Category: MEATH
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Kelly on song as old hands just fall short for Gaels
NA FIANNA…2-10 SIMONSTOWN GAELS…0-13 It’s genuinely hard to know where to begin a summary of this enthralling Meath SFC Relegation Final on one of the outfields at Dunganny on Friday evening. With the hallowed turf of Devenish Park, Pitch 6 being reserved for the glut of Championship semi finals to come over the next 48…
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Changing of the guard in Royal land of timber
Years go by with scary rapidity. This weekend 20 years ago, Mick Cole hit a (very) contentiously awarded free four minutes into injury time at the end of the Meath SHC Final, for Rathmolyon against St Peter’s, Dunboyne. Now read on… Well, that is to say he completely mishit it. With the very tip of…
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SIDELINE CUTS – 49
Sleeping Giants Awakening? Even with the extensive coverage of the action in the Meath county football championships in this space in recent days, there was still more which could have been undertaken but I had neither the physical or emotional energy to take it on. For reasons which may well become obvious in due course.…
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Champs flex muscles with ominous force
SUMMERHILL…0-30 ST COLMCILLE’S…1-16 At some stage in life, it’s probable we’ve all been told never to judge a book by its cover. The wise words were most certainly apt for deployment in relation to this final quarter final of the Fairyhouse Steel Meath SFC for 2026, played in St Loman’s Park, Trim on Sunday evening.…
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Cometh the hour, cometh the Moran
WOLFE TONES…1-12 RATHKENNY…0-13 If memory serves me correctly, Kyle Moran came on as a substitute in a Meath SFC knockout game a few years back and netted a crucial goal for Wolfe Tones as they progressed to a Meath SFC Final against Dunshaughlin/Royal Gaels. As it happened, before the corresponding phase of competition for the…
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Furze have the horsepower to dig out safety
(Last edited 12:50pm on 21/9/26 to correct several typos. Mea Culpa). Seneschalstown…1-26 Simonstown Gaels…2-19 (AET) It’s difficult if not impossible now to visualise a world without the ability to stream events online. Either in real time or to be able to go back and re-watch them after the fact. In a sporting sense, the advent…
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A lot of ‘What ifs’ for one parish to ponder
KILBRIDE…0-21 NA FIANNA…1-15 (AET) VEGAS’S MEN WERE OUTSIDERS FOR SURVIVAL Sometimes, personally speaking, when confidence is a bit shot, it takes a bit of a boost from a perhaps unexpected source to keep the wheels turning. In this case, confirmation that reading and judgment of the local GAA scene is still fairly well on the…
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Meath nail great team goal with appointment of former King Cole
Take yourself back more than three decades. A different world. One which still hadn’t
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It’s a nice surprise to be right!
DULEEK/BELLEWSTOWN… 0-13 OLDCASTLE..,0-07 Can one man make that big of a difference to a team? It would appear that can be answered in the affirmative after the return of the mercurially talented Eamonn Armstrong gave the Louth border club the required extra inches to negotiate their way past Oldcastle and into the knockout stages of…
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Rugged rurals often set the stiffest exams
Sadly, however, that was only a fraction of their worries as, shortly before the break, exciting attacker Sean Delaney crumpled with a ghastly looking knee injury and only minutes after the resumption, wing back Cian Smith similarly had to be assisted off the field.