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Thursday, 2nd


August 2018


Kennedy Summer School set to host high profile Sporting Heroes


Profiles in Sporting Courage is a high profile sports panel discussion set to take place at the sixth annual Kennedy Summer School this September 6th in New Ross in County Wexford. One of the world’s most successful horse trainers Aidan O’Brien who has been the private trainer at Ballydoyle Stables near Cashel in County Tipper- ary for John Magnier and his Coolmore Stud associ- ates will be joined by Hurl- ing manager and former player Davy Fitzgerald and All-Ireland Camogie player and TV personal-


ity Anna Geary plus the former Premiership foot- baller with 64 full Irish international caps Kevin Doyle, as they discuss the demands and sacrifices that top-level athletes must endure chaired by journal- ist Sinead O’Carroll. Despite chronic back


pain, John Kennedy was an enthusiastic participant in family touch football games and he also enjoyed sailing and golf. The love of sport in the Kennedy family was also reflected in Eunice Kennedy Shriv- er’s work with the Special Olympics. This panel of Irish sporting legends will


provide their audience with a unique opportunity to hear each of their per- spectives during the 2018 Summer School. Other highlights of the


3-day festival of politics and culture include an audience with American human rights activist and daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, Kerry Kenne- dy; American Presidential campaign strategist for John McCain, John Kasich and of and George H.W Bush, Mr. John Weaver, a sit down interview with Miriam O’Callaghan; the Kennedy Speaker’s Lunch’ will see EU Commissioner


Phil Hogan give his update take on Brexit; Gerard Doherty former Chair of the Massachusetts Demo- cratic Party will present his book “They were friends of mine, Bobby, Jack and Ted” to the John F. Ken- nedy Book and Research Archive at New Ross Li- brary along with a num- ber of Politicians, News correspondents and lead- ing global academics who will all join in the discus- sions billed for the annual Kennedy Summer School and a special screening of Greg Barker’s fly-on- the-wall documentary about Barrack Obama’s


final year in office will take place, followed by a skype interview with Saman- tha Power the former US Ambassador to the United Nations. More than 40 guest


speakers will participate in debates on a wide range of subjects with current U.S. politics, the final phase of Brexit negotiations and the recent Referendum to Repeal the 8th


featuring prominently from September 6th 2018.


Amendment to 8th


Entertainment will be


on the bill too as Brendan Grace joins Rachel Al- len to host a Tea Party in


the yard at the Kennedy Homestead in Dungan- stown set to be reminiscent of the most famous tea party in history as Pres- ident John F. Kennedy stood in the yard of his an- cestral home in New Ross and drank an iconic cup of tea with his Irish cousin Mary Ryan.


A special event for


School students will also be on offer with author and academic Sinead Burke as she joins Senator Lynn Ruane and 2FM DJ Chris Greene to address more than 800 pupils on ‘Inspiring Ambition over


For further details


and tickets for the 2018 events see kennedysum- merschool.ie or call St. Michael’s Theatre on 051 421255.


Adversity’. Events will close with a


special event to mark the 50th


anniversary of the


opening of The John F. Kennedy Arboretum. The Kennedy Summer School and Festival is run in as- sociation with the John F. Kennedy Trust, New Ross and Wexford County Council.


All Ireland Hurling Semi-Final


Galway 1-30 Clare 1-30


(After extra Time)


A hurling champion- ship that just keeps on giving with Clare and Galway serving up a thrilling contest in the first of the All- Ireland semi-finals, played on Saturday evening, where the sides, even after extra time could not be separated. This was the greatest match yet of the 2018 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champion- ship, and that’s saying something.


It was fitting too that the


last-gasp equaliser from Clare substitute Jason Mc- Carthy was as epic as the match itself. The allotted three minutes of inju- ry-time in the second-half of extra-time were up when Clare goalkeeper Donal Tuohy took a puck- out, but rather than blast it down the field as far as he could he picked out Colm Galvin with a short-pass. With the whole stadium a high-pitched frenzy of noise, Clare somehow kept their cool as they


worked the ball patiently downfield through Gal- vin, Conor Cleary and David Fitzgerald until it came to McCarthy who held his nerve and shot the sliotar between the posts and earn Clare a de- served share of the spoils and another shot at the champions next Sunday in Semple Stadium Thurles at 2.00pm.


Early in the match this


sort of epic climax would hardly seemed likely and while Clare had been lev- el at a point each, Galway took control and were nine points clear by the 16th


minute (1-7 to 0-1)


with Clare looking in deep trouble with Conor Coon- ey scoring the goal and Joe Canning leading the point scoring.


It was then that the


Clare management made a tactical switch that had a huge impact on the game, as they detailed Colm Galvin to drop deep and playing in front of his be- leaguered full-back line as a sweeper. Clare were sud-


denly transformed. Galvin began hoovering up the long Galway deliveries that until then had been causing wreck in the Clare defence, and his accurate distribution put the Ban- ner on the front foot. Tony Kelly and Peter


Duggan thundered into the game as Clare out- scored Galway by 0-8 to 0-1 between the 18th 33rd


and minutes to leave just


two points between the teams. Galway had scored the last two points of the half to lead by four at half- time but considering how fast they had started and the fact that they also hit 12 wides in the first half, they surely had mixed emotions going to the dressing-room leading by 1-10 to 0-9.


