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HURLING WORLD Turning Point Ericson 4 The 1984 Maroon Munster Final Ahead Hurling in Weekend Dubai Round Up ISSUE 5 1st June 2009 EDITOR’S COMMENT HURLING WORLD ISSUE THREE p 2 Hello Hurling Fans, The Guinness Hurling Championship kicked off this weekend with 2 matches in Leinster where Wexford with 2 Steven Banville goals beat Offaly and Galway gave a flawless display against Laois. The game of the weekend of course was in Munster where the hallowed ground of Semple Stadium hosted Cork and Tipperary. Benefits of joining Tipperary had the advantage of a solid League Final display against Kilkenny under their belt, while Cork are in the process of our free mailing list putting the recent turmoil behind them. 1. You will be sure of getting Though Tipp had a 3 point win in the end - both teams will be Steven banville your ezine early every pleased with their performances. The Premier County are Monday morning. improving with every game they play. The team is young fast and skillful. It is still a little bit green around the edges conceding too Contents Issue Five 2. You can take part in all our many silly frees that are always punished nowadays. They now competitions. face Clare in the Munster semi-final. 2. Editorial Comment. 3. You will be able to enter Cork were a little match rusty and might have gone on to win the our draws for All Ireland game if they had taken all their chances. Against a younger and 3. Feature. faster team, Cork had to change their style and cut out their old Tickets. running game, settling instead to use Aisake O’hAlpin as a target 5. Weekend Round Up. man. As the game developed he became more influential despite To join our free mailing list go to getting rid of the ball too quickly at times. He will improve from this outing. Cork now go into the qualifiers. I don’t think that we 9. Camogie World. www.hurlingworld.com have seen the last of the Rebels this year. fill in the sections below and click 8. Off the ball. on submit. You will get a confirm - This week also we watched the leaders in the Volvo Ocean Race, ing email. Click on confirm to Ericson 4 meet the Galway Hurlers. Our Hurling Abroad section 9. Club Focus - O’Donnovan Rossa. accept. comes from Dubai, while our Club Focus in on O’Donnovan Rossa in West Belfast and we look back at one of the Classic Munster Finals in 1984. In the Camogie section we look at a new initiative 12. Hurling Abroad. in Kerry. 14 Turning Point. Until next week 16. Readers competition page. Best wishes from the team at HURLING WORLD. FEATURE Sailors and Hurlers HURLING WORLD Issue 5 - 1st June 09 p 3 ERICSON 4 - MAROON AHEAD Ericson 4, leaders in the Volvo Ocean Race and the Galway senior hurlers take a break from their training and have a Puc Fada competition in Pearse Stadium, Galway. HURLING ADVERTS Ericson 4 moored in Galway Harbour. of their championship campaign while Ericson had just one leg left to St Petersburg. Ericson 4 had arrived in Galway (the first of the 7 boats) in the early hours of Sunday Horacio Carabelli, the Brazilian Yacht designer and trimmer on Ericson 4 gets some tips from morning to a rapturous reception from over 6 Galway’s Damien Joyce. thousand people. They had completed the 3000 miles in just over 7 days and 10 hours. Thick fog, a myriad of lobster pots followed earse Stadium on Friday night saw a very Both teams had taken very different roads by a whale exclusion zone and an ice unusual pairing take part in a Puc Fada in the lead in to the competition. For Galway exclusion zone all added to the mix before Pcompetition. The current Galway senior it was months of training in Athenry with 7 the high-speed drag race to the finish, which hurling team coached by Joe Connolly, All Ire - League Games of which they won 4. For proved to be a nail-biting thriller. land medalist and captain in 1980 faced the Ericson 4 it was months of training in The approach to the ‘Big Day’ in both sports crew of Ericson 4, led by their skipper Brazilian Lanzarote and 7 legs of the Volvo Round the may be different. In yachting “It’s always a Torben Grael, holder of 5 Olympic Medals and World yacht race of which they also won 4. matter of risk against return,” said Grael. “If veteran of 3 America’s Cup campaigns. Galway were just 2 days away from the start you think it’s worth running the risk, you FEATURE Sailors and Hurlers HURLING WORLD Issue 