Category: CLUB CONTENT
-
SIDELINE CUTS – 49
Sleeping Giants Awakening? Even with the extensive coverage of the action in the Meath county football championships in this space in recent days, there was still more which could have been undertaken but I had neither the physical or emotional energy to take it on. For reasons which may well become obvious in due course.…
-
Champs flex muscles with ominous force
SUMMERHILL…0-30 ST COLMCILLE’S…1-16 At some stage in life, it’s probable we’ve all been told never to judge a book by its cover. The wise words were most certainly apt for deployment in relation to this final quarter final of the Fairyhouse Steel Meath SFC for 2026, played in St Loman’s Park, Trim on Sunday evening.…
-
O’Brien lifts it and shifts Ratoath past the neighbours
RATOATH…2-18 DUNSHAUGHLIN/ROYAL GAELS…2-16 Ratoath businessman Gabriel O’Brien has what is perhaps the leading crane hire business in the country, which operates under the advertising slogan “Don’t lift it, let O’Brien shift it”. Now read on… Whether Bobby of the same surname is one of Gabriel’s gang or not I am not sure, but the experienced…
-
Cometh the hour, cometh the Moran
WOLFE TONES…1-12 RATHKENNY…0-13 If memory serves me correctly, Kyle Moran came on as a substitute in a Meath SFC knockout game a few years back and netted a crucial goal for Wolfe Tones as they progressed to a Meath SFC Final against Dunshaughlin/Royal Gaels. As it happened, before the corresponding phase of competition for the…
-
Furze have the horsepower to dig out safety
(Last edited 12:50pm on 21/9/26 to correct several typos. Mea Culpa). Seneschalstown…1-26 Simonstown Gaels…2-19 (AET) It’s difficult if not impossible now to visualise a world without the ability to stream events online. Either in real time or to be able to go back and re-watch them after the fact. In a sporting sense, the advent…
-
A lot of ‘What ifs’ for one parish to ponder
KILBRIDE…0-21 NA FIANNA…1-15 (AET) VEGAS’S MEN WERE OUTSIDERS FOR SURVIVAL Sometimes, personally speaking, when confidence is a bit shot, it takes a bit of a boost from a perhaps unexpected source to keep the wheels turning. In this case, confirmation that reading and judgment of the local GAA scene is still fairly well on the…
-
The best for last but all in vain
St Peters…2-15 Kilbride…0-11 Whilst writing the match report for Dunboyne’s SFC opening round draw against Rathkenny the point was made that their failure to close out the job on that evening would come back to bite them in the backside. And, though they produced their best display of the entire season against the other side…
-
Dunboyne do Major amount to secure victory in first half
ST PETERS…5-14 SKRYNE…1-09 Despite there being a crestfallen cloud engulfing the black and amber camp after the senior team produced their best display of the season against Kilbride all to no avail, those in reserve for that one also put in a clinical shift to advance to the All County IFC semi final. With the…
-
It’s a nice surprise to be right!
DULEEK/BELLEWSTOWN… 0-13 OLDCASTLE..,0-07 Can one man make that big of a difference to a team? It would appear that can be answered in the affirmative after the return of the mercurially talented Eamonn Armstrong gave the Louth border club the required extra inches to negotiate their way past Oldcastle and into the knockout stages of…
-
Rugged rurals often set the stiffest exams
Sadly, however, that was only a fraction of their worries as, shortly before the break, exciting attacker Sean Delaney crumpled with a ghastly looking knee injury and only minutes after the resumption, wing back Cian Smith similarly had to be assisted off the field.