Cork hurlers are giving us the best days of our lives.

About this episode

The episode discusses the recent successes of the Cork hurlers and footballers, analyzing their performances and the state of Cork GAA.

The Cork hurlers two from two to start the round robin series for the first time since its inception in 2018 and the footballers into a first Munster final in five years... a good weekend's work. The Echo Sport Podcast crew break down the action from Thurles and SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh and access the state of play with time to take a breath before the action resumes after the May Bank Holiday.  Now in its fourth season, every week Éamonn Murphy is joined by The Echo team, including Barry O’Mahony, Denis Hurley, Rory Noonan, John Horgan and more to discuss all the latest Cork GAA news on and off the field. On the hurling front, Cork emptied the tank to pull off a victory against Limerick, who, despite losing Aaron Gillane to a training-ground injury and Cian Lynch to a second-half red card, came very close to winning on Leeside. For the hosts, it's now 11 games in league and championship without defeat since two years ago when going under to Clare left them on the brink. It's been an incredible run, as Man of the Match and captain Darragh Fitzgibbon told RTE: "It’s just unbelievable here, these are the best days of our lives.” Now look we all know it's an All-Ireland we…

People in this episode

Host: Éamonn Murphy

Topics covered

• Cork hurling
• GAA news
• sports analysis
• Cork football
• round robin series
• victory against Limerick

Keywords

• Cork hurlers
• Limerick
• GAA
• Munster final
• Darragh Fitzgibbon
• victory
• sports podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: RTE

Places: Cork, Limerick, Thurles, SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh

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