as players.
With this, they felt their position At least they could claim
of the simple as uploading
it on the Offaly was no longer didn’t quite know what they they
tenable. letting themselves in for. were
Sport is news
Sports writers work to some of the tightest deadlines
in journalism and are still expected to uphold all the
same professional, legal and ethical standards, so
having that solid foundation of what it means to be a
reporter is fundamental. Sports reporting could take
a journalist anywhere.
Read everything
If you want to end up as a sports journalist or, to be
honest, any type of journalist, listen to the radio,
monitor Twitter, watch TV, read the papers with as
professional an eye as you can.
Follow the best in the business. Look at what they
are doing.
Absorbing the styles and techniques of the best
writers will not only help to influence your writing
style and structure but also help to develop that
eye for a story, of what is newsworthy and how to
pursue it.
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OHN MEYLER is not sure
LEINSTER WASPS 12-PA of the exact year but he
52 3 TO EDGE
reckons David was 12, pos-
sibly 13, when he realised
RACING his son’s talent with a ball
FOR CROS:KCOESOPER
at his feet exceeded that of
a hurl in his hand.
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tradition
For a man steeped in the
decided to
of Cork GAA, Meyler Snr
heart
him
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test his son’s ability by bringing
INSIDE
a soccer
to Liverpool to take part in
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O’NEILL: WE ALL HAVE
in a different environment.’
The pair set off for Merseyside
of snow
and arrived to find two feet
locked. ‘It
and the gates to the camp of the
was cancelled because turned
BEHOLD
weather,’ John recalls. ‘We
What else
around and went home.
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could we do?’ David
A POINT TOt PR
As he has done ever since, last
SEE Meyler just got on with it
and
cap-
PAGE Monday night the 28-year-old over
tained his country to victory for a
35 Wales as Ireland qualified
World Cup play-off. journey
to a World Cup
Along every step of the
David Meyler led his country
out
has been his father pointing for
button
SEE ways for improvement, striving ‘I
Irish boss hits rese and character
more, but always supporting.
PAGES
play-off showing the resilience through a
anymore,
don’t think he’s a father ago.
40-41 he gave up on that five years
manager
He’s more my personal
IRELAND SNUB
e
that has enabled him to endur
to the
now,’ Meyler said in jest prior this
SWASHBUCKLING LEINSTER GET 2-0 win over Moldova earlier
it.’
of setbacks
month. ‘I wouldn’t change
EUROPEAN DEFENCE OFF TO share
Wales
its
His performance against
tion and was borne from
a
inspira-
was one of self-sacrifice, spirit of
career that has had
PERFECT START WITH MAGNIFICENT unwavering dedication and
which has been cultivated
belief
from his
match card and got their
names so I
EIGHT-TRY ROUT OF WASPS
and repre-
earliest moments. Villa and Manchester City,at the Foyle kept an eye out.’
Meyler hailed the win as ‘probably sented Blackburn Rovers radar. Timing in football is everything
and
football
the best moment of my cru- Cup, yet remained under
the
Fallon had just started working
for new
PAGE 8 career’ – one which was almost
by injury
place in
He couldn’t even get a regularat Cork as his scout
Sunderland manager Keanethe beat for
elly snatched from him the Alan Mathews’ starting
XI
in Ireland after years on a couple of
and has seen him overcome mid-
ahead of the more experienced Hotspur. After
‘KEANE SAId
person- Tottenham
FOR DOHERTY
toughest of obstacles, both fielder partnership of Colin
Healy and Fallon acted
viewings for the U19s, with Keane
ally and professionally, course of his
Cork is Joe Gamble. And then the swiftly and his relationship directly and
If Cardiff was the peak,
TO SENd hIm
of 2008
life changed in the middle meant he could contact him
where the ascent began. leave thanks to an off-the-cuff
conversation
avoid the rigmarole of going
through
his son the FAI head-
IN THE FRAME: Keane
John Meyler watched
for school but had no idea
it would
18, in
in one the many offices at
quarters in Abbotstown.
the chief scout. to Sunder-
‘I wanted to get him over was high
OvER TO
Keane is in
time. He was former
SUNdERlANd
be for the final John Fallon, the senior team’s He
Year at land as quickly as I could.
his Leaving Certificate kitman and one of the few
confidantes in those
energy and more of an attackerover for
school in was still
Bruce College, a private at some
Cork city, and the call came to say
Roy Keane could call upon,
working for the associa-
days. Roy said he was coming the air-
from
a game so I picked him up Cork’s first
RIGhT AwAy’
point in the late morning phoned
line to take
tion when referees port and we drove to watch
David had not shown up. He and the assessor Paul Brady off the bench
team play. David didn’t get anyway.’
his son for an explanation told him about a game but Roy said send him overtrial Keane
conversation was curt. not he had been at involv- At the end of a week’s
‘The school have said you’re ing Cork’s Under 19s. he wanted the
on U21s job
called Fallon to tell him down to
there.’ ‘He said the striker in the region first team diagnosis was swift. ‘I went
midfielder and once a fee with cash- After breaking into the the dressing room and the
physio told
‘Yeah, I know. I’m not.’ was decent and they Bruce, the
of €250,000 was arranged travelled under new manager Steve me it was his cruciate,’
Meyler Snr
James Lowe goes over ‘Well, where are ye?’ had a good strapped Cork, Meyler towards does that
‘I’ve left. I’ve signed for the pair signed five-year contracts By that explains. ‘I said “f***, what means a
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with his father to negotiate
to score one of his two
Christie to get nod ahead of
tries during last night’s City.’
midfielder. the end of the 09/10 season.the eye of mean?” He was straight,
“it
Aidan Fitzmaurice I asked deal. point Meyler had also caughtTrapattoni
comfortable victory for
And that was that. for the ‘I asked Alan Mathews what 18-
the year out”. day with
Leinster against Wasps
‘His mother wasn’t too Ireland manager Giovanni ‘On the train the following
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an
ROBBIE Keane is in the going rate would be for and was planning on attending
a sum- need to stay
happy about it all,’ Meyler his mother I said “I think I “no, you go
LORRAINE O’SULLIVAN/PA
year-old in the Premier League
WIRE
frame to take over as camp.
Snr continues. ‘We both asked training here with him”, but he said
award-winning defender
cent mer
manager of the struggling and made sure to add 50 per A in the
Yet when his family arrivedvisit of mam”. I
FAI him, “what are you going
to do?”
to that,’ Meyler Snr laughs. of on away home and look after
Ireland U21 team, if the east of England for the in
Danish boss Hareide says he said to myself “there is something
“I’m
and his response was simple: year after dropping out north May there
decide to move Noel King going to be a full-time professional Manchester United in early David’s this fella, he’ll be alright”.
