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Enda McEvoy on calling the All Ireland final: 'I can't believe you didn't tip us...'

On the eve of his 30th All Ireland final preview, what follows is the good, the bad and the extremely ugly from the Enda McEvoy notebook over the past three decades. Please try not to laugh too loudly at some bits (he asks...)

Fri, 18 Jul, 2025 - 07:00

Enda McEvoy

THE story begins in the summer of 1996. It was warm and sunny, everyone appeared to be doing the Macarena and Limerick and Wexford were making their way by circuitous routes – the former after a punishing campaign in Munster which would tell on them in the end, the latter by winning their first Leinster title in 19 years – to Croke Park.

Your correspondent, newly installed as hurling correspondent of the Sunday Tribune, had opposed Wexford in the provincial final (“you’d have been mad to go for us,” Liam Griffin did have the decency to say afterwards) and again in the All Ireland semi-final.

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