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 .Renault Ire .

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Articles

Anthony Daly: Hunger sharpened, Limerick now the most dangerous animal

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

Saturday evening in Walsh Park was everything the Munster round robin championship is designed to be. A beautiful summer’s evening. A massive crowd. Pubs and restaurants around the city bursting with supporters. The whole place buzzing. An electric atmosphere. Everybody feeling alive. And then Limerick come along and remind everyone that not a whole lot has changed since the introduction of the round robin. This is still their terrain. And Limerick continue to dominate it.
Anthony Daly: Déise find winning habit but Limerick to crank up the power

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

In the Munster Championship, every team is mad keen to get going and get motoring, but sometimes you’re better off to let everyone off and just sit back and watch them go at it. And not be too panicked about trying to catch up. One team in the province has to sit out the first weekend every year but the concern around Waterford being in that position this year was that they were coming from Division 1B, when the other four sides had been in 1A. Would they be able to get up to speed straight away?
Anthony Daly: No contest for champagne Cork, Déise puncture Banner wheels

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

Seconds after the throw-in at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday, just after Alan Tynan had put the ball over the bar, I said to myself, ‘Here we go, great start for Tipp.’ But the game hadn’t started. In effect, the match was already over. It was just a pity that Darragh McCarthy got a red card when he did because it’s hard enough to beat Cork with 15 men. But with 14 men? Everyone in the crowd, and watching on TV, had already accepted that there was only going to be one outcome.
Anthony Daly: Cork will be itching to shove doubts down our throats

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

After such a long build-up, after all the pining for it all to start, after craving the oxygen and sunshine of the Munster Championship as badly as a crowd of people locked into a dark shed for months, it now feels like we’re waiting for it to begin all over again. Now that we’ve got a taste for it, the craving is crazier than ever. The Munster Championship has started in a blaze and the inferno has still left scorches everywhere.
Anthony Daly: What could match that for entertainment and quality?

3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

I didn’t sleep on Saturday night. Well if I did, I didn’t get much shuteye. Nerves. Excitement. Giddiness. That’s what the start of the championship does to me. Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.
Anthony Daly: Have Clare the hunger to turn disrespect into poison?

3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

In August 2004, only a couple of weeks after the Clare side I was then managing were beaten in an All-Ireland quarter-final replay by Kilkenny, I was in Ballygarvan in Cork for a presentation of a replica Liam MacCarthy Cup. I was one of a whole host of All-Ireland winning captains, with family relatives of every deceased captain going back to 1921 accepting the beautiful piece of Waterford crystal on their behalf.
Anthony Daly: Champagne Rebels' momentum is irresistible

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

No matter where I turned in Montrose in RTÉ yesterday, I was surrounded by Rebels. Jacqui Hurley was behind me, Donal Óg Cusack alongside me. When the match was tied at 0-8 each after 20 minutes, I piped up and said to them that the storyline wasn’t exactly following the script that they, and everyone else in Cork, expected. And then, in what felt like an instant, the narrative was suddenly shifting back in its anticipated direction.
Anthony Daly: Páirc sellout everything we want for hurling

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

OVER 20 years ago Fr Peter O’Loughlin and I went to the west Clare board about trying to form a west Clare hurling club. We didn’t just go on a whim. We had a firm plan in place, which we outlined in full detail to all the delegates. We offered to try and source a piece of land for a pitch, whereby we would look for grants to fund whatever we needed to try and firstly have a home. We wanted to call the club West Clare Gaels, where every lad, young and old, who wanted to hurl could come.
Anthony Daly: You'd have to be ultra-impressed with Cork. They'll struggle to keep a lid on the hype

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

After my column here on Saturday, I got more than a small bit of stick from the Cork crowd, who, in effect were accusing me of trying to set them up ahead of their trip to Ennis on Easter Sunday. It wasn’t just online because I got it from a couple of mates from Cork too via text messages. ‘Hi Dalo boy, are you trying to give us big heads ahead of running into yere boys?’ In their eyes, my words were a form of loading the guns for the impending ambush.
Anthony Daly: The Cork speed machine will provide litmus test of where Galway are at

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Anthony Daly

The night before Dublin played Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh in the final round of the 2011 league, I sent Davy Fitzgerald, who was then managing Waterford, a text message. “Don’t let me down tomorrow.” I, and all of us in the Dublin camp, needed a favour. The maths were simple. Dublin needed to win or draw to reach the league final, but we were only guaranteed to make it if Waterford beat Galway. “Ye do yere bit and we’ll do our best for ye,” Fitzy texted back.