Since it's only the biggest weekend of GAA we can remember - the Dublin-Mayo replay on Saturday evening, the Galway-Kilkenny All-Ireland final Sunday - we figured it was worthwhile to conduct the first ever dual-code Hard Shoulder.
Sweets may be away, but Anthony Moyles is back from our Navan studio and joined by Longford's Conor Neville to discuss the Dublin-Mayo draw and Saturday's replay. With an eye on Diarmuid Connolly's red card appeal, Tony also shares an anecdote about the time he and his club were nearly banned for a year because of a linesman's mistake and the long road to justice in the GAA via about 40 appeals.
In Part 2, we've got an exclusive interview with greatest hurler of all time, Henry Shefflin. King Henry sat down with Conor to talk about retirement, the Sunday Game's waistcoat wars, Galway's unpredictability and his ambitions for management. Afterwards Conor and Balls.ie's Donny Mahoney, two men with Galway hurling sympathies, discuss whether Anthony Cunningham is a genius and if Galway can with a rather unlikely All-Ireland this Sunday.
All that and much more on this week's Hard Shoulder.
Shefflin was speaking with Balls thanks to Centra.
Centra’s ‘Champion of Healthy Living’ ambassador Henry Shefflin was named Ireland’s favourite hurler in a survey conducted at Centra’s community hurling events this summer. Almost 5,000 children turned out for Centra’s ‘Champions of Healthy Living’ events across 13 different locations during the Championship season with a selection of the finest inter-county stars. The events travelled tocounties from Cork to Donegal and Galway to Dublin with hurling stars such as Henry Shefflin, Patrick Horgan and Conal Keaney, on hand to give budding hurlers form local clubs the chance to learn from the best in the game!
