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Credit to Tyrone but what w...

09.13.2021

While the Mayo heartbreak continues, let’s also celebrate Tyrone for what they have achieved and on the final Throw-In podcast of the season, Dick Clerkin and Cora Staunton join Will Slattery and Michael Verney to give credit where credit is ...

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09.13.2021 Credit to Tyrone but what was the Mayo game plan? Plus a camogie final classic While the Mayo heartbreak continues, let’s also celebrate Tyrone for what they have achieved and on the final Throw-In podcast of the season, Dick Clerkin and Cora Staunton join Will Slattery and Michael Verney to give credit where credit is ...
09.08.2021 Cora Staunton & Peter Canavan on the All-Ireland Football Final 2021 is becoming known as the year of the underdog but there’s one remaining question to be answered and that’s whether Mayo can banish the ghosts of footballing pasts by capturing Sam Maguire for the first time in seventy years ...
08.30.2021 Tyrone do Kerry again, Peter Keane's future and camogie semis reviewed After the Dubs dominance of the last six years, the 2021 All-Ireland football final has a unique pairing with Tyrone and Mayo set to meet up following Tyrone’s surprising win over Kerry at the weekend and on this week’s Throw-In, ...
08.23.2021 From 'total hurling' to one of the 'best ever', Limerick set to dominate It’s been described as the greatest hurling final display since Kilkenny's demolition of Waterford in 2008 and after Limerick’s record score and victory over Cork this year, just how can they be beaten? Brendan Cummins and John Mullane join Will ...
08.18.2021 Joe Canning & the All-Ireland Hurling Final Preview The countdown to the 2021 All-Ireland Hurling Final is on and the Throw-In looks ahead to the clash of Limerick and Cork with an exclusive interview with Galway legend, Joe Canning, who tells Will Slattery and Michael Verney why all ...
08.16.2021 Mayo's redemption, Dublin's uncertain future and Meath ladies upset Cork After nearly a decade, Mayo have finally shaken off Dublin and taken their fans on another incredible journey to Croke Park. On this week’s Throw-In, Ciarán Whelan and David Brady join Will Slattery and Michael Verney as they look back ...
08.09.2021 The Rebel Roar is back, Limerick’s battles ahead and football semis previewed It’s Cork v Limerick in the 2021 All Ireland hurling final and what a mouth-watering game it promises to be. Ultimately Cork got over the line despite Kilkenny’s last gasp heroics, whilst Limerick were too good for Waterford, and on ...
08.02.2021 Will Waterford topple Limerick? Dublin’s vulnerability and Joe Canning’s special talent Waterford are into another All Ireland semi-final after beating Tipperary at the weekend but the question now is whether their speed and running game will be enough to overcome the country’s best in Limerick? Brendan Cummins and John Mullane join ...
07.26.2021 Kerry's demented hunger, Cork and Waterford rising It’s official, Kerry are now the bookies favourites and after their historic 22-point demolition of Cork in the Munster final, Sam is there for the taking. On this week’s Throw-In podcast, Tomás Ó’Sé joins Will Slattery and Dermot Crowe and ...
07.19.2021 Limerick's greatest half, Davy's next challenge and Monaghan's bittersweet victory It’s been called Limerick’s greatest half of hurling and it sealed their first Munster three-in-a-row since the 1930s so can anyone now stop them retaining the All Ireland? On this week’s Throw-In, Michael Verney was joined by Colm Keys and ...
07.12.2021 Exclusive Gearóid Hegarty interview, plus the football Championship finally kicks into gear Limerick’s Hurler of the Year, Gearóid Hegarty, joins Will Slattery and Michael Verney for an exclusive interview on this week’s Throw-In podcast as he looks ahead to the crunch Munster final clash with Tipperary. Hegarty then talks about his hugely ...
07.05.2021 Clare fury, Dublin hurlers tear up the script and Cluxton’s distractions Dublin's hurlers provided the first major shock of the Championship as they tore up the script against Galway and on this week’s Throw-In podcast, John Mullane joined Will Slattery, Michael Verney and Roy Curtis to look back on all the ...
06.28.2021 The Championship is back and the big guns go marching on The 2021 Championship is up and running and with the main rivals to Dublin’s crown all in action, Kerry, Donegal and Mayo showed they are all hungry to push on this year. While there were easy wins for Kerry, Donegal ...
06.24.2021 John Mullane & Dick Clerkin’s 2021 Championship Preview With the League barely out of the way, we’re already looking forward to the start of the 2021 All Ireland football and hurling championships this weekend and in a special preview show, John Mullane and Dick Clerkin join Will Slattery, ...
06.14.2021 Who's got the 'big Mo' as we head into the Summer? Momentum is everything in sport and with such a short turn-around between the Allianz Leagues and the Championship, it’s more important than ever this summer in the GAA and on this week’s Throw-In podcast, David Brady and Brendan Cummins join ...
06.07.2021 Hurling has changed, Limerick looking ominous & the return of Offaly GAA We’ve gone from too many stops to too many scores - it’s hard it seems to keep hurling folk happy these days. So what is it we actually want asks Vincent Hogan on this week’s Throw-In as he joins Will ...
