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The Irish Sun
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Roy Keane's favourite GAA star to feature as RTE and BBC unveil pundits for Cork vs Tipperary in All-Ireland final
RTE AND BBC have unveiled their punditry teams for the All-Ireland hurling final between Cork and Tipperary. The Rebels face the Premier in a mouth-watering battle which is the first time the two counties meet in the Liam MacCarthy decider. Advertisement 5 Cork and Tipperary meet in the All-Ireland hurling final Credit: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile 5 Joanne Cantwell will be leading RTE's TV coverage Credit: Ben McShane/Sportsfile 5 Marty Morrissey will be providing commentary Credit: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile 5 Sarah Mulkerrins will be leading the BBC's coverage and will be joined by the likes of Shane O'Donnell Credit: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile 5 Jimmy Barry-Murphy will also be part of the BBC's coverage Credit: David Maher/Sportsfile A heavyweight battle calls for a blockbuster set of pundits, and both For RTE, Joanne Cantwell will be anchoring their coverage, with Clare legend Anthony Daly, Cork great Donal Og Cusack, and Tipperary icon Liam Sheedy as the pundits. Damian Lawlor will serve as the pitchside reporter at Coverage gets underway on RTE2 at 2:15pm, with throw-in at 3:30pm, while Irish language options will be available on the RTE News channel for 2:30pm. Advertisement Read More on GAA Coverage begins at 3pm on Sunday on BBC Two Sarah Mulkerrins presenting will be presenting and will be joined by reigning Hurler of the Year Shane O'Donnell, four time All-Ireland winner Paul Murphy, and Antrim great Neil McManus. Mark Sidebottom will be surveying the action from pitchside alongside All Star Diarmuid O'Sullivan and former Tipperary All-Ireland winner Seamus Callanan. Advertisement Most read in GAA Hurling Exclusive Commentary will be led by Thomas Niblock alongside expert analysis from co-commentators Jamesie O'Connor and At half-time, special expertise will be offered by none other than Jimmy Barry-Murphy. 'Easiest interview I've ever had' jokes RTE GAA host after pundits go back and forth before Meath vs Donegal An all-time great of hurling on Leeside, the five-time hurling All Star won an astounding five Liam MacCarthy Cups and ten Munster titles as a player with the Rebels. He also guided them to two Munster championships and the 1999 All-Ireland title as manager. Advertisement JBM was also an accomplished footballer, winning two All-Stars, two Munster SFC titles, and the 1973 Sam Maguire as a manager. He also holds the distinction of being He revealed as such on a Monday Night Football appearance in 2022 - in spite of his Sky Sports colleagues not then seeming sure what to ask about this mystery figure. Advertisement Keano hailed: "Growing up again in Ireland - the GAA was a big part of my life. Hurling - watching Jimmy Barry-Murphy playing for Cork - you know, brilliant sportsman." He modestly remarked: "It was very, very special. I was delighted actually. "I was shocked for somebody like Roy, who I have great admiration for and he's probably our greatest ever sportsman to come out of Cork. Advertisement "Himself and Denis Irwin were extraordinary. Denis is a Barr man, of course, so I have to give him a mention. But Roy, it was a lovely thing to say and I really appreciate it, I must say." It remains to be seen if the former Manchester United and Ireland captain and devout Corkman will pop up alongside his hero at Croke Park.
Irish Examiner
5 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
'You go to Croke Park, you don't show up, you get what comes after that': McLoughlin recalls low of 2014 fall to Tipp
On Sunday, Cork will have four survivors and Tipperary two in their squads from their last and inaugural senior hurling championship meeting in Croke Park. Munster champions Cork were caught cold by a Tipperary team who had stormed their way through the qualifiers and won that All-Ireland semi-final by 10 points. A dire performance 11 years ago hardly has a bearing now, but in front of almost 70,000 people, the vast majority of whom were from Cork, it took a lot of the good away from beating Limerick five weeks earlier. Upon his substitution in the 55th minute, Aidan Walsh apologised to manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy. Nevertheless, it serves as a reminder that being favourites and winning Munster doesn't go a whole way against a team from the province in Croke Park. In the last 10 all-Munster All-Ireland semi-finals or finals, the provincial winners have lost six times. Only Limerick (2020 and twice in '21) and Tipperary in '09 backed up their trophies. 'It was our first Munster in a number of years (eight), so there was obviously a high from that,' recalls Lorcán McLoughlin. 'And then you have to come down to kind of build up again. 'And Tipp just had been through the mill a few times. They'd been in All-Ireland finals a couple of years, and they just had a lot of experience, and they were ready. They hit the ground, and we were flat, and that's what happens. You go to Croke Park, you don't show up, you get what comes after that.' More had been expected after coming so close to emulating the previous All-Ireland success in 2005. 'We were a new team, an inexperienced team, but we got a great run at it from the All-Ireland quarter-finals and you build and build the confidence.' The feeling among the Cork players was dejection, McLoughlin says. 'It's no different to Sunday, where you appreciate the support. When you deliver a performance like that, it's hugely disappointing because outside of losing the game, you kind of realise the effort that supporters put in as well to kind of make that trip up.' Not that the Kanturk man is expecting history to repeat itself on Sunday. 'We've learned a lot from the last 12 months, really. We've learned a lot about the team. I think as supporters, we've learned a lot as well, that no game can be taken for granted. You still have to go and win it and deliver the performance. 'Finals are there to be won and you do whatever you have to do to win a final as well. They delivered a perfect performance, a brilliant performance against Dublin. I don't think anyone they played that day would have beaten them but the final is a new game again. 'I think there's enough there in terms of experience. I think the team are firing. There'll be nothing taken for granted against Tipperary. And there should be nothing taken for granted based on some of the lessons over the last 12 months.'
