How do you defend a lead in hurling? What is a safe lead? How late? Do “insurance” scores exist anymore? Must they come with the last puck? Will anybody even quote a premium? Some numbers and ...

The Munster Hurling championship has saved the world from doom! Packed into a big football weekend, Cork/ Clare and Limerick/Tipp shook us all. Magnificent stuff. The football was good too.

Cork needed to stem the flow. “When you bleed, don’t bleed heavy,” as former Limerick manager TJ Ryan is fond of saying on the Irish Examiner’s hurling podcast. A lap of the posts to slow ...

What's that coming over the hill? Is it a Munster? It is. And a Leinster too. The hurling championship is back and it’s shaping to be a novel one. For the first time in what feels like forever ...