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Thurles would be a great place for it too. That Offaly team is made for Thurles.

Depends who's in it. Don't be surprised if it's Galway facing Clare in the other quarter final.

Anyway, most important thing is that Offaly are there.

Oh yes. As well as quotas: six from the county champions, four from last year's runners up, and so on. And two places for players from Junior clubs. And five selectors.

So we need to:
a) Keep spots for fellas because they soldiered through the lower tier years
b) Promote emerging talent faster ...

The boon from an All-Ireland quarter-final place would be four weeks additional hurling at Senior intercounty level. Summertime conditions might even arrive in that period. But you wouldn't know.

There's massive character in that team. More than I ever imagined. It's been a helluva four weeks. Nine ...

I just want to pick up on this, and I am aware the poster is pointing out what was said on the radio.

I was there on Sunday, and I didn’t see any Offaly hurler being roughed up or anything like that. And if Johnny Kelly had any issues, he wasn’t going down that road in post match media briefings ...

Several of the national media herd going off about this, but I wouldn’t worry about it, to be honest.

A lot going on in Offaly at the moment. Last week had U14 hurling leagues, U13 football leagues, U16 hurling leagues, Adult hurling leagues at the weekend, while this weekend is going to have U12 ...

League is league; championship is championship.

Kilcormac-Killoughey?

private joker wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2026 3:53 pm kk bet Westmeath by 16 point margin in clonkill.
4-18 to 14 points.

Offaly lost their centre half-back to injury early in the second half.

Jim Troy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2026 11:16 am What’s the centre back reference about?

You’d feel for those Minor hurlers today. When it comes to judgment day, you’d like to be judged on a more benign day, weather wise. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case. Imagine trying to hit a hurling ball into that wind. They talk about April borrowing days from March – these last few days have ...

It wasn’t pretty earlier, but it was that kind of evening. And credit to the lads, they didn’t panic and never really looked like losing it.

Not dissimilar to the performance against Meath in 2024’s Minor championship – on a similar kind of day that just militated against good hurling.

They showed ...

I’d say it’s because the management are picking what they see as the best team that fits in with their plans. Bear in mind that this management has ben with the Minors in each of the last three years – they know each and every footballer in Offaly that’s 18, 19 or 20 this year.

They’d be very ...

There is. Peter Fanning. The first from Gracefield to hurl Minor for Offaly since Tom Turley did in 1957 (the same Minor team Tommy Cullen was on - reached the Leinster final too and didn't do too bad against Kilkenny).

Was there a Gracefield man playing too? Would he be the 1st from that club to ...

Cillian Farrell played Minor hurling for Offaly in 1994 and 1995, but we won't split hairs over the year. And was on the frees in the latter year. Cillian went on to play three years with Offaly U21s, on the frees in 1997 and '98.

Pádraig Fitzsimons played Minor hurling for Offaly in 1993. Seán Óg ...

Would you ever go away with your - a drunk in a pub told me so it must be true - arseholery? 7 or 8 U16 players in an Offaly Minor squad would be about par for the course.

And how will the U16s get on without them? The same as they do every year. Other players will get called into the squad ...

Good to see Coláiste Naomh Cormac into the All-Ireland Final. A great achievement for a small school. All the moreso with two of their better players attending school elsewhere.