’
hasn’t
life
school, Meyler’s new were mixed emotions. While the fol-
The road to recovery beganMeyler’s
BLUES CRUISE
SEE aside. footballer with Cork City”. began. ‘David took off like
a
spoken with O’Neill since play-o Keane won’t entertain talk of INSIDE MONDAY'S 45) PAGES
King has been in charge
of the U21s since 2010
but ‘That showed me something,and
this
was saying “I’m going to do showed
he
ROARING rocket,’ Fallon remembers.
career was beginning to
mother Stella had just been
blossom, his
diagnosed lowing day and that is whenhis family
bond with Henderson and
ff fallout KO7�45) And then it came crashing
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David Meyler to be pre-
Soon – in the 37th minute
Croatia
a deci- David Binningsley who
he was a guy who could make feet.’
Czech Republic
close to Euro qualification Sunderland’s two great with
Denmark
England
captained thoughts were saw the Cork
in two
sion and stand on his own far from cise – the family’s rehab programme which
SOCCER Aidan Fitzmaurice and Thursday’s 3-1 loss Ireland at the field hopes were Meyler to the ground
mid- David when he crumpled Evra. The native return within six months.
pressure to deliver a
result with last MARTIN O’Neill is ready France
serious mis- LEINSTER laid down a
Israel ended any faint hopes At that stage, Meyler was of Ire-
a rising star in the League had tri-
Cardiff City and Jordan Henderson, and after a tackle on Patrice
all round, it would be a Stadium last they also became good friends.
to take a big gamble on
Germany
Daniel McDonnell month’s opening UEFA
GAELIC GAMES of reaching Euro 2019.
Greece
stunning Champions Cup land. In his earlier teens he Aston
Nations League a shovel, we’ll get the e
Italy
take on our part to underestimatto
defeat to Wales leaving
Ireland on the then we’ll start thinking
shovel first and
He doubles up as the Forest, week
marker as they began
Ireland’s Nations League
ropes in the new competition. going
DENMARK manager Age about that
Ireland, they are probably als at Nottingham
hasn’t spoken with Martin
Hareide says he O’Neill says that an expected Michael Verney one,” Keane said at Kerry’s FAI’s head of internation-
Centre of of revenge,” the defence of their
Netherlands
O’Neill since the of more than 46,000 is evidenceattendance be looking for some kind
hopes tonight by leav- al recruitment and it’s
Excellence in Currans.
Poland
tense fallout from last Portugal
November’s World the public European crown with a
Republic of Ireland
have retained support in GIVEN their unprecedented With a plethora of underage
Cup playoff. his side, although at minor level, Kerry have success talent he said. thought that some FAI
ing the Premier League’s 49-point victory over
the FAI have declined available to him from players
Hareide (right) annoyed
his
wich team-mate by thanking former Nor-
to
many tickets were actually confirm how as one of the few viable been touted
their
row minor squads, there five-in-a- O’Neill will only inform his figures want him to focus
candidates to will be great
of the starting XI 90 minutes
before Wasps at the RDS.
player of the month, Matt
Russia
sold – with a
space they gave Christian Ireland for the thwart Dublin’s ‘drive expectations in Kerry
on that job and step away
Spain
number of free tickets for five’ but that’s with under Keane
Sweden
Eriksen handed out to local form with a The defending
kick-off. But, despite his
Ukraine
thrashing that ended O’Neill’s in the 5-1 “I haven’t spoken to Martin schoolboy clubs. far from the mind of new anything but All-Ireland
from the U21 role.
Doherty, out of his side.
O’Neill since Kingdom success
World Cup senior football boss Peter viewed as a failure. saw him champions were
high-flying Wolves side which
ambitions. then. I don’t know if “I don’t think the fans have
their players were team by any stretch of deserted the Addressing the media
Keane. While well aware of such Keane has already been
The Republic take on Den-
The Ireland manager suggested tired but there was more of the favourites coming
named Premier League player
the last demands,
last week space for Eriksen said O’Neill, who conceded imagination,” the first time since being night for Keane feels a dose of realism mentioned as the FAI’s
that the Danish supremo than in the first half,” said
performances are needed. better home
unveiled as is needed In the eye of the storm, where Doherty into their first game
mark in a rematch of the
Hareide. “They
month ahead of Eden Hazard,
had told a third after a disastrous 2018
ideal U21 team boss. The
party he regretted the comments. changed their formation Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s season.
successor, triple are
and that might All-Ireland minor-winning looking at where we are “If you does Martin O’Neill go from bench. of the new European
will start the game on the
be the reason. We expect
38-year-old has been out
But Hareide said last night
World Cup play-off which
that the pair them at their best manager in 2018, we
haven’t had a discussion (this evening) and we Keane was quick to put
any
Dubs on the back burner. talk of the
are a long way from that,”
he said. here? After Ireland’s clash O’Neill is expected to use
a three- season but few ex-
of football since he left
fear
– and
Ireland to be on a revenge he expects they are probably looking them because “Wouldn’t that be lovely
evening at the Aviva Stadium mission this Denmark are without
for revenge.”
Daniel McDonnell: Under pressure “I suppose I haven’t even an All-Ireland) but there (winning
isn’t
point in sitting here talking much
with Denmark, the Danes won 5-1. man defence, with James
Mc- pected the rout that
Indian side Kolkata last
ensued in this Pool 1 tie.
a panel
(7.45). return to Ballsbridge,
Eriksen for their
O’Neill has two games to save picked so where would DANIEL McDONNELL, Another defeat to Åge Harei- Clean and Cyrus Christie
with O’Neill under his job P2-3 I start on about that. year but is highly regarded
that one without a panel.
That’s like
My priority is to try and
together and cracking
put a panel VINCENT HOGAN and de’s men would push Ireland as wing-backs and Shane Luke McGrath and the
digging a field and you in Abbotstown.
don’t even have on
CONTINUED ON PAGE from there.” DAVID KELLY assess what the closer to relegation from Duffy, John Egan and scintillating James Lowe
6 The FAI announced
of Kevin Long as the back both scored twice, while
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SPORT GAA: ALL-IRELAND SHC FINAL
RYAN BYRNE
BIG ISSUES: THE KEY QUESTIONS
THAT COULD DECIDE TODAY’S FINAL
Passion play: A young
Waterford supporter Galway’s best chance of winning?
celebrates a score and, Denis Walsh Dominate Waterford
inset, former Waterford in
the air in a way Kilkenny and Cork
hurler Mossie Walsh, failed to do and ignite the goal threat
Ursula Walsh and David that has been dormant this summer
Walsh Michael Foley Attack Waterford’s
strengths down the middle of the
field. Use their physical size to
pressurise Waterford’s defensive
system early on
Henry Shefflin The physicality,
strength and most importantly the
skill of their six forwards. Waterford
haven’t met such a forward division
this year
Christy O’Connor Playing around
the Waterford sweeper but still
exerting their aerial authority up
front
to get them on the back foot
What is Waterford’s best chance
of
winning?
DW Keep it tight and close for as
long
as possible and explore whatever
doubts may still haunt Galway going
down the home stretch
MF Make Galway’s big men feel
smaller under the high ball, make
Galway doubt their own gameplan
and, crucially, tighten up their
shooting
HS Getting a good early start, build
up a few points lead and then with
25
minutes to go bring on that explosive
speed from the bench
COC Get ahead early, force Galway
Over to you...
off their stride, and convert a very
high percentage of their scoring
chances.
