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With one game to go and relegation already certain, clouds hovered ominously although Benny Coulter knew a shaft of light would break through at some stage. "We only just went down," he says. "We had a real fight against Tyrone, and a last-second
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The start of the new playing season was still three months away and, when it started, an Allianz League campaign had to be planned for but, in the background, May 19 was always ringed on the Galway manager's calendar. "The whole winter training
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Collins, a current All Star half-back who has won his own personal battle to get back hurling at this level again, feels an All-Ireland title is "there" for Galway if their desire to push on is strong enough. Ahead of the visit of Tipperary to
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But someone obviously forgot to tell the Galway hurlers that they were playing in the GAA's most endangered tournament, as they fought tooth and nail to pull off a brilliant three-goal second-half comeback and oust a Leinster team that featured seven
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You'll laugh at his memories playing Waterford club football; you'll thrill to the passion in his voice as he speaks about Dublin's enduring rivalry with Kerry; and a lump rises in the throat as he speaks about the sadness in the operating theatre as
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Sunday January 27 2013 A brilliant player and manager, Heffernan was an astute negotiator, says Jerome Reilly Kevin Heffernan will be remembered as the talismanic manager of the Dublin football team whose rivalry with Mick O'Dwyer 's Kerry breathed
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Saturday January 26 2013 There will be many heartfelt tributes paid to Kevin Heffernan from every corner of Ireland, but it's not too difficult to sum up his GAA life. Without a shadow of a doubt, Kevin was the most important person ever to be
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Saturday January 26 2013 Sean Boylan tells a story from 1983 to ventilate the level of respect Kevin Heffernan could command. Dublin had won a stormy All-Ireland final against Galway that September and one of their first league matches as champions
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Paraic Duffy issuing the stark warning that GAA players could head for retirement as early as 25 if their workload doesn't decrease, the association said goodbye to some of its most iconic figures in 2012. Some of those who have departed the scene
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Saturday December 29 2012 Henry Shefflin raised bar even higher as he defied injury with rousing tour de force to single-handedly drag Kilkenny back from brink in drawn All-Ireland final. THE week of this year's Leinster hurling final, Henry Shefflin
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