Category: LADIES FOOTBALL
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Sometimes the painful explanation is the only one
It’s an unfortunate reality of sport that, sometimes, you will encounter an opponent whom your best simply won’t be good enough to win against. Personally, the worst case of same encountered in this seat was the Meath MFC Final when the Dunboyne team with which I was a mentor were trounced by Navan O’Mahonys 0-04…
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As you were for visiting Royals
Meath manager Wayne Freeman has announced an unchanged team from that which defeated Tyrone last time out for this evening’s TG4 All Ireland LSFC quarter final against old foes Kerry in Tralee. The match has a 5.15 throw in time and will be broadcast live by the competition sponsors. That means that Karla Kealy and…
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Amy and Emma return as Royals face daunting task
Amy Gaffney comes in to replace the departed Mary Kate Lynch while Emma Duggan makes a crucial and very welcome return to lead Wayne Freeman’s attack for Sunday’s Leinster LSFC clash with Brendan Martin Cup holders Dublin at Parnell Park. Not only do last year’s beaten showpiece finalists have to win in the lioness’s den,…
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Murray’s Minors Go Again
In their first outing since a gut wrenching defeat against Dublin three weeks ago, Meath Ladies Minor manager Eamon Murray has made just one change to the side ahead of this week’s joust against Kildare. The young Royals have home advantage once again with the all whites making the trip to Carnaross. A big occasion…
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Fringe players state their case
Meath Ladies senior football manager Wayne Freeman has made five changes to his team ahead of the weekend’s penultimate round of the Lidl Ladies NFL in which they will take on a rejuvenated Cork side at the MTU grounds in Bishopstown. While I am loathe to describe any fixture as a ‘dead rubber’ , from…
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Hanging the hat on hope once again
Peter Quinn was the first GAA President of whom there is proper recollection in this seat. Perhaps obviously, because he was the first holder of the office I met. Since then, Jack Boothman, Joe McDonagh, Sean McCague (God rest all three of them), Nicky Brennan, Sean Kelly and Liam O’Neill have all been encountered along…
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Mixed bag for the ladies
Any sportsperson, in an individual pursuit or a team based one, can only work with the hand of circumstances they are dealt. So yes, the Meath Ladies have had to adjust to life without Vikki Wall, Katie Newe, Orlagh Lally, Aoibhin Cleary, Monica McGuirk, Emma Troy, Aoibheann Leahy, Stacey Grimes,Kerrie Cole, Shauna Ennis and Maire…
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Chips off old blocks out to lay their own foundations (updated 2.21pm, 28/2)
If, like me, you are the least bit nostalgic or superstitious, it’s hard to which element is most exciting. The fact that Eamonn Murray is back looking after a Meath Ladies team again. Or to look at the pedigree of some of those with whom he is working. To see a McKeigue from Navan O’Mahonys…
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Ladies try their hand at musical chairs
With the maddening practice of teams releasing bogus team sheets becoming as big a pandemic as the Covid yoke was a half decade ago (sic) there are times when one wonders is it worth writing pieces about team announcements at all. Yet persist we must, if for no other reason than the fact the people…
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Parity of esteem? Particles of it more like
It’s curios how tastes change as life goes on. Literally and in terms of life in general. When I was younger, coleslaw, potato salad, Branston Pickles or beetroot wouldn’t be touched with a barge pole. On the other hand, though, now, at the appropriate time of year, a feed can’t be had without some or…