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The art of Susan Weeks
Poking around in the archives of the American University in Cairo the other week I came across a box labeled "Susan Weeks". Susan was the wife of Egyptologist Kent Weeks, rediscoverer of the KV 5 tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Susan worked with Kent as part of the Theban Mapping Project, for which she was ceramics expert, registrar, headquarters supervisor, project archivist and chief architect until her tragically premature death in December 2009. The box contained some of her pencil and ink sketches and watercolours. If you've ever seen a copy of Kent's book The Lost Tomb, then you will have seen Susan's sketches, one of which heads each chapter. Unfortunately, the reproductions in the book are not very good – not in the paperback, anyway – so to see the original pieces is a thrill. Plus the book is in black and white and doesn't have any colour pieces. Below is a selection of some of the work from the archive, only two of which feature in the book. It's just a small sampling, pieces I particularly liked, and there is much, much more. It's a shame the work is so little seen. Maybe one day we'll get to see it published in a book.
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Tagged as American University in Cairo, Amon Hotel El Gazira, Kent Weeks, KV5, Luxor Hotel, Queens Hotel Luxor, Susan Weeks, The Lost Tomb, Theban Mapping Project, Winter Palace
Pagnon and the Grand Hotel, Aswan
A few days back a visitor to this site, Amina Niazi, posted a request for information on the Grand Hotel, which used to be on the Corniche at Aswan, so here's what I know.
The story starts with Ferdinand Pagnon, who I haven't written about before on this blog, which is a bit of an oversight given that he was the major hotelier in Upper Egypt at the tail end of the 19th century – so thank you Amina for the prompt.
Albert Ferdinand Pagnon was born on 1 January 1847 in Bourgoin, not far from Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in France. His family had a hotel there but it burned down the year of Ferdinand's birth and so they moved to Marseille and then Egypt. The baby was left behind in France in care of an aunt, until at the age of 12 Ferdinand was sent to study in Malta. He returned to France to work in a bank in Romans until in 1868 his father died and the young man was called to Egypt to take his place running several hotels in Ismailia and Port Said. These almost certainly catered to engineers and company officials associated with the Suez Canal, which was then under construction and opened the following year.
Somehow Ferdinand also came to run the Hotel Victoria in Venice, which is where he met John Cook, son and heir of the international travel agent Thomas Cook. John made Pagnon the agent for the company's growing Nile business in 1876. Pagnon was based down in Luxor, where Cook & Son built its first hotel, the Luxor Hotel, which opened in 1877 and was managed by Pagnon. Not long after, the company bought a second Luxor property, the Karnak Hotel, which I imagine was again managed by Pagnon. He later bought these two hotels from Cook.
From Luxor, Cooks' steamers continued south to Aswan, where they stayed for two days before heading back downriver to Cairo. There were no hotels at Aswan, so for passengers wanting to extend their stay the company maintained a permanently moored steamer, the Sethi (above), as a floating hotel. That was until 1894 when, with money borrowed from Cook & Son, Pagnon opened bought the Hotel Assouan, which had opened on the Corniche close to the wharf where the steamers moored a couple of seasons previously. At some later date this hotel would become the Grand Hotel d'Assouan and then just the Grand Hotel. It was not a particularly large property and when the rival Anglo-American Nile Company launched the far fancier Savoy on Elephantine Island, Cook & Son responded by building the Cataract, which opened in 1900.
Initially, the Cataract was leased to Pagnon, but in 1904 it was sold to the Upper Egypt Hotels Co, a consortium headed up by Charles Baehler, owner of Shepheard's in Cairo, but in which both John Cook and Pagnon also had stakes. The Upper Egypt Hotels Co also built the Winter Palace in 1907. Pagnon did not live long to enjoy his hotel empire – he caught a chill while boating on the Nile and died of pneumonia in 1909.
He left behind a wife, Kitty, and two daughters who returned to France to live in a farmhouse purchased by Ferdinand in Romans. There's a small archive of correspondence between Pagnon and his wife held by the Municipal Archives of Romans, while the family property is now a health and therapy centre. A shrewd operator, while in Egypt Pagnon also amassed a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, which were left to his family and fetched decent prices when auctioned off at Christie's in 1993.
As for the Grand Hotel at Aswan, it survived Pagnon by at least two decades because it was listed in the last Baedeker guide to Egypt, published in 1929. Beyond that, I don't know. If anyone else has any information, please do drop me a line.
Some additional information comes courtesy of Dr Cornelius von Pilgrim of the Swiss Institute, Cairo:
The later fate of the hotel goes as following: the Assouan Hotel was renamed some time around 1900 as the Grand Hotel Assouan before it was destroyed by fire on April 23rd 1903. In the summer of the same year it was newly built and reopened as the Grand Hotel that winter. It was a completely new building, with three floors, a fourth floor was added the following year. It burnt down again in summer 1985.
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Tagged as Aswan, Cataract, Charles Baehler, Cook & Son, Ferdinand Pagnon, Grand Hotel Aswan, Grand Hotel d'Assouan, Hotel Assouan, John Cook, Karnak Hotel, Luxor Hotel, Sethi, Upper Egypt Hotels Co
In Luxor, 106 years ago today
From the Egyptian Gazette, of 6 December 1907.
Whatever the weather is elsewhere, no one can have any excuse for grumbling about it in Luxor; and no wonder that day by day fresh visitors are arriving from the North. Each day here is more beautiful than the last, from the rising up of the sun until the last moment of the fading away of its afterglow, there is no moment when Luxor is anything but gorgeous. The atmosphere is dry and invigorating, the temperature warm without being torrid, there is sight seeing and exercise for the healthy and energetic and the most luxurious dolce far-niente for the quasi invalid, and one of the finest and most complete hotels at the command of all.
It is less than a year ago that the Winter Palace Hotel was opened to the public* and indeed it seems but yesterday that the workmen were swarming through it night and day to finish it in time for the inauguration. The approach which we remember cumbered with heaps of broken bricks and debris is now adorned with grass and flower beds; the wide waste behind the hotel s now taking shape as an ample garden; and before many weeks are over will be verdant with grass and rich in flowers.
Already there are many guests at the hotel which has been open now for several weeks. Close upon a hundred covers were laid for dinner only yesterday, and many other arrivals are expected shortly. The old Luxor Hotel is to be re-opened shortly, and the Karnak on the river bank will again be sued as an annexe by both the Winter Palace and the Luxor. The Savoy Hotel formerly under the direction of Mr Runkovitz is to be reopened under new management this season. It has well established clientele, and certainly its situation overhanging the river and away from the town are attractive points in its favour.
The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire with their party on board the dahabeah 'Serapis' spent some time in the vicinity of Luxor on their way South. Mr Robert Hichens** is still here, living on board his dahabeah moored on the further side of the river; but often coming on shore and frequently taking his meals at the Winter Palace. It is said that he does not intend going further south this trip; but in all probability will leisurely find his way down river to Cairo, storing the while many valuable impressions for future use.
Mr Douglas Sladen*** is also gathering materials for a book on Egypt, for though a great traveler in other lands this is his first visit upon the Nile. He is on his way to Khartoum accompanied by his wife, and by Miss Norma Lorrimer (also an authoress) and Miss Potter. They intend returning to Cairo about the middle of January and will in all probability remain there for the rest of the season.
* And still the Winter Palace website persists in claiming the hotel was built in 1886.
** Author of Egypt and its Monuments, which would be published the following year with illustrations by Jules Guerin, who I blogged about here.
*** Who the following year would publish Egypt and the English, the first of a number of books about Egypt – I blogged about him here.
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It's called adaptive reuse
Some years back, well before the calamity that has befallen the country, I stayed at the Zenobia hotel at Palmyra in Syria. It has the most extraordinary location, away from the modern town and right on the edge of the Roman ruins. It is possible to sit up in bed and look out of the window of your room at grand colonnades silhouetted against the moonlight. It seems natural that pieces of antiquity should find their way into the hotel, and so in the garden the ancient carved capitals of columns serve as bases for tables. I think I remember something similar in the garden of the Palmyra hotel at Baalbek in Lebanon.
An image kindly sent to me by Susan Allen reminds me it used to be like that in Egypt too. It shows the garden of the Hotel du Nil and, in it, two great stone sarcophagus lids.
The terrace at Shepheard's used to boast a pair of sphinxes, reputedly from Saqqara, while the Luxor Hotel in Luxor had two statues of Sekhmet in its garden, most likely brought over from Karnak. Probably nobody at the time thought this an inappropriate employment of Egypt's archaeological heritage. What was contentious, though, and stirred up comment in the press of the time, was architect Henri Favarger's usage of stones from the Pyramids to build the Mena House hotel. He didn't deny it, but in an address given to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1892, claimed it was rubble gathered from the foot of the Pyramids that was collected, and only then with the approval and close supervision of the Egyptian museum authorities.
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Tagged as Henri Favarger, Hotel du Nil, Luxor Hotel, Mena House, Shepheard's, Tony Binder
The Winter Palace and Luxor Hotel: a case of mistaken identity?
The website for the Winter Palace, which I blogged about a couple of posts ago, says the hotel opened in 1886, a date commemorated in the name of the hotel's high-end French 1886 Restaurant (jacket required, no jeans). What a shame then that the hotel actually opened in 1907. There's no doubt about it: the Egyptian Gazette of Saturday 19 January 1907 describes the inaugural party that took place with a lunch in the Valley of the Kings followed by congratulatory speeches and the distribution of meat to the gangs of workers who had laboured on the building. The hotel makes its guidebook debut in the 1908 edition of Baedeker's Egypt, below right (it wasn't in the previous, 1902, edition, below left).
I don't know where the disinformation began, but it could have something to do with the Luxor Hotel. This long-forgotten hotel – which still exists, sort of – has the distinction of being the first in the world to be commissioned by Thomas Cook & Son. The English company had begun leading parties of tourists to Egypt in 1870, but once south of Cairo there was nowhere to stay other than the Nile boat they travelled on. This was fine if the visitor was happy with a few days sightseeing before moving on, but increasingly many wanted to spend longer enjoying the hot dry climate of Upper Egypt, which was believed to be good for the health. So it was that an 1878 edition of the Thomas Cook newsletter carried the following notice: 'For the special accommodation of invalids and others desirous of deriving the full benefit of the Upper Egyptian climate, an hotel or health resort has been established at Luxor'.
