Tag: Kilkenny
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Chaotic catastrophe in the life of Brian a betrayal of players everywhere
On several occasions in the not too distant past, this corner has enviously pined that one’s own club would be operating at a similar level to the horribly titled ‘Super Clubs’. Without getting into the nuts and bolts of what affords the clubs in question the dubious honour, at a very basic level, it refers…
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Selections for Gowran – Nov. 26th 2022
12.00: MINELLA COCOONER (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.35: GONDOR – EW – (LIAM MCKENNA (7)/COLM MURPHY) 1.05: GEVREY (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.40: SPANISH HARLEM (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.15: BLACKWATER – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.50: ITWASFATE – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.20: THECORNERHOUSE – EW – (RICHIE DEEGAN/JULIE CASHIN)
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Selections for Gowran Park – Oct. 18th 2022
1.30: STATIC CHARGE (GARY CARROLL/JOE MURPHY) 2.00: YOUNG IRELAND – EW – (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER) 2.30: JEANIEMACARONEY – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.00: STORMIE OUTLOOK – EW – (BILLY LEE/EDDIE O’GRADY) 3.30: SHEILA – EW – (JOEY SHERIDAN (3)/DENIS HOGAN) 4.00: FACETHEPUCOUT (EMMET MCNAMARA/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 4.35: ENGAGEMENT RING (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.10: STAR OFFICIAL…
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Selections for Gowran Park – Sept. 17th 2022
1.35: PRETTY REBEL (JAMIE POWELL (7)/GER O’LEARY) 2.10: ASTAR – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 2.45: MISTER MISTER (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH 0’BRIEN) 3.20: PLANKTON – EW – (COLIN KEANE/ANDY MCNAMARA) 3.55: KAWIDA – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/ED WALKER, IN GB) 4.30: FOOLS GLORY – EW – (MIKEY SHEEHY/PAUL MCENERY) 5.05: CHERUB (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN)
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Selections for Bellewstown – Aug. 23rd 2022
4.40: POLITICISE (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS) 5.15: OCEAN OF MERCY (DANNY MULLINS/PAUL HENNESSY) 5.45: SHANNON GLORY – W/O FAV – (JACK KENNEDY/PAUL POWER) 6.15: FINAL ORDERS (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 6.45: LIEUTENANT HIGHWAY (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 7.15: A MERE BAGATELLE – EW – (PADDY O’HANLON (5)/JOHN HANLON) 7.45: NOTNOWNED (JODY TOWNEND (3)/JOHN MCCONNELL)
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The baseball cap finally retires to the peg
There are things in life which, even though you know they are coming, you are never quite ready for it. In Meath, that day arrived in September 2005 when Sean Boylan announced he wasn’t going forward for a 24th season as senior football manager. Hindsight, of course, has proven that it should never have come…
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Limerick’s greatness indisputable as the road ahead looks mapped out
Limerick…1-31 Kilkenny…2-26 In a game of 60 scores over 74 minutes, it almost feels somewhere between futile and knit picking to start looking for and talking about turning points. Yet though this will doubtless be painful by the banks of the Nore at the minute, there were a few vital things which went against Kilkenny…
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McCormack is the Premier Iron Man as Tipp stun Brave Faithful
Tipperary… 1-17 Offaly… 1-16 Leo O’Connor must absolutely hate being involved in All Ireland Finals at this stage. It was he, Cantona-esque, with collar up, who essayed over Limerick’s final score in the 1994 decider before Offaly manufactured a resurrection to rival anything produced by Our Lord on a Friday long ago. Yesterday, he was…
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There’s no system to decommision simplicity
Kilkenny… 2-26 Clare… 0-20 When Dunshaughlin were a distance ahead of the pack in Meath football under Eamonn Barry, the highly successful and unfairly maligned coach had inculcated in his players the belief that 16 points was the very minimum required to win matches. It would be very interesting to see what the comparative score…
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One precocious talent, but Clare are no one-trick ponies
“Less than a minute remains on the clock, as I tighten my boot lace, and turn down my sock/Is that the crowd I hear, or is it the ghosts, of men who before me had faced the same test, and never once failed to give of their best? “ This corner would never claim to…