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<p>Dalo's Hurling Podcast</p>

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Dalo's Hurling Show: This game would make a fool out of you

Anthony Daly, TJ Ryan, Mark Landers and Liam Sheedy review the All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals.

<p>CLIMATE CHANGE: Miriam Gormally's no-fly decision in 2020 before covid hit effectively brought an end to her Irish beach volleyball career. Pic: ©INPHO/Tom Maher</p>

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'The idea you would put environmental beliefs ahead of sporting goals is a very alien concept'

<p>Celebrating Dublin victory was not about being anti-Limerick but the feeling that what is rare is beautiful. Pic: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile</p>

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Kieran Shannon: Dublin's win was that rarest of GAA treasures - the championship shock

Matthew Thompson in action 22/6/2025

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The All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals: who's hot and who's not

David Reidy and Conor Burke 21/6/2025

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Seánie McGrath: Cork's 15 better than Dublin on paper but Croke Park another matter

The Gaelic Football Show: Kerry and Galway's big calls and no fairness for Donegal

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The Gaelic Football Show: Kerry and Galway's big calls and no fairness for Donegal

Dublin v Limerick - GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Quarter-Final

S Anthony Daly: Legacy is secure but this is a crossroads for Limerick and Kiely

This Limerick team is one of the greatest in the history of the game. There may be many more great days ahead but this was certainly a crossroads moment in the journey of this outfit.

Mon, 23 Jun, 2025

Kerry v Cavan - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Preliminary Quarter-Final

S Éamonn Fitzmaurice: Ranking the last eight All-Ireland SFC contenders

Every county still standing has lost at least once. Armagh, Tyrone and Dublin have lost twice. Teams have come into and fallen out of form on a remarkably regular basis

Mon, 23 Jun, 2025

Players pose with an Australian mascot 22/6/2025

S Colin Sheridan: The Lions as a modern concept is utterly idiotic

Let us once again gather our collective rugbying delusions, pour them into an overpriced jersey, stick them on a Qantas flight, and pretend that this Lions tour is the very heart of rugby tradition.

Mon, 23 Jun, 2025

Dublin v Limerick - GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Quarter-Final

S Christy O'Connor: Dublin pulled off hurling’s biggest shock in 50 years

This victory was so seismic that it’s legitimate to say there is little to compare with it across the last half-century.

Sun, 22 Jun, 2025

Dublin v Limerick - GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Quarter-Final

S Brian Gavin: Dubs' defeat of Limerick took a lot of refereeing

Liam Gordon put himself in pole position for the All-Ireland final by doing an excellent job.

Sun, 22 Jun, 2025

Nickie Quaid clears the balll 7/6/2025

S Enda McEvoy: Limerick now a normal team but definitely not an ordinary team

Some other observations. Deciding the Munster final by way of a penalty shootout was not some monstrous insult inflicted on the honest horny-handed sons of the soil by the faceless powers, unelected bureaucrats etc in Croke Park.

Sat, 21 Jun, 2025

Dublin v Cork - Bank of Ireland All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Semi-Final

S The day Cork stunned Dublin: The loudest All-Ireland semi-final ever at Croke Park

In 2010, Cork faced Dublin in an All-Ireland semi-final where sound, psychology and raw will shaped history. Kieran Shannon looks back.

Sat, 21 Jun, 2025

Declan O'Sullivan with his son Ollie after the game 21/9/2014

S Éamonn Fitzmaurice: behind closed doors in the Kingdom - how Kerry respond to a looming crisis

Our chief football analyst knows only too well what sort of mood the Kerry camp will be in this week after their nine-point hammering by Meath

Fri, 20 Jun, 2025

Galway v Limerick - Allianz Hurling League Division 1 Group B

S Christy O'Connor: Eamon O’Shea now has to let his head rule his heart

When Cork last played Dublin in Croke Park, in the 2022 All-Ireland quarter-final, 12 of the players which featured that afternoon had never played in Croke Park before. It showed when Dublin cruised to an 11-point win.

Fri, 20 Jun, 2025

Travelers Championship Golf

S Cathal Dennehy Has Rory McIlroy simply forgotten the joy is in the journey?

The void can envelop those who spent so long striving towards a goal only to find themselves lost, and lacking in purpose, after they achieve it.

