Category: PERSONAL
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Expanding horizons or aging with dignity – you decide!
How does somebody in a wheelchair take 985 steps in a day? I don’t know either but my new watch obviously has it sussed because the day before yesterday that is exactly what it informed me I had accomplished at day’s end. Now read on… Anybody who has been ingesting my output for long enough…
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I Hope Our Lord Has His €2 Ready
“God must me a Meathman” were the immortal words of Kevin Mallon on commentary for LMFM Radio on the day Jody Devine was the unlikely architect of one of the greatest acts of escapology engineered under Sean Boylan’s stewardship, against Kildare in 1997. It’s quite likely the people of Mayo with concur in the wake…
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Our tower of strength could take no more
When news broke in September 2005 that Sean Boylan wouldn’t be seeking a 24th term as Meath senior football manager, the venerated local sports writer Noel Coogan, who’d covered the near quarter-century era and much more besides, wrote of “The cursor flashing blankly on the screen” as he struggled to know even where to begin…
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He knew me better than I knew myself – now there are four very large paw prints to be filled
If asked to offer a synopsis of what my life is all about in as few words as possible, sport and farming would eternally be central tenets of any such description. Yes, writing and Susie and family would be of the utmost importance too. But it would take somebody or somebody or something exceptional to…
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It’d make for great television if it wasn’t real
The following line has got a few spins around the track here over the years, each of them justified. What you will read hereafter is like nothing that has appeared in this space previously. Now read on… Yes we’re on the Covid-19 trail once more. Again, let it be admitted here that at times one’s…
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A comforting voice but still an emotional storm
It had to be him. His comforting voice, which had seen myself, my family and so many others through and over so much. Now read on… No secret has been of the fact that at times I haven’t reacted well to all of the restrictions forced upon us by Covid-19. At all. And yes, I…
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Geraghty has “Long Road” ahead as journey of recovery continues
Amanda Geraghty issued a positive update regarding her husband Graham’s ongoing recovery from major surgery two weeks ago. The former Meath captain and selector was rushed to hospital on October 28th gravely ill and underwent emergency surgery at a Dublin hospital. In the aftermath of the procedure, Mrs Geraghty said the two-time All Star was…
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The game changer needs his greatest ever performance
I don’t mind admitting I’m numb, have no idea why I’m writing this, yet felt overcome by a compulsion to do something. By now, most of you will undoubtedly have heard that arguably the greatest footballer this county ever produced needs a bigger performance now than any of the mesmeric one he produced for club,…
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Left searching for appropriate words
What you are about to read is basically a follow-up to the last column which appeared here. Produced by way of reassurance. Perhaps mostly to myself, but also for people who read the last piece. For I have been blown away and humbled by people’s support and kindness since it was published. As was alluded…
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One day at a time
There’s no set menu for dealing with depression. No quick fixes. Absolutely no sense of one-size-fits-all. What there can be, however, is copious amounts of improvisation. Adapting. Finding ways of coping. It’ll come as no surprise to anyone who knows me well enough that the greatest form of escape is often from observing sport. What…