What is the key match-up?
DW Joe Canning and his Waterford
shadow, possibly Philip Mahony.
Galway don’t depend wholly on
Canning anymore but need his
influence
MF The battles at centrefield will
be
immense. Supremacy in that area
has
fuelled both teams drive on this
year
HS Moran/Barron v Coen/Burke
at
centrefield. Waterford have won
these battles in the last few matches
and they contributed a lot of scores
COC Conor Cooney v Barry
Coughlan. Coughlan mostly looks
to
break ball for the sweeper but
WAITINGGAME
A lifetime of dreams and hope have Cooney is a different challenge,
been invested by especially in the air.
many Waterford supporters for Who will win and why?
a day such as this DW Galway. There is more depth
variety to their attack and at last
and
their
defence looks settled and balanced
MF Waterford have often caused
problems for Galway. Might be
gaining momentum at the right
time
HS I am giving a tentative nod to
Galway. I know there will be a big
Waterford performance but with
such a good spine in the Galway
team and that hurt from losing the
2015 final fresh in their minds I think
it
will carry them to victory
COC Galway. Their greater firepower,
D
and ability to shoot from distance,
Denis Walsh should get them over the line.
and little relics of his journey in the
van of Previs was a cargo of 11
Waterford teams. In the love affair pilgrims, includ- going to give
ave Walsh was a boy of ten played glory ing his eight children. up. But there were hard [the
no material part. It was no No Garda road- times. In my Waterford board secretary] told
when his late father Willie grounds blocks were encountered. time we went down to Divi- them tragically in a car accident in 2012
for attachment. A lot of the time sion Three hurling. We were beaten they couldn’t. Waterford had won it left
took him to the 1963 All-Ire- it Shane Ahearne was the assistant by the under-21 All-Ireland the such a hole in Walsh that he stepped
was a mirage in the middle distance; Mayo in a League match in Dungarvan. year before from Waterford. away
land final against Kilkenny, lot a coach to Gerald McCarthy that I and that whole crop of players For four years
were lowed the team from a distance. he fol-
• Interview a local sporting hero. Invite
of the time it was less than that. year. His played for ten years
Waterford’s last for 45 years. playing career had started weeks but in my first five nearly lost [in
Walsh started Waterford’s first after years I played five the mid-90s]. Then Gerald
They scored 6-8 that day and porters’ sup- Waterford had been massacred championship McCarthy came in “I couldn’t face it,” he says. “Mary
club in 1992, the predecessor of by Cork matches: one a year.” [1997] and put a disci- the eldest. was
lost. Though nobody knew it Club in the 1983 Munster final, their pline and a professionalism on it.” The leader of the pack. The
Deise. That year they reached the second When Waterford reached a Munster one thing I learned in our tragedy
quite yet, the cherished minor such humiliation in successive years. That wasn’t the end of the heartbreak was
All-Ireland final for the first time He final again in 1989 Ahearne how great an organisation the GAA
team of the late 1950s and decades in was just 19 years of age, promoted was captain. but it was the beginning is. As
and won the under-21 All-Ireland in the Hope was up. Tipperary of Waterford as a comfort around
early 1960s had exhausted clear-out with a troop of other mangled them. we have known us at the time it was
its brilliance. The events of a topsy-turvy title for the first time ever. A year such as sters. “A lot of fellas young- In the 1980s Waterford
contested three years: in the hunting
them for the last 20 phenomenal.”
that, though, stood out like a white just said, ‘I’ve enough Munster pack or at least in
day were branded forever on the crow. of this,’” says Ahearne. finals and lost them by an aggre- the conversation. Ahearne This year he returned to the road,
little Most years hope never gate of 61 points. represented threw in his lot with
boy’s memory: on their way home hardened into They won three games in Division the unblinking solidarity of those Club Deise and drove
them to visit your class for a questions
the anything. One He togged out for the last time in who on again. When they reached
Walshs were caught speeding before Christmas that year, including 1993 simply the final
in their On the week of the 1998 Munster final a when Kerry came to Walsh Park kept going: he managed the placed a blue he
Ford Prefect going through Thomastown. dram of revenge against Cork. Their and beat Waterford under-16s, the and white flag on Mary’s
“I don’t know how fast we were Walsh wrote a letter to Stephen first them in the championship. Waterford jun- grave. “Above
going,” ton, the Waterford captain. Framp- game of the New Year That year was iors, the Waterford in Croke Park on Sunday,”
was against Kil- a shambles. under-21s. Not for the he says,
says Walsh, “because it was nearly He wanted to kenny, the All-Ireland Numbers at training oscil- glory “I’ll be waiting for her to give me
pedal express his gratitude and champions. “I had lated in and but for the giving itself.
power, like the Flintstones.” his pride. They been playing centre out of double figures. After a tap on the shoulder.”
took a caravan in Castlegregory that field,” says Ahearne. training Dave Walsh and his crew were
Terry Dalton was a Waterford selector sum- “I went to the selectors and there was nothing for the players born Unlike in 2008 he won’t hang around
mer and Walsh wanted Frampton said ‘I want to to eat except for into it. Mary, his eldest, arrived
in 1963 and a family friend. He told to play on Frank Cummins.’ They one night when a county day of on the for the post-match banquet.
Walsh know that the kids had said, ‘He’ll board operative was the 1983 Munster final. Dave pad- “I suppose
that he should never be afraid to it bedecked in ate ya.’ He was despatched to rustle ded about the I’m being cocky now but I feel
show his blue and white. The Hurler of the Year. I said I up hospital pondering how he about so good
colours. As a boy he used to cut out holiday, though, was want to play something: he returned with a us winning this year that I want to
and answers session.
news- cut short by a day on the on Frank Cummins. I played full boot might pour a quart into a
paper pictures of Waterford weekend of the on him and it of snack boxes from Kentucky Fried pint glass. “I come home, sit
players, Munster final because was one of my best days Chicken. said to the nurse, ‘C’mere, what down with a mug of tea
fringe them with blue and white Walsh’s time is and watch it again.” Hope
crepe were shredded and he couldn’t nerves ever.” Ahearne challenged the management
Ursula due?’ And the nurse says
to me, thing.
survived every-
paper, glue them to plywood and stand the Waterford needed more players ‘Why?’ ‘I was thinking I might whip
display dislocation any longer. with about the general looseness up to
them on the front gate. He needed get Ahearne’s dauntless of their prep- Limerick for the Cork-Waterford Ahearne will be in a commentary
home where he could see a reflection attitude but they aration and match.’” tion alongside Kieran posi-
If you visited his school supplies of boxed on with whatever was then dropped for his She O’Connor for WLR.
shop the match in every like mind set him right; he stayed put.
in Dungarvan last week you would and familiar mattered to me because they had. “It trouble. Of all his children, Mary was the
He hasn’t missed a hurling final
since his
have face. all I ever wanted “‘Kerry will beat us,’ I said, ‘and
seen that nothing has changed.
