IRELAND GLORY 1937 HURLING CHAMPIONSHIP HURLING WORLD ISSUE TWO P 13 1937 Tipp Surprise Limerick by the Lakes
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“No room at the inn” HURLING for All Ireland Champions WORLD Tipperary after 1937 final Galway launch Ulster Operation championship “Overlord” kicks off without 4 Big Games in Westmeath Christy Ring Cup Belgium’s Cushen Hurlers go Puts French and Above: Willie Ryan, Tipperary, Ollie Canning, Galway, James 'Cha' Fitzpatrick, Kilkenny, Dutch ‘To Sword’ Neil McManus, Antrim, at the launch of the Cuckoo Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championships in Kilkenny Castle. May 6th 2009 in Kinvara ISSUE TWO 11TH MAY 2009 Photo: Ray McManus / SPORTSFILE EDITOR’S COMMENT HURLING WORLD ISSUE TWO p 2 Welcome to the 2nd edition of our Hurling E-Zine. We’ve been overwhelmed by the feedback from the first issue. Thank you to everyone who has taken time out to contact us. We plan to give this great game the publicity it deserves and we plan to do that with the help of our readers by using articles written by you. We will also take on board any suggestions and feedback on im- provements. Already, this week’s issue contains articles supplied to us by our readers in the last 7 days. Keep them coming! RESERVED Kilkenny needed an extra 20 minutes to eventually see off Tipper- FOR ary in the League Final. The margin of victory has given other teams a big boost and has put a new lease of life into the Champi- HURLING onship. The also-rans of previous hurling championships now be- lieve they have a realistic chance of stopping Kilkenny from BUSINESS equalling Cork’s record of 4 in a row in the early 1940’s. Brian Cody will again leave no stone unturned in turning out an- other well oiled machine this year but there may be a few more questions to be answered after Thurles. Last week Brian Coady captured the 14th National Hurling The Christy Ring Trophy got off to flying start over the weekend League title for Kilkenny. Is he now thinking of getting his team with a number of high scoring games. Mayo’s Keith Higgin’s opted to join Cork on the highest pedastal? The Rebels are still the out of a trip to New York with the footballers in favour of a trip to only side in the 125 year history of the GAA to achieve four in a Kerry with Hurlers. Unfortunately for Mayo, that commitment did- row from 1941 to 1944. (Photo John McIlwaine). n’t pay off as they went down by a point in Tralee. Reigning Cham- Contents Issue Two pions Carlow got off to winning start. There was also wins for Down and Kildare. We have a report on all four games. 2. Editorial Comment. 3. Operation Overlord - Galway prepare to invade Leinster Armagh, Donegal and Fermanagh all recorded wins in the 1st 6. The Christy Ring Cup - Carlow start the defence of title round of the Ulster Championship. The Ulster Championship is 8. Hurling Championship - The first round kicks of Ulster the only provincial Hurling Championship where all counties 9. Off the Ball News - from around the counties participate. 10. Hurlers go Cuckoo - Féile Cuculainn hurling in Kinvara 11. European Hurling Championship - from Paris Unless otherwise credited the photos in this issue of Hurling World 12. All Ireland Glory - The 1937 Hurling Final in Killarney. are supplied by Sportsfile. 15. Readers competition page - goals from Fox and English FEATURE OPERATION OVERLOAD HURLING WORLD ISSUE TWO p 3 Galway prepare invasion fleet Michael O’Muircheartaigh launches the Galway supporters club and new website in the Clayton hotel ou couldn’t escape the sense of history in Galway’s Clayton Hotel on Saturday Ynight where supporters, players, and ex players gathered with GAA personality Micheal O’Muircheartaigh to launch their new supporters club and website as the county prepares to play in Leinster for the RESERVED first time in the 125 year history of the GAA. Eamonn Bradshaw, Galway supporters club FOR chairman told the audience that the county has procured 2000 free tickets for the youth of HURLING the county to be distributed through the clubs in the coming weeks for the game in BUSINESS Portlaoise on the 31st of May. The new website www.ghsc.ie is now online and features the new logo which is a sliotar with 2 hurleys entwined in the centre. The home page contains a word from the manager and you can download your supporters club membership form. Galway senior hurling captain Ollie Canning. In line with recessionary times membership rates are very reasonable. Family membership is 30 euro, the adult rate is 20 euros while a “We are going into Leinster, we are going into