This afternoon's Leinster SHC round-robin finale holds out the possibility of an Offaly breakthrough, after years of strife, writes Conor Neville.

An unoriginal thought occurs to me about this time every year (I should say that unoriginal thoughts occur to me all the time, but this particular unoriginal thought hits at this particular time of ...

This is the time of the year when hurling is placed on an altar for worship. Even the agnostic are curious. It is like when Wimbledon is on telly, or The Masters, or the Six Nations, or the World Cup ...

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling final was broadcast on BBC2 for the first time ever on Sunday, July 21, opening up Ireland's national sport to thousands of fascinated first-time viewers. The BBC could ...