Jimmy Doyle
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Marty Morrissey: The most famous man in GAA
- People
- July 14, 2018, 06:00
“Let me treat you to an ice-cream,” says Marty Morrissey, and we go to Doyle’s Corner, a shop beside Semple Stadium. “You have to have an ice-cream fr(...)

Ciarán Murphy: A fitting weekend to remember Galway hurling great Mick Kenny
- Gaelic Games
- May 23, 2018, 21:40
Galway have been in the Leinster championship for nine years, but this weekend marks the first time they host a game in that competition, as the All-I(...)

A 12-year old’s autograph book offers insight into halcyon GAA days
- Gaelic Games
- November 25, 2017, 06:00
The autograph book on Tony Daly’s kitchen table is small and thick and rectangular and there’s the give of a medium-cooked steak in it when you press (...)

John Allen: Cork and Tipperary have a lot to prove this season
- Hurling
- May 20, 2016, 06:00
So on Sunday we have the first big hurling championship game of the year (in these parts anyway) – Dublin and Wexford have their own clash tomorrow ni(...)

Christmas reads: From manager madness to goalkeeper on brink
- Sport
- December 5, 2015, 07:30
THE BEST No Borders – Playing Rugby For Ireland by Tom English (Arena Sport, €31.60) Oral histories are tricky to get right. An oral history (...)

Jimmy Barry-Murphy pushes big decision into future
- Gaelic Games
- August 27, 2015, 01:00
As one of the two new inductees – along with Dublin footballer Jimmy Keaveney – into the GAA Museum’s Hall of Fame Jimmy Barry-Murphy was immediately (...)

Tipperary experience pivotal in deciding heavyweight clash
- Gaelic Games
- July 13, 2015, 01:00
Maybe this was not the most incandescent of Tipperary’s provincial summer titles. But on a cloudy afternoon when Semple Stadium fell silent to honour (...)

Gifted Tipperary hurler one of the greatest the game has seen
- People
- July 3, 2015, 18:19
To aficionados of the great days of Tipperary hurling, Jimmy Doyle, who has died aged 76, will be remembered as perhaps the greatest hurler to sport t(...)

‘Green and White’ illustrates a different but lasting hue
- Hurling
- June 26, 2015, 07:45
In this viral news cyberworld instant news is available to all who have smartphones or any other multimedia devices. We can now get/send our message f(...)

Tipperary book final spot with four-point win over Clare
- Hurling
- June 25, 2015, 21:41
Tipperary 1-15 Clare 1-11 On a poignant evening for Tipperary hurling, the county’s minors honoured the memory of Jimmy Doyle with a four-point(...)