Category: LADIES FOOTBALL
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Murray’s Minors Go Again
In their first outing since a gut wrenching defeat against Dublin three weeks ago, Meath Ladies Minor manager Eamon Murray has made just one change to the side ahead of this week’s joust against Kildare. The young Royals have home advantage once again with the all whites making the trip to Carnaross. A big occasion…
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Fringe players state their case
Meath Ladies senior football manager Wayne Freeman has made five changes to his team ahead of the weekend’s penultimate round of the Lidl Ladies NFL in which they will take on a rejuvenated Cork side at the MTU grounds in Bishopstown. While I am loathe to describe any fixture as a ‘dead rubber’ , from…
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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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Chips off old blocks out to lay their own foundations (updated 2.21pm, 28/2)
If, like me, you are the least bit nostalgic or superstitious, it’s hard to which element is most exciting. The fact that Eamonn Murray is back looking after a Meath Ladies team again. Or to look at the pedigree of some of those with whom he is working. To see a McKeigue from Navan O’Mahonys…
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Ladies try their hand at musical chairs
With the maddening practice of teams releasing bogus team sheets becoming as big a pandemic as the Covid yoke was a half decade ago (sic) there are times when one wonders is it worth writing pieces about team announcements at all. Yet persist we must, if for no other reason than the fact the people…
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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…
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Meath put first dent in Deise title tilt
MEATH…1-09 WATERFORD…0-10 Orla Finnegan’s sixth minute ‘major’ ultimately proved the decisive factor as travelling Meath put the first dent in Waterford’s Lidl NFL title ambitions in Dungarvan on Sunday afternoon. The result of which was, consequently, that Wayne Freeman’s team re-ignited their own ambitions of reaching the same fixture in a few weeks time. Finnegan’s…
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Two changes for Royals ahead of Deise dance
As they strive to get their Lidl National League campaign back on track, Meath have made two changes ahead of the long run down to tackle Waterford in Round 4, Manager Wayne Freeman has recalled both Megan Thynne and Rachel Casserly, who come in to replace Meadhbh Byrne and Ciara Lawlor. Casserly’s inclusion sees Orla…
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Super Smyth sparkles as Meath brilliantly steady the ship
MEATH…2-14 DUBLIN…1-04 Do not adjust your screens. The score before you is indeed correct. Some turnaround from 0-10 to 2-16 on the August Bank Holiday weekend. Alright, alright, romantic dreaming aside, the manner in which the Royal ladies rebounded after last week’s disappointment against Galway was impressive in itself. That, combined with the fact that…