{"id":324,"date":"2009-09-23T21:02:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=324"},"modified":"2009-09-23T21:02:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T20:02:19","slug":"remarkable-hurling-story-and-hurling-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Remarkable Hurling Story and Hurling Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diarmuidoflynn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diarmuid O&#8217;Flynn<\/a> &#8211; the sports writer writer with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.ie\">Irish Examiner<\/a> &#8211; brought out an interesting book last year named &#8220;Club, Sweat and Tears&#8221; (I felt fierce stupid altogether but I kept thinking that it was called &#8216;Blood, Sweat and Tears&#8217; for ages until I read the cover more carefully).<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-325\" href=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?attachment_id=325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-325 alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"clubsweatandtears\" src=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/clubsweatandtears-114x150.jpg\" alt=\"clubsweatandtears\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the remarkable story of Newtownshandrum &#8211; the club of Ben &amp; Jerry O&#8217;Connor &#8211; and its author is a Ballyhea man, from Newtown&#8217;s most bitter rivals.\u00a0 Small clubs doing huge things always makes for great reading and it did remind me of the story of my own home town of Tallow.\u00a0 They never reached the heights that Newtown did. Their big chance was in 1985 when they lost by a single point to Kilruane McDonaghs from Tipperary, who were to go on and win the All-Ireland final that year.<\/p>\n<p>But Newtown seems to be an even smaller place, so their achievements were all the more remarkable.\u00a0 O&#8217;Flynn has an easy style, a passion for hurling and keen eye for relevant detail.\u00a0 If reading the life story of former Waterford goalkeeper Ned Power isn&#8217;t your thing, then you could do worse than pick up this book.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy Father: A Hurling Revolutionary, the life and times of Ned Power\u201d is out on paperback at the end of November 2009.\u00a0 <a href=\"..\/?page_id=17\">Click here<\/a> for further information, pre-order and excerpt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diarmuid O&#8217;Flynn &#8211; the sports writer writer with the Irish Examiner &#8211; brought out an interesting book last year named &#8220;Club, Sweat and Tears&#8221; (I felt fierce stupid altogether but I kept thinking that it was called &#8216;Blood, Sweat and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9kxa7-5e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}