Category: CAMOGIE
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Gut feeling is seldom wrong
If one was attempting to give GAA President Jarlath Burns the benefit of the doubt – for the 1500th time during his tenure – it could be said in his own misguided mind he may have considered he was responding to Mary McAleese’s strongly worded condemnation of the GAA’s Management Committee in equally coarse terms.…
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Whatever about a Picnic in a field, here’s one FOR a field
It seems poignantly apt for what I have long dubbed the mud bath Ulster Final of 1993 between Derry and Donegal to be at the forefront of thoughts here only days after one of the greatest combatants therein was taken from this life long, long before his time. Now, though there’s no concrete evidence available…
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Strong second half shoots Meath into semis
MEATH… 0-15 DERRY… 0-12 There was something poignantly fitting about Meath advancing to the semi final of the Glen Dimplex All Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championship as news broke of the passing of the founder of competition sponsor Dr Martin Naughton of Stackallen House, Rathkenny. For Stephen Shiel’s team, it was a case of another lodgement…
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Leddy into the half back line
Erin Leddy from Na Fianna retains her berth in the Meath half back line having replaced Trim’s Blaithnaid Hughes at half time against Carlow ahead of today’s All Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championship quarter final at Pairc Gratton in Inniskeen. Therein, Stephen Shiel’s side will be hoping to not only improve the county’s abysmal record on…
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Foley fires the clincher in Salvation Saturday Act II
MEATH… 4-15 CARLOW… 1-12 Having backed the footballers to beat Derry at 2/1 early last week, the only regret was there were no odds available on (a) the camogie team doing likewise against Carlow or (b) the double. Now read on… In so many ways, the scenarios facing both sides were the same. At an…
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Meath Camogs v. Carlow
Meath Meath Stephen Shiel has shown his hand ahead of today’s All Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championship shootout against the Barrowsiders at Netwatch Dr Cullen Park. The equation for Shiel’s side is simple – they must conquer their hosts and do so by enough to leave themselves with a superior score difference to the red, yellow…
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Isabel installs crucial ‘major’ as Royals complete Oak Leaf hat trick
MEATH… 2-12 DERRY… 1-11 There was a time, which doesn’t feel like as long ago as it is actually is, when Derry teams were very much of the bogey variety for all manner of Royal County ensembles. Now, any representatives of the Oak Leaf County will always be worthy of and afforded the utmost respect.…
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Hanging the hat on hope once again
Peter Quinn was the first GAA President of whom there is proper recollection in this seat. Perhaps obviously, because he was the first holder of the office I met. Since then, Jack Boothman, Joe McDonagh, Sean McCague (God rest all three of them), Nicky Brennan, Sean Kelly and Liam O’Neill have all been encountered along…
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Mixed bag for the ladies
Any sportsperson, in an individual pursuit or a team based one, can only work with the hand of circumstances they are dealt. So yes, the Meath Ladies have had to adjust to life without Vikki Wall, Katie Newe, Orlagh Lally, Aoibhin Cleary, Monica McGuirk, Emma Troy, Aoibheann Leahy, Stacey Grimes,Kerrie Cole, Shauna Ennis and Maire…
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Parity of esteem? Particles of it more like
It’s curios how tastes change as life goes on. Literally and in terms of life in general. When I was younger, coleslaw, potato salad, Branston Pickles or beetroot wouldn’t be touched with a barge pole. On the other hand, though, now, at the appropriate time of year, a feed can’t be had without some or…