The hotel was launched at the start of the 1877-78 season, in other words around November or December of 1877. It was sited just inland of the ancient Luxor Temple, beside which was Cook's riverboat landing stage. For the Luxor's second season, the hotel added a new wing, doubling its capacity to about 45 bedrooms. Not long after, it was extended again and in the process completely remodelled to accommodate 120 people, essentially becoming a new hotel. It's possible this took place in 1886 and this may be where the incorrect date for the Winter Palace – which was built adjacent to the Luxor Hotel – comes from. But I'm just guessing.
The Luxor didn't remain the only hotel in town for long, but prior to the building of the Winter Palace, it remained the most well known and best run – it also offered cheaper rates for Egyptologists. While serving as chief inspector of the Egyptian Antiquities Service (1899-1905), Howard Carter frequently called by for lunch or afternoon tea. Another regular was Edward Frederick Benson, better known as EF Benson, author of the tales of Mapp and Lucia. Benson had a sister called Margaret who was an archaeologist and who, in 1895-97, had a concession to excavate the Temple of Mut at Karnak; brother, Fred, who was also a trained archaeologist with field experience in Greece, came out to help.
The Luxor Hotel was the Benson's residence and where they spent their evenings playing games of cards and charades. It's also where Margaret was treated for a near fatal case of pleurisy by the hotel doctor who had to tap the fluid around her lungs – not an operation you'd want carried out in your double with river view even today. Fred later used the hotel as a setting in a novel of the supernatural called The Image in the Sand, published in 1905:
The garden at the Luxor Hotel is a delectable place of palms. Sixty to eighty feet high they stand, slender, slim, and dusky-stemmed, and high up at the top of the trees stretch the glorious fern-like fronds of the foliage beneath which hang the clusters of yellowing dates. Here rises a thicket of bamboos, tremulous and quivering, even on the stillest and most windless nights, and a great cat-headed statue, wrought in black granite, and taken away from the neighbouring temple of Mut in Karnak, looks with steadfast gaze out and beyond over the Eastern horizon, with eyes focussed beyond material range, as if waiting for the dawn of the everlasting day.
The statue he mentions, of the ancient goddesses Sekhmet, was one of a pair (click on the photo above to enlarge and you can see them either side of the entrance), both of which were removed some time ago. The hotel itself, which was not only the first in Luxor but one of the earliest in Egypt, was still admitting guests until as recently as the 1980s. In the intervening century it had undergone great changes but the main façade, which resembles a sort of Indian colonial bungalow, would still be familiar to Fred and Maggie today.
When I visited a couple of months ago the building behind the façade had been gutted and reduced to a shell. This isn't a demolition, however, but a rebuild. The plan, apparently, is to restore the Luxor Hotel to working order. I saw the skeletal concrete frame of a new garden annexe and a great hole in the ground that will eventually be a swimming pool, although work is currently on a go-slow thanks to the economically uncertain climate. If they ever do finish I'll be curious to see what date any website gives for the building of the hotel and what they call any new restaurant.
For more on EF Benson in Egypt visit here.
This afternoon I visited a retrospective of work by David Hockney at the Tate Britain in London. Among the work exhibited was this sketch:
It is the porch of the Luxor Hotel. I knew that Hockney visited Egypt on a couple of occasions, notably in 1978, which resulted in a book, David Hockney: Egyptian Journeys, (which I've never seen) but I didn't realise he drew any hotels. You might have thought he could have afforded the Winter Palace.
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Our story started 13 years ago, it was sunny day of June 13th 2013. So long time has passed. New step in our and Ledus' lifes on that day and today. This post originated long time ago, last years I was thinkinkg about the day when we will see each other for the very last time. I promised to Ledus to write this story and publish in my blog to encourage people to take care of dogs in shelters and give them new opportunity, friendship and love.
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The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) officially opened the Travel Agents Federation of India's (TAFI) annual convention at Emirates Palace on September 25. The 12th edition of the event, which will run until September 27, has gathered together key decision-makers from the Indian tourism industry to exchange knowledge and help members navigate the ever-evolving business environment. The event will lead the discussion on impact of the digital world on the travel and tourism sectors. The convention is themed "Innovation – Transform – Disrupt – Redefining the Offline Travel World", with DCT Abu Dhabi planning to follow the opening evening event with sightseeing tours around Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafra regions. All the top tourism offerings and iconic landmarks such as Louvre Abu Dhabi, Al Ain Palace Museum, Al Ain Oasis, Warner Bros World Abu Dhabi and Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, among others, will be included in the itinerary. The conference opened with a welcome address by HE Saif Saeed Ghobash, Undersecretary, DCT Abu Dhabi followed by an inaugural address by HE Navdeep Singh Suri, Ambassador of India to the UAE. The following two days will feature business sessions to discuss pertinent issues related to the tourism industry and media tours.


The college authorities took the action after its Anti-Ragging Committee submitted a report. The Committee was formed on a directive of the Medical Council of India (MCI).
The Medical Council of India on November 16 directed the Darbhanga Medical College to take action.
Patna: Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital authorities in Bihar have imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 each on 54 second year students for ragging their juniors, an official said on Saturday.
DMCH Principal RK Sinha imposed the fine. The students have been directed to pay the penalty amount by November 25, the official added.
Failing to pay the fine would invite stern action, the college authorities said. The guardians of the 54 students have been informed.
On November 11, a first year student of the DMCH living in the college hostel complained to the MCI about the ragging incident. She accused the senior students of repeated ragging.
"The victim complained that she was abused, beaten and mentally tortured. She alleged in her written complaint that the seniors put pressure on her for one work or another," an official said.
The MCI on November 16 directed the DMCH to take action.
Last week in a similar incident, the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College administration in Bhagalpur had imposed Rs 25,000 fine each on 33 second-year students for ragging their juniors.
Principal Arjun Singh imposed the fine of Rs 8.25 lakh on the 33 students of the 2016 batch for ragging the 2017-batch students earlier in November.


FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., June 30, 2010 – Hyundai Sonata was the most-shopped vehicle in May according to data from Compete, a Kantar Media company. Sonata was on more shopping lists (130,000) than any vehicle in the industry, topping perennial leaders like Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, Honda Civic and Ford Fusion according to Compete's analysis of website traffic patterns.
Demand for Hyundai hit an all-time high of 324,000 shoppers on the strength of Sonata and the all-new 2010 Tucson. This drove Hyundai's share of market interest (SMI) to 11.6 percent, up from 7.4 percent in Dec. 2009. That growth propelled Hyundai past Nissan (11.2 percent) and closer to Honda (12.9 percent) and Toyota (14.2 percent). Industry-wide, May 2010 shopper volume (2.8 million) was the strongest since February 2008.
Hyundai's all-new 2011 Sonata represents a modern approach to the traditional midsize sedan segment by using only advanced four-cylinder engines, emotional design and luxury features offered with Hyundai's strong value proposition. The Sonata launched with a new Theta II 2.4-liter gasoline direct injection (GDI) engine and in-house six-speed automatic transmission. The vehicle offers class-leading fuel economy of 22 mpg city/35 mpg highway and 198 horsepower standard. Both hybrid and turbo powertrain options will be available at the end of the year.


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Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack: Scottish Labour is even more laughable than the Corbyn version
By Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack
Will they never learn? The Labour Party in Scotland have been consistently wrong on devolution and independence for the last two decades and more. The events of last week show they value consistency. From Donald Dewar to Kezia Dugdale they have thought that they could contain independence by pandering to it. Again and again Scottish Labour have attempted to shoot the SNP fox by giving in to nationalist demands, and have ended up shooting themselves in the foot.
From being in virtual hegemonic control of Scotland they have slumped to the margins. The party that after the 1997 general election crowed about making Scotland a 'Tory-free zone' managed a single MP at the 2015 general election. In the Scottish Parliament they are the third party behind the Conservatives. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Back in pre-devolution days, George Robertson campaigned for devolution on the grounds that it would 'kill nationalism stone dead'. This too was the position of Donald Dewar, architect of devolution and first First Minister. Some, like Brian Wilson, argued that devolution was a step on the slippery road to independence. Scottish Labour didn't listen then, they don't listen today.
Scottish Labour is now on their eighth leader since devolution, and what a roll call. Donald Dewar, Henry McLeish, Jack McConnell, Wendy Alexander, Ian Gray, Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale. Few of them could be described as political heavyweights or would have stood a chance of making the B List of politicians outside Scotland.
After Dewar's untimely death, his successor Henry McLeish was forced to resign as First Minister over a 'muddle not a fiddle' concerning the sub-letting of his Fife constituency office. This was not the only 'muddle'. Wendy Alexander, who was probably relieved to go, resigned as First Minister over a tiny campaign contribution from a technically non-British businessman.
So disastrous was Alexander's leadership that, as usual in left wing circles, the reason that she failed was not her inability to confront and deal with a rumbustious Salmond but that old standby, misogyny. 'Alexander's press spokesman says she is in part the victim of the misogyny of the all-male Scottish press pack, who are still coming to terms with Scottish Labour having a woman in charge'.
Bumbling Jack McConnell, in order to secure a governing pact with the Lib Dems, agreed to proportional representation in local government. And so the gates were opened for the SNP to destroy Labour's local power base. Today Labour is fearful of the results of the upcoming local elections in May. It is facing a hard fight to hold on to what were once rock solid Labour councils like South Lanarkshire.
Fast forward to the hapless Kezia Dugdale, the present leader. Shortly after becoming leader she said, in the event of Britain voting for Brexit, she might vote for independence. She then frantically attempted to row back – while also pledging she was vehemently against another referendum and would campaign fiercely for a No vote if there was another indyref. Go figure.
Last week we had the spectre of Tony Blair assuring us all that unless we had another Brexit referendum the SNP's demands for independence would be unstoppable. Blair may well be the most reviled politician in Britain today but the SNP loved the encouragement.
A couple of days later we were treated to Dugdale's latest wheeze to counter SNP demands for another independence referendum. At the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Perth, Dugdale announced her new flagship policy, federalism. A federal UK is seen by the Scottish Labour leadership as a way of opposing independence whilst rejecting the unpopular constitutional status quo.
For federalism to succeed it would have to rely on the willingness of English voters to support the idea as it would entail an England fractured into regional parliaments. Dugdale did not mention how she would overcome this hurdle. This proposal is as likely to come to fruition as her wish for a 'new Act of Union' to replace the 1707 Act, which united the two parliaments of Scotland and England.
Federalism would mean the devolution of a substantial tranche of new powers being granted to Holyrood. What Scottish Labour fail to grasp is that Salmond and his protégé Sturgeon are not independence or nothing absolutists, they are gradualists. And bit by bit they see Scottish Labour handing them what they want.