5 - 1st June 09 p 4 HURLING Above: An Ericson back-up member practices the jab lift! ADVERTS Right: Joe Connolly Galway selector explains the rules to Galway back-up member Tex Callaghan, players Niall Healy, Damien Joyce and Erickson Nordic crew member and Olympic medalist Martin Stromberg. take it. That’s the game. We were Joe Connolly welcomed the sailors conservative at times on this leg but to the City of the Tribes and gave a took some big risks as well. When we brief introduction to the game of got this big front, we split from the hurling. Following a coaching session fleet, which worked out well, but it the Puc Fada took place. The co- was risky and it was a rough ride in. ordination, strength and natural We had to push it to have a good balance of the visitors took most position, so it was tough”. onlookers by surprise and apart from Corner back Damien Joyce had the long pucks of Galway goalkeeper organised the Galway outfit for this Colm Callinan the seafarers were PR evening, which helped to provide reasonably well able to hold their unique footage for the documentary own. At the end of the session the on the Volvo Ocean Race. The Galway players answered some more Ericson squad arrived kitted out in questions and on Joe Connolly’s the blue and gold strip of the advice the next hurling lesson for the Premier County. Not much of a Ericson crew will be the first round surprise in itself as Ericson’s man on of the Munster Championship on the ground in the West on the Sunday afternoon on RTE 2. Norway’s Arve Roaas from Ericson 4 taking part in the Puc Fada evening was Clonoulty-Rossmore in Pearse Stadium, Galway. native Sean Hennessy. WEEKEND ROUND UP Munster Quarter Final HURLING WORLD Issue 5 - 1st June 09 p 5 Tipp get off Rusty Hook of Cork! he Munster championship kicked off yesterday with the quarter-final meeting Tof Cork and the holders Tipperary in Thurles. For Tipperary Padraic Maher and Noel McGrath made their debuts, while Paddy Sta - pleton got his first championship start and Conor O'Mahony was back after illness. Cork placed their faith on Aisake O hAilpín, he was placed at full forward having returned from HURLING his AFL efforts. Tipperary opened with a number of switches in the forward division. Noel McGrath went to ADVERTS right half forward, John O’Brien went to left half forward and Lar Corbett went to full forward with Micheal Webster going to right corner forward. Both sides were level at 5 points each after 20 minutes. For the next 13 minutes Tipperary ran the Cork halfback line ragged with Seamus Callinan and Noel McGrath in flying form. Tipp went into a six point lead 0-13 to 0-7 by the 33rd minute but had neglected to get the vital goal (Eoin Kelly would have provided it in the 26th minute if he hadn’t been fouled). In Sean Og O hAilpin, Cork, contests a dropping ball with John O'Brien, Tipperary. in the addition, 2 rash fouls by Tipp’s Conor O’Brien Munster Hurling Championship Quarter-Final, at Semple Stadium. and Padraic Maher delivered 2 easy points to Photo Brendan Moran / SPORTSFILE Cork and 2 yellow cards to Tipperary. Cork went in to the dressing room in the happy position of being just 4 points down 0-13 to 0- a mountain to climb with a well taken goal. rescue was left to the captain John Gardiner 9. The same player cancelled out an Aisake who was thriving following his switch with Denis Walsh and his selectors were happy to O’hAilpin point with a great score 2 minutes Tom Kenny and he scored a magnificent let the first 15 (apart from Shane O’Neill who later. point in 45th minute. had gone off injured) steady the ship in the Cork struggled over the next 7 minutes. Pat Apart from Aisake and Ben O’Connor none second half. As against Kilkenny in the All Horgan missing a goal chance, followed by a of the other Cork forwards were having a Ireland Final of 83 the selectors were hardly bad wide and a poorly taken penalty. The good day at the office and Denis Walsh sitting down in their seats when Eoin Cadigan resultant 65 by Ben O’Connor from almost in brought on Pat Cronin for Niall McCarthy failed to clear and Seamus Callinan gave Cork front of the posts also missed the target. The even though none of the other 3 Cork WEEKEND ROUND UP Munster Quarter Final HURLING WORLD Issue 5 - 1st June 09 p 6 Munster Quarter Final in the Frame HURLING ADVERTS Above: Eoin Kelly’s ball traping skills are visible early in the first half.