Category: MEATH
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Ladies make it a famous five for Meath
With three Meath clubs exiting Leinster Club Championship action yesterday (Saturday) I have no problem admitting spirits in this seat are extremely deflated. Now read on… There has been plenty of talk this year – deservedly so too – about Meath football being on the rise. But on an evening such as yesterday, it can…
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Boylan Talks Sport Meath Club Footballers Team Of The Year 2025
Seeing the lads from We Are Meath podcast (Davy Rispin and Mickey Brennan) release the nominations for the CICO Sports We Are Meath Club All Stars earlier this week gave yours truly the necessary nudge to kick on with an idea which has been circulating in the upstairs brainstorm for a few weeks now. It’s…
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Early season football fixtures released
What I believe to be the last club senior county football final of the season takes place on Sunday in Tipperary but, even before this calendar year’s business has been completed, thoughts have very much turned to the 2026 season. Panels have been drawn up – more of that anon – while, more significantly, the…
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Dunboyne Camogs make history on home soil
St Peter’s, Dunboyne (Meath)…4-12 St Cillian’s (Offaly)…1-01 To be the first to achieve something in life is extremely special. Stating the blindingly obvious, it’s historic. Which is an amazing feeling at the time, naturally, but, of even greater significance is that in the weeks, months, years and generations ahead, when people look back, they will…
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Lord of the skies delivers knockout punch as the ‘Hill advance
Summerhill (Meath)…2-22 Emmett Og Killoe (Longford)…1-16 Life works in mysterious ways. The lifelong passion for and/or obsession with all things agricultural in this seat will be nothing new to anybody who has even glanced in this direction since the location your cursor is currently parked was first constructed some 15 years ago. Relationships therewith have…
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Intermediate camogie final: Dunboyne bridge 19 year gap
St Peter’s, Dunboyne…1-15 Drumree…2-07 Dunboyne came out on top in a closely fought Intermediate Camogie final against Drumree on Saturday in Dunganny, stating an eight point turnaround in doing so. Dunboyne started well going into a four point lead in the early stages but were stopped in their tracks when Drumree hit the net twice…
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Summerhill cats need all their lives to nab title number nine
SUMMERHILL… 0-16 RATOATH… 0-13 There are things in life, the certainty of which is beyond question, yet the reasoning behind it is equally elusive. Which in itself makes decoding and circumnavigating the circumstances in question all the more difficult. Think of the reality that, with the exception of 2010, any time a Down senior football…
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Genoa or Pairc Tailteann or Kilbride – it’s all the same
KILBRIDE…0-20 CASTLETOWN…1-16 “David O’Leary of Arsenal…This kick could decide it all…Yes! We’re there.” George Hamilton’s immortal utterance on the midweek afternoon during which the nation did indeed hold its breath in the midst of the penalty shootout between Ireland and Romania at the 1990 World Cup in Genoa, Italy. . Even the haymaking stopped. It…
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Trevor never giving up on Meath
There are few things which can be taken for granted in life. Death and taxes being most of them according to Mark Twain. One thing that is by no means guaranteed is good players becoming good managers. Yes a plethora have, like Kevin Heffernan, Mick O’Dwyer, Brian McEniff, ‘Babs’ Keating, Brian Cody, JBM and Billy…
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Promise delivered upon and experience put to good use
To encapsulate the weekend’s action in the Meath football championships, the above headline is as near to hitting the bullseye as you’ll get. To take the weekend’s events as much in order as is possible, the whistle stop tour must first dock in Dunganny on Thursday night. Where, one was reliably informed, the biggest ever…