Dugdale's speech was immediately overshadowed by comments from London's Mayor Sadiq Khan, who described Scottish nationalists as no different from racists and bigots. Does Labour actually want to survive May's council elections?
Then came the speech by Labour's UK leader. In his half hour speech on the last day of the conference Jeremy Corbyn did not once mention Dugdale's flagship policy. It takes Scottish Labour to create a situation where Jeremy Corbyn gets something right.
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A sea of cheerfully content faces tell all for the Varsity Lady Longhorns after completing the 2016 season. From left to right: Alana Kelsch, Jenna Greenwood, Hailey Paxton, Sheridan Magninie (23), Jannel Fiehtner (12), Raelynn Hinton, Hanna Biesecker, Justine Heeg, Shauntae Daily (10), Hanna Klosterman, Kaitlyn Wurdeman, Madison Wynne (1) and Kiersten Anderson (cheerleader) that also played on the team.
The Lady Longhorns 2016 varsity season ended with 11 wins and 21 losses. It may have been a disappointing season in comparison to the previous year's record of 17-10 but they did prove that they could work together as a team despite changing from a 6-2 format to 5-1 mid-season.
Junior Hannah Biesecker led the Lady Horns in all around stats both offensively and defensively. This season she served up 45 aces, only 10 less than her older sister who served 55 the previous year as a senior, and is now playing college ball in Beatrice.


DNS is an abbreviation for Delayed Neurological Sequelae, a phenomenon which occurs in nearly 40% of the survivors of carbon monoxide poisoning, yet is rarely discussed or identified with those who are treated and released from the emergency room after a carbon monoxide poisoning. This is true even with those who have carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels above 25%. The risk factor for the onset of DNS is similar for those who have levels at or above 10%.
DNS, Delayed Neurological Sequelae, is a phenomenon which occurs in nearly 40% of the survivors of carbon monoxide poisoning.
DNS is too some degree a misnomer because the symptoms are not necessarily delayed in onset, it is just that they may continue to worsen for up to 40 days after discharge. Where concussion survivors are at risk for a worsening of symptoms of brain damage for 72 hours post injury, in carbon monoxide poisoning, the risk for a worsening of symptoms is at least six weeks.
Perhaps the most insidious effect of carbon monoxide poisoning is the delayed development of neuropsychiatric impairment within 1–3 weeks and the neurobehavioural consequences, especially in children.
When explaining DNS to clients or a jury, I always try to split out the multiple pathology that causes brain damage and other organ damage after carbon monoxide poisoning. First, there can be death or damage to cells from lack of oxygen. Carbon monoxide takes the place of oxygen in the blood meaning that when the blood circulates to cells, it may be starved of oxygen. Thus, cell death through asphyxiation may occur. Yet, except in case of death where the heart stops beating, this is usually not the most potent pathology.
The greatest amount of disability from carbon monoxide does not come from the hypoxic period, but from the bodies own immune response to fight off the presence of the poison. The body sees carbon monoxide as a deadly poison and reacts like it might to any other toxin, setting off a chain of events. This chain of events keeps going on, even after the threat to the cell from asphyxiation is gone. This is the primary culprit in DNS.


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Our Pandemic Year
After the Year of No Bras, Things Are Looking Up
When the shutdown left us stranded at home, some women clamored for a tangible sense of freedom. A year later, one writer reassesses the bra with help from an O.G. expert, an Instagram-savvy start-up, and Seinfeld.
By Laura Regensdorf
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It took me 351 days to take off my shirt for a stranger on the internet. Somehow I had made it this far into the pandemic without partaking in the talked-about extracurriculars: an OnlyFans side-hustle; a virtual boyfriend (I have a real one at home). Instead, here I was, at a little past noon on a recent Thursday, making small talk over Zoom in a who-knows-how-old lacy bralette.
Tania Garcia, director of fit at the lingerie brand Cuup, was about to guide me through a size assessment. I apologized for having only baker's twine and a handyman's tape measure. "We've gotten very crafty in our fittings," she said, describing the MacGyver-like setups she has witnessed since the company launched in late 2018. (Without a brick-and-mortar presence, remote fittings were baked into the business plan from the beginning, unexpectedly teeing up Garcia's team for the Zoom-all-day era.) "I did a fitting once with floss, so we're okay," she said, her voice reassuring in ways that transcended the subject at hand. "Let me tell you, we're fine."
Over the arc of the past year, seemingly every aspect of routine habillement has felt the weight of change. There was the rise of sweatpants, and no pants; high heels and lipstick fell by the wayside. I lost my keys inside my apartment on more than one occasion, set down someplace days earlier—which suggests my outerwear has been fairly neglected. But it's innerwear that has been the focus of so much attention. "Just put on a bra for the first time in who knows and my boobs said, Bitch what?" Roxane Gay tweeted in early April, a few weeks into the pandemic. That same month Chelsea Handler proposed an alternate use, wrapping a bra cup around her face as a makeshift mask. (Shapeez, a Maryland bra manufacturer, took a related turn around that time, pivoting its production to make PPE.) By the end of June—when it was clear that a return to the old normal was nowhere in sight—Reductress ran the headline: "Bra Furlough Extended."
This article is part of a series, Our Pandemic Year, that marks the anniversary of the first quarantine orders in the U.S. Read them all here.Arrow
The exaltation of freedom could be seen as COVID sublimation—a tangible release at a time when so many felt, and still feel, trapped in their houses. But the desire to slip off a rigid underwire (a trope used by Coors Light in a 2019 ad) seems more like an inherited trait. It's there in the Cathy comic era, in the form of a "rib squishing push-up power bra"—a contortion device for the working woman. A generation before that, as seen in the first episode of WandaVision, there was the pertly conical uniform of the 1950s housewife. "That was the silhouette if you wanted to be fashionable and, frankly, if you wanted to look right in your clothes," Colleen Hill, curator of costume and accessories at New York's Museum at FIT, said recently by phone.
Hill doesn't count herself among the pandemic's bra-less cohort. "I don't find bras to be uncomfortable, so it hasn't occurred to me not to wear one," she said with an audible shrug. The 2014 exhibition she organized, called "Exposed: A History of Lingerie," took note of that design evolution; one of the items on view was Rudi Gernreich's No-Bra from the mid-1960s—a sheer net construction, darted but without wire, that presaged much of what my Instagram ads are pushing right now. (See also: Central Saint Martins alum Nensi Dojaka's ethereal transparent creations, seen on Bella Hadid.) Hill sees the current discussion around bras as a further progression of what's played out over the past decade: namely, a move toward comfort as well as an embrace of "each other's bodies and body types," she said. The idea is no longer to "live up to some particular ideal, but in fact to embrace what we have, and what we don't have, in the case of the breast."
The anniversary of COVID's true arrival in the minds of most Americans sparks concern about the unforeseen ripple effects: employment statistics for women, education gaps in underserved communities. Far more trivially, might there be a downside to the year of no bras?
"The only repercussion is that if you do have a larger cup size, gravity will take its toll a little bit sooner," said Dr. Kristi Funk, a breast cancer surgeon and the author of the 2018 book Breasts: The Owner's Manual. (Her patient Sheryl Crow wrote the foreword; Angelina Jolie, who carries the BRCA1 gene, also received her treatment at Funk's Pink Lotus Breast Center in Beverly Hills.) That downward force, left unsupported, means that "you stretch out those ligaments that are going through your breast tissue and attaching to your chest wall muscles," Funk continued. "You might end up saggier sooner than you had hoped—but it's all cosmetics at that point. Whatever you feel you want to do in terms of letting the girls loose is fine by me!"
Funk spends a surprising amount of time debunking bra myths. "I think I hear bras implicated in causing breast cancer at least once a week," she said. (There is categorically no correlation, but she doesn't fault the basic reasoning, as far as proximity is concerned: "Your bras are touching your breasts more than you or any lover ever did.") She directed me to a line of "super-comfy postoperative bras," designed by AnaOno, that Pink Lotus sells on its website, which was a segue to her main pandemic-related concern. "One of the alarming stats was from August 2020, and that is that, week after week, there are 50% fewer breast cancers getting diagnosed," Funk said. "The point is these cancers aren't sheltering in place; they're there, undetected, growing, dividing, metastasizing. And the latest computer models predict an increased 10,000 deaths this year from breast cancer because of the delay in screening [due] to COVID." Behavioral shifts associated with risk factors—higher alcohol consumption, obesity, sedentary living—are a double whammy, she added. (After our call she emailed a link with tips for a monthly self-breast exam. Consider this a PSA.)
But even if Funk practices nonjudgment on the bra front, her prediction about gravity still sits, well, heavily. That led me to Iris Clarke, who operates a basement-level store on Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue. Iris Lingerie is basically the closest thing to Zizmorcore that you can find in the bra space: Originally from Belize and based in Brighton Beach, Clarke has been fitting bras for 47 years, having learned the trade while working in a Hasidic woman's shop. "When women come to me, I fit them differently," she said, as the radio in the background murmured about a Lamborghini car chase in Queens. "I tell them, 'I'm coming in the fitting room. I'm going to touch your body. I'm going to show you how to scoop up your breasts.' I do more detail work. The art is gone! It's leaving."
Clarke took one look at my triangle bralette—decorative at best—and shook her head. "You need support! None at all," she said. "And you're looking like a D cup." I asked how it was possible that I'd never heard anything close to that letter: "Because you've never gone to get fitted!" she laughed. (I flashed back to that scene from Broad City in which Ilana and Abbi go for a bra fitting. "Fresh, virgin breast meat," one of the proprietors quips.)
Inside the fitting room, Clarke handed me a cycle of options: a black lace bra, a navy blue number, a soft, plunging pullover. "I call this the COVID bra because it's what everybody was wearing," she said of the comfort-first style. Her main lesson was that size is not static—life happens, be it weight fluctuation or pregnancy—and therefore our bras should evolve in kind. "You have to change them. Nothing's going to last forever," she said, casting what sounded like a bigger-picture message about adaptability into the air.
I ended up buying a pale blue lace-front bra—uncharacteristic for me (as was the size: 30DD), but it seemed to mirror the blue-skies optimism of this spring's vaccine rollout. (Plus, I couldn't walk out of there wearing what I wore in. Clarke agreed with mock consternation: "No, you cannot. Iris won't let you!") Later that week, while rewatching an old Seinfeld episode, I realized that the bra was a ringer for the "very traditional, very supportive brassiere" that Elaine buys for her bra-less friend Sue Ellen, who then goes rogue and flaunts it under an unbuttoned blazer. It prompts Elaine's boss, J. Peterman, to imagine a new bra-as-shirt trend that eerily evokes our thirsty summer to come. "Here's the angle," he tells Elaine. "Zelda Fitzgerald or somebody in the '20s wearing this at wild parties, driving all the men crazy." At home I held up the bra next to my new Batsheva jacket—pale blue moiré silk—and started scheming.
