Tag: Kildare Nationalist Sport
-
Golden Oldies and a Sunday morning adjusting to a new high
With exactly 11 minutes to go in Tullamore on Saturday evening last, my significant other began imploring referee Joe McQuillan to blow for full time. Now read on… After removing the Michael out of the poor woman over her time keep miscalculation, it was readily admitted that such was the astonishment and excitement surrounding the…
-
Selections for Curragh – May 23rd 2025
5.10: GLITTER AND GLORY (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 5.45: BRIGID’S CLOAK – EW – (PATRICK MCGETTIGAN (7)/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 6.20: FINGERPAINT (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 6.55: SHACKLETON (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 7.25: APACHE OUTLAW – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY/ADO MCGUINNESS) 7.55: BONUS TIME (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 8.25: MOYASSR – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOHN KIELY)
-
Selections for Punchestown – May 2nd 2025
3.40: FOUNTAIN HOUSE (EOIN MAHON (7)/IAN MCCARTHY) 4.15: HOLLOW GAMES – EW – (JOSH WILLIAMSON (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.50: DINOBLUE (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.25: BLACK BAMBOO – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/JOHN MURPHY) 6.05: THE YELLOW CLAY (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 6.40: KARGESE – W/O FAV – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 7.10: NATURALLY NIMBLE – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH…
-
Selections for Punchestown – Apr. 29th 2025
2.30: HAGGARD – EW – (ROB JAMES/COLIN BOWE) 3.05: BLUE HOP – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/BEN BROOKEHOUSE, IN GB) 3.40: BRENTFORD HOPE – EW – (JOHNNY BURKE/HARRY DERHAM, IN GB) 4.15: KOPEK DES BORDES (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.50: BALLYBURN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.25: LAGUNA BEACH – EW – (JOHN GLEESON/NICKY HENDERSON, IN GB) 6.00: MARINE…
-
Selections for Naas – Apr. 3rd 2025
1.25: ZOFFMAN – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/NOEL MEADE) 2.00: JAZZ DE COTTE (JORDAN GAINFORD /GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.35: FIVER FRIDAY – EW – (LIAM MCKENNA (5)/PAUL TRAYNOR) 3.10: CASHELDALE LAD – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.45: JERRARI – EW – (CONOR SMITHERS (7)/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 4.20: SARGEANT LIGHTFOOT – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/ADRIAN MURRAY) 4.55: BUTCHERS…
-
Selections for The Curragh – Mar. 29th 2025
1.40: JOYFUL TIDINGS – EW – (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.15: TWO STARS (JOEY SHERIDAN/FOZZY STACK) 2.50: SMILING (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 3.25: A DREAM TO SHARE – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/J. E. & T. KIELY) 4.00: BIG GOSSEY – EW – (BILLY LEE/CHARLES O’BRIEN) 4.35: JM’S JOY – EW – (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.10: PRESENCE –…
-
Greville recalibrates in attempt to bloom against the Lilies
Johnny Greville has made wholesale changes to the Meath Senior Hurling team ahead of Saturday’s Allianz NHL Div. 2 promotion shoot out against high flying Kildare in Trim. No more than our lady footballers against Kerry, the green and gold stickmen will be hoping to redress a negatively lopsided recent record against their floury opponents.…
-
Selections for Punchestown – Feb. 20th 2025
1.25: RATH GAUL BOY (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.55: HIGH CLASS HERO (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.25: WILL DO – EW – (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.55: WILLIAM MUNNY (SEAN FLANAGAN/BARRY CONNELL) 3.25: JADE DE GRUGY (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.55: DR EGGMAN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.25: RUE TAYLOR – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/PAUL NOLAN) 5.00: ROJUCO MAC –…
-
Please watch your step, you’re on thin ice
There’s an episode of The Simpsons in which Mr Burns brings the staff of the power plant to a resort up in the snow-capped mountains for a bonding weekend. As these things also tend to be in real life, the few days were dominated by tasks which had to be done, at a minimum in…
-
Selections for Punchestown – Dec. 31st 2024
12.35: SHANNON ROYALE (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.05: FOLLY MASTER (TOM DREAPER) 1.35: YOUNG CHURCHILL (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE) 2.05: SAINT SAM (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.35: THE NAGGER REIDY (JJ SLEVIN/SONNY CAREY) 3.10: KLASSMAN (PADDY O’BRIEN/SHANE NOLAN) 3.45: DERRYVILLE – EW – (DAVID DOYLE (7)/SAM CURLING)