Category: LADIES FOOTBALL
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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…
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No Rowe for Dubs as Royals stay the same
Carla Rowe is a notable absentee from the Dublin starting 15 ahead of Sunday’s TG4 Leinster LSFC Final in Croke Park, while opponents Meath have named an unchanged line up from that which survived a late scare against Kildare in Newbridge on Sunday last. Country Crest Farms employee Rowe will be joined on the Dublin…
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We can but hope for better leadership next time around
Did you ever look forward to something in life – like really pin ALL your hopes on it – only for the matter to turn out damp squib at best or heart breaking disaster at worst? How long have you got, because I have a list that could stretch from Dunboyne to Kilmainhamwood and then…
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One change for the Ladies
In a nod to the fact that while a few results haven’t gone their way of late but at the same time they haven’t been doing a whole lot wrong, Meath have made just one change ahead of what amounts to a semi final in the TG4 Leinster LSFC against Kildare at Cedral St Conleth’s…
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Cleary straight back in to skipper Royals
Meath manager Shane McCormack has opted to put captain Aisling Cleary straight back into his starting 15 ahead of their showdown with Dublin in the first round of the TG4 Leinster LSFC at Pairc Tailteann. This despite the fact that the Donaghmore/Ashbourne clubwoman missed the closing stages of the National League. Presumably in readying herself…
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Opportunity , not redemption
There are those who would contend that the FA Cup doesn’t matter any more. That the big clubs don’t care. Bovine excrement. Manchester United would take your arm off to be still therein. Arsenal too. Even the once thought to be invincible Manchester City would take any fleck of brightness going on their horizon right…