This is 15 for 50: The Hurling Edition. We tasked three of the greatest minds in hurling - Anthony Daly, Anthony Nash and Liam Sheedy - to come up with a XV of the greatest hurlers the game has seen from the past 50 years to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the All-Stars! Who will get into a stacked full forward line? Who misses out by the skin of their teeth? How many lads will be moved out of position to facilitate another? It is a fascinating listen and, yes, the lads do come to an agreement...
Nov 19, 2021•54 min
Continuing on the coaching theme, this week Maurice chatted to Martin Bennett, sprint coach to the stars of the GAA. Over the course of the podcast, Martin delved into his role with the Waterford hurlers, how to get the most of an athletes performance and how impressive Tyrone's Conor Meyler truly is. You can get in touch with the show on social media or by emailing thegaffer@balls.ie . If you enjoy the show, please subscribe to the podcast feed and leave a five-star rating and comment. See omny...
Nov 15, 2021•43 min
With Mick away, Maurice took the reins this week for a special GAA Embedded interview with Donegal legend Eamon McGee. Amongst other things, Eamon chatted about whether Jim McGuinness ruined football (the answer is no), the problems surrounding coaching throughout the GAA, and his experience on RTE's Ultimate Hell Week! You can get in touch with the show on social media or by emailing thegaffer@balls.ie . If you enjoy the show, please subscribe to the podcast feed and leave a five-star rating an...
Oct 26, 2021•56 min
Mick and Maurice bring you this week's GAA Embedded. The lads discuss the jots of following the club season from afar in 2021, some outstanding performances of the club weekend, including a 39 year old JJ Delaney! For the main part of the show, Maurice talks to Cahair O'Kane of the Irish News with the two differing on the rights and wrongs of "Proposal B," the championship restructure backed by the GPA but, it appears, doomed to failure. You can get in touch with the show on social media or by e...
Oct 18, 2021•1 hr 26 min
Mick and Maurice bring you this week's GAA Embedded discussing a top class club weekend, the continuing managerial appointments, and a striking plea from Maurice for the GAA Special Congress to adopt Proposal B in changing the structure of the football championship. We also discuss great players who were born in the wrong era and missed their county's golden age, and whether or not we dismiss the feats (and stats) of free takers far too easily. You can get in touch with the show on social media ...
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr
Mick McCarthy and Maurice Brosnan are back with GAA Embedded as we dissect some of the biggest stories in what is fast becoming a 12 month GAA season. Is Jack O'Connor the right man for Kerry? Why do so many teams still have no manager so late in the year? We talk about Hurler of the Year and the joy of seeing county legends like Eoin Kelly still ripping it up at club level! You can get in touch with the show on social media or by emailing thegaffer@balls.ie . If you enjoy the show, please subsc...
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 9 min
GAA Embedded is our weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. Every week of the Championship summer, Tipperary's Shane McGrath and Kerry's Darran O'Sullivan have been our guides through the hurling and football championships. We also have special guests, tactical breakdowns, and much, much more. This week, former Mayo manager Stephen Rochford joins Darran to break down Tyrone's shock All-Ireland win, and what went wrong from Mayo? Where do both teams go from here? Is there still that elusive All-Ireland in M...
Sep 12, 2021•1 hr 40 min
GAA Embedded is our weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. Every week of the Championship summer, Tipperary's Shane McGrath and Kerry's Darran O'Sullivan have been our guides through the hurling and football championships. We'll also have special guests, tactical breakdowns, and much, much more. This week, Darran joins us after Kerry crashed out of the All-Ireland championship with an extra-time defeat to brilliant Tyrone. What went wrong for Kerry? And what was their fault and what did Tyrone force them ...
Aug 30, 2021•1 hr 13 min
GAA Embedded is our weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. Every week of the Championship summer, Tipperary's Shane McGrath and Kerry's Darran O'Sullivan have been our guides through the hurling and football championships. We'll also have special guests, tactical breakdowns, and much, much more. This week, Shane is live from Croke Park straight after Limerick hammered Cork to win their 10th ever senior hurling title, and their third in four years. Was it the best display we've ever seen in a final? Can an...
Aug 22, 2021•31 min
GAA Embedded is our weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. It's All-Ireland final week and we preview Cork V Limerick with three greats of the game, Shane McGrath, John Mullane and Tommy Walsh. You can get in touch with the show on social media or by emailing thegaffer@balls.ie . If you enjoy the show, please subscribe to the podcast feed and leave a five-star rating and comment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 19, 2021•56 min
GAA Embedded is our weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. Every week of the Championship summer, Tipperary's Shane McGrath and Kerry's Darran O'Sullivan have been our guides through the hurling and football championships. We'll also have special guests, tactical breakdowns, and much, much more. This week,Darran is with us to review an extraordinary All-Ireland semi-final. How did Mayo do it? What does it mean for Dublin? Will they be back? Maurice Brosnan then joins us to bring us inside the game, where ...
