Category: PAIRC TAILTEANN
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A Lifetime In The Pairc – Part 4
It is somewhat surreal to have finally arrived at what, basically, was the reasoning behind and motivation for production of this series all along. Hopes/desires for what the disabled viewing facllities in the ‘new’ Pairc Tailteann will be like. Moreover, an ambition and genuine intent to be as proactive and assistive to those making the…
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A Lifetime In The Pairc – Part 3
About two hours prior to commencement of production of this piece, I came across a breaking news piece by my colleague Fergal Lynch. One photo and about 10 lines, but, possibly the most significant couple of paragraphs the Sports Editor has keyboarded in his near 30 years with the Meath Chronicle. So momentous was it,…
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A Lifetime in The Pairc – Part 2
In the opening instalment of this sojourn down memory lane, no secret was made of the fact that my ‘relationship’ with Pairc Tailteann got off to the most disastrous start possible. Between ‘Gate gate’ in 1991, my own personal flag disaster of county final day of 1990 and my initial viewing of a Meath match…
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A lifetime in the Pairc – Part 1
There is almost a sense foreboding about beginning work on what you will read hereafter. From the perspective of, is it actually going to happen this time? Such are the amount of false dawns which have been ignited and then extinguished with regard to the re-development of Meath’s home. Our home. That which has been…