Category: Athletics
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How strange the change from minor to major
Every time I feel like I am getting close to some form of peace with the GAA’s split season, something crops up to remind me again of how hideous and counterproductive it is. As one former Meath player put it to me over the weekend “Lads busting their guts training since January for three games…
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Sport poignantly does its thing yet again
A guess would be hazarded with a fair degree of confidence that this corner is not alone in admitting that, aside from Al Paccino’s Inches speech, not a thing is recalled of the American Football based movie, Any Given Sunday. That’s all a soul would need though. Not only to get a proper grasp on…
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Local achievement in the midst of Boston history
There are certain things you never expect to see or hear of in your lifetime. And an athlete finishing a marathon in under THREE hours has to be right up there in such terms. Even that, though, is eclipsed by the fact 2026 winner – defending his men’s title from last year, John Korir of…
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Adeleke absence a blow ahead of World Championships
On Sunday morning last, Dunboyne Athletic Club hosted a special event to honour three club members – Gerry Reilly, Sarah Treacy and Emma Costello – who represented Ireland at different Olympic/Paralympic games going back as far as what I think was Los Angeles in 1984 in Gerry’s case. Each of the honourees spoke about their…
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There are kernels of truth in all comedy
Who is your favourite stand up comedian? Can you nail it down to one? Not a hope I would venture. If absolutely pressed, the best yours truly could do is narrow it down to a shortlist of four – Peter Kay, Dermot Morgan, Tommy Tiernan or Brendan Grace. If the gun was then absolutely put…
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Go for a run around Culmullen for a good cause
As somebody living with a disability since birth, when events related to people who require additional assistance to negotiate the journey of life, it naturally peaks interest. More than that, it prompts a natural instinct to help out in whatever way might be possible. So when an old acquaintance from school days long gone, Emma…
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Dunboyne St Patrick’s Day Parade 2025
Brief highlights of the first St Patrick’s Day Parade in the village since before the Covid-19 Pandemic. As Grand Marshall of the first Dunboyne parade back in 2013, it was a source of great pride and entirely fitting for yours truly that our local Special Olympics hero Emma Costello was Grand Marshall for the town’s…
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Barr hits the net regarding double standard hypocricy
There are certain observations, often long-held, which you can’t publicly utter until you’ve stepped away from the situation to which they are related. Now read on… Believe me, by the time my 11th season as P.R.O. and/or Asst. P.R.O. of St Peter’s GAA Club in Dunboyne that there were a cohort – God knows how…
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Going back to what we know best
June is a strange month. Which stirs more emotions in yours truly than you could shake a stick at. Obviously, in terms of sadness, nothing will ever surpass the 10th. Da’s anniversary. On the opposite end of that scale, June 2nd was the start of the four match saga between Meath and Dublin of 1991.…
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Sean Conroy – A Tribute
Do you ever find yourself wishing you could turn back time? Go back to the way things used to be. I know that could mean 100,000 different things. With me, it would hardly come as a shock that a lot of such thinking pertains to farming. Specifically, to having cattle and/or hay at the back…