Sure the work for Coldplay is starting today week. It was never going to be allowed go to a replay.
On RTĆ.ie/Sport there were over one million page views (1.07m) of the live blog, versus 416,000 for the live blog of Limerick v Kilkenny last year.
Cork are hurling
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Just not as hurling as Clare, unfortunately
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and not a ticket to be got either. It was like 2016 or 2017 again.
Makes Lohan vs Kiely more interesting
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I know the bold Joe Player is looking down at the home coming tonight and Iāve no doubt heās laughing at the Limericks and shouting 'hon Lohan ā
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Me aul Epal smiling tonight
All the gowl acting aside. I hope his family were happy yesterday, which Iāve no doubt they were, but Iām sure it was also tinged with a few tears for Dave. They are the little stories you never think about in amongst the pints and home comings and winning victories on the internet
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The legacy of Ger Loughnane is broad and deep and the batton has well and truly been passed around. Another blast of young lads watching yesterday know whats possible and so the cycle begins again.
They should rename Ennis in his honour.
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Iām fairly sure his auld lad stood for election for Fine Gael at one point back in the day.
A collars up blueshirt.
I got a nice message from his Mam this morning. I told her he would have absolutely loved it all. Although Iām really not sure what he would have been like there with the nerves. He probably would have hit someone a dunt.
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Clare most have had the oldest winning team in a long time. Possible 8 starters over 30? And probably had one of the youngest ever teams in 2013.
9 out of the 15 30 or more.
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Up there anyway. The Limerick team that won last year might have been marginally older?
Strange looking back at winning teams from the 90s/00s where the talk was always that it was becoming a young manās game, and lads are burned out by 30 and/or canāt commit the time. Itās nearly gone the other way.
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But thatās the level of training and professionalism the players are now tied up in that prolongs their playing career.
Yeah for sure. Radically different attitudes to rest and recovery. Maybe the overall decline in alcohol consumption hasnāt hurt either.
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I think 9 of the Clare starters are either students or teachers.
Who was the last man to start an all Ireland hurling final out field at 35 and win?
PJ Molloy was 35 when he won in 1987, but he came on as a sub.
I canāt think of a 35 year but I can think of one older.