Cyril Farrell on wikipedia

[Ash Smoker]

This made me laugh...


Cyril Farrell (Irish:Cyril Ó Fearghail) (born 1950) is a former Irish sportsperson. He was the manager of the Galway senior hurling team in the 1980s and 1990s. He comes from the Tommy Larkins hurling club in Woodford/Ballinakill. He regularly appears a hurling pundit on RTÉ's The Sunday Game.

Managerial career: Look Ger, Cyril Farrell'd be seen as one of the best hurling managers of the modern era. From an early age he would have had a great interest in the coaching side of the game as such, like he was there training the Galway minors and he only a young fella at twenty-three, a real case of Mozart in the fireplace. You can see there, young Farrell'd be at this kind of thing for years. no surprise then and he winning anUnder 21 All-Ireland with Galway in 1978. Two years later then and BANG! Galway has it's first senior All-Ireland since 1923. What more do you want Ger, but sure he was after opening the floodgates of the Yangtze as such, and two more senior All-Ireland victories as well as two National Hurling League titles between 1985 and 1990 was like throwing nuts to a monkey for young Farrell. Thats championship for you Ger.

Punditry
Young Farrell then comes onto The Sunday Game, a real Cinderella under the the christmas tree moment for Michael Lyster and the boys, Cyril's there though and he knows this, he knows Offaly have a good underage team that's coming through, Tomás Mulcahy's agitated, kind of dancing around the flames, coming out with the same old line about Munster hurling. Ball thrown in, full forward bats the ball down, lovely flick BANG! back of the net. Cork are having a bit of run like, Offaly, always the bridesmaids, never the brides as such Ger, but watch here, direct ball from the centre-half back, goalie doesn't deal with it, BANG, goal, game on now Ger, it's in the melting pot. Look, Offaly have been at this comeback gig for years, Cork won't be happy, but that's championship for you. As such.

[IolarCoisCuain]

Excellent.

[the colonel]

Brilliant. Found myself trying to copy Cyril's accent reading it

[Logan]

I'm no hurling expert, but I quite like Cryil's punditry on the TV.
how accurate he is or what his insight is I'd not be well enough qualified to say, but he sure knows enough to educate me.

[King Henry]

I hate the man,not as bad as the f**ker from Clare though