Category: TRIBUTE
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Noel Coogan – A Tribute
Here we are again. Back at the same writer’s crossroads. To use his own phrase, the cursor flashing at you on an empty screen and you without the slightest idea of how to even begin to fill the acres of blank white screen space in front of you. In the first instance, this writer used…
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Jimmy Brady – Ballinlough GFC (RIP)
I honestly can’t believe the following is having to be written in the applicable context. The appended letters in brackets aside, one could simply write Jimmy Brady Ballinlough GFC and no more would be required. Jimmy was the club, and the club was Jimmy. One simply couldn’t imagine one without the other. Yet that is…
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Tommy Smyth Snr – R.I.P.
Sincere sympathy is extended to Eileen, Ed, Tommy, girls and the extended Smyth family of Bennettstown, Batterstown and beyond. It is with deep sadness I learn of Tommy Snr’s passing. A quiet, softly spoken gentleman, the last remaining pillar of one of Meath’s great sporting dynasties. His passing marks the end of an era. But…
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Mick Cummins – A Tribute
Not for the first time and absolutely not the last, a tale at my own expense to begin. My obsession with farming, tractors and all things machinery has always and will always be a part of me. But it hasn’t always been easy on those around me. Simply as one wasn’t disposed to taking no…
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When heroes become best friends time stands still
How exactly the fixation on Colm O’Rourke as my first hero began is unclear. The best guess which can be hazarded regarding same is that the distinctive blue bandage on the wounded left knee and his tendency to kick the ball 100ft up in the air when going for a point were what set him…
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Humble Messiah O’Mahony’s greatness lay in his quiet approach
Joe Brolly tells a story about the late former Derry manager Eamonn Coleman pulling a newspaper cutting out of his back pocket minutes before the team were due to take the field for a crunch Ulster SFC encounter. The cutting was an ‘article’ in which a player – possibly Tony Scullion but I can’t swear…
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Robin Cunningham – A Personal Tribute
It is with complete shock, disbelief and a broken heart that I have just learned of the passing of Robin Cunningham. One of the kindest, most caring, patient, compassionate people I was ever blessed to meet. A consummate professional in the most difficult line of business there is. Following the death of his dad Rory…
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Mrs Eimear Gilligan – R. I. P.
Was there ever a teacher in your school that you wished taught you but it never actually happened? Before answering that from my own perspective, it will be admitted that it’s considered an absolute privilege to have been taught by the greatest teacher Dunboyne has ever known – Mr Willie Lyons. However, there are two…
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Damien P. O’Reilly 1983-2023
My late father always reckoned Tom Yourell was one of the best judges of character he ever came across. In other words, if the nearest I ever knew to a grandfather got a vibe about someone, time would usually prove him to be right. It’s something I’d like to think I’ve inherited from the old…
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Rivalries parked once the whistle goes
Rivalries are a huge part of how sport becomes such an intrinsic part of many of our lives. As I begin to write this, I’m not long home from the latest coming together between Dunboyne and Dunshaughlin in the Meath Adult Football League. These wheels may not park up at as many matches as was…