Aug 16, 2021•1 hr 8 min
GAA Embedded is our weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. Every week of the Championship summer, Tipperary's Shane McGrath and Kerry's Darran O'Sullivan have been our guides through the hurling and football championships. We'll also have special guests, tactical breakdowns, and much, much more. This week, Shane is with us to look back on two fascinating hurling semi-finals. Cork are back in the big time, but what chance have they against a Limerick side that looked frankly awesome in Croke Park on Saturd...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 21 min
GAA Embedded is our weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. Every week of the Championship summer, Tipperary's Shane McGrath and Kerry's Darran O'Sullivan will be our guides through the hurling and football championships. We'll also have special guests, tactical breakdowns, and much, much more. This week,Shane is with us to look back on two fascinating hurling quarter finals and look ahead to this week's double bill in Croke Park where the 2021 All-Ireland finalists will be decided. What's next for Tippera...
Aug 05, 2021•1 hr 21 min
On the day the great Joe Canning retired from intercounty hurling, we have an emergency two part special of GAA Embedded today to talk about perhaps the best hurler of his generation and one of the best of all time. In Part Two, we're joined by our regular hurling analyst Shane McGrath, a former housemate of Canning, and by Galway's own Michael Lyster, the Sunday Game legend who represented the entire county in 2017 when the RTE cameras caught his celebration for Joe's famous semi-final point ag...
Jul 28, 2021•29 min
On the day the great Joe Canning retired from intercounty hurling, we have an emergency two part special of GAA Embedded today to talk about perhaps the best hurler of his generation and one of the best of all time. First we talk to our regular GAA analyst, and a Galway fan who's grown up with Joe Canning on his team, Maurice Brosnan to discuss Joe's legacy, and his favourite memories of the man who dominated Galway hurling for 14 years. Check out our channel for Pt. 2 with Shane McGrath and Mic...
Jul 28, 2021•28 min
GAA Embdeded is our new weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. Every Monday for the Championship summer, Tipperary's Shane McGrath and Kerry's Darran O'Sullivan will be our guides through the hurling and football championships. We'll also have special guests, tactical breakdowns, and much, much more. This week, Darran talks about a Cork team that might need to tear is all up after the second worst Munster final defeat of all time, and the worst in 102 years! Did Kerry get anything out of it? Why do Galway...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 21 min
GAA Embdeded is our new weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. Every Monday for the Championship summer, Tipperary's Shane McGrath and Kerry's Darran O'Sullivan will be our guides through the hurling and football championships. We'll also have special guests, tactical breakdowns, and much, much more. This week, Shane (0.58) looks back on an enthralling Munster Hurling Final, with Limerick securing three in a row thanks a second half blitz the likes of which we've rarely seen. Can anybody get in their way ...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 36 min
GAA Embdeded is our new weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. Every Monday for the Championship summer, Tipperary's Shane McGrath and Kerry's Darran O'Sullivan will be our guides through the hurling and football championships. We'll also have special guests, tactical breakdowns, and much, much more. This week, Darran looks back on the game of the Championship so far as Donegal just outlasted local rivals Derry after an almighty scare. We talk about the weekend's "soft" red cards and how they are maybe no...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 23 min
GAA Embdeded is our new weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. Every MOnday for the Championship summer, Tipperary's Shane McGrath and Kerry's Darran O'Sullivan will be our guides through the hurling and football championships. We'll also have special guests, tactical breakdowns, and much, much more. Of course, the fine Balls tradition of guessing the handicaps continues, as PJ and Gary lockhorns for next weeks games. This week, Shane looks back on four incredible games of hurling at the weekend, and a re...
Jul 05, 2021•1 hr 30 min
GAA Embdeded is our new weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. Every MOnday for the Championship summer, Tipperary's Shane McGrath and Kerry's Darran O'Sullivan will be our guides through the hurling and football championships. We'll also have special guests, tactical breakdown, and much, much more. Of course, the fine Balls tradition of guessing the handicaps continues, as PJ and Gary lockhorns for next weeks games. This week, Darran reflects on the serious markers laid down by pretenders to Dublin's cro...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 14 min
It's a football show this week for Guess the Handicaps and it's a massive week for a number of counties in the Allianz League with promotion and relegation at stake in almost every game. Divisions 1, 2 and 3 are all delved into as PJ takes on Gary. The boys will have the simple task of guessing the handicap for each game. It sounds simple, and it is, though the lads don't often make it look so. We chat about the big stories of the weekend around each game as we get pumped for a summer of GAA! Se...
