Anthony Daly

Clarecastle, Ireland

Features Writer and Podcast Presenter at Irish Examiner

Forever Clare, Sometime Dub, Always hurling. RTÉ sport & Sunday game analyst. Irish Examiner columnist and pod cast host. Murtys Browne’s pub .love life& a pint

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Articles

Anthony Daly: Why the lack of respect for hurling and Kildare?

6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

AS soon as the GAA+ schedule was released earlier this week, I immediately checked to confirm that the Dublin-Kildare match was being shown. I was disgusted to see that it wasn’t. Was I surprised? What do you think? When it comes to disregarding hurling, Croke Park have become experts at it. Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.
Anthony Daly: Cork top my ranking of eight remaining Liam MacCarthy contenders

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

No matter what happened on Saturday evening, Cork were in the top two for me anyway, but they deserve to occupy top spot, albeit marginally, after the manner of Saturday’s win. We all saw afterwards how much the hype train has been cranked into gear and, while Cork will be carried along in that fervour and passion of that hysteria over the next four weeks ahead of an All-Ireland semi-final, it will also be a challenge for Pat Ryan to make sure that the hype train doesn’t derail them.
Anthony Daly: A night of vindication for Cork warriors but Limerick more dangerous than ever now

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

AS I was making my way out of the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday night, heading for the car-park in Dunnes Stores, this Cork man caught my eye as he was coming towards me at an angle. “The hype is back, Dalo,” he said in a rich Cork drawl. “It definitely is,” I replied with a smile. “And the bookies could have been right (to pay out before the championship on Cork winning the All-Ireland).” Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.
Anthony Daly: Rebels will hunt and fight but it may not be enough

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

GIVEN that I had a Sunday off last weekend, I went for a pint with a good friend of mine, Tadg Collins, where naturally the discussion was dominated by hurling, particularly the Munster final.
Anthony Daly: Tipp a class apart in impressive U20 final performance

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

When I was involved in the Limerick underage academy, I was involved with an U15 team at one of those underage tournaments around 2017 when Limerick ran into Tipperary. At one stage, I found myself walking behind the goal offering encouragement to the full-back line when this bould little Tipp fella with number 14 on his back decided to tell me what he thought of me. He more or less told me to clear off back to Clare – and his language was far more graphic than that.
Anthony Daly: Another Nowlan Park loss to Tipp would be apocalyptic for Kilkenny

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

When I got a text last Sunday off Shane McGrath, the former Tipp player and current RTÉ Radio One pundit, to inform me that today’s All-Ireland U20 final was fixed for Nowlan Park, I immediately thought, ‘Whoa!’. In my mind, Tipperary were favourites but the setting suddenly added another layer of complexity to predicting the outcome, while also adding another layer of intrigue to this final. Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.
Anthony Daly: Cork stumble forward...just as they'd like it

3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

After watching the Dublin-Galway match outside the TV box in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday, Joanne Cantwell, Jackie Tyrrell, Joe Canning and myself made our way up to the box in front of the city end terrace in Páirc Ui Chaoimh just before the throw-in. The place was packed but the atmosphere felt strange, almost weird - muted, pensive, like everyone was a little on edge. The place was splashed in red but it was if the ground was draped in grey.
Anthony Daly: Brutal honesty the only way Cork can rehabilitate

3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

When I was Dublin manager in 2010, we got a hiding from Kilkenny in the Leinster semi-final but the trimming we got from Brian Cody’s side in the following year’s Leinster final was even harder to take. Dublin had won the 2011 league. We appeared to have real momentum and confidence behind us. And then Kilkenny arrived into Croke Park and blew all of that optimism to smithereens.
Anthony Daly: New model Limerick make it personal leaving Cork with soul searching to do

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

I was in the Gaelic Grounds early yesterday morning, before noon, where the only people outside the ground at that stage were lads selling hats and flags, and this fella in a chip van who was trying to get the generator going. Your man wasn’t happy. The fella alongside him in the van was getting a fair roasting. He looked disorientated and dishevelled, under the weather even, while his boss was all business. Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.
Anthony Daly: With more jeopardy for Kiely’s men, I expect them to shade it

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

Although Clare won the 2013 All-Ireland and Dublin won that year’s Leinster title, one of the highlights of that glorious hurling summer was the Munster final between Limerick and Cork in the Gaelic Grounds. The weather was amazonian. The atmosphere was electric. It was like a real old school Munster final, people lathered up on sun-cream eating ice creams and basking in the warm anticipation of one of those eternal championship summer Sundays.