Tag: Bective GFC
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Hopefully Meath onto a winner with new sponsor
The link between sport and farming has often been articulated in this space. Primarily because they are – or at least were – central tenets of life for the occupant of this seat. Then, there’s the fact Horse Racing comes under the remit of the Department Of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Why such is…
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Not many scores but no shortage of bite either
Boyne Valley… 1-07 Moyfernagh… 1-02 My late father was of the opinion that a 0-0 draw in a soccer match was the most boring purgatory in the sporting world. An easy enough summation to concur with but easily deconstructed too with a little more nuanced analysis. Granted, an occasion where both teams park the bus,…
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Familiar faces and family values to the fore
Boyne Valley… 1-13 Blackwater… 0-14 The most notable thing about this evening’s Regional Football Championship double header at Dunganny tonight was surely the appearance of decorated Royal warriors Mickey Burke and Mickey Newman with their respective Divisional sides. Well, that and the decisive influence of the Curtis clan in this close contest. We’ll get back…
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Meath onto a winner with horses for courses move
Before 1997, I’d never been in Bective. Thereafter however, it would be a GAA ground with which I would become familiar. Always receiving a wonderful welcome whenever wheels with yours truly aboard touched down thence. It has always been a happy hunting ground for Dunboyne teams too. Early in ’97, our U-14 hurlers won their…