Tag: Fermanagh Herald

  • Eventually the elastic has to snap

    Eventually the elastic has to snap

    Charlie Ennis*, Brendan McKeon, Adam O’Connor, Kyle Donnelly, Padraig O’Hanrahan, Eamonn Og O’Donnchadh, Ethan Devine, Shane Whitty,Stephen T. Morris and Adam Gannon. That’s just off the top of my head. There may be more. The above list? Those who were central tenets of the Meath senior hurling panel over the last couple of seasons who…

  • The good and the shaky of Derry

    The good and the shaky of Derry

    These are strange times in the sporting world. We have GAA Championships being played at a ludicrous time of the year, new fangled pundits giving it a No Country For Old Men feel, telling us the most basic and best way of playing Gaelic football is wrong, and old men taking on jobs when they…

  • There’s loyalty in them there hills

    There’s loyalty in them there hills

    “Sam’s for the Hills” were the immortal words uttered by Anthony Molloy and now etched into Irish sporting folklore after he lifted Sam Maguire on behalf of Donegal for the first time in 1992. It also went on to be the title of a book co-written by Damien Dowds thereafter. The victory, sensationally fashioned by…