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Tara do enough sporadically to seal final spot
TARA…1-12 AN TUAISCEART…0-13 If one was to try and define Tara’s performance in qualifying for the final of the 2026 Brady’s Automotive Regional Football Championship, it might be best to deploy one of my late father’s beloved quips – “Like the Curate’s egg – good in spots”! For it is exactly the case that Davy…
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Selections for Thurles – Nov. 12th 2026
11.43: MIGHT BE THE ONE (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/ANDY MCNAMARA) 12.18: STONEYFORD LADY (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.53: ISLAND MCCOO – EW – (EOIN STAPLES (5)/DONNACHA DUGGAN) 1.28: DOCTOR ELVIS (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.03: FLASHY FRED – EW – (MIKE O’CONNOR/CONOR HOULIHAN) 2.38: TIR OG – EW – (CONOR CLARKE (7)/EAMONN SEYMOUR) 3.15: JAADIL – EW –…
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Bell tolls for Moyfenragh men as Boyne make another Final
BOYNE VALLEY…2-12 MOYFENRAGH…0-12 It doesn’t happen too often but it is nice when judgments arrived at through the one seeing eye here get vindicated. In the case you will read hereafter, the class of David Bell as a footballer and why the St Colmcille’s clubman is worthy of a call up to the Meath senior…
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Selections for Dundalk – Nov. 11th 2026
2.30: JORDAN BREEZE (ROBYN DONAGHUE-LEAHY (7)/PAT FLYNN) 3.00: INVINCIBLE IRISH (SCOTT MCCULLAGH/DANNY MCLOUGHLIN) 3.30: JUSTENZIA (CHRIS HAYES/DENIS HOGAN) 4.02: RESURGENCE (COLIN KEANE/JESSIE HARRINGTON) 4.32: DIRECT ACTION – EW – (COLIN KEANE/DEREK MCCORMACK) 5.02: BLUE ANTHEM – EW – (CAMILLUS BYRNE (10)/ADO MCGUINNESS) 5.32: MOVIN AND GROOVIN – EW – (NATHAN CROSSE/DAVID MARNANE)
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Ladies league roadmap laid out
Meath Ladies senior manager Wayne Freeman and his players can start filling in their diaries for the first half of next year with the announcement on Monday evening of the confirmed fixture list for the regulation phase of the Lidl Ladies National League. The Royals recovered from an opening day drubbing against eventual All Ireland…
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Nov. 10th 2026
12.30: QUATRE SAISON (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.00: REBEL REBA (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.30: PILGRIMS WALK – EW – (CONOR CLARKE (7)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 2.00: STORM HEART (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.30: A YEAR OLDER (FINNY MAGUIRE/KARL THORNTON) 3.00: HEARTS AND SPADES (EOGHAN MAHON (7)/IAN MCCARTHY) 3.30: ANNIE BUTTON – EW – (GEORGIE BENSON/PETER J FLOOD) 4.00: HERRON…
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The original DOC on call checks out from final shift
The day was always going to come sometime. As sure as the passage of time. It will still take a fair bit of getting used to. In the overall scheme of things, while to many it might be a sporting triviality, it might be also be seen as an occurrence to pull on the heart…
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Selections for Punchestown – Nov. 9th 2026
12.00: DEARG MOR – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/AIDAN HOWARD) 12.30: RATTLEDLATCH (IAN POWER/JOHN QUEALLY) 1.00: SMOKIN ACES (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.30: COEXIST (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.03: BOMBAY PAT – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 2.38: SHIRZAN – EW – (BEN KENNEDY/PAUL FAHEY) 3.13: BIRDIE CONWAY – EW – (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 3.45: HEAD FOR…
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Yes, referees are important – but so is accountability
A few years ago now, emerging Meath referee Keith Sheerin approached me prior to throwing in the ball at a match in Dunshaughlin. For once, I knew I couldn’t have said or done anything to pi** the whistler off. Not that it could or would be just him. One is accutely aware that with at…
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Selections for Naas – Nov. 8th 2026
12.00: MOYLUSSA (DAN KING/MAIK MAGNUSSEN) 12.30: THE MOURNE RAMBLER (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 1.00: LOVE ME TENDER (II) (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.30: CLAUDE DU VAL – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/BARRY CONNELL) 2.04: DABOYA – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/DICK DONOHOE) 2.39: BOWENSONFIRE – W/O FAV – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.13: KOKTAIL BRUT – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON…
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