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  • Grassroots have to be the fulcrum of any sport

    Grassroots have to be the fulcrum of any sport

    Over time, living with a disability, the realisation dawns that there are certain things you simply will not be able to do. Often a very long period of time. Furthermore, at no point is the possibility or mere nation of acceptance guaranteed. Foremost among them, and the latter point applies here more than anywhere else,…

  • Selections for Tipperary – Mar. 24th 2021

    Selections for Tipperary – Mar. 24th 2021

    1.25: DERRYLINDA (JOEY DUNNE (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 1.55: SEATTLE SEAHAWK (BARRY O’NEILL/COLIN BOWE) 2.30: BALLYBOUGH NATIVE – EW – (JAMIE CODD/IAN MCCARTHY) 3.05: GORTMILLISH (JAMIE CODD/DENISE FOSTER*) 3.40: CASEY WEST (BARRY O’NEILL/COLIN BOWE) 4.15: BROOMFIELD HALL (TREVOR FEENEY (7)/LIAM BURKE) 4.45: MY BOY GRIZZLE (BARRY O’NEILL/JAMES MOTHERWAY) 5.15: CLAY ROGERS (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN (7)/MICHAEL KENNEDY)

  • Selections for Punchestown – Mar. 15th 2021

    1.55: LIMERICK LACE (DEREK O’CONNOR/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.25: DUFFY’S GETAWAY – EW – (TIARNAN POWER-ROCHE (7)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 2.55: GRAND JURY (PATRICK MULLINS/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.25: LAST QUARTER (BARRY O’NEILL/COLIN BOWE) 3.55: RICHMOND LAKE (MAXINE O’SULLIVAN/EUGENE O’SULLIVAN) 4.30: MIDNIGHT IT IS (JOEY DUNNE (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.00: CHOICE OF WORDS (PAT TAAFFE (7)/MARTIN BRASSIL) 5.30: WALL OF FAME…

  • Selections for Wexford – Mar. 10th 2021

    1.50: SOCIALLY DISTANT – EW – (BRYAN COOPER/PAUL NOLAN) 2.25: HOWDYALIKEMENOW (IAN POWER/DECLAN QUEALLY) 2.55: SILK WORM (JAMES O’SULLIVAN/LIZ DOYLE) 3.25: BYTHESAMETOKEN – EW – (CONOR ORR (3)/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 4.00: PEPITE DABELLE (PHILIP ENRIGHT/SAM CURLING) 4.35: OPPOSITES ATTRACT (CONOR MAXWELL/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 5.05: AWESOME SHIROCCO (DEREK O’CONNOR/JOHN KIELY)

  • Selections for Leopardstown – March 8th 2021

    1.20: GEE REX (BRIAN HAYES/EMMET MULLINS) 1.50: BLACKSTAIR ROCCO – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/EMMET MULLINS) 2.20: EUROTIEP (AUBREY MCMAHON (7)/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.55: LUNASTAR – EW – (EOIN KELLY (4)*/PAUL FLYNN) 3.30: BRONSON IN BLUE – EW – (CONOR ORR (3)/LORNA FOWLER) 4.00: SOVIET PIMPERNELL (DYLAN ROBINSON (3)/PETER FAHEY) 4.30: CASAMARI ABBEY – EW – (EOIN…

  • Selections for Gowran Park – March 2nd 2021

    2.20: SON OF HYPNOS (SEAN FLANAGAN/KEVIN SMITH) 2.50: ESTEPONA SUN – EW – (SHANE MULCAHY (7)/DENIS HOGAN) 3.20: MON LINO – EW – (SIMON TORRENS (5)/PAUL NOLAN) 3.50: BACHASSON (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.20: CEDARWOOD ROAD (DEREK O’CONNOR/GEAROID O’LOUGHLIN) 4.50: THE CHAPEL FIELD (KEVIN SEXTON/WILLIE AUSTIN) 5.20: CHOICE OF WORDS – EW – (PAT TAAFFE (7)/MARTIN…

  • Word play at its most devious

    In a recent interview,  St Peter’s, Dunboyne and Meath star Emma Duggan said  it was “very tough” to be preparing for her Leaving Cert without the distraction of GAA matches and/or training. The audaciously talented 18-year-old went on to say that “You have to realise it’ll be back soon enough. That’s what’s keeping me going…

  • Selections for Naas – Jan 31st 2021

    12.45: TOUGHARI – EW – (SEAN O-KEEFFE/TOM MULLINS) 1.15: BEACON EDGE (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE) 1.45: EL BARRA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.15: MR INCREDIBLE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.45: CAPILANO BRIDGE – EW – (RICKY DOYLE/CONOR O’DWYER) 3.15: ESCARIA TEN (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.45: STORMY JUDGE – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/PAT FAHY) 4.15: STAKER WALLACE –…

  • Life’s a Beach as Meath men make a splash

    So here we are, another little example of how Covid-19 put paid to what once passed for ‘normal’ life. The last Thursday in January. Thyestes Chase Day in Gowran Park. Which means the annual outing for a busload from Brady’s of Dunboyne – and a van load from our yard – descending on the banks…

  • Selections for Punchestown – Jan. 17th 2021

    12.50: ENVOI ALLEN (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.20: MAGIC TRICKS (MARK WALSH/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.50: COLONEL MUSTARD (CONOR ORR (3)/LORNA FOWLER) 2.20: LAUDERDALE LADY – EW – (TOMMY BRETT (7)/JOHN RYAN) 2.50: FAVORI LOGIQUE – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 3.20: IT’S ONLY A NUMBER (SIMON TORRENS/FRANCIS FLOOD) 3.50: FAIRLY LEGAL (DEREK O’CONNOR/ROBERT TYNER)