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A SAGA THAT has gripped the nation (or at least, TheScore.ie office) came to an unexpected end tonight.
The status of Roy Keane’s much-discussed and highly divisive beard has attracted almost as much attention as his newly released autobiography, but presumably fed up with answering questions about his unique look, the Corkonian today made a reportedly amicable decision to part ways with his facial hair.
Following this shock development, our attempts to contact several beard connoisseurs this evening proved unsuccessful, as they were presumably too distraught to talk.
Oh well, we’ll always have the memories!
Here’s another anomaly in the whole hurling relegation/promotion structure. Winners of the Christy Ring Cup have to play the bottom team in the Joe McDonagh in a play-off. Seems the only place where there’s automatic relegation is in the Leinster group. Why not use the same system everywhere, so either there are playoffs, or there’s not?
Incidentally, and no offence intended to the late Joe McDonagh, but I can’t help wondering why his name was given to the new second tier competition, thereby elevating him above Christy Ring and Nicky Rackard. McDonagh was a great GAA man all right, but is he really worthy of a place higher than those other two in history?
I hope this victory helps to popularise the game of Hurling in Kildare
@Noel Martin: Well to be honest the last one in 2014 didn’t, the county board need to be the ones to stand up and take note. There’s plenty of interest in Kildare for Hurling, a lot of great work going in at underage level in clubs. It needs the backing from the county board, their attitude towards the game is desperate.