Tag: Brendan Martin Cup

  • O’Rourke completes backroom team

    O’Rourke completes backroom team

    Several additions to new Meath senior football manager Colm O’Rourke had several additions to his backroom team ratified at Monday night’s Co Committee meeting. The extra recruitment is headlined by the appointment of Paul Garrigan as team trainer, only weeks after the Oldcastle native stood down from a similar role with the county’s back-to-back All…

  • Creating greatness all in a day’s work for gentleman Murray

    Creating greatness all in a day’s work for gentleman Murray

    1996 was some year for me. My first full summer with a powered wheelchair, Meath winning the All Ireland and da getting our first van which meant the power chair could be brought everywhere. That hadn’t always been the case. Of greater significance than any of the above, however, was the construction of the flat…

  • Twice as nice

    Twice as nice

    Meath 3-10 Kerry… 1-07 1949, 1954, 1967, 1987, 1988, 1996, 1999, 2021, 2022. Even looking at it written in front of you is to be struck by awe. Before anyone says anything, the majestic achievements of Eamonn Murray’s charges over the past two seasons merit equal if not greater commendation than the seven All Ireland…

  • It doesn’t matter how you do it once its done

    It doesn’t matter how you do it once its done

    Meath…0-12 Donegal…1-07 What defines a true champion? Actually, that’s another question to which there’s no definitive single answer. However, knowing how to win is often the biggest factor. That was certainly the case this evening as Eamonn Murray’s history making ladies qualified for a fifth straight All Ireland Final appearance. For clarity, that is three…

  • Duggan delivers another Dublin day out

    Duggan delivers another Dublin day out

    Meath…1-12 Galway…1-11 Emma Duggan’s long range point with fifteen seconds left on the clock sent Meath back to Croke Park as the All Ireland Champions overcame the most stern of their credentials to date at Tullamore’s O’Connor Park this evening. Eamonn Murray’s charges proved here that they had all necessary components which characterise true champions.…

  • Lally point completes Royal rally

    Lally point completes Royal rally

    Meath……0-09 Armagh……0-09 Eamonn Murray’s ladies showed the true character of champions when reeling in a classy Armagh outfit at Glennon Bros. Pearse Park. In so doing guaranteeing their passage through to the knockout stages of the race for the Brendan Martin Cup. The Orchard County county had the better of the first half but, having…

  • Our Wonder Wall tops the charts again

    Our Wonder Wall tops the charts again

    There’s a danger when paying homage to extremely talented people – sporting or otherwise – that eventually superlatives to deploy in relation to the achievements of these gifted individuals will run out. Yet they never do… Such is the majesty of what they continually produce in their area of expertise that new ways of highlighting…

  • Flanked on all sides by giants

    Flanked on all sides by giants

    When the victorious Meath team of 1999 made their first stop on the homecoming tour in Dunboyne, Sean Boylan spoke of how, nine earlier, Enda McManus and Graham Geraghty carried the Tom Markham Cup up the middle of the village after Meath’s All Ireland MFC win. Nine years later, the Herbalist said: “Today is the…

  • Boylan Talks Sport Brain Workout – No. 23

    Boylan Talks Sport Brain Workout – No. 23

    All about All Ireland Finals this week.  

  • Glory Days Are Here Again

    Glory Days Are Here Again

    Meath…1-11 Dublin…0-12 If you dream it, you can do it. Though I doubt even the most fanatical Meath person, cough, could’ve predicted this. It’s not all that long ago the Meath Ladies team registered only three points in a game and were somewhere below rock bottom. Today, the revolution was completed. They brought the Brendan…