Jun 11, 2021•32 min
It's hurling only this week for Guess the Handicaps and it's a massive week for a number of counties in the curtailed Allianz League campaign. This week, it's a triple threat with Mick and PJ taking on champion Gary with five fixtures from Divisions 1A and 1B. The boys will have the simple task of guessing the handicap for each game. It sounds simple, and it is, though the lads don't often make it look so. We chat about the big stories of the weekend around each game as we get pumped for a summe...
Jun 04, 2021•38 min
It's football only this week for Guess the Handicaps and it's a massive week for a number of counties in the curtailed Allianz League campaign. This week, Mick moves to the contestant's chair where he takes on PJ with five fixtures from Divisions 1, 2 and 3. The two boys will have the simple task of guessing the handicap for each game. It sounds simple, and it is, though the lads don't often make it look so. We chat about the big stories of the weekend around each game as we get pumped for a sum...
May 27, 2021•24 min
Our fine GAA tradition continues this week, but now with double the show! It's a Gaelic Football Show today. Check out our feed for yesterday's Hurling Show. This week, Mick tests out Gary and PJ with six fixtures from Divisions 1 and 2, and the two boys will have the simple task of guessing the handicap for each game. It sounds simple, and it is, though the lads don't often make it look so. We chat about the big stories of the weekend around each game as we get pumped for a summer of GAA! See o...
May 21, 2021•25 min
Our fine GAA tradition continues this week, but now with double the show! It's hurling only today, with the football show coming on Friday. This week, Mick tests out Gary and PJ with four fixtures from Divisions 1A and 1B, and the two boys will have the simple task of guessing the handicap for each game. It sounds simple, and it is, though the lads don't often make it look so. We chat about the big stories of the weekend around each game as we get pumped for a summer of GAA! See omnystudio.com/l...
May 20, 2021•19 min
Another GAA season is upon us and with the Football Leagues kicking off this weekend, what better time to bring back a Balls.ie tradition like no other - Guess The Handicaps! This week, Mick tests out Gary and Donny with eight fixtures across the football and hurling leagues, and the two boys will have the simple task of guessing the handicap for each game. It sounds simple, and it is, though the lads don't often make it look so. We chat about the big stories of the weekend around each game as w...
May 14, 2021•33 min
The Buildup, in association with Ladbrokes is our weekly podcast where we mark your card for the sporting action of the week ahead in the company of Ladbrokes ambassadors Kevin Doyle, Stephen Ferris, Jason Quigley, and other top sporting pundits. It's the All-Ireland Hurling Final this Sunday and Offaly All-Ireland winner Daithi Regan joins us to discuss the ins and outs of Limerick and Waterford and how both teams will approach an intriguing encounter. Get in touch with the show by emailing the...
Dec 09, 2020•31 min
The Buildup, in association with Ladbrokes, is our weekly podcast where we get you hyped for the sporting weekend in the company of Ladbrokes ambassadors Kevin Doyle, Stephen Ferris and Jason Quigley. This is the GAA section of the show where the lads preview an brilliant weekend of GAA Championship action headlined by knockout football where Connacht champions Roscommon meet Mayo, Kerry play Cork, and the Dubs start their quest for Six-In-A-Row against Westmeath. In hurling, it's the last chanc...
Nov 06, 2020•22 min
The Buildup, in association with Ladbrokes, is our weekly podcast where we get you hyped for the sporting weekend in the company of Ladbrokes ambassadors Kevin Doyle, Stephen Ferris and Jason Quigley. This is the GAA section of the show where the lads preview an insane weekend of GAA Championship action as the all four provincial semi-finals will be decided in the hurling, and the straight knockout football Championship gets under way. Mark was also on Big Shout duty this week and had a bet that...
Oct 29, 2020•25 min
The Buildup, in association with Ladbrokes, is our weekly podcast where we get you hyped for the sporting weekend in the company of Ladbrokes ambassadors Kevin Doyle, Stephen Ferris and Jason Quigley. This is the GAA section of the show where Mark, Mick and PJ react to a brilliant weekend of club GAA, including a Kerry classic between Dr. Crokes and Austin Stacks. They also look ahead to another packed weekend at the business end of the hurling and football county championships, while PJ is sold...
Aug 27, 2020•23 min
