We got a great response to our invitation to fans to sign up as members in December. We are now asking those who havn’t done so yet to sign up now  in January. Those who sign up online will be in with chance to win a copy of Camán Ye Boys – the story of Dublin’s hurling in 2011. For  our January members competition we are asking you to…

Six months on and Conal Keaney is thankful for big mercies. He’s standing in a room in Croke Park talking about a possible return to hurling with Dublin. For a few days last summer, it was a place he never thought he’d be. On the Friday morning before Dublin’s ground-breaking All-Ireland hurling quarter-final against Limerick, he was riding his motorbike to work out in Blessington —…

Dublin play their first game next Sunday away to Laois in the Walsh Cup. Laois had a hard earned victory over DIT last Sunday and will be looking forward to a good year under the managership of Teddy McCarthy of Cork. Dublin have played Gort, Loughiel, Na Piarsaigh and Limerick in challenge games in the past few weeks and will now be looking forward to…

DUBLIN NORTH 1-19 DUBLIN SOUTH 3-11 Paul Winters, Ciaran Kilkenny and Cormac Costello were to the fore in Parnell Park yesterday as Dublin North advanced. Dublin South started brightly through James Roche and Naoise Greene, but North burst into life when Costello flicked Kilkenny’s ball to the net for the first goal on 12 minutes. South kept in touch with only four between the sides…

Two tribes go to war this Sunday in Parnell Park! It’s the meeting of Dublin North Colleges and their Dublin South counterparts in a preliminary quarter-final of the Leinster Senior Hurling ‘A’ Colleges (Corn Uí Dhúill) 2.0). Coláiste Éanna, who won the Dublin SHC ‘A’ title last month, provide a number of the Southsiders leading lights with last year’s Dublin minor Jamie Desmond continuing to…

We got a great response to our invitation to fans to sign up as members in December. We are now asking those who havn’t done so yet to sign up now  in January. Those who sign up online will be in with chance to win a copy of Camán Ye Boys – the story of Dublin’s hurling in…

Ross returns to Dublin hurlers Ross O’Carroll. Picture: Sportsfile Search Query: Herald.ie WebSearch Wednesday January 04 2012 ROSS O’CARROLL has rejoined the Dublin hurling panel after a two-year absence. The Kilmacud Crokes ace has formed part of the football panel since walking away from Anthony Daly’s men prior to the 2010 season but |has resumed…

WHEN Ryan O’Dwyer puts on the helmet, he shows all the industry of a man that is heading down the mine. He was the top-scorer for Dublin against the Dubs Stars in Tallaght on Sunday afternoon. Nine points, three from play. Ryan’s brother, Tom, hurls with Thomas Davis. He wrote an article about Ryan in…

Champions: Kilkenny players celebrate winning the 2011 All-Ireland hurling final. Photographs: Billy Stickland and Colm O’Neill/Inpho Dublin’s Conal Keaney. SEÁN MORAN SPORT REVIEW 2011: Kilkenny set down an early marker with their league win over Tipp in Thurles and rounded off the year by reclaiming their All-Ireland crown in impressive style THAT TIPPERARY’S triumphant 2010 was…

Vincent Hogan: One small step for Daly, one giant leap for Dublin hurling THE BAD… LEINSTER SHC FINAL KILKENNY 4-17 DUBLIN 1-15 By Vincent Hogan Monday December 26 2011 Historical context is, maybe, the only relevant prism through which to view the miles travelled this year by Anthony Daly and the Dublin hurlers. The last…

Back on top: Martin Breheny gives his verdict Brian Cody’s Kilkenny are back in the familiar surroundings of No 1 in this year’s hurling rankings but how do the rest of the Liam MacCarthy Cup counties feature at the end of 2011. Martin Breheny gives his verdict Saturday December 17 2011 1 Kilkenny (last year:…