Category: MEATH
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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…
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Endorsements of respect and statements of intent
It’s that time of year when – if arrangements aren’t carried over from last season – teams are selecting and announcing captains and vice captains for what they hope will be long and successful campaigns. There are some players who, their captaincy candidacy stands out like a lighthouse. With the result that their accession to…
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Experience trumps ingenuity but still positives to take
MEATH… 0-15 OFFALY… 2-13 First off, nobody likes losing any game, and the Meath camp would have loved the opportunity to get more top level mileage into the legs of their younger recruits. But, chances are, in the overall context of the season the Royal entourage will probably lose far less sleep about tonight’s outcome…
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Old(er) hands return for midlands tango
As expected, Meath have shuffled the decks ahead of tonight’s O’Byrne Cup quarter final against Offaly in Gracefield (7.30). Experienced performers Billy Hogan, James McEntee, Bryan Menton, Jack O’Connor and the inspirational Cillian O’Sullivan come into the side for the midweek tango with Declan Kelly’s midlanders. The incomings also prompt a number of positional switches…
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New names, same old bravery, heart and skill
MEATH… 2-11 WICKLOW… 1-12 Meath won’t have shortened in the betting for the All Ireland, or the Leinster Championship or even promotion out of Div. 2 of the National Football League. But, taken for what it was, John McCarthy – head of Meath’s Development Squads – would have to have been delighted with the progress…
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Some old, some new as Meath get going in the land of yellow and blue
MEATH…0-29 MAYO…2-22 Possibly due to the turmoil one has been dealing with in a personal sense, combined with the amount of matches which are now available to view across various platforms, it’s as if the dastardly split season never existed. A feeling accentuated by the fact that Robbie Brennan and the Meath senior footballers are…
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Meath’s NFL and NHL fixtures confirmed in full
To look at Meath’s finalised fixture last in both football and hurling ahead of the commencement of the 2026 National Leagues is to endorse long held suspicions that upper echelons of the GAA couldn’t give a toss about fans. Aside from their hard earned readies, that is. The following may not go down well in…
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History for An Tuascairt on day veiled in poignance
AN TUASCAIRT…0-17 MOYFENRAGH…2-09 Perhaps the following is down to the innate superstition which tends to shape a lot of the road yours truly travels in life, but, there’s still a part of me which fears that interest in and commitment to the Brady’s Skoda Regional Football Championship will wain and that it will be let…
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The race for Richie concludes under a poignant cloud
Regardless of who wins Sunday’s Final of the Brady’s Skoda Meath Regional Football Championship in Pairc Tailteann, the Richie Barry Cup will be going to a new home. Whether Moyfenragh make up for last year’s reversal at the last hurdle against Bru Na Boinne or An Tuaiscairt get their names on the role of honour…
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Frayne strain a pain as Royals get ready to rumble
Regardless of the sport, once it’s a team pursuit, the loss of one significant component thereof can have catastrophic consequences for the ambitions and prospects thereof. Whether that be Willie Mullins seeing the services of State Man defenestrated for the season, just as Sir Gino – ironically also in the ownership of Joe and Marie…