06.03.2021 The Dub v Meath 1991 Four Game Series Remembered with Paul Curran & Colm O'Rourke It’s been called the birth of the modern GAA and thirty years on from the epic 4-game saga between Dublin and Meath in the opening round of the Leinster Championship that electrified and captured the nation’s attention, the Throw-In looks ...
05.31.2021 Finals uncertainty, high hopes for football and Kilkenny's ruthlessness The sun was shining over the weekend and so was the action in the Allianz football leagues – the question now is, will it be a pre-cursor to free-flowing games for the rest of the summer? Looking back on all ...
05.24.2021 Kerry's fight, Limerick's discipline and Covid contacts Dublin and Kerry’s drawn game in Thurles over the weekend threw up more questions than answers but looking to the Championship is the Kingdom any closer to dethroning Dublin? Dick Clerkin and Frank Roche joined Will Slattery and Michael Verney ...
05.17.2021 Kerry lead the way, Limerick's vulnerability and can someone tell us why the rule changes? The return of hurling and Gaelic football has seen fans not roaring in delight at the games being played but instead throwing their hands up in the air at the new rule changes in both codes and wondering why? “Who ...
05.13.2021 New football league format but who can topple the Dubs this year? The Allianz Football League is back this weekend with a new format and mini local competitions that promise plenty of fireworks, especially in the Ulster counties. The latest Throw-In looks ahead to the return of inter-county gaelic football action and ...
05.10.2021 Antrim's shock win, hurling's 'advantage rule' and Cork contenders? The opening weekend of the Allianz Hurling League threw up a welcome shock with Antrim’s two point win over Clare and joining Will Slattery and Michael Verney on this week’s Throw-In was Brendan Cummins and Colm Keys to look back ...
05.06.2021 Tipperary's Limerick problem, Brian Cody's position and new rules on cynical play The 2021 GAA season is back and finally fans can feel some sense of normalcy return. It may be a truncated League this year but what an opening hurling fixture to whet the appetite between reigning champions, Limerick, and the ...
04.08.2021 The Top 50 GAA controversies Michael Verney is joined by Vincent Hogan, Martin Breheny and Colm Keys for a special episode of the Throw-In to reflect on the Top 50 GAA controversies. This Saturday will see Colm take a forensic look at the controversies which ...
01.25.2021 All Stars at 50 - debate, resignations and controversies Will Slattery and Michael Verney are joined by Martin Breheny for a special episode of the Throw-In to reflect on 50 years of All-Star teams. Starting on Tuesday, Martin has a series running this week in the Irish Independent and ...
12.21.2020 Dublin's historic 6-in-a-row and where does Mayo and the rest of the counties go from here? There was to be no unbridled Christmas celebrations for Mayo – or Waterford – fans this year with the favourites in both codes winning out comfortably at the end of the 2020 All Ireland series but the fall-out from Dublin’s ...
12.17.2020 Can Mayo make it a memorable 2020 or will Dublin’s stranglehold on the game continue? The GAA Championship is set to say goodbye to 2020 this Sunday with the clash between Mayo and Dublin in the All Ireland Football Final - their third final meeting in the last five years. The possibility of a team ...
12.14.2020 Is this the beginning of a Limerick dynasty? Waterford’s wait for another All Ireland hurling title goes on but in the aftermath of this year’s hurling decider, all the plaudits are rightly on Limerick’s incredible performance to win their second Liam MacCarthy in three years. On this week’s ...
12.10.2020 Vincent Hogan's All Ireland Hurling Final Preview In the year of Covid and a delayed, truncated season without fans, the 2020 All Ireland Hurling Final will be remembered no matter what. But with red-hot Limerick facing a Waterford team with unshakeable belief and a growing momentum behind ...
12.07.2020 Is Dublin really the problem? Mayo’s slim chance and a regressive day for women’s sport It might have been a weekend of Football Championship semi-finals but the aftermath of the games has seen more negatives than positives and this week’s Throw-In with Will Slattery, Michael Verney, Conor McKeon and Martin Breheny looks back on the ...
11.30.2020 Waterford's greatest half, Limerick's fear factor and Galway v Kilkenny in the camogie final Could this be Waterford’s greatest Christmas ever? Despite the pandemic and the lockdown, the Déise will be celebrating come the evening of Sunday December 13th says John Mullane on this week’s Throw-In. He joined Will Slattery, Michael Verney and Ursula ...
11.23.2020 Football’s history makers, the Dublin machine and Waterford dark horses? One hundred years, eighty-five years and twenty-three years in the making. It was the GAA weekend that saw history being made in the Football Championship and joining Will Slattery and Michael Verney to look back on it all on this ...
11.16.2020 Mayo's confidence rising, Waterford back on the horse and beware the Cats It was another weekend of scintillating GAA action with Limerick retaining their Munster title over a spirited Waterford team, while in Mayo, their good form continued with a one point victory over Galway in the Connacht Final and to look ...