On dis- Walsh travelled with Terry Dalton
to do was play county hurling,” he
says. “I be spat at coming off we’ll whose giant passion for Waterford one first in 1972: 48, including replays. “I’ve
play in his window are his lifelong to was never going to give up. the field.’ I wasn’t rored his. She mir- only seen my own county
colours that Munster final: loaded I lived for it. even named on hoarded the match pro- I’m in it once and
Waterford’s defensive certainty reaping
into his Toyota That was my life. the six subs. Then they grammes trying to forget that day. It’s time
There was no way I was tried and the memorabilia and for
to bring me on and Seamus Grant the us to make new memories.
newspaper cuttings. When they Better memo-
lost her ries.”
Trusting Derek
benefits all over the field
changed their style and went
defensive system stayed
All-Ireland semi-final, and
McGrath’s principles and attacked Kilkenny. You
largely intact. But against Tadgh de Burca more or
might as well lose with Kilkenny hammered them in
has given his team a Cork in June, Waterford were less played as an all-out
WATERFORD IN ATTACK BY NUMBERS
• Write up a match report. Go to a game of
honour than lose playing that that period. If McGrath had Dunford and Patrick Curran.
often wide open. sweeper against Galway in From a combined 14 plays
real shot at history sort of hurling. Because you
McGrath’s faith in the
any regrets, it was that they
the league quarter-final but
can’t win playing seven or didn’t disrupt the tempo in his last three games,
system is absolute at this almost beating Galway with Shanahan has scored 1-3 from
eight defenders.” more during that stage of the 0 In their past three games, highest scorer from play,
Christy O’Connor stage because some of his effectively their second team play and had assists for three
That has long been the game. Waterford have had an with 1-24
most difficult days served to possibly convinced the more points. In those three
theory but now Waterford When Tipperary destroyed players aggregate of 128 shots at
On the night of last year’s All- reaffirm that conviction. The they could be more the target, an average of 42 games, Ryan, O’Halloran,
have the ideal opportunity to them in the 2016 Munster 0 In five games, the
Ireland final, The Sunday first time Waterford did push gung-ho for the Dunford and Curran have
disprove it. Waterford final, Waterford played per game Waterford subs bench has
Game concluded with a panel up more — albeit only slightly championship. When that scored six points and
grappled with that theory largely conventional for 45 contributed 1-15 from play
your choice, take notes, try and get a few
of experts selecting their — was at the outset of the alteration didn’t work against engineered seven more.
themselves before they minutes. It only looked like 0 Kevin Moran and Jamie
favourite moment of the year, second half in the 2015 Cork, Waterford reverted to For a long time under
played Cork in June, when Waterford had an extra Barron have accounted for 0The most individual plays
from Eoin Murphy’s fantastic an all-out sweeper, which McGrath Waterford
they ditched the sweeper. defender because Tipperary 21% of their scores made by a Waterford player
crossbar catch in the replayed McGrath: they have maintained since. resembled the Kildare
The players wanted to go at dropped a player back. When throughout the 2017 season in
Kilkenny-Waterford All- faith in It was already clear in the one game was Tadgh de
Cork in a more conventional Waterford went seven points footballers in the 1990s: huge
Ireland semi-final to Padraic system league that Waterford were Burca’s 31 plays (albeit after
manner but the performance behind and abandoned the 0Austin Gleeson is their wide-counts tempered by the
Maher’s superb point in the conceding more from play as extra-time) against Kilkenny
almost screamed that this sweeper, Tipp cut loose. massive volume of chances
second half of the All-Ireland they tried to get more from created. That Kildare team
wasn’t the Waterford way After the Waterford under- their attack. Since they
final. 21s won the All-Ireland last stronger. Against Cork were one of the architects of
under Derek McGrath.
quotes and write up your account of what
Michael Duignan though, reverted to an all-out efficient they have managed
McGrath has always year playing brilliant (twice), Kilkenny and the modern football blanket
didn’t select any one sweeper, they have conceded in a big game under McGrath.
spoken about the need to attacking hurling, it was Wexford, Waterford scored defence but they didn’t have
moment, event, incident or an average of 1-20, a figure Barron has been averaging
evolve, to become more only natural that the ten points from turning the a real goal threat. And they
flash of genius. In a inflated by two points 18 plays per game but
attack-minded, which he players would seek to be opposition over in their own didn’t win an All-Ireland.
roundabout way, Duignan because of extra-time against Waterford push him forward
felt the team would as more adventurous. For half and counter-attacking Waterford are creating
explained the reasons for his Kilkenny. In turn, Waterford more during the second half,
they became more most of the league, quickly. Their midfielders, more chances than ever. In
choice. “When Waterford got have scored an average of which is where Barron has
experienced. Waterford Waterford had changed Jamie Barron (11%) and Kevin their last three games, they
a trimming in the Munster 3-22 in those three games. made his biggest plays. It’s
had taken the next step their style from a direct Moran (10%) have accounted had 128 shots at the target, an
final, I wasn’t happy for There has been an obvious also obvious how strong
sweeper to a drop-off for 21% of Waterford’s scores average of 42 per game. Their
happened.
in that evolution last spike in green flags. In 13 Waterford have been
Waterford but I was happy sweeper. Once the throughout the season. On conversion rate has increased
August against Kilkenny league and championship finishing games, and how
that the systems were shown opposition had the ball, games average, Waterford have and goals have started to flow.
but they still didn’t well they use their bench.
up,” said Duignan. “Nobody last year, Waterford scored 0-8 from frees per The system has evolved
move away from their the centre-back scored just nine goals. In 11 Maurice Shanahan arrives as
wants to look at hurling being dropped off to sit on the game, which highlights how and improved. Now
core principles. Even if games so far this season, a focal point before their
played like that. I was D, while one, or both, of their running/breaking style Waterford get the ultimate
they pushed more Waterford have clocked 19. speed merchants are
delighted that Waterford the midfielders popped into is drawing frees. Against Cork opportunity to disprove the
bodies forward Waterford’s The system has evolved as unleashed once the game
the centre-back position. three weeks ago, the ball into theory that a team with their
the team has got fitter and opens up — Tommy Ryan,
their attack was the most system can’t win an All-
Brian O’Halloran, Colin
Ireland.
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Cork’s tale: Paul Rowan
Football columnist
from edge Rice looking like
• Interview a well known sports reporter/ of abyss to
a tasty prospect
for Ireland debut
columnist /editor. Talk to them about champions S
ome time ago, Martin O’Neill
instructed the FAI not to give
weekly updates on the match-
es he was attending, but let’s
hope he was among the sizea-
Rice has strong roots in Cork, so was
delighted when he was called into the
senior Ireland training session at Fota
Island back in May, as he has relatives
in the city suburb of Douglas.