This past November, smack in the middle of this supposed bra-less stretch (never mind that WWD charted industry-wide growth), the fashion writer Marjon Carlos assumed a new post: editorial director of Cuup. If its models speak to an appealing plurality of shapes (the line offers cup sizes from A to H), its editorial platform, BodyTalk, does the same with storytelling. "A lingerie brand, historically, it's about seduction and desire and sexiness—all the things that I'm like, Yes, yes, yes, love, love, love," Carlos said by phone. But she sees Cuup pushing further: "How can we start conversations? How can we normalize things around beauty or body image or career or mental health?" A Cuup initiative that launched last May offered a discount to first responders; when we spoke, Carlos was exploring an effort to support Texas, her home state, as well.
Carlos, whose pre-pandemic freelance life prepared her for WFH dressing, prefers the opposite of no-pants fashion: a state of semi-dress involving basic Hanes sweats on the bottom and a Cuup bra on top. She understands the category's bad rap, remembering a time when she used to wear "horrible bras—like, padded, stupid bras that were cheap and would dig into your back," she recalled. The implications of fit are real. Carlos brought up an episode of Sex and the City where Miranda is bra shopping for her mother's funeral, looking for her usual, if incorrect, size. Before long, she finds herself in a tearful embrace with the saleswoman.
My Zoom with Tania Garcia, the Cuup director of fit, didn't get emotional, but the session did feel emotionally in tune. "We call ourselves 'fit therapists' because we like to not just suggest a size, but be like, 'What is it that you want out of your bra? What are you feeling at the moment?'" said Garcia, who got her start in a mom-and-pop lingerie boutique in Greenwich Village during college nearly 20 years ago. "I fell in love with helping women, and helping myself understand at a young age what our bodies do, how to feel confident." I thought of Cuup's tagline, "We Support You"; however much reading into such things seems guileless in this age of savvy marketing, the words nonetheless resonated. If the mere act of smiling can perk up one's mood, maybe a physical lift—some sense of structure or care or snap-to-attention rigor—might bring a psychological boost as well.
By the end of our fitting, I had a newfound size (in this case, 32C; even though my ribcage is 28 inches on the baker's twine, Garcia thought a roomier band might be more comfortable) and a trio of recommendations: the Plunge, the Scoop, and the Balconette, all of which come in a handsome range of colors. (The newest two—pigeon gray Slate and tomato Mars—take inspiration from Alma Thomas's marvelous paintings.) When the Cuup shipment arrived this past Friday, my FedEx guy, Dante, let me know it was his last day; he's starting a new job as an engineer. I wished him well and told him that I'd considered him my work friend over this past year—the only IRL face I saw most days, the only person with whom pleasantries were exchanged. I closed the door and opened the box. There it was: support, just like I needed.
Cuup The Plunge bra
$68 at CUUP
Araks Antonia bralette
$87 at Araks
Dora Larsen Luna stretch-tulle bra
$78 at Net-a-Porter
Calvin Klein Underwear Modern Cotton bra
Skims stretch cotton underwire bra
I.D. Sarrieri Euphoria satin-trimmed balconette bra
$285 at Net-a-Porter
Savage Not Sorry microfiber balconette bra
$60 at Savage X Fenty
Baserange stretch-bamboo jersey triangle bra
Kiki de Montparnasse Nocturne bralette
Fleur of England Signature lace-trimmed balconette bra
$112 at Matches Fashion
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I have the most recent OS for iOS and it is an iPhone 6s. Anyone else having this issue?
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Allen Solly, India's foremost semi-formal brand from Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd., launched its latest campaign 'Open Work Culture' – recognizing the importance of an employee-friendly work environment. In line with the brand philosophy of embracing #OpenWorkCulture through its 'Cool Work Wear', the campaign highlights the cool quotient of a new-age working ambience. The elements in the ambience include environment-friendly commutes, pet-friendly workplaces, and taking time off work along with working in a comfortable work environment and workspaces.
To popularize the concept of 'Open Work Culture', Allen Solly decided to interact with the consumers at their most favorite entertainment spot – PVR cinemas located at Phoenix Market City, Bengaluru. moviegoers were engaged in a unique fashion on a weekend. The people who had come to watch a movie on a Saturday were unaware about the pleasant surprise in store for them.
During the interval, the 'cool Allen Solly' guy cycled to the theatre with the music from the TVC setting the momentum. He then performed stunts on the cycle inside the theatre, which surprised and amused the audience. As the crowd cheered on, the emcee took over and asked the audience if they cycled to work – keeping the philosophy of the campaign in sync. Several hands shot up and they were awarded special vouchers instantly. Also, there was a special surprise for the audience under their seats.
The experiential engagement with the audiences have created a closer connect with the brand and the 'Open Work Culture' philosophy. Moreover, the viewers relived the cinematic version of the campaign.
The campaign that was launched in May this year with a cool TVC talking about pet friendly workplaces has continued with a new film celebrating the concept of cool commutes to work. The video features a young man cycling to his work place clad in an Allen Solly attire. The lime palette t-shirt worn over smart chinos and paired with a blazer from Allen Solly's 'New Age Work Wear' collection seemed to be clothing him in self–confidence. The TVC depicts a futuristic office which has a cycle parking space next to the desk — perks of an open work culture.
Commenting on this campaign, Mr. Anil.S.Kumar, COO, Allen Solly said "Allen Solly's 'Open Work Culture' is a fashionable and functional take on the new-age work environment and needs. It is important for us, as a brand, to connect with the new-age audiences through a memorable and charming experience. This activation is another experiment in that direction wherein we celebrate the 'Open Work culture' with cinematic flair."


The Annual Typewriting Skill Test, (March, 2017) was held on 25.03.2017 at Regional/Sub-Regional Offices of the Commission located at Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Chandigarh, Raipur, Allahabad, Guwahati and New Delhi Centres. Out of 400, candidates who appeared in the Annual Typewriting Skill Test, 111 candidates have qualified and 73 candidates are deemed to have made a genuine attempt. The list of 111 qualified candidates and 73 candidates deemed to have made a genuine attempt is enclosed.
2. The result is available on the Commission's Website: https://ssc.nic.in.


This paper is part of a series that will be published by Playing Pasts that reflect the sport and leisure activities that the students and staff took part in at the Cheshire County Training College, Crewe. The extracts are taken from the Old Student Magazines which were published on a regular basis until 1974 when the College merged with Alsager to become Crewe+Alsager College.
The usual topic in any English conversation was bought up frequently on our way down, or is it up, to London, viz – the weather. A few dark clouds loomed overhead, but these soon went and the sunshine greeted our arrival at London. At Southfields station there was a special bus waiting to convey al; the tennis enthusiasts, that included us, to Wimbledon, where we alighted, still brimming with excitement, but nevertheless hungry! We immediately occupied our seats in the Centre Court stands and there we dined, undisturbed by the milling crowds walking around outside.
It didn't take long for the stands to fill up, and by 1:50pm – only ten minutes to go before the start of play, practicably everyone had taken their seats, the Royal Box occupied by Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexander.
The first match was between Trabert and Stewart; a game packed with expert play, producing much excitement and many thrills. Trabert won the match but only after a very hard fight. The second game was equally as exciting to watch as was the first one. The twenty-year-old English player Wilson (making his debut at Wimbledon this year) and Patty (USA) also played an excellent and hard game. Hopes were high when Wilson took the first set, but Patty, after really turning on the pressure, finally won the game.
Following this game came another Men's singles between Hartwig of Australia and Segal of South Africa. The seeded player Hartwig, was completely "off-form" and was beaten by the South African, but only after many hard attempts at fighting back. The final game on Centre Court for that day was the game between Hart (USA) and Shilcock (GB). This being a Ladies Single match it was a much slower game than the previous ones, but nevertheless equally accurate. The newspapers remarked on the gay and pleasant way in which Doris Hart had captured the admiration of the Wimbledon crowds, and this day was no exception! On court she is a determined fighter, and fight she did, beating Miss Shilcock in what was a good and inspiring game to end our day well.
Bad light prevented further play that day, but we left feeling that we had really had our money's worth.
To talk of Wimbledon and not mention fashion, or should I say 'vogue', would indeed be fatal. All of us thought of how we would look clad in the creations we saw – then we though again. Hats strewn with flowers and fruit (but not vegetables) were seen everywhere, and we even designed Miss Denman's hat for the upcoming Garden Party. (This incidentally was far too beautiful for public show, but I am sure she would let you see it if you asked her nicely!) Anyway, the majority of fashions we saw had to be seen to be believed, and that goes for the men as well.
To say we enjoyed our day would be to say the least. It was the first time that any of us had ever been to Wimbledon, but I can honestly say it won't be the last. In returning to College we were all keen to get on court and try out some 'Wimbledon stuff' (NB – 'try). We did however gain some inspiration to try harder and practise conscientiously, but there was one snag – TV had just been installed in College, and then the romance of Wimbledon came back to us – and we pined a little, so much so that we all determined to go there again.


Willie was born on December 29th, 1984 and plays for the Toomevara club. He made his Senior inter-county debut vs. Limerick in the 2006 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, coming on as a late substitute. Willie won a Munster Minor Hurling medal in 2002 and a Munster Under 21 Hurling medal in 2004. Willie has won 4 County Senior Hurling titles with his club as well as winning 2 Munster Club medals in 2004 and 2006. Willie won a National Hurling League medal in 2008 at corner-forward scoring 1-1 in the final. Willie has been selected as captain of the Tipperary Senior Hurling team for 2009.
Conor was born on October 18th, 1984 and plays for the Newport club. Conor made his competitive debut for the Tipperary Senior Hurlers against Antrim in the 2005 National Hurling League. Conor is a very versatile player. He has played at fullback in the 2005 U-21 championship. He helped Tipperary to win the 2003 Munster U-21 final by coming off the bench to score a goal in extra time against Cork while he won his second Munster U-21 medal at full-back in 2004. Conor has 2 Munster Minor medals won in 2001 (at midfield) and 2002 (at centre-forward). He won Fitzgibbon Cup medals with Limerick Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2007 (at centre-back). Conor was nominated for an All-Star award at centre-back in 2007 and 2008, winning an All-Star award in 2008. Conor won a National Hurling League medal in 2008 at centre-back. Conor scored 9 points from long range free in the 2008 NHL campaign. Conor won the RTE man of the match for his performance at centre-back against Cork in the 2008 Munster Semi-Final and captured his first Munster Senior Hurling Championship medal in 2008 against Clare. Conor's first score in the Championship came from a long range free against Waterford in the 2008 All-Ireland semi-final. Conor has been selected as vice-captain of the Tipperary Senior Hurling team for 2009 and captained the team from centre-back in the Munster Championship first round game vs. Cork.
