Tag: Declan Darcy
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Brennan gets the blue baton
And so, the worst kept secret in Irish sport is out. Ger Brennan has indeed succeeded Dessie Farrell as Dublin senior football manager. The St Vincent’s man – a two time Celtic cross winner in 2011 and 2013 – has initially been handed a three year term in charge of the metropoles. You’d have to…
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The Dublin job and the four faced auld clock
Ger Brennan’s decision to step down as Louth senior football manager may have caught a lot of people cold. Nowhere more so than in the Wee County. However, while folk in Louth might have their own theories – some of which may seem blatantly obvious – but it might not be as simple as that.…
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Humble Messiah O’Mahony’s greatness lay in his quiet approach
Joe Brolly tells a story about the late former Derry manager Eamonn Coleman pulling a newspaper cutting out of his back pocket minutes before the team were due to take the field for a crunch Ulster SFC encounter. The cutting was an ‘article’ in which a player – possibly Tony Scullion but I can’t swear…
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It’s a fairly safe bet he didn’t watch Italia ’90!
Italia ’90 – even now, mention of the words together conjures so many memories. Pat Bonner’s grimace before that booming kickout against the Dutch, Genoa, Penalties, Bonner again, David O’Leary, the pub scene from The Snapper. Now read on… Another recollection from that glorious summer prompted what you are about to intake. A proclamation by…
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DriveThru Sports Weekly – Ep. 8 (Plus Extras)
Firstly ladies and gents, my sincere apologies for the length it has taken me to get another piece up in this here arena! The initial intention was to have the usual variety of sporting topics herein. However, whether by accident or design, I ended up sticking solely to the appearances of Pat Gilroy and Andy…
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If solutions were that simple there wouldn’t be a problem
For the last 3 years as @MeathGAA P.R.O. I have asked for a Commercial Manager to be employed. Unfortunately on numerous occasions I’ve been told to stop bringing it up. We have needed this for years and we must act promptly to rectify it. Ciaran Flynn Sir Alex Ferguson was loathsome of football agents. A…
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A different flavour to Mayo but they’re still too generous
“There won’t be a cow milked in Clare for a week” is surely one of the most famous lines ever uttered during a sports commentayy in this country. So much so that it is regularly trotted out in the most ill-fitting of scenarios going. The quip has aged much better than he who spoke the…