Tag: Kilkenny
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Selections for Downpatrick – Oct. 8th 2021
1.45: BOOTHEN BOY (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.17: DAZZLING DARREN (CONOR MAXWELL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.52: FALLEN FORREST (CONOR ORR/WILLIAM DURKAN) 3.27: FISSA (MIKE O’CONNOR (5)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.02: COURTING VICKY – EW – (CATHAL LANDERS/JIMMY BARCOE) 4.32: CLONDAW BERTIE (ROBBIE POWER/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.05: COURT ADJOURNED (PADDY O’HANLON (7)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN)
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Rebel leader with a cause guides the troops home
Cork… 1-37 Kilkenny… 1-32 For a good few years, the 1994 meeting of Offaly and Limerick was beyond compare as the greatest game of hurling the one seeing eye has ever taken in. Thereafter, Kilkenny’s spells of dominance and breakthroughs for Clare and Wexford were momentous occasions in their own right, but in terms of…
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Limerick’s big men make their point
Limerick… 1-25 Waterford… 0-17 Peter Casey’s moment of madness will be the main talking point, but what shone through most was Limerick’s mental and physical strength as they qualified for a third All Ireland Final in four years. The corner forward saw red after becoming involved in a tangle with Waterford’s Conor Gleeson, but, as…
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Selections for Sligo – July 11th 2021
1.55: LOVED OUT (JACK FOLEY (7)/TOM MULLINS) 2.30: RULEOUT (CATHAL LANDERS (3)/ANDY SLATTERY) 3.05: SIT DOWN LUCY – EW – (KEVIN SEXTON/PETER FAHEY) 3.40: GOULANE CHOSEN – EW – (MIKE O’CONNOR (4)/SEAMUS SPILLANE) 4.15: LADY ROCCO – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 4.50: NEW ROSS (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.25: QUIET ESCAPE – W/O FAV –…
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Selections for Gowran – May 26th 2021
4.30: TIMEMAKESITFINE (COLIN KEANE/JAMES MCAULEY) 5.00: CRYSTAL BLACK – EW – (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD) 5.35: LA PETITE COCO (RONAN WHELAN/PADDY TWOMEY) 6.10: WEXFORD SOIL – EW – (WILLIE BYRNE (7)/JIM BOLGER) 6.40: EASTERN RACER – EW – (NATHAN CROSSE (5)/SEAN BYRNE) 7.10: ANGELS TRUMPET – EW – (SAM EWING (5)/PETER FAHEY) 7.40: DROMOD LAD –…
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Boylan Talks Sport Weekly Brain Workout – No. 12
A delightful dozen weeks have elapsed since our quiz series began. This week, there is a strong flavour of GAA off proceedings but a nice bit of variety too. On yer bike!
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Green hills not that far away that i’ll get back to some day soon
‘There is a green hill far away; I’m going back there one fine day’ proclaims the seminal line in Glastonbury Song by The Waterboys who of course saw the whole of the moon in their time too. The quoted lines reverberated virulently in the mind recently. For two reasons in particular. Firstly out of utter…
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Selections for Gowran Park – Mar. 12th 2021
1.40: DIDN’TSLEEPAWINK (MARK WALSH/EUGENE O’SULLIVAN) 2.10: BARNEY STINSON (ROBBIE POWER/MOUSE MORRIS) 2.45: MIS CLOGHER (PHILIP ENRIGHT/SAM CURLING) 3.20: PICTURES OF HOME (JACK KENNEDY/TED WALSH) 3.55: REBEL GOLD – EW – (PADDY KENNEDY/PAT FOLEY) 4.30 FULL TIME SCORE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.05: BELLOW MOME (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.35: JOURNEY WITH ME (PATRICK MULLINS/HENRY DE BROMHEAD)
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Selections for Gowran Park – March 2nd 2021
2.20: SON OF HYPNOS (SEAN FLANAGAN/KEVIN SMITH) 2.50: ESTEPONA SUN – EW – (SHANE MULCAHY (7)/DENIS HOGAN) 3.20: MON LINO – EW – (SIMON TORRENS (5)/PAUL NOLAN) 3.50: BACHASSON (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.20: CEDARWOOD ROAD (DEREK O’CONNOR/GEAROID O’LOUGHLIN) 4.50: THE CHAPEL FIELD (KEVIN SEXTON/WILLIE AUSTIN) 5.20: CHOICE OF WORDS – EW – (PAT TAAFFE (7)/MARTIN…
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Life’s a Beach as Meath men make a splash
So here we are, another little example of how Covid-19 put paid to what once passed for ‘normal’ life. The last Thursday in January. Thyestes Chase Day in Gowran Park. Which means the annual outing for a busload from Brady’s of Dunboyne – and a van load from our yard – descending on the banks…