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Leahy knew how to look after himself, but he was primarily a player who relied on skill.

He'd a mouth like an open sewer and was well capable of the odd dirty action but somehow was very quiet in Gaelic Park when he couldn't resist the lure of the Tipp dollars to get him out.

Like a wee angel out there.

Of that era the Viking Bonner was 'hard' but Johnny Leahy was 'dirty'.

Takes a bit of everything to get over the line.

Do Cork and Tipp have a home and away arrangement?

Going by last years crowds following Tipp it would be all Cork yet again in Thurles.

They're trying to pin it on one of the umpires who reached up to catch the ball off the net from the wide shot...

Utter pish as even at a decent club game nowadays you need to raise the white flag for every point.

I'd presume the sideline official also keeps the score along with the referee nowadays, so, is it them who keeps the scoreboard and RTE correct?

Well done Tipp.

They brought a serious goal threat after all and for the first 10 minutes the tactics of lumping high ball in on top of the Kilkenny defence wasn't reaping much reward but they persisted and got their reward.

Young Mccarthy will be a serious operator if he cuts out the shite.

Both yellows were warranted and so needless as both Deegan and Murphy were passed him when he slapped out.

Deegan can consider himself very lucky to not get pulled for the helmet slap on the sideline and hapless Mikey Carey took the yellow for nothing.

Some goal to win the game all the same.
Surrounded by defenders yet still managed to get good power and accuracy on the shot.

The scoreline exaggerates the difference between the sides. Dublin did ok if a lot of parts of the game. Conceding goals every few minutes punctures a team's morale and eventually they lose the will to keep chasing.

Cork isolated the Dublin full back line and rained down a lot of quick and early ball in there. The interplay of the Cork FF was excellent too. Maybe Dublin should have got a sweeper back there earlier to shore up the FB line, but no team expects to concede 7 in an AISF and then suddenly it happens.

In fairness to Ó'Ceallacháin and the Dublin management, they went for it. Didn't go with sweeper so fair play to them. They knew the ball over top in front of that Cork ff line would create goal chances....and it certainly did!

But I admire Dublin for that - easiest thing would be to park the bus and sit back etc. Dublin actually played well. Cork were just different class today. Goals win matches. Ferghal Whiteley hit the bar at a crucial stage in first half but then Cork pushed on until half-time. Would have been interesting to see what would have happened if that shot had had hit the net.

It's all on the day. Like Dublin today, after coming off a high of the Limerick game in Croke Park, Cork will be in the same boat V Tipp/KK in 2 weeks.

Looking forward to see Tipp V KK. Hopefully be a cracker. 

Dublin IMO got it wrong along the sideline.  They dropped off the Cork half back line allowing them to put the ball on a plate for their forwards who made serious hay.  Thought the yellows for the two Dublin lads were harsh and changed their attitude to full blooded tackling.
Clare showed how to get about this Cork team by not giving them an inch all over the park.  Teams that drop off against Cork get punished.
Dublin made an awful lot of unforced errors themselves and didn't give big Hetherington much to work with.

Fair play to Cork, they know how to rack up big scores and will be confident of picking up Liam in a few weeks time.

Now for the silver medal game   

Can anyone cite an example of a large project in Ireland thats been a resounding success?

M50?

Port tunnel, Luas???

Ciara Mageean diagnosed with cancer. Terrible news that.

Yeah, it was known about down here for a week or more.

Sad news for her and hopefully she makes a full recovery irrespective of the running.

And to think we all thought he was nicknamed "The Dodger" due to his nifty footwork on the pitch.

Those Lads around Gowran knew better.

Following on from my depressing post last night, weeks have passed since a few politicians in Westminster had the balls to stand up and call out this evil genocide. Two called it out on a Friday, and I remember saying to the wife, as a real tide, or so it felt was finally turning, (outside of public opinion)  I wonder how it'll all be this time next Friday?
Well, that was about 6 or 7 weeks ago, and the story now is Bob Vylan, Kneecap etc... It just shows how powerful these evil fu$kers are and how weak, morally corrupt, self serving and money hungry politicians are

The small matter of Iran helped change the news cycle as well.

And who started that little war?

It was all and good until the hypersonic missiles started landing in Tel Aviv and Haifa, then the Zionists set to work on Trump to get him to bomb Iran for them.


The stranglehold the Zionists have on the US is something else and to an extent intriguing how a world super power can be controlled to this extent due to the thirst for money and a strange religious dogma or ideology about Jesus' second coming.

Israel and Zionism is the ultimate parasite with the US tax payers the life giving host who gain absolutely nothing from this relationship.

 

Terrible news that.

What a blow to the families involved.

RIP Diogo.

I see the papers have listed some of the people stung by Carey. No mention of Worzel Gummidge otherwise known as John Power.
He was supposed to be out of pocket by a 6 figure sum.

John Power, the farmer also of 80s hurling fame?

The issue is if they go and try to get a different plan in place with what they have, that's months maybe even years down the line and the costs probably away up again.

That's true. And waiting on someone shaking the money tree in their direction has been a fairly speedy process.

The original offer of £54M was made back in 2011 I believe so I think the GAA are looking Stormont to include compound interest accrued in that timeframe, so that might take that original figure northwards to £70M.

I can't see that washing with Mr Lyons TBH...

There'd still be a big gap, but both the GAA and the Irish Gov are waiting on Stormont coughing up more.

I think the question being asked is "Have Rossa not already won the league?"

I can't see a postponed game from before the split being allowed to go ahead at this stage. Surely there is a cut off? Who knows?
And Rossa beat Dunloy in head to head score difference.

Or am I missing something else?

+ 5 to Rossa in the head to head even if they lose to Ballycastle.

There's no way Dunloy can complain about the missed game vrs Portaferry at this stage in the competition.

A friendly reminder: Tipp went winless in 2018.  They won the All Ireland the next year.  They went winless in 2024.  The next year...

Can't keep a good county down!

I like it.
We've already dumped Clare out on their home patch, sent Waterford packing too, didn't give Galway a sniff of it last day out. We're unbeaten since April.

Now we're facing a county with no All Ireland in 10 YEARS, who got here via a glorified Joe McDonagh provincial competition, still looking to a pensioner in TJ Reid, putting sellotape on Eoin Cody to get him back....and people are starting to think that maybe we have a chance 

When was the last time Tipp got to Croke Park?

Probably their camogs.