Ger from the Thurles Sarsfields club was nominated by his club to be the Tipperary Senior Hurling captain for 2006. Ger played for Tipperary at Minor and Under-21 level, winning a Munster Under-21 medal as a sub in 1999. Known as "Redser", Ger has played in all the forward positions for Thurles Sarsfields and captained Sarsfields to their first County Senior Hurling title in 31 years when he collected the Dan Breen Cup in 2005. Ger made his competitive debut for Tipperary in the 2003 National League vs. Offaly. Ger is known as a good impact sub, scoring goals in that role in both Munster championship matches with Limerick in 2005.
Paul who was born on August 18, 1977 plays for the Loughmore-Castleiney club. Paul was nominated by his club for the position of captaincy for the Tipperary Senior Hurling team for 2008. He first joined the Tipperary panel in 1999 and made his championship debut in the replay against Clare in 1999. He is a very versatile player and has played at corner-back, wing-back, midfield and wing-forward for Tipp to date. He is also an accomplished footballer and was a sub on the Tipperary Senior Football team that contested the 1998 Munster final as well as winning a Munster Minor Football medal in 1995. He has won 2 National Hurling League medals (2001 and 2008), 2 Munster Senior Hurling medals and an All-Ireland medal in 2001. At schools level, he won an All-Ireland B Colleges hurling medal with Templemore C.B.S. At club level, he won a County Under-21 B medal in 1994. Paul is 5 feet 10 inches in height and weighed 12 stone, 9 pounds for the 2001 All-Ireland Final. Paul retired from inter-county hurling after the 2008 season.
Eoin who was born on January 6, 1982, plays for the Mullinahone club. Eoin was selected as vice-captain for the Tipperary Senior Hurlers for the 2008 season. Eoin made his Senior championship debut vs. Galway in the 2000 All-Ireland Quarter-Final. He won an All-Ireland Colleges medal with St. Kieran's of Kilkenny in 2000 and has 2 Munster Minor medals – 1997 and 1999 and 2 Munster Under 21 medals in 1999 and 2003 (as captain). Eoin has won 2 National Hurling League medals, 2 Munster Senior Hurling medals and an All-Ireland Senior Hurling medal. He is a versatile player. In 2000, he doubled up as sub-goalie and sub-forward vs. Galway. Has played in goal for the Tipp minors and Mullinahone is the past but is better known as an excellent forward, one of the best in the modern game. Is a brother of former All-Star Paul Kelly.
Eoin won a Railway Cup medal with Munster in 2001 and captained Munster in the 2006 semi-final defeat to Connacht, scoring 1-6 in the process. Eoin is 5 feet 11 inches in height and weighed 12 stone, 6 pounds for the 2001 All-Ireland Final. In 2001, he won an All-Star award at corner-forward and also won the Eircell Vodafone Young Hurler of the Year. He repeated both of these feats in 2002 and also won All-Stars in 2004, 2005 and 2006 to become only the second player ever to win 5 All-Star awards at the age of 24 (Pat Hartigan of Limerick was the other).
Eoin captained Tipperary to win the 2008 Waterford Crystal Cup, the 2008 National Hurling League title and the Munster Senior Hurling title. Eoin won a County Senior Hurling medal with his club Mullinahone in 2002, scoring 2-7 in the replay and winning the man of the match award. Kelly later studied civil engineering at Limerick Institute of Technology and graduated in 2006. He won a Fitzgibbon Cup medal with the college in 2005 as team captain. Eoin finished a credible third behind team mate Brendan Cummins in the 2006 All-Ireland Poc Fada Final in the Cooley Mountains.
Lar was born on March 16th 1981 and plays for the Thurles Sarsfields club. Lar captained Tipperary for the first time against Waterford in the 2006 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Quarter-Final. Lar who was born on March 16, 1981, plays for the Thurles Sarsfields club. Lar joined the Tipperary Senior Hurling panel at the age of 19, having never played minor hurling or Under-21 hurling for Tipperary up to that stage. Lar represented Tipperary at Under 21 level in 2001 and 2002. He made his Senior inter-county debut vs. Clare in the 2000 South East Hurling League playing at corner-forward. Lar won a National Hurling League medal in 2001, scoring 4 points in the final and 4-11 in 6 games in the 2001 NHL competition. Lar won his second National Hurling League medal in 2008, scoring 1-3 in the final to earn the man of the match award. Lar scored 5 goals and 10 points in the 2008 NHL campaign. Lar also won a Munster Senior Hurling medal in 2008, scoring 2 pints in the final. Lar won an All-Ireland and Munster Senior medal in 2001, scoring 1-1 in the Munster Final against Limerick and 2 points in the All-Ireland Final. He has won a County minor medal with Thurles Sarsfields in 1999 and a County Senior medal in 2005. Lar is 6 feet 2 inches in height and weighed 12 stone, 7 pounds for the 2001 All-Ireland Final. Lar won an Inter Provincial Hurling medal in 2007, scoring two points from play at corner-forward for Munster in their victory over Connacht. Lar was nominated for an All-Star award in 2008.
Benny was born on September 22nd 1980 and plays for the Toomevara club. Benny captained the Tipperary Senior Hurling team in 2005. He has won 5 County Senior Hurling medals and 2 Munster Club medals, normally in the back-line for his club. Benny won a National Hurling League medal at midfield in 2008 and a Munster Senior Hurling medal as a sub later that summer. Benny has lined out in every line of the field at inter-county level with the exception of goal-keeper. Benny, who is a brother of All-Ireland SH medalists Tommy and Terry, played U-21 hurling with Tipperary in 2000 and 2001. Benny made his competitive debut for Tipperary against Derry in March 2002.
Brendan who was born on May 11, 1975 plays for Ballybacon-Grange. A bank official by profession, he has won an All-Ireland medal, a Munster medal, 4 National League medals and an All-Ireland Under-21 medal in 1995. Brendan won a Railway Cup medal with Munster hurlers when he captained them to victory in 2001. He has been on the Tipperary Senior Hurling panel since 1993. Brendan was selected as goalie on the 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2008 All-Star teams and won man of the match in the 2001 National Hurling League final. Brendan won the 2004 All-Ireland Poc Fada final in the Cooley Mountains and regained the title for a second time in 2006. He is also an accomplished footballer and played for a number of years as a forward with the Tipperary Senior football team. His father John played for Tipp and Munster footballers and coached Waterford senior footballers in 1999. Brendan has kept 14 clean sheets in his championship career to date. Brendan is 6 feet 2 inches in height and weighed 12 stone, 8 pounds for the 2001 All-Ireland Final.
Philip who was born on December 14, 1979 plays with the Borrisoleigh club. He won a National Hurling League medal, Munster Senior Hurling medal and an All-Ireland medal in 2001. He has won a Munster minor medal in 1997 and a Munster Under-21 medal in 1999. Philip won a Railway Cup medal with Munster in 2001. He has played at full-back, centre-back and wing-back for Tipp. Philip is 6 feet 2 inches in height and weighed 14 stone for the 2001 All-Ireland Final. Philip won an All-Star award at full-back in 2001 and was named as full-back in the 2004 Munster All-Star team.
David Kennedy who was born on April 9, 1976 plays with the Loughmore-Castleiney club. He joined the Tipperary Senior Hurling panel in 1998 and has won 2 National Hurling League medals (1999 and 2001) and a Munster and All-Ireland Senior Hurling medal in 2001 at centre-back. He was man of the match in the drawn Munster semi-final against Clare in 1999. He was also on the Munster team that played in the 1999 Railway Cup. David played minor hurling with Tipp in 1993 and 1994. He won a Munster medal in 1993 and won an All-Ireland Under-21 medal in 1995 as a sub. He played both minor and Under-21 football for Tipp. At schools level, he won an All-Ireland B Colleges medal with Templemore C.B.S. At club level, he won an County Under-21 B medal in 1994. David is 6 feet 1 inch in height and weighed 13 stone for the 2001 All-Ireland Final.
Eamonn who was born on October 17, 1977 plays with the JK Brackens club. He commenced his hurling career with Scoil Colmchille Primary School, winning county honours. From there, Eamonn progressed to Our Lady's Secondary school in Templemore and won an All-Ireland B Championship. Eamonn joined Waterford IT in 1997 and won an All-Ireland freshers medal together with the All-Ireland Senior League. He won 2 Fitzgibbon Cup and 2 All-Ireland Senior League medals with Waterford IT in 1999 and 2000. He was the player of the tournament in both Fitzgibbon Cup tournaments playing at centre-back. He has won 3 National Hurling League medals in 1999, 2001 and 2008, 2 Munster Senior Hurling medals and an All-Ireland Senior Hurling medal in 2001. He has played at full-back, wing-back, centre-back and midfield for the Tipp Senior Hurling team. Eamonn is 6 feet in height and weighed 13 stone for the 2001 All-Ireland Final. In 2001, Eamonn won an All-Star award at wing-back. At club level, Eamon won a Mid Senior Football medal in 2002. Eamonn retired from inter-county hurling after the 2008 season.
Paul was born on November 11th 1981 and plays for the Mullinahone club. He made his Senior inter-county debut vs. Cork in the 2001 National League. He won a National Hurling League medal and a Munster Senior medal as a sub in 2001 and played at full-back when Tipperary won the National Hurling League title n 2008. His Senior championship debut came as a sub in 2002 vs. Offaly. Paul won a County Senior Hurling medal with his club Mullinahone in 2002. He captained the Waterford Institute of Technology to Fitzgibbon Cup honours in 2003. He played full-back for Tipperary in the 2003 championship and after playing at corner-back in 2004 and 2005, he has returned to the position of full-back since the 2006 Munster Final. Paul was nominated for an All-Star award in 2008.
Tom who is 24, plays for the Loughmore-Castleiney club. Tom played for Tipperary at Minor and Under-21 level. He won a Munster Minor Hurling medal in 1999 as a sub. Tom is a versatile player and can play at corner-back, wing-back or at midfield. Tom has won 3 Mid Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship medals with Loughmore in 2002. Tom made his competitive debut for Tipperary in the 2003 National League vs. Derry.
