Category: Hurling
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Greville gives things a shake up before heading into the west
Johnny Greville has made three to his Meath team ahead of tomorrow (Saturday) ‘s NHL Div. 2 encounter away to Mayo. Into the side come Anthony Healy, Lorcan O’Connor and Sean Doyle. With Conor Levey (injured), Joey Cole and Damien Healy making way. Furthermore, there are a number of highly significant positional alterations. The experienced…
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King the Royal blue hero!
MEATH…1-20 DERRY…1-18 It might surprise some people to know that the phenom of players lining out for more than one county is not as rare as might be thought. Now read on… How far back do you want to go? To Dessie Ferguson playing with Dublin and Meath, or Joey Tormey doing likewise? Or Eddie…
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Shine returns to brighten Meath’s prospects
Having been an absentee for the defeat to Westmeath in Mullingar a fortnight ago, Tom Shine will be a welcome sight on the horizon for Johnny Greville et al as will the home comforts of St Loman’s Park in Trim as Meath aim to get their NHL Div. 2 campaign back on track against Derry…
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Meath SH team to play Westmeath in NHL Round 2 – 8/2/26
Johnny Greville has named the same starting 15 as lined out against London ahead of tomorrow’s NHL Div. 2 Round 2 joust against his native county in Mullingar. There are, however, a couple of curios positional switches as well as one alteration among the subs list. Basically, Tom Shine and Eoin Donegan swap positions while…
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Meath Club Hurling Championship Draws 2026
Before going a yard further, I must first apologise for not having the below hurling draws up at the same time as their football brethern. The simple and honest explanation is that fuel reserves with the occupant of this seat were flagging between team news for and match reports on weekend events in National League…
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Meath Shine brightest on murky day to exile their opponents
MEATH…1-20 LONDON…1-10 There was something ironically apt about the Shine twins, Daire and Tom, being to the fore as Meath defied the murky conditions in Trim to open their National Hurling League campaign off to an impressive start against the Exiles. In so doing, Johnny Greville’s side put to bed the memory of last year’s…
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Positivity there if you want to see it
MEATH… 3-06 WICKLOW… 0-16 Matches at this time of year, and particularly hurling ones, should be legally obliged to come with a disclaimer. Accompanied by the familiar skull and cross bones label. Under no circumstances are patrons or participants to indulge in serious analysis of what transpires beyond this point. As a reference point, consider…
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Working away in the shade
What is probably close to thirty years ago now, a word manufacturing machine being propelled by yours truly produced a piece headlined exactly as above. Back then, it mostly centred on how the All Ireland successes carved out by Down (twice), Derry and Donegal could be – and as it happened, was – ground breaking…
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A team with spirit will always give themselves a chance
MEATH…0-16 DOWN…1-15 It would probably be fairly widely accepted that there are a cohort of teams around the same level as Meath in the overall hurling picture. Whilst there’s always a bit of angst about naming names and categorising entities, it would, you suspect, be a common view that the stickmen of the Royal County…
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Endorsements of respect and statements of intent
It’s that time of year when – if arrangements aren’t carried over from last season – teams are selecting and announcing captains and vice captains for what they hope will be long and successful campaigns. There are some players who, their captaincy candidacy stands out like a lighthouse. With the result that their accession to…