Category: LADIES FOOTBALL
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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…
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Eating cake and having it do not compute
“You can’t stop young people having the opportunity to have a career in sport because there’s not many as sports here in Ireland where there’s that chance as there are in Australia”. Cora Staunton And there you have it. Somebody finally puts it in black and white. Even if the person in question loves talking out…
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Ladies make it a famous five for Meath
With three Meath clubs exiting Leinster Club Championship action yesterday (Saturday) I have no problem admitting spirits in this seat are extremely deflated. Now read on… There has been plenty of talk this year – deservedly so too – about Meath football being on the rise. But on an evening such as yesterday, it can…
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Meath Ladies rocked by sudden departures
BREAKING NEWS Defeated All Ireland SFC finalists Meath’s preparations for the 2026 Ladies Football season has been tossed into turmoil, perhaps before they had even begun with news breaking tonight (Friday) that manager Shane McCormack and Physical Trainer Tony Reilly have departed their roles with immediate effect. That said, given the fact that they did…
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To deal with a problem you must first acknowledge its existence
August 6th, 2025, 8.28pm. It’s almost dark, I still haven’t got out to see even five minutes of the harvest. The few of my beloved viewing spots that remain have all been cut, baled and the straw brought home at this stage. To paraphrase the hauntingly beautiful lines from Waltzing Matilda – as year follows…
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How the other half live
MEATH…0-10 DUBLIN…2-16 At the outset here, it will be admitted that the above headline was initially – and still will be to an extent – intended to refer to my own adventures regarding attending All Ireland Ladies Football Finals day at Croke Park. But it could just as easily be applied to the outcome of…
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Sarah’s finest hour steers Meath back to Croker
MEATH…2-12 KERRY…1-09 For any team to even strive to reach the maximum of their perceived potential, there will be days when those who are often the unsung heroes or heroines ascend to the highest notes to bring the crescendo to its desired conclusion. Thus was the scenario at Glenisk O’Connor Park on Saturday evening as…
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Golden Oldies and a Sunday morning adjusting to a new high
With exactly 11 minutes to go in Tullamore on Saturday evening last, my significant other began imploring referee Joe McQuillan to blow for full time. Now read on… After removing the Michael out of the poor woman over her time keep miscalculation, it was readily admitted that such was the astonishment and excitement surrounding the…
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McCormack maintains consistency of selections
Shane McCormack has once against kept the faith with those who got much closer to winning the Leinster SFC last month than most people expected. Indeed, they may have actually achieved the feat were it not for the fact that certain Meath players couldn’t get a free off Amazon, never mind the referee. Still, they…
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A day that promised much and still does
For the first 60 odd minutes of the second match, and everything up to that point, everything was grand. But then it happened. Now read on… For the last five minutes of last Sunday’s Leinster SFC Final between Louth and Meath, the only thing I could see was the backs of the handful of Louth…