student can join for 5 euro. With your new “You are about to embark upon the Great a territory that do not want us and they are membership card you are entitled to between Crusade, toward which we have striven these probably right. It is their province. We are the 10 and 15% discount at top stores around the many months. The eyes of the world are proud bearers of the tradition of Galway Hurl- county where the supporters club sticker is upon you”. ing; we are the proud representatives of Con- displayed in the window. - Dwight D. Eisenhower nacht crossing the Shannon with that jersey On Stage Micheal interviewed a number of (In a letter to his 150,000 troops - written on on the backs of those fine young men” key people including team manager John the eve of Operation Overlord, the Allied co- -Joe Connolly McIntyre who gave some insight into the dename for the invasion of Normandy in- (In his address to the supporters club, former ongoing mood of a manager. “ You can’t get volved more than 150,000 men on D-Day 6th players and the present senior panel) carried away by what you are doing because June 1944 as the Allies prepared to invade the every other county is working as hard. beaches of Normandy). FEATURE OPERATION OVERLOAD HURLING WORLD ISSUE TWO p 4 RESERVED Above: The home page of the new Galway Supporters Club Website. www.ghsc.ie FOR Right: Galway senior player Damien Joyce signs a HURLING hurley for a fan at the launch. BUSINESS Some nights you go home and you are depressed because of injuries problems loss of form of a player, or a mistake you made yourself but we are very united we are pulling hard together. I can’t promise anything but I do know this if we are beaten it will because we are beaten by a better team” Team captain Ollie Canning is looking forward to the campaign. “Its something new and we are looking forward to it. We are very enthusiastic about the whole year ahead. The greatest cheer of the night greeted Joe together hopefully if we get everybody going past.”The lack of support and the lack of Canning. He was asked if the press affected in the same direction. We are going out there colour in the city, its not good that the city him “I think it just goes in one ear and out to do our very best for the Galway Jersey and would be behind in supporting the club or the other. I don’t have much between the two we are proud to do that. I think that if the county that goes to an All Ireland final. lugs so I think its only filling a few gaps in everybody rows in behind I can nearly We have a long history of supporting hurling pages and papers”. He expressed guarantee that we will be there in the second and just recently we dedicated a building in disappointment with last year “We went out Sunday in September. the city the coach centre to Sean Duggan badly enough that was my first year. Now Mayor of Galway, Paraic Conneely has been from college road one of the greatest hurlers there a great sense of unity and a great bond disappointed with the Galway support in the to come out of Galway FEATURE OPERATION OVERLOAD HURLING WORLD ISSUE TWO p 5 RESERVED FOR HURLING BUSINESS “I have full confidence in your courage and Above: Cork’s Tim devotion to duty and skill in Battle. We will Crowley and Galway accept nothing less than full Victory! Good Hurling Manager, luck! And let us beseech the blessing of John McIntyre in the Almighty God upon this great and noble 1984 Munster Final. Micheal O’Muircheartaigh undertaking”. in Croke Park -Dwight D. Eisenhower (5th June 1944) “When we go across the Shannon to play Laois we need the cars filled in Galway to come after us, to come after this team, and for the semi-final and final and wherever we go this year… we badly need Galway to rise up again to be what Galway was in the 80’s, Highlights of the launch of the new We need it, the players need it and I Galway Supporters Club Website in the guarantee that if the supporters come behind Clayton Hotel are available on YouTube. Michael O’Muircheartaigh and Joe the team that will surely help the lads in Search for Galway Hurling Supporters Club Connolly share a joke on the big their efforts on the field”. HURL0011 screen at the Galway Supporters -Joe Connolly (9th May 2009) Club Launch in the Clayton hotel. 2009 CHRISTY RING CUP FIRST ROUND HURLING WORLD ISSUE TWO p 6 his weekend saw the start of the sec- ond tier hurling championship – the TChristy Ring Cup (Named after the Cork hurling legend). The brainchild of for- mer GAA President, Sean Kelly, the view at the time was that the championship wasn’t giving the weaker counties a ‘fair crack of the whip’.