11.09.2020 Kerry dumped out while Cork and Mayo roll on The Championship has ignited. Cork’s last-gasp winning goal has dumped Kerry out of the Championship without any backdoor for the Kingdom to go through. 2020 is over for Kerry football and on this week’s Throw-In, David Brady and Martin Breheny ...
11.02.2020 Only Covid can stop John Kiely’s team now, Cork’s demise and pressure grows on Mickey Harte Limerick are the complete team and only Covid can stop them reckons John Mullane who joined Will Slattery, Michael Verney and Ursula Jacob on this week’s Throw In as the panel looked back on a bumper weekend of hurling, camogie, ...
10.28.2020 Kerry to derail the Dubs and is this Limerick’s year? What a way for the Championship to start back. Limerick’s thirty-six point haul against Clare has put them firmly in the driving seat and John Mullane joins Will Slattery, Michael Verney and Roy Curtis to look ahead to all the ...
10.26.2020 Limerick the team to beat, Kerry’s progress and Conor McKenna stars for Tyrone In the strangest of League finales, this weekend saw Limerick post a massive 36 points over Clare in the hurling decider which also doubled up as the Munster Championship opener, while Kerry’s 14 point win over Donegal saw them collect ...
10.22.2020 Who's tipping Tipp? It's the Throw-In's All Ireland Hurling Championship preview The inter-county hurlers finally to get back out onto the field of battle this weekend as the delayed and truncated All Ireland Championship for 2020 finally gets underway. It’s a return to the old ways of course with just straight ...
10.19.2020 While the nation holds its breath, the GAA at least is back The inter-county GAA season is back and while it may be changed circumstances, some things still stay the same. A thumping Mayo win over Galway has the fans reaching for superlatives and whispers of glory, while there was another Dublin ...
10.14.2020 Why everything is on the line with the resumption of the Football Leagues Finally, the inter-county GAA gets set to resume with the resumption of the final two rounds of the Allianz Football Leagues which means the Throw-In is also back and for this week’s show Will Slattery and Michael Verney look ahead ...
05.28.2020 Corcoran over JBM, King Henry vs DJ and tough calls in Dublin On the latest episode of The Throw-In podcast, Will Slattery and Michael Verney are joined by Martin Breheny and Vincent Hogan to discuss Martin's 20-20-50 rankings. This week Martin has ranked the top 20 footballers and hurlers from every county ...
05.20.2020 20-20-50 - Martin Breheny's ultimate football and hurling rankings On this episode of The Throw-In, Will Slattery and Michael Verney are joined by Vincent Hogan and Martin Breheny to discuss the Irish Independent's 20-20-50 series. Starting on Monday May 25th, Martin is ranking the 20 best footballers and hurlers ...
03.09.2020 Galway's surge, Tipp's question marks and Waterford a different animal There was just hurling action in the Allianz Leagues over the weekend and on this week’s Throw-In, Vincent Hogan, Donnchadh Boyle and John Mullane joined Will Slattery to look back on all the games. Galway’s resurgence under Shane O’Neill and ...
03.02.2020 The rise of tunnel brawls, Mayo’s battles ahead and hurling’s black card shot down Tyrone v Dublin being played in horrendous conditions with plenty of history between these teams, what could possibly go wrong? This week on the Throw-In, Ciaran Whelan joins Will Slattery, Michael Verney and Colm Keys to discuss the fall-out from ...
02.24.2020 Jim Gavin's cap, Brolly as the waterboy and leave hurling alone Does Dublin have a weakness, the Padraig Joyce effect, cynicism in football, the state of hurling referees, Brian Lohan's direct route and the positive effect of the new camogie rules are all up for discussion on this week's Throw-In. Tomás ...
02.17.2020 How Wexford are transforming hurling, weather woe and the wild world of Division Two On this week's episode of The Throw-In, Will Slattery and Michael Verney are joined by John Mullane and Frank Roche to review the latest weekend of Allianz League action. What was meant to be a hurling-only weekend also ended up ...
02.10.2020 The problem with refs and umpires, Galway the sleeping giant and is Bugler the new Connolly? Referees, umpires, cards and time-keeping all came under the microscope after this weekend’s Allianz Football League games and on this week’s Throw-In, Ciaran Whelan joined Will Slattery and Donnchadh Boyle to go through all the big talking points. Whelan slammed ...
02.03.2020 Mayo's failings on the scoreboard, Galway’s new lease of life, and stop trying to fix hurling Playing with fourteen men, the clash in Castlebar between Mayo and Dublin became a foregone conclusion, but for David Brady, who joined Will Slattery, Michael Verney and John Brennan on this week’s Throw-In, the failings on the scoreboard over long ...
01.27.2020 Dessie Farrell’s Dublin League debut, scrap the advanced mark and Limerick’s psychological boost The Allianz Leagues began with a bang over the weekend and while it’s a new era for Dublin under Dessie Farrell, the rivalry with Kerry is still the one to watch in 2020. Tomás Ó’Sé joined Will Slattery, Michael Verney ...
01.20.2020 Allianz Leagues 2020 Preview The Throw-In is back for another weekly series covering the Allianz Football and Hurling Leagues. On this first show, Will Slattery and Michael Verney are joined by the Irish Independent's, Vincent Hogan and Colm Keys, as they preview the 2020 ...

