“Did we get too carried away?” asks Darragh Maloney after Daniel Wiffen finishes third in a race where the winner swims 1500m faster than anybody in history
Some of us are old enough to remember when Ireland went 28 years without an Olympic swimming medal. It was last week
Denis Hurley
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Sports reporter, @echolivecork
- The Dublin senior football team have been lauded for the example shown to others in not travelling outside the county
- Guaranteed to be the same old story, people looking for tickets for the All-Ireland final having not gone to a single league game this year
- Love Bowie's response when teenagers thought Man Who Sold The World was him covering Nirvana
- Jack Cork is now older than his father Alan was when Sheffield United reached the FA Cup semi-finals in 1993
- Drawn in the same group as last year
- I'll always recall this picture from A Season of Sundays '99 of Nickie Quaid, playing for Ireland v Scotland in an U12 hurling/shinty game. Guarding such a large goal probably helped to improve his anticipation skills, displayed so brilliantly today
- Frank Murphy must be kicking himself that he never decided to become Executive Assistant Secretary of Cork GAA
- The black jersey which Cork hurlers will wear against Limerick on Sunday, with the footballers wearing black against Derry a week later. It commemorates Tomás Mac Curtain and Terence MacSwiney, both of whom died in 1920 while Lord Mayor of Cork
- Such a crying shame that Love Island is over for another year, everything crammed into eight weeks, the schools not even back, and now the other shows are given the rest of the year for themselves when so much more could be put into promoting LI and growing the dating game












