Month: October 2023
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Selections for Dundalk – Oct. 27th 2022
5.00: CHESTNUTTER (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.30: THE BOG BANK – EW – (JAMES RYAN (2*)/TOM MCCOURT) 6.00: CATHERINE CROI – EW – (GARY HALPIN/CLAIRE O’CONNELL) 6.30: CLONMACASH (BILLY LEE/NATALIA LUPINI) 7.00: ALABAMA (COLIN KEANE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 7.30: PAGAN SUN (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 8.00: NINE LIVES – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 8.30: SHREWSBERRY ROAD (COLIN KEANE/JOHN…
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Home is where the heart is as old boys reunite
We’re in that strange time of the GAA year, when club competitions around the country are winding down, but the restart of the inter county fare still feels a long way off. Or does it?… As you will (hopefully) have seen on these pages during the week, the Meath Regional Football Championships kicked off in…
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An excellent eight recognised after terrific Tailteann triumph
Footballers join Christy Ring heroes already honoured this week Eight members of Meath’s Tailteann Cup winning team have been selected on the Team Of The Year for what I like to think of as the All Ireland Intermediate Football Championship. No doubt, the knockers and begrudgers will sneer at such a thing being celebrated but,…
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Big McBride draws fans from Four Country Roads but McGill tops the charts
BRU NA BOINNE…1-12 ARDBRACCAN…1-11 The inclusion of St Ultan’s wandering son Cian McBride in the Ardbraccann team will surely have bolstered the attendance at this Brady’s Skoda Regional Football Championship face-off at Donore, but, despite the mighty midfielder turning in a brilliant personal display, a majestic late score from St Vincent’s’ Paddy McGill pooped the…
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Selections for Clonmel – Oct. 27th 2023
2.00: TALK IN THE PARK – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/MAGS MULLINS) 2.35: LUCKY VIV – EW – (AMBROSE MCCURTIN/MICHAEL BARRY) 3.10: BRIANNA LILY (MARK MCDONAGH (3)/PAT FOLEY) 3.45: BARBAHA QUEEN – EW – (HARRY SWAN (5)/JOHN RYAN) 4.20: HEIA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.55: JENNY FLEX (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.25: WOMALKO (MARK WALSH/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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The Dixon Line a winning one for Moyfernagh
MOYFERNAGH… 0-09 LOUGHCREW GAELS… 0-08 Danny Dixon’s pointed free in the third minute of stoppage time guaranteed Moyfernagh a deserved opening round victory in this Brady’s Skoda Regional Football Championship encounter at Dunganny tonight (Wednesday). The Boardsmill clubman featured on the senior panel previously during Andy McEntee’s tenure and, while he has seemingly been travelling…
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Midweek Match Night: Team news for Wednesday’s Regional Championship fixtures
After last night’s entertaining opening pair of jousts in the Brady’s Skoda Meath Regional Football Championship, the remaining for combatants enter the fray this evening with Donore, the home of St Mary’s GFC taking over from Moynalty as a host venue tonight. Therein, Ardbracken will take on Bru Na Boinne while in the night’s other…
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O’Reilly makes it alright on the night for Blackwater
BLACKWATER…1-13 AN TUAISCEART…0-13 Brian O’Reilly from the St Michael’s club underlined just why he is considered to be one of the brightest prospects in the county when producing a top drawer performance to inspire Blackwater to their first ever win in the Regional Football Championship in Moynalty last night. There was never much between the…
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Tully’s three pointer sets holders on road to repeat victory
BOYNE VALLEY… 1-08 TARA… 0-09 Football in Slane is on the up once again as evidenced by the emergence of players like Tadhg Martyn and Brayden Colfer on county underage teams and the fact was underscored still further when the Louth-border club’s Matt Tully turned in an outstanding display in the opening round of the…
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All the skill and bravery in the world won’t paper over the cracks
There was a reason it took this corner quite a while to come onside with rugby. Until the nuances of the game were understood properly, all it looked like to me was f*t fellas trundling around and jumping on top of each other like young bulls turned out to fresh grass. More fool I. For…