Life And Sport From An Armchair View
No secret has ever been made of how grateful yours truly feels to have many who were once heroes admired from afar become treasured friends. Yes, a lot of them are, shall we say, 'colourful' characters but then, it would be my genuine belief that if there wasn't a bit of a maverick in myself,... Continue Reading →
The great Mickey Burke reaches another milestone in his remarkable inter county career tomorrow - fittingly on his home pitch in Longwood - when he chalks up his 200th competitive appearance in green and gold during Meath's Kehoe Cup opener against Down. Mickey will provide vital experience to what is largely an experimental side named... Continue Reading →
Repetition is one of the greatest foibles in this business. Balancing such worries, though, is the reality that, if a point retains credence, it's worth ploughing up again. Now read on... Again, we return to the task of tending to some of da's stuff. Specifically, a few GAA photos - including the one of the... Continue Reading →
Their journeys were always intertwined. Joy for one generally meant despair for the other. Never more than when a very harsh dose of red mist for one denied him and his colleagues hurling immortality. To the greatest benefit of the adversary with whom the stage will be divided for the remainder of what you take... Continue Reading →
Limerick...0-30 Kilkenny...2-15 Any hurling aficionados among you might recognise the above headline. It has been here before. On the occasion Meath defeated Antrim for the first time in the Christy Ring Cup Final some years back before a re-fixture was ordered over some cock up with the full time score. But Meath were so good... Continue Reading →
Kilkenny... 1-25 Clare... 1-22 In the aftermath of Kilkenny's victory in the Leinster SHC Final against Galway, one photo in particular attracted mass attention. The chap from Bredagh in Co Down who was kitted out as TJ Reid for a stag do, and because of same was able to blag his way past security and... Continue Reading →
Limerick... 2-24 Galway... 1-18 Evidence that good players don't always make good managers is ample. No need to name names but there have quite a few Galacticos who've flopped worse than a Premier League footballer trying to con their way to a penalty. Henry Shefflin absolutely does not belong in the above category. He couldn't... Continue Reading →
Dear Larry McCarthy, Please leave well enough alone. Thank you. The dust had hardly settled on the best day of the sporting year when the outgoing GAA President started blurting about fixing it that the Leinster and Munster SHC Finals wouldn't be on the same day again. Utter idiocy. It's not as if people attending... Continue Reading →
Meath...1-23 Derry...1-21 When Nicky Potterton gathered possession, wheeled away and ended up lashing the sliotar to the Derry net, it appeared to be merely the white icing atop the almond equivalent on Meath's victory cake in this pulsating Christy Ring Cup decider at Croke Park. At that stage, it left Seoirse Bulfin's side clear by... Continue Reading →
In this space over the years, reference has been made on numerous occasions to my sporadic reading habits. For the sake of clarity, that's generally meant in terms of books. Newspapers and/or online are part of the staples which keep these wheels turning on daily basis. The National papers on a Monday being a must.... Continue Reading →