Tag: GAA2023

  • Your DNA doesn’t change… thankfully!

    Your DNA doesn’t change… thankfully!

    Meath… 3-14 Wexford… 1-11 Outside of sport and farming, it might come as a surprise to some to know that my favourite other type of television is True Crime. Thus, Sky Crime, Crime And Investigation and CBS Reality are among the saved channels on the Sky Box. Meaning that phrases like DNA and Forensic Invesitagation…

  • Return of three jewels boost hopes of holding onto the crown

    Return of three jewels boost hopes of holding onto the crown

    Meath… 0-15 Laois… 0-05 Take Kevin De Bruyne, Ruben Dias and Erling Haaland out of the Manchester City team, they don’t win their fifth Premier League title in six years. Send Limerick out shorn of Declan Hannon, Gearoid Hegarty and Aaron Gillane and they wouldn’t know Liam Mac Carthy as well as they do. Now…

  • Meath nearly hit a score for every player on the pitch

    Meath nearly hit a score for every player on the pitch

    Meath… 0-28 Tyrone… 0-20 When putting up the ‘Check In’ post on Facebook upon arrival at Pairc Tailteann early on Saturday evening, no secret was made of the reality that one was unsure what, if any, of the sliotar the one seeing eye here would be able to pick up. It being a first match…

  • No Gray areas as Meath take care of business

    No Gray areas as Meath take care of business

    Meath… 1-19 Tipperary… 0-11 In many ways, Meath were on a hiding to nothing this evening. They were expected to win and win well. Having done so, it’s very much a case of taking care of business. If they hadn’t, it would’ve been a case of wigs on the Fair Green. Doubtless, when the locals…

  • Meath leave well enough alone where possible

    Meath leave well enough alone where possible

    Sean Geraghty coming in as a direct replacement for the suspended James Toher is the only change to the Meath senior hurling team from that which defeated Derry ahead of Saturday’s encounter against Tyrone at Pairc Tailteann. That means that the great Mickey Burke is in line for what will be his 197th outing in…

  • You don’t pay for a cow’s silage when ordering a litre of milk!

    You don’t pay for a cow’s silage when ordering a litre of milk!

    The thing that surprised me most was the fact that it took a very open, honest interview with Wexford legend Tom Dempsey for me to catch onto and agree with the point he was making. To go forward with this production we must first go back. What is probably more years than any of us…

  • Irish eyes smiling in sunny Spain

    Irish eyes smiling in sunny Spain

    It could probably be fairly safely ventured that there is some sort of organised GAA activity in most corners of the world at this stage. And as has been stated on numerous occasions in this space over the years, these things are always more relatable when a bit of a personal connection – however tenuous…

  • Glenn might be left thinking ‘less said, soonest mended’

    Glenn might be left thinking ‘less said, soonest mended’

    Undoubtedly one of the most famous – or infamous, depending on whicb way you view it – media interactions in the history of the Premier League was when Kevin Keegan absolutely lost the plot during the season in which his Newcastle United were engaged in a protracted title tussle with Manchester United. The Magpies boss’s…

  • Strange Sundays – Part II

    Strange Sundays – Part II

    “Somewhere far away a lonely bell is ringing, and it echoes through the canyon like the disappearing dreams of yesterday. On a Sunday morning sidewalk…” Over the last decade or so, enduring and getting used to scenarios which at one stage would’ve been utterly unthinkable has become an unfortunate addendum to supporting and/or writing on…

  • Strange Sundays – Part I

    Strange Sundays – Part I

    If any writers, or producers of any media content, have ever experienced the following please drop a line down in the comments. On Sunday morning I started writing a piece relating to the two semi finals of the World Snooker Championship. Specifically, the contrast between the two. The epic encounter between Luca Brecel and Si…