Anthony Daly

6 days 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.

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

2 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.

2 weeks 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.