Irish Daily Mirror
26-04-2025
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
Trains, Boats and Planes Berlin-Leeside dash ahead Cork-Tipp clash
The Frank and Walters are ready for another epic at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Just getting there will be epic enough! The Cork band are playing in Berlin tonight before a trains, boats and planes dash to Leeside to perform before the Rebels' Munster SHC clash with Tipperary tomorrow. 'We have never played at a match there before, it is definitely a first for us,' said drummer Ashley Keating. 'And for it to be Cork-Tipp as well! My dad and my uncle and my grandad have all been talking about those Cork-Tipp games from every era, there is such a different vibe around those games. 'I hardly have the vocabulary to explain it but I just know that walking into a Cork-Tipp is different to any other game, different to any other in any sport. 'And I'm lucky enough, I have already managed to get the Champions League final in Moscow, Manchester United and Chelsea in 2008 and some other big sporting occasions. 'We have some stadiums with the band, the Olympiastadion in Munich where the 1974 World Cup final was, did Thurles' Féile, half-time at Turner's Cross in a Cork City game... 'But this Cork-Tipp is nothing like that, it is a completely different feeling, totally unique - to get this one, it's just a dream come true.' Hurling is in the Bishopstown blood. 'Sport was huge in my family, my father followed Cork hurling and football, Cork Hibs and Cork Celtic and we went to all kinds of games back then. 'I was at school and going up to Croke Park the three-in-row hurling titles in the 1970s, remember going up to Croke Park and all through the 1980s.' And it's a measure of the excitement around this current Cork crop that those of who have seen some of the greats winning trophies have belief in this side. 'Jimmy Barry-Murphy would have been the main hero for me growing up but Gerald and Charlie McCarthy, Tom Cashman, John Horgan, Ger Cunningham. 'Jimmy Barry-Murphy lives around the corner from me, my local pub, Flannery's in Glasheen and, you know, I've met plenty of rock and roll stars over the years from Oasis to even Paul McCartney and I still get star struck as meeting those guys. 'When we were in school my father took us to the 1973 football All-Ireland, we all had long hair at the time because that was the fashion but then Jimmy Barry-Murphy came out with the suedehead cut and we were all were down in the barbers within the next few days getting ours done!' Cork's class of 2025 have similar capability to inspire, beating Limerick twice last summer and winning the Rebels' first League title in 27 years this month, although they face Tipp having been pegged back by All-Ireland champions Clare last week. 'I suppose this team growth has been gradual for us,' notes Keating. 'We have always had good players and I'd always feel optimistic at the beginning of the Championship season. 'Now I've heard it said that you would think in Cork there are probably enough good players to make a stab at an All-Ireland at any given time but getting it together and getting the balance and dynamics right and getting the training and tactics right is the tricky part. 'That optimism can get shattered and it was especially in the last few years unfortunately, but it feels like this could be a year. 'Brian Hayes, Ethan Twomey and, obviously, Hoggy are the big stars for me and I think they will be ready for this weekend even if it was disappointing last weekend.' The Frank and Walters's popularity took a huge suge in the wake of TV hit Young Offenders and recording a track featuring an old fan called Cillian Murphy. A band who first came to prominence at a time when the Cork music scene was almost at the centre of the earth have a great tale to tell. 'It was kind of a strange time, we all drank in the same bar, there were like a lot of bands there in The Liberty Bar on South Main Street down near the Washington Street student area and we used to all go to watch Cork City and when summer rolled around the GAA games. 'Anything to fill your time because, I guess, none of us were working and so it was, like, full time music. Nobody was working, Cork was a bit of a black spot. 'So we're socialising in the same place and there was a kind of nice, healthy rivalry among the bands. 'We would be a little bit behind Cyprus Mine, Five Go Down To the Sea and, obviously, Microdisney. 'But we saw what they were doing, releasing records and doing gigs outside Cork and obviously in Microdisney's case doing international shows so we saw what could be done and got inspired by that, to go further afield.' The Frank And Walters and Sultans of Ping FC had the Rebel county on the world map. 'The Sultans wrote brilliant pop songs, there was a band called Waiting Room came a couple of years later and Rory Gallagher - I only got to appreciate Rory Gallagher in my later years because he was so different to what we were doing. We were very much indie, we tried to stay away from influences which were, in a sense, too close to us at the time.' Then the Young Offenders and the second coming! 'That was incredible, we were genuinely winding down, like the numbers were down, which was grand, we understand that in every career you get peaks and troughs, multiple peaks and throughs, in our case. 'Then out of nowhere we had this being played on the Young Offenders and instead of people coming to the gig, it was people coming to the gig and bringing their kids and their sometimes grandchildren. The generational spread at shows now is mental. 'Cillian Murphy was a bit younger than us but had around the tail end at The Liberty Bar and he was definitely aware of us. 'And when he told us subsequently that he was a fan, which was nice, we actually did a song with him, Stages, on our last record (Bringing It All Back Home). It's kind of a spoken word part, which is great. 'If we were in music to make money we'd be doing something else,' added Keating. 'But no matter what it was, I'm pretty certain we'd still be dashing to get to Cork!'
