Month: January 2024
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Selections for Dundalk – Jan. 31st 2024
1.30: MINT MAN (GAVIN RYAN/PAT MURPHY) 2.00: UNTERBERG (OISIN MCSWEENEY (5)/LAURA HOURIGAN) 2.35: THURMOND – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 3..05: SQUIRE DANAGHER (BILLY LEE/ANDY OLIVER) 3.35: CHUMMIE – EW – (SORCHA WOODS (7)/TED WALSH) 4.05: GOLDEN DAYS (RONAN WHELAN/CONYNGHAM LODGE) 4.35: HODDS GIRL (ADAM CAFFREY (5)/ADO MCGUINNESS) 5.10: JERED MADDOX (BILLY LEE/DAVID MARNANE)
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Selections for Limerick – Jan. 30th 2024
12.50: DECIMATION – EW – (RYAN TREACY/ERIC MCNAMARA) 1.25: KILN TIME (CHARLIE O’DWYER (5)/HARRY KELLY) 2.00: AH FUHGEDDABOUTIT (DAN KING/DENIS HOGAN) 2.35: MISTERGIF (KIERAN CALLAGHAN (5)/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.10: PANA TO MILAN (LIAM MCKENNA (2*)/MICK WINTERS) 3.45: NEW BARN LANE – EW – (RICHIE DEEGAN/EOIN MCCARTHY) 4.20: OLYMPY DE CERISAY (JAMES HENDRICK (7)/DECLAN QUEALLY)
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Selections for Punchestown – Jan 29th 2023
1.10: ANOTHERWAY (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.40: TIMELESS PIECE (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.10: TAREZE – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.40: BILLERICAY DICKIE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.10: DOLLAR NOLIMIT (DARYL JACOB/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.40: VERBAL SPARRING – EW – (EOIN WALSH/DES MCDONOGH) 4.10: MADE IN THE WOODS – EW – (ROBBIE GEOGHEGAN (7)/NORMAN LEE)
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Natural leader Niamh lays down the baton
Hardly surprisingly, Meath manager Shane McCormack kept faith with the 15 who started last Sunday’s victory over Mayo for today’s local derby against the Dubs. The team announcement was, however, overshadowed by the fact the great Niamh O’Sullivan has taken her leave of the inter county stage. If ever scientists are attempting to build a…
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Selections for Naas – Jan. 28th 2024
1.00: GRACCHUS DE BAUME (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 1.35: DUTCH GOLD – EW – (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 2.10: ZARAK THE BRAVE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.45: MEETINGOFTHEWATERS (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.15: ICARE DUBOIS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.45: AMERICAN MONEY – EW – (KIEREN BUCKLEY/E & P HARTY) 4.20: JASMIN DE VAUX (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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What should be the greatest day is now an inconvenient afterthought
As somebody who has been strapped into the rollercoaster that is mental health battles for longer than one cares to remember, the concept of a likelihood of playing into the wind at specific times of the year is all too familiar. Indeed, there are parts of life which, though they might set the pulse racing…
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Point lost or point gained?
MEATH… 0-12 FERMANAGH… 1-09 It would be ventured the above will be the most asked question in Meath tonight. By players, mentors and supporters. At this moment in time, this writer is unsure. Temptation is to think a point dropped. But at the same time, the home side were so flat hands would’ve been taken…
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Jan. 27th 2023
1.05: TEESCOMPONENTSYES – EW – (JODY MCGARVEY/JOHN HANLON) 1.40: BALDURS GATE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/D. M. O’SHEA) 2.15: JADE DE GRUGY (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.50: SHOOT THE BLUES (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN/BARRY CONNELL) 3.25: TIME FOR TEA (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.58: JERIKO DE BAUME – EW – (NIALL MOORE (4*) /PHILIP FENTON) 4.28: ARGENTO BOY (JODY TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Devine diversion an intriguing development
The selection of Na Fianna’s Ethan Devine in the half back line is undoubtedly the most interesting development arising from the announcement of the Meath hurling team to play Kildare in tomorrow’s Kehoe Cup showdown at Manguard Park Hawkfield (Newbridge). Ahead of the latest joust between the old rivals, the equation for Seoirse Bulfin’s men…
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Selections for Dundalk – Jan. 26th 2024
4.00: NO SPEED LIMIT – EW – (KILLIAN LEONARD/PAT MCKENNA) 4.30: NORTH DORSET – EW – (KEITHEN KENNEDY (7)/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 5.00: ELEGANT MAN (MIKEY SHEEHY/ADRIAN MURRAY) 5.30: GATSBY CAP – EW – (HUGH HORGAN (5)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 6.00: FERRYBANK – EW – (BILLY LEE/TED WALSH) 6.30: POMERIGGIO – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 7.00: SHANADAR (SCOTT…