Category: MEMORY LANE

DON’T PANIC! WE HAVEN’T REACHED THE LAST OF THE WINE YET… What you are about to read should actually have been included in the last spin down the Lane. However, two factors interjected. Firstly, the preceding perambulation ended up becoming a much bigger and deeper affair than was originally envisioned. And secondly because there’s enough…

While it could never, ever be said that yours truly now has a love/hate relationship with both sport and farming (God willing it will always be the former in both cases) feelings definitely have changed towards them in most recent times. With sport, while it should be a case of absence making the heart grow…

Keith Wood deserves accreditation as the man who fully converted me to his area of expertise

The long and winding road back to the top MEATH – ALL IRELAND SFC WINNERS 1996 The number of times tears have been shed over the result of a football game doesn’t stretch far beyond a handful. The most recent which can be recalled was the occasion upon which Dunboyne sunk against Simonstown Gaels faster…

HORSING AROUND It may come as a shock to some of you – indeed it still does to myself – that there was a time when yours truly absolutely detested horse racing. Mostly because, when it was on television, it generally meant the kids programmes were shelved for the day. However, somewhat ironically, it was…

IRELAND v. ENGLAND FEB. 15th 1995 Lansdowne Road When I was younger, farming was really the only thing that consumed my thoughts. Hardly surprising in one way with dad and his brothers drystock farming on a small scale and my brother working with a local farmer for a good few years. Thus, from a very…