Tag: Kilkenny
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Selections for Gowran Park – June 6th 2022
1.45: CULCOR (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 2.20: YERMANTHERE – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/PAT FOLEY) 2.55: HARBANAKER – EW – (ROBERT WHEARTY (4)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.30: PARIS PEACOCK (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 4.05: THE REBEL BREEN – W/O FAV – (CHRIS HAYES/NOEL MEADE) 4.40: ZOLA SAKURA – EW – (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 5.15: ROCK OF CANDY (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON)
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SIDELINE CUTS – 19
HARRY’S HEROICS ALL IN VAIN Now is not the time for a major analysis or critique. For personal reasons which should be fairly obvious. Meath’s defeat in Ennis last night is still far too raw. Emotionally and in other ways. Suffice to say that the end result was bitterly disappointing. Have got off to a…
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The GAA’s poor relations
When a ‘Back Door’ system was first introduced to hurling in 1997, aside from the usual and expected negative, entrenched, old-fashioned mindsets declaring it the ruination of hurling as we knew it, the other fascinating factor was the fixtures it threw up. In that sense, the meeting of Tipperary and Down. As a contest, of…
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Selections for Gowran Park – May 24th 2022
4.50: TOOSO – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 5.20: MOE SEDWAY (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.50: SHOW OF STARS (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 6.20: MARHABBA ASHMAYNE (BILLY LEE/KEN CONDON) 6.50: GATSBY CAP – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/PADDY HAYES) 7.20: THE BOG BANK – EW – (JAMES RYAN (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 7.50: COUMSHINGAUN – EW – (WAYNE LORDAN/KEVIN COLEMAN)…
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Selections for Gowran – May 4th 2022
4.50: GEORGETA (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 5.20: MOE SEDWAY (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.50: BARRINGTON COURT – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 6.20: SEISAL (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.50: RED AZALEA (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 7.20: HARDLY USELESS – EW – (LUKE MCATEER/TOM GIBNEY) 7.50: FOX FEARLESS (SCOTT MCCULLAGH (5)/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 8.20: LUCKY NUMBER – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/OLIVER…
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Assuming the limelight in the afterglow of Brady’s brilliance
Whether Colm O’Rourke made a formal announcement regarding his retirement from inter county GAA cannot be recalled. There was definitely activity in the media the following year when rumours of a comeback began to swirl. Either way, feelings in this seat were of tremendous sadness. An era was ending. Of course, the disappointment from a…
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Early season joy and false dawns
A well travelled sage of the inter county football scene once dubbed a certain team ‘Kings of the challenge match”! The meaning was clear, and franked by the fact they once beat a team by 2-16 to 0-00 at a pitch opening. A few months later, those who had been whitewashed sat atop the pile.…
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King Henry to confront the locals as draws offer hope
It had to happen, didn’t it? Newly installed Galway manager Henry Shefflin will come up against his own people just three games into his Championship management career. That was undoubtedly the headline story to emrrge from Saturday’s 2022 Mac Carthy Cup draws. The former green helmet-clad wizard will make his summer bow on the sideline…
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Selections for Galway Oct. 23rd 2021
1.20: POWERFUL KIERAN (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 1.52: EXPLOSIVE BOY – EW – (BRYAN COOPER/TONY MARTIN) 2.27: ROBINNIA (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.02: GORTMILLISH – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.37: JIVING JERRY – EW – (CATHAL LANDERS/JIMMY BARCOE) 4.10: COURTING VICKIE – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/JIMMY BARCOE) 4.45: NOBLE BIRTH (JAMIE CODD/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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Selections for Gowran – Oct. 19th 2021
1.15: PRINCESS RAJ – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 1.45: COMFORT ZONE (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.20: SUNSET SHIRAZ (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.55: EVERGREEN AND RED (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 3.30: DROMBEG DUKE – EW – (A. N. OTHER/EOIN MCCARTHY) 4.05: ESSENTIAL PART (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 4.40: WOLFE PRINCE – EW – (BEN COEN/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.15: MITIGATED…