He appears a nicely grounded indi-
their job, how they became involved in
ble crowd of 35,806 who were at the
in waiting
London Stadium on Tuesday night, vidual, one who also has the tempera-
where the Ireland Under-21 inter- ment for more heady occasions.
national Declan Rice gave another Last month, Rice made his Premier
impressive reminder that he is ready League debut in difficult circumstan-
to step up to the senior ranks. ces, coming on after an hour at Old
It was one-way traffic against a Trafford in place of Mark Noble,
struggling Bolton Wanderers side but when West Ham were already 2-0
Rice, who has already started two down. Rice’s performance for the final
Premier League games for West Ham 30 minutes was the only silver lining
on the afternoon for the east London
journalism, their loves/hates etc.
United this season, looked in total
club, who would go on to lose that
With a 12-year wait for a League of Ireland title Cork have the
command playing at centre half and
the manager Slaven Bilic, who prob- opening league match of the season
possibly coming to an end tonight, Alan Smith chance to win
the double this
ably sees a little of himself as a player
in Rice, remarked about the 18-year-
4-0 to José Mourinho’s side after the
hosts scored two late goals.
talks to those on and off the pitch who have season for the
very first time
old: “Declan is only young on paper. Noble, the club captain who made
his debut for West Ham as a 17-year-
He has got a football brain and the
helped lift the team out of the shadows concentration of a 30-year-old. He old, is struggling now to get a place in
and pride. They are proud to be Cork has got everything to become a really the team, but is impressed by Rice’s
T
draw against a team coincidentally the club when it was on its knees.” “I can remember watching cup
he scars may never heal never-ending conveyor belt of players When Maguire left, scoring a goal “Then the reset button was hit and City players.” good player.” attitude.
we worked every hour to get the show managed by Dundalk’s Kenny. “We Yet, for many of those involved, it is finals a few years back and in my
fully but this season has capable of playing in England, the on his final league appearance away mind I was wondering if we would Fittingly, Foras is Irish for evolu- Tomorrow’s derby game against “If they are good enough, they are
on the road.” didn’t know what to expect going into about looking forward, not back. old enough,” Noble said after the win
gone a long way to exorcis- return of trophies has been paltry. to Bray Wanderers, City had won 20 ever get to that level,” Morrissey said tion. The onus on the board now is to Tottenham Hotspur may have come
Those formative days under Foras’ that game, but seeing everyone that “The season is a culmination of a
ing the demons. Cork City, a The turning point came with the of their 21 games, drawing the other. recently. Now they are heavy favour- ensure that progress continues in the too soon for Rice, particularly as West
ownership after Coughlan’s entity was travelled to it and then to see the lot of hard work,” Niamh O’Mahony,
club who even in times of final kick of last season. When Seánie Their form has been ordinary since,
losing three of seven league games. wound up were chaotic. Granted a crowd that turned out for our first a former board member who now ites to reach a third on the bounce. face of those sky-high expectations. Ham’s league form has picked up in ‘He is one of the best
previous success seemed in a Maguire bundled home in added time works for the European branch of No matter what happens on the While there is a temptation to the last couple of games without him
perpetual state of near-crisis, may not of extra time to not just win the club’s Due to a quirk in the fixture list, licence to play in the First Division by home game [a 2-0 defeat against
Waterford United] we knew we could Supporters Direct, says. “Not just pitch in the next six weeks, when the pump every cent into having the in the team, but there is still a buzz of talents coming through
first FAI Cup since 2009 but sink City’s most recent league game was the FAI, Buckley was rehired on a excitement around the player.
be used to this level of comfort but
they can at least take solace that this their nemesis Dundalk, the tide had the 3-1 loss at Shamrock Rovers three three-month contract and along with do this,” Buckley remembers. from the players and management, dust settles there will be one out-
standing issue that the club are eager
strongest XI possible, the club are
focussed on developing off the pitch, Capable of playing across the back at the club, he is going
the newly-appointed manager, He may not be able to celebrate this but from the volunteers, board mem-
time, the future should be markedly changed direction. weeks ago. The wait will have
dragged on for the players, yet may Tommy Dunne, was based in a corner win with quite the same fervour as bers and everyone who put time into to resolve quickly. meaning the budget will remain tight. four or in midfield, he is one of the to be a huge player’
brighter. It was a transformative moment for making the club a success.” Caulfield is out of contract at the There has been a clamour to sign a few players to come through the West
have afforded them a chance to reflect at the back of the Turner’s Cross Tav- 2005, when he was still purely a sup-
Tips to becoming
In the grand scheme of sporting a squad that had been sick of finish- O’Mahony points out that other end of the season and last month new striker to replace Maguire, but Ham academy in recent years into the
ing second, lurking in the shadows as and realise that this has never been a ern, a pub 100 yards from the stadium. porter. There will be work to do once first team. He was also named in against Bolton. “Dec may be only 17
droughts, the 12 years since City were teams have bigger budgets, which admitted that he could be tempted by players of his calibre are so rare in the
Stephen Kenny’s Dundalk won three club to do things easily. From there, they hurriedly called the title is sealed — not just organis- O’Neill’s provisional squad for the last or 18 and last season he was nowhere
last crowned champions of Ireland should make their runaway achieve- a job in England. league that it seems futile expecting a
league titles in a row along with beat- Their previous league titles — available players in an attempt to ing celebrations, but immediately two World Cup qualifiers, though he near it, but he impressed in pre-sea-
does not compare with the 108 years ment all the more impressive. It “If you are asking me, ‘Would you like for like replacement. And frankly,
ing City in the previous two cup finals. including the First Division in 2011 — assemble a squad in time for their first moving to ensure that the club is in a didn’t make the final cut. The final son and he has got his chance.
between the Chicago Cubs winning would be usual if there were not ludi- like to coach more and more, and there are other priorities.
As the veteran goalkeeper Mark were not secured until the final day of match — an away game against Der- position to remain successful. double header of the campaign next “We didn’t have a great start, but
baseball’s World Series or the city of crously high expectations placed on a maybe go elsewhere?’ Yes, I would, Plans for a centre of excellence in
McNulty famously said when cele- the season, or in the case of 1992-93, ry City, who had been through similar “The bigger topic is, as we grow month might not appear the ideal Dec is going to be a top player. I’ve
Cleveland going 52 years without any Leeside sports team, though. “For me, when the time comes, but football is Glanmire, five miles east of the city,
brating that night, likely after a pint via a play-off. That is what makes this if not quite as severe financial issues. now, we’ll look at where we were time to bring Rice into the competi- got high hopes for him. I am just try-
of their sports teams winning a title. I would be more ambitious,” O’Maho- volatile,” he said. “You can have all are in place and the club has also
or two: “There wasn’t one f***ing season so unusual. Thirteen players, a combination of before and make sure the same mis- tive senior arena. ing to blood him in really and give
Yet so much has happened at ny says. “I don’t want to see City win invested in its underage teams, nota-
pundit in this country that gave us a “We’ve taken it one game at a veterans and local takes don’t happen,” he adds. “If you However, so jaded has the Ireland him little bits of advice. He’s a good
Turner’s Cross since 2005 that a bly bringing back former players,
dozen League of Ireland seasons have chance. Everyone’s saying Dundalk time,” Gearóid Morrissey, one of two players, made the look at where we were as a club in the just one league title, I want us to be ‘When we were near including Dan Murray and Colin team looked in recent months, both kid and he wants to learn.”
