Category: MEATH
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Rugged rurals often set the stiffest exams
Sadly, however, that was only a fraction of their worries as, shortly before the break, exciting attacker Sean Delaney crumpled with a ghastly looking knee injury and only minutes after the resumption, wing back Cian Smith similarly had to be assisted off the field.
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There’s back handed comfort but mostly frustration in knowing it’s not just us
In conversation with a publican friend of mine in Co Longford over the weekend, maybe naturally, talk drifted to the multiple tragedies which had occurred during the past week. Besides the unspeakable grief and heartache which those effected have been left to navigate forever more, the point was made that we Irish and rural Ireland…
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Greville departs Royal role
Meath are on the lookout for a new Senior Hurling manager following yesterday’s (Tuesday) announcement that Raharney native Johnny Greville has decided not to continue in the role. He came into the role having had a distinguished playing career
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An ongoing journey of development… To be continued
It’s very easy to arrive at conclusions that seem obvious. It doesn’t always work out as such though. So it was in MacHale Park Castlebar on Saturday evening last. The dismissal of Ronan Jones was hoisted as Exhibit A in the dissection of where matters went wrong for Meath in the west. Yes, it was…
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A heart breaking gut punch but has it been coming?
MEATH…2-13 MAYO…0-22 Gut feelings are seldom wrong. Unfortunately. Perhaps the old adage about things being too good to be true holds true more often than we might care to admit. Just as they had done in matches against Louth and Cork throughout the season, Meath were off the starting blocks in Bolt-like fashion. With Ciaran…
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Vineyard masters come up trumps for Brennan’s braves
MEATH…1-24 DERRY…1-20 If the old adage about wine getting better with age has any credence to it, Meath fans will be dreaming of what may be still to come from Donal Keogan and Bryan Menton after the two great warriors of their generation delivered Herculean efforts as Robbie Brennan’s brave lads silenced a lot of…
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Sombre Sunday a painful reality check
They say it’s the hope that kills you. Through a certain lens, that’s a very easy stance to understand. However, from another viewpont, if you didn’t have the hope, would the wheels keep turning? In my case, the answer to the immediately above, the definitive is most certainly no. Though the thing is, we, as…
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It’s the ones that blindside you that sting the most
MEATH…1-24 CORK…0-30 Reference to being blindsided is not meant in terms of the overall result. These teams are very evenly matched. With never more than a kick of the ball between them. So it was again, with the irony being that John Cleary’s crew didn’t need a goal to pull off a win that –…
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Royals shuffle the deck in search of Cork conquest
After what feels like the longest five weeks in history – to me at least – Meath’s senior footballers return to championship action with a clean slate tomorrow evening in the first round of the All Ireland SFC when the latest chapter in the current incarnation of the age old rivalry will play out in…
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On the road again as we get back on the horse
To venture into Rebel territory or not, that is the conundrum whirring here after the fixtures for the opening round of this year’s All Ireland SFC were confirmed this morning. I am in the happy and very blessed position that if the bullet is bitten and the run is attacked, my long suffering and extremely…