Sliotar Magazine - Free Online Hurling Magazine

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Sliotar Magazine - Ireland's Free Hurling Magazine

Sliotar is a new FREE online hurling magazine, delivered straight to your inbox from February 11 2010.

Sliotar will provide detailed coverage of the inter-county and club hurling and camogie season that you can’t find anywhere else. Featuring interviews, previews and profiles of the big games, the burning issues and the brightest stars in Ireland’s national game, Sliotar is the magazine for serious hurling fans.

Coverage of Ulster Hurling will also feature in Sliotar




Among the highlights of the first full-colour issue of Sliotar:

[*]Enter Sandman: Kilkenny Captain TJ Reid talks to former Irish Times columnist PM O’Sullivan about the pressures facing the Cats in 2010.
[*]The Chasing Pack: Denis Walsh from the Sunday Times runs the sliderule over the coming hurling season.
[*]Galway’s Racing Chances: Are the Tribesmen worth a punt in 2010, Irish Times columinist Keith Duggan finds out.
[*] Camogie’s New Contour: Pat Treacy discusses the challenge of bouncing back from the All Ireland defeat in 2009 with Camogie legend Ann Downey.
[*] Moving On Up: Can Tipperary move one step further in 2010, PM O'Sullivan assesses their chances.
[*]Clare Memories: Banner legend Jimmy Smyth on the Grandeur of Hurling

All the action, controversy and humour of the 2010 hurling calendar will be captured in full colour with the best in analysis, photographs, opinion, competitions and stats.

Get quality hurling news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox – sign up to Sliotar now!

To sign up for your FREE copy, visit: Sliotar Magazine

Sliotar Magazine is sponsored by SportsSpread.com

[Bainisteoir]

nice idea mate, wish you all the best with it.

[sliotar]

nice idea mate, wish you all the best with it.

Thanks, if anyone is interested in writing an article about Armagh or Ulster hurling, please email the editor: [email protected]

[stew]

I am delighted to see that Hurling is getting some more exposure these days, Armagh are a progressive Hurling County and within a decade we are projected to be winning Ulster Titles, I think that would be wonderful and with the advent of the new floodlight programme I think that Armagh Hurling is going to take us to unforseen heights.

[ladies football]

is this replacing the hurlingworld magazine or are they the same thing??

[murt]

is this replacing the hurlingworld magazine or are they the same thing??

Nope. There is no connection between Sliotar and Hurling World. To get a copy of Sliotar Magazine, just sign up for FREE at Sliotar Magazine . Thanks.

[murt]

SLIOTAR
Volume 1, Number 2 (March 2010)

What’s new…

• The Big One: Christy O’Connor (The Sunday Times) on the All-Ireland Club Final.
• A Canny Man: PM O’Sullivan meets Ollie Canning.
• The Portumna Way: Michael Geoghegan on the one of the greatest club teams ever.
• Shamrocks Inherit the Earth: PM O’Sullivan on the parish of Ballyhale.
• Cummins Strong: Aidan Cummins talks home and hurling with PM O’Sullivan.
• ‘Hurling By Numbers’: Leo McGough with insightful facts and stats.
• Cartoon: Tom Dack.
• The Kind Undertaker: Damien Fitzhenry stands front and centre with Murt Flynn.
• Sides of March: Seán Moran (The Irish Times) takes the pulse of league form.
• ‘Season’s Meetings’: Murt Flynn on the thriller that is the club AGM.
• Kildare hurling: Sliotar takes an in depth look at the county over four articles by Paul
Castle, Brendan Coffey, Eoghan Corry and Daragh Ó Conchúir.
• A New Picture: PM O’Sullivan on the roots of trouble in Limerick hurling.
• ’Bourne Supremacy: Pat Treacy on camogie in WIT.
• ‘Backspin’: PM O’Sullivan wraps up number 2.

With full colour photography from Michael Cullen, Eoin Hennessy, John McIlwaine, Gail Ryan and Sportsfile, Sliotar provides quality coverage and analysis of hurling and camogie.

To receive your free copy of Sliotar, just sign up at Sliotar Magazine

The second number of Sliotar sees Christy O’Connor, Michael Geoghegan and PM O’Sullivan dice and slice the St Patrick’s Day contest between champions Portumna and challengers Ballyhale Shamrocks.

CHRISTY O’CONNOR (The Sunday Times): “Portumna’s destruction last year not only defined a new dynasty but also splintered a critical plank of Ballyhale Shamrocks’ identity and esteem. In hindsight, Ballyhale were complacent and slightly arrogant beforehand. They thought they could go toe to toe with Portumna in a shootout and do what Kilkenny teams always do in those circumstances: win.”

OLLIE CANNING (Portumna and Galway) “I don’t believe in the theory of just hitting a ball as far as you can. I believe that you’re better off working the ball 40 or 50 yards up the field, rather than driving it 70 or 80 yards and risking losing possession.


Also in number 2 SEÁN MORAN (The Irish Times) takes the pulse of league form. Analysing Galway’s impressive start, Moran writes: “Galway have not the happiest memories of doing well in the league ― particularly after the notorious flogging they got from Kilkenny weeks after winning the title in 2004. Then again, Galway have been so inert in recent seasons that neither do they have encouraging memories of not doing well.”

DAMIEN FITZHENRY departing the national stage prompted MURT FLYNN to go native and meet the one of the best goalkeepers ever. In a front and centre encounter, Fitzhenry spoke of club, county and the future:

“Some lads will say that if a Wexford player scores 1-3 in a game he will still be on the team three years later, even if was never to score again ― or even make a score. The truly strong panel means you justify your place, and that’s how you keep it. If you don’t ― well, you’ll end up sitting in the stand with me. It’s about the system, about getting players to fit into that system and getting them to have the confidence to shine in it.”

[KurtisM]

I am very interested in the online Sliotar Magazine, since I live in the United States. But, the site does not load, not sure if it is online now.
Anyone else having trouble going to the site?

[Bainisteoir]

it seems the last issue was release around july and the site is now closed.