Seamus who is 28, plays for the Drom and Inch club. Seamus has won County Minor and 2 County Under-21 medals with his club and was named man of the match in the 2005 County Senior Hurling final, scoring 11 points in a loss to Thurles Sarsfields. He also won the man of the match award when Drom & Inch won the 2006 Mid Senior Hurling title for the first time in 22 years. Seamus won a Munster Minor Hurling medal in 1997 and was captain of the Tipp team that lost the 2001 Munster Under-21 Final to Limerick. His father Tommy also played for Tipperary and won an All-Star award in 1978. Seamus won a Ryan Cup medal with the Tipperary Institute in 2003. Seamus made his competitive debut vs. Cork in the 2002 National Hurling League. He made his championship debut as a substitute in the 2004 Munster championship against Waterford, scoring a point. Seamus scored six points from play in the 2008 National Hurling League Final playing at wing-forward. Seamus scored 1-15 in the 2008 NHL campaign. Seamus won a Munster Senior Hurling title in 2008 playing at corner-forward.
Diarmaid was born on February 18th, 1983 and plays for the Roscrea club. He was a member of the Tipperary Minor panel for 2 years and captained Tipperary to Munster Minor honours in 2001. Diarmaid won 2 Munster Under-21 medals as a centre-back in 2003 and 2004 (the latter year as captain). With UCD, Diarmaid has won a Freshers All-Ireland in 2002 and a Walsh Cup medal in 2004, defeating Kilkenny in the final. Diarmaid also has 2 Dublin Senior Hurling medals in 2004 and 2005.
Diarmaid has won 2 North Minor Hurling medals with his club Roscrea (1999 and 2000) and a North Senior medal in 2004. Diarmaid can play in any position in the backline. Diarmaid made his competitive debut at wing-back for Tipperary against Offaly in the 2004 National Hurling League. Diarmaid won the RTE man of the match in Tipperary's extra time replay victory over Limerick in May 2005. Diarmaid won a National Hurling League medal as a substitute in 2008. Diarmaid was born on February 18th, 1983. Diarmaid won a Munster All-Star award as a corner-back in 2005.
Declan was born on June 24th, 1979 and plays for the Killenaule club. Declan won a Munster Minor Hurling medal in 1997 playing at midfield. Declan made his competitive debut as a sub at wing-back for Tipperary against Wexford in the 2004 National Hurling League. Declan's championship debut came at centre-back against Limerick in June 2004. Declan had an excellent year in 2007, winning an All-Star award at full-back as well as winning an Inter Provincial Hurling medal with Munster. Declan won a National Hurling League medal as a substitute in 2008. Declan won a Munster Senior Hurling medal in 2008, playing as a substitute at full-back for most of the match. Declan has also played Senior championship football with Tipperary, lining out in Croke Park in 2003 against Donegal.
Colin, who is 27 plays for the Galtee Rovers club. He won an All-Ireland medal as a member of the 2000 Tipperary Intermediate Hurling team as well 2 Munster Intermediate Hurling medals (2000 and 2002) and a Munster Minor Hurling medal (1997). He has also represented Tipperary at minor and Under-21 level. Colin made his Senior Hurling Championship debut as a sub vs. Offaly in the 2003 All-Ireland Quarter-Final. Colin has also played with the Tipperary Senior Football team making his championship debut with them in 2000 against Clare lining out at full-forward.
Hugh was born on July 1st, 1983 and plays for the Nenagh Eire Og club. Hugh won a Munster minor medal in 2001 and played at wing-back in the Tipperary team which won the Munster Under-21 title in 2003. Hugh won a Munster Senior Hurling medal in 2008 as a substitute, scoring 1 point from play. Hugh has won 3 Fitzgibbon Cup medals with WIT in 2003, 2004 and 2006 (when he was joint captain). Hugh was born on July 1st, 1983. Hugh made his championship debut as a substitute vs. Clare in the 2005 Munster semi-final. At club level, Hugh has won 1 North Tipp u-14 hurling medal, 1 North Tipp Junior Hurling medal (2000), 1 County Junior Hurling medal (2000), 1 Munster Junior Hurling medal (2001) and 1 North Tipp Senior Hurling medal (2001).
Frances was born on January 23rd, 1984 and plays for the Toomevara club. Francis has won 2 Munster medals at both Under 21 (2003, 2004) and Minor (2001, 2002) level. Francis has also won 2 Munster Senior Club hurling medals with his club Toomevara in 2004 and 2006 in addition to numerous County medals with his club. Francis made his competitive debut with the Tipperary Senior hurlers in February 2005 when he was introduced as a second half substitute in the National Hurling League vs. Down, scoring 2 points. Francis had the honour of captaining Tipperary against Limerick in the 2005 National Hurling League when starting for the Senior side for the first time. He capped off this honour by scoring 1-2 and setting up another goal. Francis is the captain of the Tipperary Under 21 team.
Darragh was born on February 5th 1986 and plays for the Kildangan club. Darragh won a Munster minor medal as a goalkeeper in 2003. He won a Munster Under 21 medal at full-forward in 2006. Darragh has also won a Munster and All-Ireland Intermediate Club hurling medal with his club in 2004 in addition to North and County Intermediate medals in the same year, all won while playing corner-forward. Darragh is also an accomplished footballer and played with the Tipperary Minor Footballers in 2004 as well as being selected on the Irish Compromise Rules U-18 team which toured Australia in 2004. Darragh made his competitive debut with the Tipperary Senior hurlers in February 2005 when he lined out at full-forward in the National Hurling League vs. Down, scoring 1-1. He scored 1-1 as a substitute against Limerick in the 2005 National League. Darragh won a National Hurling League medal as a substitute in 2008 and also a Munster Senior Hurling medal.
Eamonn was born on March 9th, 1982 and plays for the Drom & Inch club. Eamonn made his competitive debut for the Tipperary Senior Hurlers against Clare in the 2005 National Hurling League. Eamonn's Championship debut came against Limerick in the drawn game in the 2007 Munster Championship when he lined out at right corner back. Eamonn won a Munster Under 21 Hurling medal in 2003 playing at corner-back. Eamonn won a Mid Senior Hurling medal with Drom & Inch in 2006. Eamonn won a National Hurling League medal at right corner-back in 2008 and a Munster Senior Hurling medal.
John who was born on January 16, 1978 plays for the Roscrea club. He has won a National Hurling League medal, Munster Senior Hurling medal and an All-Ireland medal in 2001. He won an All-Ireland minor medal in 1996, a Munster Under-21 medal in 1999. John captained the Tipperary Under-16 team to the Nenagh Co-Op All-Ireland title in 1994. John won an All-Star award in 2000 at wing-back and 12 months later, won an All-Ireland medal playing at centre-forward. To prove how versatile he is, he made his inter-county debut at full-back in the 1997 League semi-final against Galway. He has also played with the Tipperary Senior Football team. John is 6 feet in height and weighed 13 stone, 3 pounds for the 2001 All-Ireland Final. John won a North Tipperary Senior Hurling medal in 2004.
Shane played with the Tipp Under-21 hurlers in 2000 at full-back and has recently joined the Tipperary Senior Hurling panel, playing a number of matches in the Waterford Crystal Cup / Shield competition. Shane has also played with the Tipperary Senior Footballers and made his championship debut as a sub vs. Kerry in May 2001. Shane normally played in the full-forward line in Football but lines out at full-back in hurling. He won a West Tipperary Senior Hurling medal with his club Cappawhite in 2001 and 2005. Shane made his championship debut with the Tipperary Senior Hurlers as a substitute against Waterford in June 2006.
Damien who is 24 is from the Knockavilla Donaskeigh Kickhams club in West Tipperary. He won a Munster minor hurling medal with Tipp in 1999 playing at corner forward. He won a West Tipperary Senior Hurling medal in 1999. He played on two County Under 21 hurling teams beaten by Limerick in the Munster finals of 2001 and 2002 where his position was wing back, During 2001 he played for The Senior team in the Waterford Crystal Tournament. He rejoined the Panel in 2006 made his National Hurling League debut as a substitute against Limerick in February 2006.
Shane was born on September 12th, 1984 and plays for the Ballinahinch club in North Tipperary. Shane won a Munster Under 21 Hurling medal with Tipperary in 2004 as a substitute and he started at wing-forward against Down that year in the All-Ireland Under 21 Hurling semi-final. Shane won Fitzgibbon Cup medals with Limerick Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2007. Shane is a versatile player and can play in the half-back line, midfield or in the half-forward line. Shane made his National Hurling League debut for the Tipperary Senior Hurling team at wing-forward against Limerick in February 2006. Shane made his championship debut at midfield against Limerick in the first round of the 2006 Munster championship. Shane played with Munster hurlers in the 2006 and 2007 Inter Provincial Championship, winning a medal in 2007 at right half forward. Shane won a National Hurling League medal at midfield in 2008, scoring a point in the final and ten points during the 2008 NHL campaign. Shane won a Munster Senior Hurling medal in 2008, scoring three points in the final. Shane was selected at midfield in the 2008 All-Star team.
James was born on March 24th, 1986 and is from the Drom & Inch club. James won a Munster Minor Hurling medal in 2003, lining out at wing-forward and a Munster Under 21 Hurling medal in 2006, playing at midfield. James was a key figure in Drom & Inch's progress to the 2005 County Senior Hurling Final and the side which won the Mid Senior Hurling Final in 2006 for the first time in 22 years. James lined out for the Garda College in the 2006 Fitzgibbon Cup competition. James made his National Hurling League debut as a substitute against Limerick in February 2006. His championship debut came when he lined out at midfield against Limerick in the drawn 2007 Munster semi-final, scoring 2 points from play. James won a National Hurling League medal playing at wing-forward in 2008. James won a Munster Senior Hurling medal in 2008, scoring a point in the final.
• Captained Schools team to win the county Fitzgerald final U17 hurling for the first time in 32 years.
• Captained the schools hurling team to win the 'Corn Padraig' cup for the first time ever in 2003.
Michael is from the Moneygall club. His father Eugene lined out for Tipperary in the 1980's. Michael played in the Waterford Cup / Shield competition in 2006 and can play at corner-back or wing-back. Michael made his National Hurling League debut at corner back against Antrim in March 2006.
Eoin who is 25, plays for the Toomevara club. Eoin played for Tipperary at Minor and Under-21 level, winning a Munster Minor Hurling medal in 1999 playing at midfield. He has won 5 County Senior Hurling medals with Toomevara. He can play in the half-back line, midfield or in the half-forward line. Eoin made his competitive debut for Tipperary in the 2003 National League vs. Offaly.
