Len also had memorable stints in charge of both the Tipperary and Clare senior hurlers, all of which is chronicled in his new autobiography Chiselled From Ash, written with Shane Brophy and published by Hero Books.

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He's also in the middle of the topic off the pitch that is dominating life for everyone in Ireland with his work as a doctor in the University Hospital in Limerick city.

We spoke to Donal back in March on The42 as Ireland was going into lockdown while he and his colleagues were part of the team in Limerick trying to delay the surge of the Covid-19 crisis.

Seven months on he talks on the Warriors podcast about how stressful and challenging a time it has been during the pandemic, gives an insight into life working on the frontline and his gratitude for the level of public support they have received.

He talks about how therapeutic it has been to keep a journal of the last seven months, why he was so happy to go back playing Gaelic football and how much he's looking to the GAA county season ahead with Limerick.

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Ó Sé confronted the genius of the St Vincent's star many times during his time playing in the Kerry defence. On this week's episode of Warriors, he tells us how Connolly had an ability that was comparable to Man United icon Eric Cantona.

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We talk about all that, discuss how the GAA is going to adapt with revenue down in the Covid-19 world, how he valued Pillar Caffrey's role in establishing Dublin, the tough love treatment from Pat Gilroy and why the Ó Sé's from Kerry were the benchmark in defending.

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Niall Cahalane was in the thick of the action, a key defender in the Cork football side and he joins us this week on Warriors to look back at a memorable time for his county.

We talk about the pressure the footballers felt when the hurling team won and created the prospect of the double.

The drive in that Cork side to finally get one over their arch rivals Meath.

And we ask will that feat be achieved again at senior level by a county?

Plus there's the role of manager Billy Morgan, the addition of Kildare duo Shea Fahy and Larry Tompkins, while Niall remembers his late team-mates John Kerins and Mick McCarthy.

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The Laois man is our guest on this week’s episode of Warriors GAA podcast for The42 members. He is interviewed by ex-Cavan footballer and former GWS Giants coach Nicholas Walsh.

Tuohy discusses the difficulty in moving to the far side of the world as a teenager and the challenge of missing out on some big games for his club Portlaoise over the years.

We also hear about his longevity in the game, his ambitions to return to play with club and county in the future, his thoughts on Conor McKenna’s recent decision to retire and his advice for Irish youngsters trying to make it in the AFL.

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He's the subject for our latest episode of Warriors, the GAA podcast for you The42 members, as we take a closer look at his sporting life.

John Harrington is the chief writer for GAA.ie, and Doyle's biographer, having written in 2011 ‘Doyle - The Greatest Hurling Story Ever Told’. He guided us this week through the career of the Holycross-Ballycahill man.

Starting out in 1949 and finishing up in 1967, Doyle set a record for a Tipperary hurler in winning eight All-Ireland senior medals.

We hear about his life growing up in the 30s, first in Waterford and later in Tipperary, his inspirational hurling mentor Paddy Leahy, marking Christy Ring and being part of the famed Hell's Kitchen in the Tipperary defence during a notably different era in hurling.

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Johnny Magee soldiered in the Dublin defence for a decade, starting out in the 90s and playing into the 2000s. He picked up a couple of Leinster senior medals and was central to a different time of football in the province.

He talks about what it was like then in an ultra-competitive Leinster championship, how it saddens him what's become of the province and the day in 2002 when he tore his cruciate but played on marking Meath's Trevor Giles.

There's also plenty about his club days with Kilmacud Crokes, winning as a player and manager. He talks about how he was inspired as a teenager by the All-Ireland club title win of 1995, the day Jason Sherlock played a Dublin final and boarded a helicopter afterwards to play for Shamrock Rovers in Donegal, and the night Paul Mannion lit up Parnell Park.

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He picks out the three favourite games from his GAA career - a 1998 county minor final win with his club St Finbarr's, a 2003 Fitzgibbon Cup semi-final victory in a Cork derby and his Rebel senior Munster championship debut against Clare.

Plus there's the Cork rivalry with Kilkenny, Jackie Tyrrell's college days, trying to take over centre-back from Brian Corcoran, and facing the O'Connor twins as teenagers.

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The attacker picks the three favourite games from his career - 2002 v Dublin, 2003 v Dublin and 2005 v Wexford. He talks about comebacks against Dublin, the turning point of his career and the rare day when Stephen Cluxton lost his cool in front of Hill 16 before being sent off.

Plus there's the place that Armagh team occupies in GAA history, scoring 0-10 in a Croke Park final and the art of inside forward play in Gaelic football.

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A new RTÉ documentary 'Seán' explores the life and times of the Meath icon. We chat to Alan Bradley, the director and producer, about working with Seán Boylan, the amazing bond between the manager and his former Meath players, his life as a herbalist and his remarkable family background.

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The 2007 All-Star winner chats through the three favourite games from his career:

• The 1998 Limerick senior final where his club Ahane ended a 43-year wait for a title.
• The 2001 Munster championship game where Limerick defeated Cork and Moran inadverently set up that famous Diarmuid O'Sullivan point.
• The 2007 Munster semi-final replay against Tipperary, part of an epic trilogy between the counties with Ollie scoring 0-5 in this game in Semple Stadium.

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A mental game with a crazy scoreline, there's plenty for Kevin O'Brien and Fintan O'Toole to get stuck into.

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Daniel talks Fintan O'Toole through his three favourite games, all unsurprisingly from recent times as Turlough O'Brien supervised the rise in their fortunes: the 2017 qualifier against Monaghan; the 2018 Leinster quarter-final against Kildare; and the 2018 league game against Antrim where they clinched promotion.

