Tag: Brendan Cummins
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Jimmy Brady – Ballinlough GFC (RIP)
I honestly can’t believe the following is having to be written in the applicable context. The appended letters in brackets aside, one could simply write Jimmy Brady Ballinlough GFC and no more would be required. Jimmy was the club, and the club was Jimmy. One simply couldn’t imagine one without the other. Yet that is…
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Thank you Offaly
“Is this to be it for Donegal? It would be a victory that would do an awful lot of counties an awful lot of good”. It was and it did. That quote was Ger Canning’s commentary on Declan Bonner’s iconic point which sealed a first serenading of Sam for the men from The Hills. Sensationally…
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Bench impact sees Meath home
Meath… 2-13 Louth… 1-07 Any of the wisecracks calling for the culling of the pre season competitions in GAA might have to think again. Simply judging by the large attendance at Donaghmore/Ashbourne on Saturday night and the enthusiasm with which the players were going about their business. As one would expect them to. For the…
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There’s no show like a (late) Joey show!
Meath…1-10 Offaly…1-10 A goal deep into stoppage time by Ratoath’s Joey Wallace snatched a draw from the jaws of defeat for Meath and ensured they inched just a tad closer to safety in Allianz NFL Div. 2 following this arm wrestle at Bord Na Mona O’Connor Park, Tullamore. The diminutive corner forward – who along…
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Passion, enthusiasm and the knowledge to back it up
If you’ve ever been physically or emotionally invested in a sporting occasion, chances are the seminal moment in a given event may pass you by. Simply owing to being caught up in either joy or despair of whatever has just occurred. The point was made to somebody only recently that in the chaos that was…
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Improved second half won’t mask bitter disappointment
Meath……0-06 Galway……1-14 Though Meath fans of a certain age mightn’t realise it, there have been tough days like this before. As far back as 1990 in fact, the first season during which yours truly began attending matches. Meath were beaten 14 points by Antrim and 16 by Roscommon. What happened thereafter? Now read on… They…
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Looking on in either hope or despair
Talk about best laid plans going by the wayside. Anyone who saw my Twitter feed on Saturday morning will know that, in theory at least, I had the perfect day planned out. Encompassing watchling hurling, football, horse racing, rugby, soccer and darts. It was an ambitious agenda. So that some of it – namely the…