Category: SIDELINE CUTS
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Mixed bag for assorted Meath teams – Sideline Cuts 45
As would only be expected, the senior footballers’ annexation of promotion to Div. 1 of the NFL nabbed most of the GAA-related headlines over the weekend, but there was a mixed bag of results for various other Meath teams who were also in action then. Let’s do a whistle stop tour of their fortunes. ***…
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Sideline Cuts – 44
McCloskey In From The Cold The major talking point from the Irish rugby team announced to take on the All Blacks in Chicago on Saturday night has been the inclusion of Stuart McCloskey to partner Garry Ringrose in the centre. It will be the 33-year-old’s first start in green since 2023. Other notable occurrences include…
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Sideline Cuts 42 – Money doesn’t always have to talk
“Money talks, but it don’t sing and dance and it don’t walk”. It could save you having to walk and pay for singing and dancing lessons though. So in short, yes, the more of the stuff you have available, the easier life can sometimes be. Sometimes. It’s only in such circumstances does the concept of…
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German lessons and a need for a farrier and mirror!
All’s fair in love and war, right? When emotions had partially returned to equilibrium in the wake of Dunboyne’s bitterly disappointingly tame exit from contention for the Meath SFC, or as close to such so as not to make any difference, Summerhill manager Dave Clare and I embraced as happens more regularly than anybody on…
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Sideline Cuts – 40
Midweek Meanderings For reasons that hardly need elaborating, there are those who think I have my knife in the GAA at large presently. For said reason and that alone, a guilty plea will readily be entered. However, outside of the aforementioned subject area, even the most steadfast Gael must surely on occasion admit that the…
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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…
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Sobering Saturday underlines it’s tough at the top
Derek Thompson, arguably the most recognisable horse racing anchor/presenter over the past few decades, once drew the ire of Ruby Walsh when, after the latter had just finished second in the Cheltenham Gold Cup aboard the legendary Kauto Star – to his Paul Nicholls teammate Denman. Now, I will admit that, to me, it was…
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I’ve no hair to tear out so I may headbutt the wall
What is it with those in sports administration wanting less instead of more? Think about it – when the Premier League began, there were 42 league games a season. The original incarnation of the Heineken Cup was a much better competition in its embryonic stage than the current truncated, rushed rabble. More recently, the GAA’s…
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Two sides to every story? You don’t always hear both
So Aoibhin Cleary is the latest Royal County star to be recruited to play Austalian Football League or AFLW, as it’s known in the Ladies sphere. Following Conor Nash, Cian McBride, Vikki Wall, Orlagh Lally and Eamonn Armstrong. Of those, only Cian and Vikki – temporarily – have returned to give something back. Granted, Eamonn…
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Sports Oddity
“This is Major Tom to Ground Control. I’m stepping through the doorAnd I’m floating in a most peculiar wayAnd the stars look very different today” David Bowie – Space Oddity You suspect there are quite a few sporting entities experiencing similar conundrums to Major Tom in recent days. Not least some of those in or…