Fri, 20 Jun, 2025

GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Series National Launch

S Paul Rouse: All-Ireland winner? Nothing is inevitable. It is hard to say even what is likely. We are all guessing

In Tullamore last Saturday, there were Kerry forwards who appeared to adopt a non-combatant approach to tackling. It’s rarely convincing to hear a defeat ascribed to the fact that the winners 'wanted it more'

Thu, 19 Jun, 2025

Dalo's Hurling Show: Three big weekends left and some serious quarter-final questions

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Anthony Daly, TJ Ryan and Mark Landers preview the All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals and review the minor semis.

Listen | Thu, 19 Jun, 2025

Drogheda United v Shamrock Rovers - SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division

S Tommy Martin: Drogheda cockup a sore part of LOI's growing pains

It feels like a league with the profile of Ireland’s is going to have to get used to multi-club ownership issues.

Thu, 19 Jun, 2025

Kerry v Meath - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 3

S Eight Gaelic football championship observations: Who are the leading All-Star contenders right now?

From Kerry's kickout collapse to Caulfield the creator, Maurice Brosnan goes through what he noticed from the latest round in the football championship.

Wed, 18 Jun, 2025

Adam Foley lifts the cup 10/11/2024

S John Fallon: Drogheda United not the sole culprits for €525k blunder

Double Pass in action on academy auditing and extra WSL teams means extra top-level gametime for Irish.

Wed, 18 Jun, 2025

Jarlath Burns 21/2/2025

S Fogarty Forum: Grasping the thorny rose that is amateurism in the GAA

A blind eye being turned to the payments to some inter-county and several club managers is one of the main ways in which the GAA is not living up to its amateur ethos.

Tue, 17 Jun, 2025

Limerick v Cork - Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship Final

S Kieran Shannon: Penalty shootouts do not suit football and hurling. Here's a better idea

It makes sense for most GAA games to be decided on the day. Just not by penalties.

Tue, 17 Jun, 2025

Clare v Cork - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 1

S Patrick Kelly: Cork are growing in confidence ahead of mouthwatering trip to Croke Park

The victory against Roscommon was a complete Cork performance. Every metric of their game was impressive.

Tue, 17 Jun, 2025

Roscommon v Cork - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 3

S Christy O'Connor: Close encounters of the championship kind

The new rules have changed predictive scoring patterns and trends but Saturday’s meeting was another stress test to see if both Armagh and Galway are still as close as they have been - or if Armagh had moved ahead of the Connacht side.

Mon, 16 Jun, 2025

Darren McHale and Michael Murphy argue 15/6/2025

S Éamonn Fitzmaurice: Gladiatorial battles whet the appetite for do-or-die phase

Derry and Mayo gone. Meath are flying. Cork survive. A Con O’Callaghan-powered Dublin ominously move forward. Meanwhile an injury-stricken and flat Kerry face three weeks on the bounce to make an All-Ireland semi-final.

Mon, 16 Jun, 2025

The Gaelic Football Show: live analysis and reaction to Monday's football draws

S The Gaelic Football Show: live analysis and reaction to Monday's football draws

Paul Rouse, Maurice Brosnan and James Horan look back on the weekend action and discuss the morning's draws in a special live broadcast.

Listen | Mon, 16 Jun, 2025

US Open Golf

S Colin Sheridan: Green Jacket not the panacea we thought it would be for Rory McIlroy

Oakmont, a penance of a course that offered little by way of forgiveness to anybody, especially the geniuses in the field, had reduced him to a state of fatigue-induced petulance we have seen many times before.

Mon, 16 Jun, 2025

Grand Slam Track - Philadelphia

S Cathal Dennehy: Grand Slam Track future uncertain after first season fails to cross finishing line

Over two months after Grand Slam Track's first event, many athletes have not received their full prize money from Kingston, though they’ve been assured they will get it.

Sat, 14 Jun, 2025

Rian Boran lifts the Joe McDonagh cup 8/6/2025

S Anthony Daly: Why the lack of respect for hurling and Kildare?

Was I surprised? What do you think? When it comes to disregarding hurling, Croke Park have become experts at it.

Sat, 14 Jun, 2025

Cavan v Donegal - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 2

S Éamonn Fitzmaurice: From Michael Murphy to Meath nightmares, it's go-time for Sam hopefuls

In football's new world, it is a lot harder to play the type of slow controlled football that would suit a team on the go for a third week in a row, emphasising the importance of that top spot.

Sat, 14 Jun, 2025