remaining players along with McNul- 320-mile drive first part of the 2000s, when we were challenging every season. It’s always a good sign when the
felt like an eternity. this, Dundalk that. There’s no one
saying anything about f***ing Cork.” ty who played in the first season north on the successful or near success, and how “I’m not sure people understand success, it quickly Healy, to coach the next generation. mentally and physically, that the
injection of some new blood could veterans such as Noble are happy to
There have been more bad times how unusual this achievement is. The “The most exciting piece is the
than good — winding up orders, Éanna Buckley, the club’s head of under Foras’s ownership, says. “How morning of
the game and
quickly it unravelled — we need to
look at that and learn lessons.” odds are against us from running the unravelled – we need to centre of excellence,” O’Mahony says. energise the squad and even give stop and talk when you mention
court dates, demotions and protests operations who had worked for Cork we’ve approached the season is to try “There is still work in the background O’Neill some options which he the name of Rice.
— but this title, whether it is con- under the previous catastrophic own- and be oblivious, try and not look at came away For context, it must be remembered club through stability and sustainabil- look and learn lessons’ being done but that can help us thought he didn’t have. Pablo Zabaleta was another
the wider picture, just the next game.” with a 1-1 that within a couple of seasons after ity. It can’t be underestimated how big who rates Rice as a genuine
firmed away to Limerick tonight or at ers, agrees. “The atmosphere changed an achievement this season has been. achieve that dominance. Foras mem- If that reads like clutching at straws,
after that, I think,” he says. “The lads Buckley, who watched the previous their league titles in 1993 and 2005, then so be it. As it stands, the next prospect.
home to the outgoing champions the club was hamstrung by finan- I see how big the expectation is now, the greatest plans in the world and bers want everything, not just the sil-
Dundalk on Monday, will have felt so had been finishing behind Dundalk, title wins from the terraces, admits lose two or three games in a row and verware, but there is a duty of care to youngest Irish player getting “He is one of the best
that it has been unusual. “I remember cial issues and in jeopardy. but we have so much development young talents coming
much sweeter for those who have not so needed to beat them and win a tro- still to go. Football, especially the that all changes in the bigger picture. make sure the investment doesn’t just game time in the Premier
phy to fully believe.” saying after the cup final that previ- This time, they are deter- League is 25-year-old through at the club,”
just endured the tumult but ensured mined to make sure that it League of Ireland, is cyclical and Myself, I feel I can go further and we go into John’s side of the house.”
the club would not face extinction. There was also an element of for- ously we’ve always been put Buckley echoes that sentiment. “If Robbie Brady at Burn- Zabaleta said. “He’s
will not happen again. there will be a downtime. We need to can go further.”
tune. Maguire was watched that day through the wringer, so it has you look at where the club is now, ley. It would be nice to going to be a huge
the best
Supporter-run clubs may not “We won the league in make sure we’re as well-equipped as The club’s record goalscorer was,
always be the pure fairytale so often by representatives from Preston been a little strange.” we’re in a good place,” he says. “We report that Rice had player for West Ham.
1993 and almost went bank- possible to deal with that.” however, a lot more definitive when
portrayed — there are always differ- North End, who were left impressed They will not rest after this can always be in a better place but an come through the Irish “He can play in the
rupt two years later,” Buckley Pragmatic as that may be, support- talking about the future and the con-
ences of opinion and sometimes deci- but with nagging doubts over the success, though. History dic- awful lot of people have contributed system, nursed carefully middle, he can play
adds. “We won the league in ers can still dream. sensus is that he will sign a new deal.
sion-making is slowed due to the striker’s physical attributes. tates otherwise. “The potential is here to keep driving to bring us to where we are now. The by Ruud Dokter, the FAI across the back four. He
The 23-year-old remained at 2005, ran into trouble three years director of high performance, reads the game well and
inevitable democratic process. But for What future holds on and off the pitch the club forward,” Caulfield added. former players, board members who
Turner’s Cross for the start of this Learning lessons from a 320- later. Rather than harking back to but in reality he is another he’s a strong lad. He has the
City, the fans’ takeover in February “That’s the way I feel about it — obvi- are no longer involved — they will be
season, while Preston and others in mile round trip 2010, when Foras took over, we who comes off the peg personality you need to per-
2010 has been an undisputed success. Another of Caulfield’s regular ously within the budgets and all that the ones I think about if we close the
the Football League continued to should be looking at learning from marked ‘English football’. form and play in the Premier
This title will merely validate the those mistakes.” reminders has been that City have because I’ve been working within league out.”
Foras trust’s efforts. monitor his progress. Maguire went Buckley still can vividly them and I know what we can do and He is right. Caulfield and his squad Initially, he received his League. We just need to help
recall the days when “we There are dozens of memories never won the double. The Class of him.
on to score 26 goals in 30 games ’05 came close, losing the final to what we can’t do. But I still feel it’s will get most of the credit for this footballing education at
before the Sky Bet Championship went from not getting worth retelling from the dark days. Chelsea, where John Ter- “He is really young, but he is play-
Cup final turning point Drogheda United a week after win- there for the club to drive on and season, but those who worked tire-
club eventually decided he was worth paid, not knowing Morrissey remembers going to a ry was a strong influence ing well and will get chances.”
ning the league. keep going. I feel it’s a purple patch lessly behind the scenes to bring the
bringing to Deepdale, along with the what was happening meeting where Foras outlined their and became his hero, Named West Ham’s young player
Throughout the year, John Caulfield They will be expected to beat Lim- for the club.” club back from the brink deserve
defender Kevin O’Connor, in mid-July. to everything being initial budget plans. “I still think but he was released at of the season and the FAI’s top
has reminded anybody willing to lis- erick in their semi-final next Friday. O’Mahony encapsulates the feeling plenty of the praise, too.
By that point, City’s lead was unas- gone” under the about it a lot,” he says. 14 and then joined West Under-17 international, Rice is some-
ten that the roll of honour does not And, of course, the chances are that of a vast majority of supporters when Without those who fought to keep
sailable and, considering the predicta- disastrous owner- “It’s nice to sit here at the moment Ham. London born, thing of an endangered species in
befit a club of their stature. For a Dundalk will be waiting at the Aviva she says, “The work he has put in and the club alive, there would probably
ble dip in performances, even the ship of the and enjoy this after being a part of Irish football, but should thrive none-
team that draws the largest crowds in Stadium again if they can beat Sham- how he has brought everyone not be a League of Ireland team in
the league — “we’re the biggest club most hardened fan will admit that property together behind the scenes is incredi- Cork. Never mind the best side in the Rice has made an theless. We can only hope the jour-
developer Tom Caulfield is soon out of contract and rock Rovers, whom they defeated 3-0 ney isn’t too lonely.
out there,” the manager has been their quest would have been far more in the League Cup final last week. ble. The team play with such intensity country. impact at West Ham
Coughlan. could be tempted by a job in England
fond of saying — and has a seemingly challenging without the gifted striker.
