Bold Thady Quill

Tag: Tipperary

  • The Imitation Game

    The Imitation Game

    The first quiet stirrings of regeneration? Cork 2.0. Cork, competent and controlled. Cork, the steady hand on the tiller. It was all a but Limericky wasn’t it?

  • Trust Issues

    Trust Issues

    So here we are then, on the cusp of another summer of love, a rush of weeks that should lift the soul with anticipation and excitement. But beneath it all, doubt lingers. We’re left wondering. Everyone is wondering. Can these guys really be trusted?

  • Rebels weep

    Rebels weep

    The sleveen Rudyard Kipling wrote some shite about how you are a man “if you can meet triumph with disaster and treat those two imposters just the same”, but you’ve no meas in that stoic, stiff upper lip bollix of the British Empire. Rebels weep.

  • Back to the Old House

    Back to the Old House

    It’s weeks like these when we find ourselves drawn to the games that came before. History, flawed and fickle as it is, becomes the lens through which we try to glimpse the future.

  • Red Mist

    Red Mist

    A game spoiled by a red card. Still, if a ruined spectacle has to be sacrificed, so be it.

  • 10 years on: When Aisake rocked Tipp

    10 years on: When Aisake rocked Tipp

    Ten years ago this month, an old and unfancied Cork team welcomed the All-Ireland runners-up, Tipperary to the Park. Aided by a man mountain at full-forward, it proved to be the last kick from a dying team.

  • Four Kings: The Class of ’08

    Four Kings: The Class of ’08

    In June 2008, Patrick Horgan, Seamus Callanan, T.J Reid and Joe Canning all made their intercounty debuts. Since then, they have been at the forefront of hurling’s golden age of scoring.