Clare’s confidence was


growing all the time, and they were given anoth- er surge of momentum by John Conlon in the second-half. He’d come off second-best to Daithi Burke in the first half, but now it was the Clare man coming out on top in a ferociously physical battle that was worth the price of admission on its own. Held scoreless in the first- half by Burke, he would score four points in the second, all of them qual-


ity. Shane O’Donnell was also now posing a fresh threat to the Galway de- fence, and when Clare closed to within one point of the Tribesmen by the 41st


minute, they looked


like the team with the mo- mentum. However, Gal- way captain David Burke decided it was his turn to take the game by the scruff of the neck, and he scored two of a four-point Galway salvo that pushed them five points clear.


Not for long, just four


minutes in fact, because Clare then hit the after- burners to score five points in a row and level the game up for the first time since the throw-in. Clare looked like the team with greater energy, but there’s a self-assurance that comes with being a reign- ing All-Ireland champion and Galway stuck im- placably to the task. Joe Canning, especially, was having a major influence on the game. Two points from play from him stead- ied Galway again, and as the match ticked into the final ten minutes it looked like the Tribesmen’s sur- vival instincts would see them home. They did well to capitalise on a couple of Clare errors to move 1-23 to 0-23 ahead after


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66 minutes, but we should have known by now that there was more drama to come. Tony Kelly produced


yet another brilliant touch in a match of many when he spun over a side-line cut from a tight angle, and then Conlon reduced the deficit to the minimum. The sliotar pin-balled all over the place in inju- ry time until eventually that man Kelly came up trumps for Clare again when he won a free that Duggan converted to bring the match to ex- tra-time.


Clare smelled blood,


but in the first half of ex- tra-time it was as if they didn’t know how to go in for the kill as they hit seven wides in that ten-minute period alone. Galway were on the ropes, but somehow led by 1-26 to 0-27 at the end of the first period of extra-time.


By now they had lost


two key figures to injury – Gearoid McInerney and Joe Canning – and they were struck another body- blow right at the start of the second period of ex- tra-time when Clare sub Aron Shanagher struck for a brilliantly taken goal to put the Banner into the


lead for the first time in the match. Galway again dug, stuck to the task, and when they scored three points in a row in the dy- ing minutes of extra-time it looked as though they had somehow found a way to win.


But then came that late,


great equaliser from Jason McCarthy that ensured this epic match ended in a fitting climax with both sides living to fight anoth- er day. Galway will be in a race against time to get Cooney and McInerney fit for the replay, which if it is half as good as this will see a full house in Thurles next Sunday.


SCORERS FOR


GALWAY: Joe Canning 0-12 (6f, 2 side-lines), Conor Cooney 1-1, Ca- thal Mannion 0-4, David Burke 0-3, Conor Whelan 0-3, Jason Flynn 0-3 (1f), Johnny Coen 0-2, Jon- athan Glynn 0-1, Niall Burke 0-1


SCORERS FOR


CLARE: Peter Duggan 0-14 (11f), John Conlon 0-4, Aron Shanagher 1-0, Shane O’Donnell 0-3, Tony Kelly 0-3 (1 side- line), Ian Galvin 0-2, Da- vid Fitzgerald 0-1, David Reidy 0-1, Jason McCar-


eastcorkjournal hill; David


thy 0-1, Colm Galvin 0-1. GALWAY: James Ske- Adrian Tuohey, Daithi


Burke, John Hanbury; Padraig Mannion, Gearoid McInerney, Aidan


David Burke; Cathal Man- nion,


Harte; Johnny Coen, Joe Canning,


Joseph


Cooney; Conor Whelan, Conor Cooney, Jonathan Glynn. Subs: Niall Burke for Joseph Cooney (52), Paul Killeen for Gea- roid McInerney (54), Jason Flynn for Conor Cooney (63), Sean Loftus for Adrian Tuohey (70), Joseph Cooney for David Burke (82), Conor Cooney for Conor Whelan (82), Davy Glennon for Joe Canning (83).


CLARE: Donal Tuohy; McInerney, Patrick


O’Connor, Jack Browne; Sead- na Morey, Conor Cleary, Jamie Shanahan; Colm Galvin, Ca- thal Malone; Peter Duggan, Tony Kelly, David


Reidy;


Padraic Collins, John Conlon, Shane O’Donnell. Subs: David Fitzgerald for Cathal Malone (47), Conor McGrath for Pad- raic Collins (59), Ian Galvin for David Reidy (60), Aron Shanagher for Shane O’Don- nell (67), Shane O’Donnell for Conor McGrath (82), Jason McCarthy for Jamie Shanahan (82).


Ref: James Owens (Wexford)


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