Conán Doherty

So his feet are firmly on the ground.

I thought it was interesting that one thing he picked out in his interview afterwards was the next day.

Here he is.

And it's good that we have a true blue in Conor McCune on here.

You probably didn't invade the pitch afterwards, but that was a great advertisement for Parnell Park, I might add.

But one thing, it is an interesting and cool aspect to think of with Calhoun's reign is the Dublin-ness of it all.

Like, you know, in the backroom team, he's obviously not a Fianna man.

You had Hooter playing in the Leinster final, you had Micheál Donoghue in charge, now he's back with Galway, but there's a real Dublin-ing into Dublin.

Well, but by contrast, we are going to watch Dublin against Lloyds in the football at Crook Park and it's going to feel so vacant compared to this.

But we'll stick with the Hurling for now.

You said a floating voter.

The bandwagon gets a bad word, I think, in sport in general.

Everybody wants a bandwagon.

That's how sports and sports teams operate.

You need people to come on board.

You want them to come on board.

like Leinster Championship has been so good this year that it's relegated to Munster to a little quick word on Munster but I think that's only until the Munster final because Corker playing Limerick last year obviously went to penalties in the Munster final since Corker and Limerick met in 2024 May 2024 they've actually played each other 8 times now in league and championship Corker won 4 won on penalties Limerick have won 3 and won draws so like that's

very finely poised awfully are into the All-Ireland series their run of Christy Ring minor All-Ireland under 20 All-Ireland Joe McDonagh in successive years is now coming to fruition they're in the All-Ireland knockouts and it's like a sliding doors moment like we often mention on this podcast but they played Antrim in the last game last year and the winner was staying up and the loser was going down to Joe McDonagh and then that's where Antrim found themselves failed to get through to the Joe McDonagh final and now Davey Fitzgerald the manager is gone after two years and

In an interim statement said we want to thank Davey Fitzgerald and his entire backroom team for their commitment and efforts with our senior hurlers over the past two seasons.

Under Davey's management we retained our status in Division 1 hurling in 2025 and 2026.