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The Throw-In episodes:

Credit to Tyrone but what was the Mayo game plan? Plus a camogie final classic

Cora Staunton & Peter Canavan on the All-Ireland Football Final

Tyrone do Kerry again, Peter Keane's future and camogie semis reviewed

From 'total hurling' to one of the 'best ever', Limerick set to dominate

Joe Canning & the All-Ireland Hurling Final Preview

Mayo's redemption, Dublin's uncertain future and Meath ladies upset Cork

The Rebel Roar is back, Limerick’s battles ahead and football semis previewed

Will Waterford topple Limerick? Dublin’s vulnerability and Joe Canning’s special talent

Kerry's demented hunger, Cork and Waterford rising

Limerick's greatest half, Davy's next challenge and Monaghan's bittersweet victory

Exclusive Gearóid Hegarty interview, plus the football Championship finally kicks into gear

Clare fury, Dublin hurlers tear up the script and Cluxton’s distractions

The Championship is back and the big guns go marching on

John Mullane & Dick Clerkin’s 2021 Championship Preview

Who's got the 'big Mo' as we head into the Summer?

Hurling has changed, Limerick looking ominous & the return of Offaly GAA

The Dub v Meath 1991 Four Game Series Remembered with Paul Curran & Colm O'Rourke

Finals uncertainty, high hopes for football and Kilkenny's ruthlessness

Kerry's fight, Limerick's discipline and Covid contacts

Kerry lead the way, Limerick's vulnerability and can someone tell us why the rule changes?

New football league format but who can topple the Dubs this year?

Antrim's shock win, hurling's 'advantage rule' and Cork contenders?

Tipperary's Limerick problem, Brian Cody's position and new rules on cynical play

The Top 50 GAA controversies

All Stars at 50 - debate, resignations and controversies

Dublin's historic 6-in-a-row and where does Mayo and the rest of the counties go from here?

Can Mayo make it a memorable 2020 or will Dublin’s stranglehold on the game continue?

Is this the beginning of a Limerick dynasty?

Vincent Hogan's All Ireland Hurling Final Preview

Is Dublin really the problem? Mayo’s slim chance and a regressive day for women’s sport

Waterford's greatest half, Limerick's fear factor and Galway v Kilkenny in the camogie final

Football’s history makers, the Dublin machine and Waterford dark horses?

Mayo's confidence rising, Waterford back on the horse and beware the Cats

Kerry dumped out while Cork and Mayo roll on

Only Covid can stop John Kiely’s team now, Cork’s demise and pressure grows on Mickey Harte

Kerry to derail the Dubs and is this Limerick’s year?

Limerick the team to beat, Kerry’s progress and Conor McKenna stars for Tyrone

Who's tipping Tipp? It's the Throw-In's All Ireland Hurling Championship preview

While the nation holds its breath, the GAA at least is back

Why everything is on the line with the resumption of the Football Leagues

Corcoran over JBM, King Henry vs DJ and tough calls in Dublin

20-20-50 - Martin Breheny's ultimate football and hurling rankings

Galway's surge, Tipp's question marks and Waterford a different animal

The rise of tunnel brawls, Mayo’s battles ahead and hurling’s black card shot down

Jim Gavin's cap, Brolly as the waterboy and leave hurling alone

How Wexford are transforming hurling, weather woe and the wild world of Division Two

The problem with refs and umpires, Galway the sleeping giant and is Bugler the new Connolly?

Mayo's failings on the scoreboard, Galway’s new lease of life, and stop trying to fix hurling

Dessie Farrell’s Dublin League debut, scrap the advanced mark and Limerick’s psychological boost

Allianz Leagues 2020 Preview

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