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n the same morning
of the sometimes —
and far too often —
farcical Galway-
UNFINISHED
Mayo clash in Salthill, Marc Ó
Sé, prompted by the flash-
points in another Mayo game
the previous weekend, wrote a
column in a national news-
paper posing the question:
‘Yes, Kerry are cynical, but
what county isn’t?’
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The former Kerry great
BUSINESS
outlined how nearly all the
best teams had players and an
attitude of never hesitating “to
do what was required”.
Examples: The Meath team
that battered a naïve Tyrone
team in 1996; a much more
streetwise Tyrone team in
2003; the Donegal team of 2012;
the Mayo team that “bullied”
Kerry last year; and the bril-
liant Kerry team that he and
his brothers played on.
“I have never denied that we
were cynical… This is the way
it has always been. There is
What potential employers are looking for is
not a team out there that,
certainly not one that has
enjoyed any kind of success,
that does not have those
players or that attitude.”
While in many ways Ó Sé’s
evidence on a CV that you have the motivation that
column was refreshing for its
unashamed candour, its senti-
ment, combined with the
outright bolloxology that was
so pervasive in Salthill, made
journalism requires.
us pose and ponder another
question: Yes, all the leading
teams in Gaelic football feel
the need to be cynical, but why
don’t champions in other
sports have to think and act
that way?
Did you ever hear anyone
say last summer that the
Philadelphia Eagles would
have to become more cynical
if they were to challenge for a
STRETCHING THE RULES: Mayo’s Cillian O’Connor and Galway’s Eoghan Kerin tussle off the ball during last weekend’s Allianz FL Division 1 clash at Pearse Stadium.
If you’re offered work experience, don’t just sit in
Super Bowl? That if the Pep Pictur
Guardiola project at acknowledge that, along with its much-heralded community and amateur status, there is a pervasive cynicism that is ‘unique to our games’.
Only in Gaelic football is
Manchester City was to be
realised, his team would have
to become more cynical? That
the corner looking at the internet. Go to the editors
the reason why the Golden
Captains Sinead Aherne and Ciara O’Sullivan look forward to today’s TG4 All-Ireland State Warriors and Cleveland
Ladies Football senior final clash between Dublin and Cork. Photo: Eóin Noonan Cavaliers had contested the
previous three NBA finals was
smart, cynical fouling a K
that the likes of Steph Curry,
LeBron James, and Kevin
and ask: What can I do?
Durant were willing to resort
to whatever it takes?
Dubs seeking to double IN SID E final for the first time, against the main
force back then, Mayo. During that
own. We know the level of performance
required for us to put ourselves in the
D U B L IN CORK Of course you didn’t. You
might have heard alright that
match, the current Dublin captain frame but we just see it as a great op-
up but to do so they ÷ Your regular
Sport Supplement,
Sinead Aherne came off the bench
and put her side level with six min-
portunity to deliver on all the effort the
players and management have put in.” Ciara Trant Martina O’Brien
City and the Cavs would have
to substantially improve their
must break Cork’s including:
Joe Brolly: What
utes left in an extremely low-scoring
affair.
Their win last year in the final over
Mayo was graced with that record at-
ST BRIGID’S CLONAKILTY
defence, that their intensity,
snapped, the Eagles defence protocol, there’s been hardly to the ground to prevent an Muircheartaigh joyously man in possess
focus and even aggression in to spoil the run
revelling in the wonder and
psychological bind do you think
of this, Kieran
Gemma Fay nudged Dublin in
front in the 56th minute but with 93
tendance of 46,286, which may not be
matched today but there’s hope that
Martha Byrne Sinead Finnegan Roisin Phelan
that department would have was out to smash Tom Brady,
but once the play was
one act of cynicism.
Flick on any soccer match
entry pass, or hurling a GPS
or some equivalent of a kick- innocence of kids playing the ever appears o
Donaghy? Page seconds left on the clock Diane O’Hora it will still be a major draw given the FINGALLIANS
Leah Caffrey Eimear Meaney
AGHADA
Melissa Duggan
to significantly increase, but it’s not like the
CUALA NA FIANNA MOURNEABBY DOHENYS
complete, they left him on the box. In the odd game ing tee. native games.
8 landed the telling blow, her goal being rivalry and the growing following for not their level of cynicism. going to notice
there might be the odd conten- Ten days ago in Castlebar, In time, though, playing
Finding a niche or a specialism can make the
Eamonn Mayo’s only score of the second half. the Dublin ladies team. A win for Cork
In fact, the pervasiveness of untouched. A game loaded However, in
Sweeney: Bully Mayo won 1-4 to 0-5. Dublin held Cora will put them clear at the top of the roll Siobhan McGrath Shauna Kelly
with aggression, but devoid of tious dive, but for the most they played Kerry in a desper- hurling and especially football
Sinead Goldrick Niamh Collins Maire O’CallaghanARAGLEN DESMONDS Emma Spillane cynicism in Gaelic football, the glory of th
D E R M OT tactics don’t Staunton scoreless, closely guarded by of honour, moving them one ahead of FOXROCK C’TEELY
THOMAS DAVIS
cynicism, which part the sport is played in a ately tetchy affair. The Ronan won’t be so innocent. Some of
both between the lines and
FOXROCK C’TEELY MOURNEABBEY BANTRY BLUES
wash anymore, Maria Kavanagh, and still lost on a wet Kerry on 12 titles. county, a little
C ROW E Back Page and cold October day. All Cork-Dublin meetings have been in its general discourse, is helped make it a sporting spirit, the nadir of Shanahan challenge on Evan those kids waved at by
the 1990 World Cup a distant Regan has been by now well- Micheál will either resort to or human spirit i
At the time current manager Mick tight. The 2009 All-Ireland final saw
unrivalled in any other brilliant
Lauren Magee Olwen Carey Ashling Hutchings Hannah Looney
be subjected to acts that their Again, is tha
I
Bohan was in charge and he revealed Aherne put them ahead with eight min- KILMACUD CROKES THOMAS DAVIS FERMOY AGHADA
team sport. spectacle. memory. Its best players — scrutinised; less so the run-
want your kid
difference in a competitive world because if you
T is a remarkable but irrefutable So to defeat Cork in Croke Park to- that they had been together a phenom- utes to go but Cork finished strongly to
Switch to the likes of Messi, De Bruyne, ning battles off the ball in classmates who opted for the
truth that the current All-Ireland day on the biggest occasion the sport enal 147 times. They didn’t want for win 1-9 to 0-11. Dublin manager Gerry It was something that it what you’d w
rugby, another Kane — don’t have to stoop which men repeatedly cispheil nó rugbaí won’t.
senior ladies football champions, can offer, a fixture that managed effort or desire. McGill brought in renowned trainer Jim struck us watching the subjected to? T
There is something sad that
Noelle Healy Libby Coppinger
Dublin, have never beaten Cork in the stunning achieve- Another defeat followed in the Kilty to help their preparations and they
Carla Rowe ST BRIGID’S Lyndsey Davey Ciara O’Sullivan ST COLUM’S Eimear Scally
Super Bowl the other week. collision sport. to niggling or wrestling an dragged and pinned their
the championship. Remarkable, ment of being the 2004 final a year later, and again in were full of running but Cork showed
CLANN MHUIRE SKERRIES HARPS MOURNEABBEY EIRE OG
opponent to thrive and win. markers to the ground. Peter Canavan, the best ball- insidious, und
How after every play — So far we’ve
too, that they only registered their first most-watched wom- 2009, the first of four losses on the greater composure in the final minutes.