Johnny who is 29 plays for the Thurles Sarsfields club. Johnny played Minor and Under 21 Hurling for Tipp, winning a Munster Minor medal in 1993 as a 16 year old. Johnny won Fitzgibbon Cup honours with UCC in the 1990's and won a County Senior Hurling medal with his club in 2005. He is a brother of former panelist and 2001 All-Star midfielder Eddie.
Martin who is 25, plays for the Borris-Ileigh club. Martin played for Tipperary at Minor and Under-21 level. His normal position is corner-back.
Pa was born on May 18th, 1988 and plays with the Thurles Sarsfields club. Pa played with the Tipperary Minor hurlers in 2005 and 2006, finishing as top scorer in 2006 with 3-35 as he helped the Premier County win the All-Ireland Minor Hurling title. Pa also won a County Minor Hurling medal with Sarsfields in 2006 and won back to back County Minor Football titles with Sarsfields in 2005 and 2006, winning the man of the match award in the 2006 County Minor Football final. Pa was a key member of the Thurles CBS team which lost to St. Flannan's in the 2005 Dr. Harty Cup Final. Pa made his competitive debut with the Senior Hurlers in the preliminary round of the Waterford Crystal Cup Senior Hurling competition in January 2007, scoring 4 points, 3 from play at corner-forward. Pa made his League debut against Antrim in March 2007, scoring 1-1. Pa made his championship debut at corner-forward against Limerick in the drawn Munster semi-final in June 2007. Pa won a National Hurling League medal as a substitute in 2008. Pa is a grandson of John Maher of Killinan, Tipperary All-Ireland winning captain in 1945.
Thomas was born on February 21st, 1988 and plays with the Templederry Kenyons club. Thomas played at wing-back for the 2005 Tipperary Minor team before moving to centre-back in 2006 as Tipperary won the All-Ireland title. Thomas's father Michael won an All-Ireland Minor Hurling medal in 1976 playing at wing-back for Tipperary. Thomas has lined out for the University of Limerick hurlers in the past two seasons. Thomas made his League debut for Tipperary against Dublin in the 2007 National Hurling League scoring a point from midfield. Thomas made his Championship debut as a substitute in the first replay against Limerick in the 2007 Munster Senior Hurling Semi-Final. Thomas won a National Hurling League medal as a substitute in 2008.
Ryan was born on July 23rd, 1986 and plays for the Cashel King Cormacs club. Ryan played at wing-forward for the County Under 21 hurlers in 2005 and 2006, winning a Munster Under 21 medal in 2006 scoring 1-3 in the championship. Ryan lined out for the University of Limerick hurlers in the 2007 Waterford Crystal Cup. Ryan made his National League debut for Tipperary as a substitute in the National Hurling League against Kilkenny in March 2007. Ryan made his championship debut against Limerick in the drawn Munster semi-final in 2007, lining out at centre-forward and scoring a point from play. Ryan won a National Hurling League medal in 2008 playing at centre-forward.
Alan was born on December 21st, 1985 and is from the Shannon Rovers club. Alan was a member of the County Under 21 Hurling team in 2006, playing at full-back as Tipperary won the Munster final. Alan played for the Tipperary Senior Hurling team in the Waterford Crystal Shield in February 2006, holding Seamus Prendergast to two points. Alan is currently in college at the Limerick Institute of Technology and won a Fitzgibbon Cup with them as a corner-back in 2007. Alan made his League deubt vs. Antrim in the 2007 National Hurling League. Alan's Championship debut came at left corner-back against Cork in the 2007 All-Ireland Qualifiers. Alan won a National Hurling League medal as a late substitute at wing-back in 2008.
Conor was born on May 30th, 1985 and is from the Eire Og Annacarty club. Conor won a Munster Minor medal in 2003 and Munster Under 21 medals in 2004 and 2006. Conor played with the Tipperary Intermediate Hurling team in 2004, 2005 and 2006. He finished second in the 1999 All-Ireland Feile Skills final behind Kilkenny's James "Cha" Fitzpatrick. Conor helped his club to win the 2006 County Intermediate Hurling title playing at midfield. Conor is currently studying at the Waterford Institute of Technology. Conor made his National League debut at left corner-back against Dublin in the 2007 National Hurling League. Conor won a National Hurling League medal in 2008 playing at left corner-back. Conor made his Championship debut against Cork in the 2008 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Semi-Final and he won a Munster Senior Hurling medal against Clare in 2008. Conor was nominated for an All-Star award in 2008.
Danny was born on October 24th, 1987. Danny lined out with the Tipperary Minor and Under 21 hurlers in 2005 and played with the Tipperary Under 21 Hurlers that won the Munster Final in 2006, scoring 1-3 in the championship. Danny won a County Minor "A" Hurling medal with his club Carrick Swan in 2004. Danny made his competitive debut with the Senior Hurlers in the preliminary round of the Waterford Crystal Cup Senior Hurling competition in January 2007, scoring 1-1 from play at full-forward. Danny made his League debut against Limerick in the 2007 National Hurling League. Danny made his Championship debut as a substitute in the first replay against Limerick in the 2007 Munster Senior Hurling Semi-Final.
Tony plays for the Burgess club. Tony played an integral part of the Burgess side that won the 2005 County Intermediate Hurling final. He has won Munster hurling medals with Tipperary at minor (2002) and Under-21 (2003 and 2004) level. Tony made his Senior competitive debut as a sub at wing-forward for Tipperary against Antrim in the 2004 National Hurling League. He made his championship debut against Limerick in 2004.
Gerry was born on December 16th, 1985 and plays with the Killenaule club. Gerry was part of the Tipperary Under 21 panel from 2004 to 2006, lining out in goal in the 2006 season helping Tipperary to win the Munster championship without conceding a goal while scoring a point from a long range free in the semi-final against Clare. Gerry has won 2 Munster Under 21 Hurling medals, in 2004 and 2006. Gerry helped Killenaule to win back-to-back County U-21 titles in 2003 and 2004 he won a South Senior Hurling medal with his club in 2005. Gerry made his League debut for Tipperary in the 2007 National Hurling League match vs. Antrim. Gerry made his Championship debut in the first replay against Limerick in the 2007 Munster Senior Hurling Semi-Final. Gerry was the sub-goalkeeper for Munster in the 2007 Inter Provincial Hurling Championship which defeated Connacht in the final. Gerry won a National Hurling League medal as a substitute in 2008.
Shane was born on April 22nd, 1981 and plays for the Burgess club. He played with Tipperary in the 2003 Intermediate Hurling championship and was an integral part of the Burgess side that won the 2005 County Intermediate Hurling final. Shane made his Senior competitive debut at centre-forward for Tipperary against Offaly in the 2004 National Hurling League. Shane made his Championship debut against Dublin at left half-back in the 2007 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Qualifiers. Shane won a National Hurling League medal at left half-back in 2008 and a Munster Senior Hurling medal later that summer. Shane's first score in the Championship came against Waterford in the 2008 All-Ireland semi-final. Shane was nominated for an All-Star award in 2008.
Liam who is 30 plays with the Thurles Sarsfields club. He won an All-Ireland Senior Hurling medal as a sub in 2001. Liam won an All-Star award at 19 in 1996 at right-corner forward. He has won 2 National League medals, a Munster Senior medal in and won 2 County minor medals when Ballingarry amalgamated with Drangan. He has won two junior and two senior Vocational All-Ireland titles with Scoil Ruinn. He was the captain of the 1995 Tipperary minor team.
Darragh was born on March 15th, 1986 and plays for the Boherlahan-Dualla club. Darragh was part of the Tipperary Under 21 panel for three years, scoring a goal as a a substitute in the 2006 Munster final victory over Cork. Darragh won a Munster Minor Hurling medal in 2003 and lined out for the Tipperary Minors at corner-forward in 2004. Darragh made his Championship debut against Cork at left half-forward in the 2007 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Qualifiers, scoring a point from play. Darragh made his League debut as a substitute against Galway in the 2008 National Hurling League. Darragh is 6 foot tall and weighed 13 stone for the 2007 All-Ireland Championship. Darragh won a National Hurling League medal as a late forward substitute in 2008. Darragh won a Munster Senior Hurling medal as a substitute in 2008.
Paddy was born on August 12th, 1985. Paddy plays for the Borris-Ileigh club and made his Senior competitive debut for Tipperary in the 2006 Waterford Crystal Shield against Waterford. Paddy made his National League debut against Limerick in 2008 coming on as a substitute. Paddy won a Munster Under 21 Hurling medal in 2006 at right corner-back and won a Munster Minor Hurling medal in 2003, lining out at centre-back. Paddy won a National Hurling League medal as a substitute in 2008. Paddy won a Munster Senior Hurling medal as a substitute in 2008. Paddy made his Championship debut as a blood substitute in the 2008 All-Ireland Semi-Final against Waterford. Paddy made his first Championship start at right corner-back in the 2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship vs. Cork.
Pat was born on May 18th 1982 and plays for the Killenaule club. Pat made his Senior competitive debut for Tipperary in 2006 Waterford Crystal Cup against Limerick. Pat made his National Hurling League debut against Offaly in 2008, lining out at right half-forward scoring 1-1 from play. Pat won a National Hurling League medal as a substitute in 2008. Pat made his Championship debut as a substitute against Cork in the 2008 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Semi-Final, scoring a point from play. Pat won a Munster Senior Hurling medal in 2008, scoring a point from wing-forward.
Joe is from the Killenaule club and made his Senior competitive debut for Tipperary in 2008 Waterford Crystal Cup against UCC. Joe made his National Hurling League debut against Offaly in 2008, lining out at midfield. Joe won two Munster Under 21 Hurling medals with Tipperary. At club level, Joe won two County Under 21 "A" Hurling titles with Killenaule. Joe won a National Hurling League medal as a substitute in 2008. Joe won a Munster Senior Hurling medal as a substitute in 2008.
Darren was born on March 19th 1981 and plays for the Portroe club. Darren joined the Tipperary Senior Hurling panel in 2008. Darren plays in goal and was sub-goalie for Tipperary in the first two rounds of the 2008 National Hurling League. Darren won a National Hurling League medal as a substitute in 2008. Darren won a Munster Senior Hurling medal as a substitute in 2008. Darren made his National League debut against Galway in the 2009 National Hurling League. Darren made his Championship debut as a 10 minute blood sub against Cork in the 2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship.