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On the night of the drawn game his father passed away and yet after a week of high emotions with the funeral, Liam played the following Sunday in the replay and kicked 0-3 in Mayo's extra-time win over Roscommon.

That's one of the games he selects as our guest this week on Warriors, the GAA podcast for The42 members, and chats through what that experience was like.

We also delve into the 1996 All-Ireland final saga where he was man-of-the-match in the drawn game and sent-off in the replay, before focusing on St Brigid's day of glory in 2013 in a brilliant club final against Ballymun Kickhams.

Plus there's what made Meath so formidable to play against, Karol Mannion's memorable goal and telling a player why he must come off the bench instead of starting an All-Ireland final.

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Fintan and Kevin also reflect on Shane Dowling's hurling success, his off the cuff attacking style and how the game is losing one of its great characters following his premature retirement.

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His senior medal count reads 8 All-Ireland, 11 Leinster and 5 National League while he also has four All-Star awards. No shortage of happy memories to pick from then for the three favourite games from his career.

Eddie's selections were:

• 2009 National hurling league final, Kilkenny v Tipperary
• 2018 Kilkenny county intermediate final, Graigue-Ballycallan v Tullaroan
• 2013 All-Ireland hurling qualifier, Kilkenny v Tipperary

He talked about the personal significance of the Kilkenny-Tipperary rivalry as he grew up on the border and his wife's family are from Tipperary.

Plus there's how much the 2018 club victory meant to him at age of 40, how tough it was to watch on for the 2013 All-Ireland qualifier showdown in Nowlan Park and how Cork's John Fitzgibbon was his hurling hero growing up.

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We chatted through Sean's selections for the three favourite games from his career: the 1995 Munster hurling final; the 1999 Clare county semi-final; and the 2002 All-Ireland quarter-final.

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It was a memorable summer for clashes between Armagh and Tyrone with the third one the focus for Fintan O'Toole and Kevin O'Brien as they watch back that classic All-Ireland semi-final tie which Mickey Harte's men won by 1-13 to 1-12.

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The Cork star recalled the 2014 and 2013 senior ladies football finals and the 2008 All-Ireland camogie decider.

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Alan's playing days were certainly interesting. He had a long spell in Galway hurling colours as they chased the Liam MacCarthy breakthrough, enjoyed a memorable experience as Galway lifted Sam Maguire in 2001 while he has the unique feat of All-Ireland club wins in different codes with Clarinbridge and Salthill-Knocknacarra.

So we asked him to pick out his three favourite GAA matches and he talked through his selections with Fintan O'Toole.

It's a brilliant chat as he recounts his remarkable and unlikely rise to the Galway football side. In 2001 he was parachuted into the starting team for a Connacht match against Leitrim before having ever played a senior club championship game and that sparked a controversy that saw Michael Donnellan and his brother John quit the squad temporarily.

"I was catapulted in out of the blue, a hurler from nowhere. There was a big furore about the Leitrim game.

"I kind of felt guilty coming in because Michael and John were two brilliant players. John O'Mahony showed some courage and some faith, it was a brave decision.

"Michael was one of the greatest footballers of all time, from '98 he was a superstar and he wasn't involved. I'll never forget going into Tuam that day and you nearly were thinking people were coming to see you fail or coming just to see were you any good. I hadn't experienced that kind of external focus on me.

"I just remember it was a really strange and chaotic few weeks."

There's plenty hurling chat as well. Alan talks about why he felt his Clarinbridge club-mate Micheal Donoghue would achieve managerial greatness, breaking John Mullane's heart in one of the greatest club matches of all time in 2011 and the feeling of being 'at peace' in Croke Park at age of 34 knowing he was about to win an All-Ireland.

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We asked him to pick his three favourite GAA matches, be it lining out for club or county, or one he was at as a supporter.

He picked out the 2007 All-Ireland quarter-final draw between Waterford and Cork, the 2002 Munster club final success for Mount Sion over Sixmilebridge and the 1991 Munster final replay between Tipperary and Cork that he went to in Thurles.

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On this week's episode of Warriors we went back 13 years to an All-Ireland senior football semi-final and wondered is it a game that does not get the acclaim it deserves?

Maurice's sideline in 2001, the startled earwigs of 2009, Cluxton's free in 2011, Kevin McManamon's goal in 2013 and a couple of classics from 2016 and 2019 ensure there has been a rich catalogue of games built up between the counties over the last two decades.

But we make the case for the merits of the 2007 clash when Kerry won out 1-15 to 0-16 in a pulsating finale over Dublin to set up a decider with Cork where they would go on to retain the Sam Maguire.

Fintan O'Toole and Kevin O'Brien look at how the attacking genius of Colm Cooper and Declan O'Sullivan was key at that time, compare the different culture in Dublin football then and the scale of the personnel change before they started to make the Sam Maguire breakthrough.

We reflect on the impact of the Ó Sé brothers, 2007 the one year where all three won All-Star awards, ask is Pat O'Shea an under-rated manager and assess Pillar Caffrey's influence on Dublin football after nearly taking down the All-Ireland champions in this game.

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The boys of Wexford ‘96 were one of the beloved underdog teams that helped define hurling’s ‘Revolution Years’.

Producer Kevin Brannigan spends time in the not-so-sunny south-east with Liam Griffin, the charismatic manager who catalysed the Yellowbellies’ amazing run, key players like Martin Storey and Tom Dempsey, and kitman/fixer Pat Murphy.

It's a story of a group that learned to trust each other and that bought into Griffin’s innovative techniques, and how their appreciation for the county’s heritage paved their way to the promised land.

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