In Gaelic football, though, it Then there was Salthill last player of his generation, won that someone
say, a running back gains had six games
win over Cork in Croke Park during en’s sporting event final day to Cork. Aherne was just 17 Two years later, more heartbreak in Niamh McEvoy Doireann O’Sullivan
seems our best players feel Sunday. More of the same. In his two All-Irelands with his O’Shea — a m
Sinead Aherne Nicole Owens Aine O’Sullivan Orla Finn
three yards — there were in the Six
can show that you are as knowledgeable as anyone
the National League last February. For in Europe last year, years old in 2003 and the the quarter-finals. In the 44th minute
pline, to his cr
ST SYLVESTER’S MOURNEABBY
ST SYLVESTER’S ST SYLVESTER’S BEARA KINSALE
Nations and, they do. Just take the last fact, worse, which prompted last act seeing him jump on
the most part playing Cork has been a would mean some- St Sylvester’s player they led by six points. Cork hit sev- no sneaky afters, no lousy stantly expose
the back of an opponent and
Muireann Ni Scanaill (Fingallians), Deidre Murphy Caoimhe Moore (Kanturk), Orlagh Farmer (Midleton),
distressing experience for Dublin. Not thing profound for has been a constant en unanswered points to win by the (St Brigid’s), Laura McGinley (Naomh Barrog), Kate Aisling Barrett (Donoughmore), Chloe Collins
cheap shots. After being outside of the three Mayo games that have me to tweet: “The amount of
only for Dublin, of course, but no county Dublin. influence on the minimum, the reigning champions Fitzgibbon (Clontarf), Aoife Kane (Kilmacud Crokes), (Dromtarriffe), Aisling Kelleher (St Valentine’s), Marie
been televised live. bolloxology that Gaelic foot- hauling him to the ground. that is woefull
fairly, if violently, French trying it
has been haunted as much by past Cork It would team right through dethroned in the process. “I honestly Lucy Collins (Na Fianna), Jennifer Dunne (Cuala), Ambroe (St Valentine’s), Saoirse Noonan (Nemo
As brilliant as the 2017 ball — wrestling, dragging, Likewise, the abiding image of Rules and r
supremacy as the current champions. also see them the last 15 years. In thought we were gone,” admitted Cork Hannah O’Neill (Foxrock Cabinteely), Siobhan Killeen Rangers), Saoirse Moore (Fermoy), Nicole Quinn tackled and stopped on with
All-Ireland final was, it was sneaky afters — tolerates is Lee Keegan, arguably the best help. A black
Even the league win in Croke Park in successfully de- that time Cork have manager Eamonn Ryan.
(Clontarf), Katie Murray (Clontarf), Oonagh Whyte (Bandon), Meabh Cahalane (Eire Og), Daire Kiely
by his opponent, he the HIA
(Clann Mhuire), Amy Connolly (Foxrock Cabinteely), (Valley Rovers), Eimear Kiely (Valley Rovers), Sadhbh
pitiful. Is that what you’d wing-back to ever play the ing linesmen a
else in your field – be it tennis, golf, Formula 1 or
February came with a terrifying ending fend the title for the replaced Mayo as the Two years after that, in another Siobhan Woods (Raheny), Tarah O’Sullivan (Foxrock O’Leary (Kinsale), Ciara Hughes (St Valentine’s), was able to get somewhat marred by the
as Cork mounted the kind of revival first time. Their win game’s most luminous quarter-final, Dublin led by nine and Cabinteely), Eabha Rutledge (Kilmacud Crokes) Jenny Brew Dinan (Donoughmore)
outrageous and cynical acts want your young fella at?’ game, and Diarmuid Con- more. Having
back up the field. Hars
that has become their trademark; from last year was only their presence, their period of then Cork scored 1-10 without reply in
carried out in the closing That’s what it comes down nolly, definitely the best wing-
eight points down with 40 minutes second, following the dominance only broken the final 20 minutes to win by four. “To unimpeded, suspensions.
minutes. Picture a Messi or to. The GAA has so much forward of his generation, will
played they only lost by one. Repeat- breakthrough success in by Dublin’s wins in 2010 be honest, it did look like a lost cause,” TO DAY IN C R O K E PA R K . . . with no However, it
edly, Dublin have blown good leads 2010, which splintered a and last year. Aherne’s time said Ryan. Steph wrestling an opponent going for it. A game from the be of them wrestling on the
member with recognis
against Cork, and when they finally long winning run by Cork as a player has been laced There followed the three lost finals gods in hurling and, in foot- ground when they weren’t
of the
football – then you have more chance of getting
won an All-Ireland senior title last year, that had reached five titles in with bitter defeats to Cork. of 2014, ’15 and ’16. In the first of those ÷ TG4 All-Ireland Junior Championship final: Louth v Limerick, 11.45, (Ref: Niall ball, potentially one of the best throwing GPS devices at each culture and re
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known to, and made by, man. other. LeBron and Durant
to the same county, it was Mayo that at the start of the decade. That scoring 2-4 in the semi-final win minutes left. From there to the finish ÷ Half-time Exhibition Games — U10: St John Bosco (Down) v Templemore defence the GAA often
All played for the love of those never had to resort to such
Kieran
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in the semi-finals. championship by Tyrone, who of her tally coming in the first by one. They lost the ’15 final by two ÷ TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Championship final: Meath v Tyrone, 1.45 (Ref: games and community, which antics in their finals face-offs. community an
tally-on- status as “uni
And Mayo did Dublin the same Dublin beat comfortably in a half, to fire Dublin into their points, and in the ’16 decider they were Gerry Carmody) we are reminded of by almost We know of clubs and teams
service when defeating Cork in this one-sided final. fifth final in-a-row and a fourth a point behind at the end. You get the ÷ Half-time: Kerry’s 1993 Jubilee Team presented by Dáithí Ó Sé purpose
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the Mayo defeat in last year’s champion- see Dublin contest a senior we’re facing,” she says. “There’s ÷ Half-time Exhibition Games — U10: St Sylvester’s (Dublin) v St Mary’s ball was
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