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It’s a Monday night in late October and Liam Hayes asks the Riverside Hotel to put out 400 chairs in the function room... What he doesn’t expect is hordes of Tony Doran fans trooping through the doors until the function room is heaving and there are more people standing than sitting, but still they came. …
This weekend sees the hotly contested county final in recent memory. Oulart, the dominant, stylish force that has dominated Wexford hurling for an age, face the rising tide of St Martins. This has been a battle marked in most peoples calendar since the turn of the year and was made even more mouth-watering after the …
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This Sunday at 3pm, Oulart-The Ballagh will come up against St.Martins in the Wexford Senior Hurling final. Certainly, Oulart-The Ballagh will be out to avenge their opening round loss to a young St.Martins team, however, it has been revealed that they are likely to be missing one of their key forwards for the upcoming game. …
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As we are all aware of at this stage, Oulart-The Ballagh will face St.Martins in this year's Wexford Senior Hurling Championship final. Even though Oulart started off the season poorly, they became the team that we are accustomed to seeing in the second half of this season's campaign and have remained unbeaten since their first-round …
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The Senior Hurling Championship quarter-finals got underway this weekend, and one fan has given their thoughts... When the Rapparees took on Rathnure this evening, their focus was admirable and they were reminiscent of a savvy Oulart The Ballagh team at work. They found each other intelligently and created space in abundance so they were sure …
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In response to the article about one club's hefty representation on the county u21 team in last July's Leinster final... Those St Martins lads went out last night and hurled the socks off Naomh Eanna of Gorey, similar to how they have dominated to other opposition in the previous rounds. Their victory yesterday was symbolic …
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St. Martin’s: After three rounds of the championship, these are the boys all the punters are tipping to relieve Oulart/The Ballagh of the Bob Bowe Cup. They laid down a marker in Round 1 with a winning display against the reigning county champions, performed with less pomp in their win over Ferns in Round 2 …
Continue reading "Wexford Senior Hurling: Who Holds The Key To Group B?"
If Round 1 of the Wexford Senior Hurling Championship, had all the heady excitement and giddiness of the first day back at school, Round 2 was a bit of a damp squib in comparison.
Can you recall the weekend of May 5th-7th 2017? In case you’re struggling to remember what happened way back then, let me remind you that this was the weekend of the opening round of the Wexford Senior Hurling Championship. Now that Davy and the county hurlers are knocked out, attention turns to the Club Championship …
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In his novella ‘Animal Farm’, George Orwell could have been talking about hurling when he examined how power is a corruptive influence which ultimately leads to an acceptance that the more things change, the more they stay the same. While Davy is making sure we Chill the Beans in terms of the Senior Hurling team, …
Continue reading "All Hurlers Are Equal But Some Hurlers Are More Equal Than Others."
Wexford Centre of Excellence, Ferns, November 2016: “The first night we met, I had a presentation, 15 or 20 pages of a presentation, and I think they knew that night what the story was going to be. I outlined in detail where I wanted to go, how I wanted to go and what the story …
Continue reading "Davy Fitz: “This is a proud hurling county, they have a savage history.”"
Carlow travel to Wexford Park tonight, but a rampant win is expected for the Yellowbellies.