Seemed like a good idea at the time. The experience of coaching a new team against your home county, and one who you led to two All-Irelands, can’t be easy. Sure, Ger Loughnane wanted to turn Clare over, but it was tougher to get fired up for than, say, playing Tipperary or Kilkenny. Loughnane joined The […]
8 years ago
“Joe was an expert on periodic brilliance.” Joe Canning made his breakthrough into the Galway senior hurling panel when he was 19 but it wasn’t always easy, nor rosy. Séamus, Frank, Davy, Ollie, Ivan, Deirdre and Joe Canning are right up there with the most successful GAA siblings in the history of the game. They come […]
8 years ago
“If you criticise somebody and they turn things around – and go from being folders or quitters to winners – your admiration is bigger.” Ger Loughnane faced the music but at least he did it on home turf. The GAA Hour paid a visit to Ennis ahead of the All-Ireland Hurling semi-final between Clare and […]
8 years ago
RTE Sunday Game panelist Ger Loughnane has criticised Galway for how they defended Ger Aylward’s goal in the first-half of Kilkenny’s Leinster Senior Hurling Championship replay loss to the defending All-Ireland champions on Sunday. Galway got off to a great start at Semple Stadium with Cathal Mannion, Conor Whelan and Niall Burke all pointing early […]
8 years ago
That should be the end of it
9 years ago
He actually looks like them
10 years ago