‘He could score from all angles’: Why magic TJ Reid will always be one of hurling’s giants
He once nearly quit the game, but turned his career around to become one of the greatest forwards of all time
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Follow our interviews, analysis, match reports and liveblogs from the 2023 provincial championships before the cream of the crop battle it out for Liam MacCarthy in the 2023 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.
Kilkenny great TJ Reid announces his retirement from intercounty hurling
The all-time leading scorer in the hurling championship, Reid won seven All-Irelands with the Cats
Kilmacud Crokes ease to Dublin SHC win that crushes Cuala’s double dream
It is Kilmacud’s first Dublin SHC triumph since 2022, achieved with an 11-point victory at Parnell Park
Hurling’s new rules were trialled last night. How did it go?
A clampdown on fouled handpasses was the biggest feature of the MTU-UCC game in treacherous conditions on Thursday night
Irish sport in 10 objects: The Liffey Swim, Ronnie Delany’s shoes, Rachael Blackmore’s saddle
A new book by Siobhán Doyle captures Ireland’s sporting past through a collection of 100 objects, here is a selection of 10 of them
Hurling advisory group hope new rules experiment will be broadcast
Group chair John Meyler is keen for some of the game’s top intercounty players to roadtest the new rules in front of a large audience
Adam Screeney’s eight-point haul helps Kilcormac-Killoughey to fourth straight title in Offaly
Hurling county final round-up: The Harps claim a first title in Laois while Lough Lene Gaels win for first time since 2002 in Westmeath
The waiting is over as GAA’s experimental rules go on trial in college matches
Higher-value goals, a ban on fisted points and a seismic alteration to 65s among the stand-out amendments
Eoin Murphy went from being a reluctant goalkeeper to a peerless source of miraculous saves
Murphy’s retirement means that only TJ Reid remains from the last Kilkenny team to win the All-Ireland title in 2015
New Leinster SHC format to bring eight teams into expanded championship from 2028
Former GAA president Nickey Brennan says new structure would give tier two counties greater opportunities to establish themselves
What was said between Christy Ring and Mick Mackey? A new book details the lives of hurling’s heroes
Justin Nelson’s 1957 photograph caught two of the most important people in the explosion of hurling’s popularity
If Gearóid Hegarty is willing to give the hurling rule changes a try, what’s your excuse?
Some of the proposals amount to referees enforcing existing rules, others are radical ideas that will fundamentally change the game
Hurling to trial new rules which include prohibiting consecutive handpasses
Two points awarded for converted sideline puck, 65s taken from inside the team’s own half of the field among rules proposed
The solution to hurling’s handpass blight is quite simple
Outsourcing responsibility to linesmen or even a microchip is no guarantee of success
Throwing the sliotar is a big problem in hurling, but there might be a technological solution
Hurling’s handpass has turned into a botched nose-job on the face of the game
‘I used to always throw the ball’: Séamus Flanagan adds fuel to hurling handpass debate
Former Limerick hurler says handpasses the ‘biggest guessing game of all time’ for referees
DJ Carey’s first All-Ireland medal sold at auction
It was reported last week that a price in the region of €10,000 was expected for the medal Carey won in 1992
Noel McGrath and Patrick Horgan among stars to line out in Hurling for Cancer fundraiser
Annual match has raised €1.9 million for the Irish Cancer Society since it began in 2011
GAA calendar: Two sides of the house are living together for the sake of the children
Once the All-Irelands are over, there is too much time to think in one side of the GAA house, and not a minute to scratch in the other
Recollections from the road: The highs, lows and what I’ll miss after 32 years as a GAA correspondent
From washing machine mishaps to car battery failures, Seán Moran reflects on some memorable moments in his journalism career
‘Best team in the world’: Limerick hurlers welcomed home to a sea of green and white
Adam Manai (8) said his prayers had been answered when he ‘prayed to God’ for a Limerick goal in the All-Ireland final
GAA World Games come to Waterford: ‘Is that the mad game?’
Of the more than 2,000 Gaelic football, hurling and camogie players in 113 teams from all over the world taking part, most are not Irish
Micheál Donoghue on Galway’s reinvention: ‘These boys took to it really, really well’
‘The lads recognised that we were doing something different; their enthusiasm came from that’
I have covered 32 All-Ireland hurling finals for The Irish Times – a lot has changed in the game
From early years watching uplifting breakthroughs to marvelling at the power of the juggernauts
Great teams win. It is what we expect, even when the victories look different
Refreshing the Limerick hurling team without it losing its core identity has been a skilful piece of management by John Kiely
How Christy Ring’s All-Ireland medal found a home in an Augustinian church
The eight-time All-Ireland winner donated his final Celtic cross to St Augustine’s Church in Cork City
Henry Shefflin faces uphill task in Kilkenny with need to both improve and innovate
Much will depend on the management team that is assembled, but the worry is that Cats are lacking in young quality players
Johnny Pilkington: ‘People think I was hard to manage and in one way I probably was’
It’s easy to forget how good Pilkington was. He was part of a beautiful team that were hurling’s last punks
Chris Dunne hat-trick helps goal-hungry Tipperary down Cork and book spot in minor hurling final
Tipperary will face Limerick in the All-Ireland final in a fortnight’s time after they proved too strong for Galway
Eddie Gibbons: ‘The Clare game is a good opportunity to put things right’
Dublin goalkeeper says Munster teams are often ‘put on a pedestal’ compared to Leinster sides
Hurling’s professional age: Novel shines light on a forgotten Ireland 216 years removed
Hurling 1810 is Conor Power’s first foray into fiction writing and comes 18 years after book about his famous father
Cork are 100% All-Ireland contenders again this year, says Patrick Horgan
But first Rebels must face Limerick in Munster hurling final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh
Derek Lyng steps down as Kilkenny senior hurling manager
Departure comes in wake of Cats’ Leinster championship elimination
World Cup $98 train tickets versus value of a hurling match
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