Seamus was born on September 15th, 1988. Seamus won an All-Ireland Minor Hurling medal with Tipperary in 2006, scoring the winning point as a substitute in the 2006 All-Ireland Minor Hurling semi-final against Kilkenny. Seamus helped his club Drom & Inch win a Mid Senior Hurling title in 2006, their first in 22 years. Seamus made his National League debut as a substitute against Offaly in 2008, scoring 0-3. Seamus won a National Hurling League medal as a late forward substitute in 2008. Seamus made his Championship debut against Cork in the 2008 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Semi-Final, scoring 3 points from play. Seamus won a Munster Senior Hurling medal at centre-forward in 2008, scoring 1-3 from play against Clare. Seamus was nominated for an All-Star award in 2008 as well as being nominated as Young Hurler of the Year.
Tommy is from the Roscrea club and won a Munster Under 21 Hurling medal with Tipperary in 2004. Tommy is a brother of fellow panel member Diarmaid. Tommy made his National League debut for Tipperary as a substitute against Galway in the 2008 National Hurling League. Tommy won a National Hurling League medal as a substitute in 2008. Tommy won a Munster Senior Hurling medal as a substitute in 2008.
Micheal was born on August 1st 1977 and is from the Loughmore-Castleiney club. Michael made his debut with the Tipperary hurlers in the 2005 season and was nominated for an All-Star award that year. At club level, Micheal helped his club to win the 2007 County and Munster Senior Hurling titles. Micheal also captained Loughmore to win the 2004 County Senior Football Final. Micheal has won Mid Tipperary hurling medals with his club in 2002, 2003 and 2004 as well as numerous Mid Senior Football medals, Under 21 "A" Mid and County Football medals and Under 21 "B" Mid and County Hurling medals. Micheal is an accomplished footballer and made his Senior inter-county championship debut vs. Limerick in the first round of the 2004 Munster Senior Football championship. Micheal made his competitive debut with the Tipperary Senior hurlers in February 2005 when he lined out at full-forward in the National Hurling League vs. Down, scoring a goal and setting up 2 others. Micheal has won medals at Mid Senior Hurling and Micheal won a National Hurling League medal as a substitute in 2008. Micheal won a Munster Senior Hurling medal as a second half substitute in 2008.
John was born on September 22nd 1982 and plays for the Clonoulty-Rossmore club. John played minor hurling for Tipp in 2000 and was full-back on the 2003 Tipp U-21 team which won the Munster Final, his 3rd year on the U-21's. His best position is full-back. He made his competitive debut for Tipperary against Derry in March 2002 in the National Hurling League. John's Championship debut came as a substitute against Laois in the All-Ireland Qualifier in 2003 while he started at full-forward for Tipperary vs. Waterford in the 2004 Munster championship. John captained the University of Limerick to the 2005 Fitzgibbon Cup final, winning the man of the match award in the final despite playing on the losing side.
John was born on January 1st 1982 and plays for the Toomevara club. He made his Senior inter-county debut vs. Laois in the 2001 National League. He won a Munster minor medal in 1999, an All-Ireland and Munster Senior medal in 2001 and a Munster Under 21 medal in 2003. John won a Munster Senior Hurling medal in 2008, scoring 1-4 from wing-forward in a man of the match performance. John has won 5 County medals with Toomevara and 2 Munster Club medals in 2004 and 2006. He is a brother of Paddy who first made an appearance on the Tipp team in 2000. John won the man of the match award for both the 2000 and 2001 County Senior Hurling Final, scoring 2-1 and 1-5 respectively. John won a National Hurling League medal as a second half forward substitute in 2008.
Paul who was born on December 14, 1979, plays for the Mullinahone club. He won a National Hurling League medal, Munster Senior Hurling medal and an All-Ireland medal in 2001 at wing-back. He won an All-Ireland minor medal in 1996, a Munster minor medal in 1997 and a Munster Under-21 medal in 1999. Won 2 U-21 caps for Ireland in the Shinty Internationals vs. Scotland. Usually played in the forward line before 2001. His favourite position is centre-back. Has been on the Tipperary Senior Hurling panel since 1998. Is a first cousin of the Moran's from the Limerick Senior hurling team, i.e. Ollie and James. Paul won a Railway Cup medal with Munster in 2001. His brother Eoin joined the Senior panel and made his championship debut alongside Paul in the 2001 Munster semi-final against Clare. Paul is 5 feet 11 inches in height and weighed 12 stone for the 2001 All-Ireland Final. Paul won a County Senior Hurling medal with his club Mullinahone in 2002 and also won an All-Star award at wing-back. Paul was named the RTE man of the match in the 2005 Munster Senior Hurling final defeat to Cork, scoring 7 points from midfield.
Patrick "Bonner" Maher was born on October 12th, 1989. Padraig plays for the Lorrha club. Patrick made his Senior inter-county debut for Tipperary against Waterford in the 2009 Waterford Crystal Cup, lining out at left half-forward. Patrick scored a goal against Clare in the 2009 Waterford Crystal Cup Final. Patrick made his debut in the National Hurling League in February 2009, lining out at centre-forward against Waterford and scoring a point in a 2-13 to 1-12 Tipperary victory. Patrick won Munster and All-Ireland Minor Hurling medals in 2007, scoring 3-2 from play in the 2007 Minor Championship. Patrick won a County Intermediate Hurling title with his club in 2007 and helped Banagher Colleges win the Leinster Vocational schools title in 2007. Patrick was also on the Tipperary Intermediate Hurling panel which lost the 2008 Munster Final to Limerick.
Padraic was born on February 9th 1989. Padraic plays for the Thurles Sarsfields club and made his Senior debut with the club in 2006. Padraic won All-Ireland Minor Hurling medals as a full-back in 2006 and 2007. Padraic also won a Munster Minor Hurling medal in 2007 and a Munster Under 21 Hurling medal in 2008. With Durlas Og, Padraic won two County Under 16 A Hurling medals (2004 and 2005). He has also won 2 County Minor "A" Hurling medals (2006 and 2007), 2 County Minor "A" Football medals (2005 and 2006) and 1 County Under 21 "A" Hurling medal (2008). Padraic won the Corn Na Mac Leinn All Ireland Football title in 2007 with the Tipperary Institute. Padraic's father Paddy won an All-Ireland Minor Hurling medal in 1980. Padraic made his National League debut as a substitute against Dublin in March 2009. Padraic made his Championship debut at wing-back against Cork in the 2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship.
Seamus was born on October 9th, 1989. Seamus plays for the Kilruane MacDonaghs club. Seamus made his Senior inter-county debut for Tipperary against Waterford in the 2009 Waterford Crystal Cup, scoring 3 points from right half-forward in a Tipperary victory. Seamus scored 6 points in total in the 2009 Waterford Crystal Cup competition. Seamus made his National League debut as a substitute against Cork in the 2009 League campaign, scoring two points from play after being introduced.
Seamus won All-Ireland Minor Hurling medals in 2006 and 2007 at wing-forward. Seamus won a Munster Minor Hurling medal in 2007 and captained Tipperary to win the Munster Under 21 Hurling title in 2008. Seamus was the reliable free-taker for the 2007 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship, scoring a total of 33 points in 5 matches playing at right half-forward. At club level, Seamus has won County medals at Minor "A" Hurling, Under 21 "A" Hurling (2) and Junior "B" Football as well as numerous North Divisional medals with Kilruane MacDonaghs. Seamus is the youngest player to play Senior for his club.
Brendan was born on January 5th, 1989. Brendan plays for the Borris-Ileigh club. Brendan made his Senior inter-county debut for Tipperary against Waterford in the 2009 Waterford Crystal Cup, lining out at left corner-back in a Tipperary victory. Brendan made his National Hurling League debut against Cork in February 2009, lining out at wing-back. Brendan made his Championship debut as a substitute against Cork in the 2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship.
Brendan played for the Tipperary Minor Hurlers for three years, winning 2 All-Ireland Minor medals in 2006 and in 2007 (as captain). Brendan has also a Munster Hurling medal in 2007. Brendan scored 0-12 from play in the 2007 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship campaign following up from his contribution of 1-4 in the 2006 campaign. Brendan was the second player from the Borris-Ileigh club to captain a Tipperary Minor team to All-Ireland success, following in the foot steps of Paddy Kenny in 1947. Brendan lined out with the Tipperary Under 21 Hurlers in 2007 and 2008, winning a Munster medal in 2008.
Gearoid was born on August 26th, 1988. Gearoid plays for the Templederry Kenyons club. Gearoid made his National Hurling League debut against Cork in February 2009, scoring a point from play. Gearoid won an All-Ireland Minor Hurling medal with Tipperary in 2006, lining out at midfield in the final. Gearoid was also on the Tipperary Intermediate Hurling panel which lost the 2008 Munster Final to Limerick. Gearoid was part of the Tipperary Under 21 Hurling panel in 2007 and 2008, winning a Munster medal in 2008. Gearoid made his Championship debut as a substitute against Cork in the 2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship.
Noel was born on December 17th, 1990. Noel plays for the Loughmore-Castleiney club. Noel made his Senior inter-county debut for Tipperary against Clare in the 2009 Waterford Crystal Cup Final, scoring a point from play at right corner-forward. Noel made his National Hurling League debut against Cork in February 2009. Noel made his Championship debut at corner-forward against Cork in the 2009 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, scoring 3 points from play.
Noel lined out with the Tipperary Minor Hurlers for three seasons, winning All-Ireland medals in 2006 and 2007 and a Munster Minor medal in 2007. Noel won the RTE man of the match award in the 2007 All-Ireland semi-final victory over Kilkenny. He played an impressive role as a second half substitute at wing-back in the 2006 All-Ireland semi-final defeat over Kilkenny. Noel won an All-Ireland Under 16 Hurling medal in 2006 and a Dean Ryan Cup medal with Our Ladys Templemore in 2007. Noel helped his club to win County and Munster Club Senior Hurling medals in 2007.
Michael was born on January 3rd 1989 and plays for the Thurles Sarsfields club. Michael won All-Ireland Minor Hurling medals in 2006 and 2007 as well as winning Munster Minor (2007) and Under 21 Hurling (2008) medals. Michael was a key member of the Thurles CBS team which lost to St. Flannan's in the 2005 Dr. Harty Cup Final. Michael made his debut with the Thurles Sarsfields Senior Hurling team in 2006. Michael has won 2 County U16 A Hurling medals with Durlas Og (2004, 2005). He has also won 2 County Minor "A" Hurling medals (2006 and 2007) and 2 County Minor "A" Football medals (2005, 2006). Michael played Fitzgibbon Cup Hurling in 2007, 2008 and 2009, winning a Fitzgibbon Cup medal in 2009. Michael made his Senior inter-county debut as a substitute in the 2009 National Hurling League against Limerick.