Tag: Laois GAA
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There’s no need for such cruelty
MEATH… 1-16 KILDARE… 2-13 * *Kildare win 5-3 on penalties There’s no need for such cruelty to be used to decide games of such magnitude on penalties. Another case of the GAA hierarchy bowing to the whingers. ‘Fixing’ something that wasn’t even broken. Right here, right now, let it be made abundantly clear, these misgivings…
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Hoping to reunite with a familiar friend
Trevor Giles and his Meath Minor side will be aiming for a reunion with a familiar friend at Laois Hire O’Moore Park in Portlaoise this evening (7:35 throw in) when they tackle a rematch against Kildare in the Electric Ireland Leinster MFC Final. Should they manage to turn around the result of their initial encounter…
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Job done, move on, start building
MEATH… 6-22 LAOIS… 0-07 In such no-win situations, there’s only one thing a body can do – win. Tick the box and move on. If you do manage to win, you are only doing as would have been expected and if you don’t well, let’s not go there. So, credit to them, when Trevor Giles’s…
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Meath go through the gears in second half to see off dogged Laois
MEATH… 3-12 LAOIS… 0-10 The final score states there were 11 points between the sides at the end, but don’t fooled. Inclination might be to think that this was a fairly routine night’s work for Cathal O’Bric’s team, but it was anything but. Now, as if to directly contradict the above statement, Meath never looked…
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Disappointment lessened by a garnish of context
When the Meath senior hurlers got within a half dozen points of an Offaly side who the previous September had been beaten by Clare in the Liam Mac Carthy Cup Final and Kilmessan’s Anton O’Neill was awarded RTE’s Man Of The Match – and especially with the Royal County having already defeated the Faithful and…
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Cole regains midfield role as top two clash
Joey Cole regains his spot in midfield, and that is the sole change to the Meath team which defeated Derry in the NHL last time out ahead of Sunday’s face off with table toppers Laois in O’Moore Park. The Trim lad’s inclusion does, however, initiate a number a number of positional switches. The most noteworthy…
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Dunboyne complete notable U-19 double
St Peters, Dunboyne 1:14St Patrick’s 0:09 Dunboyne’s U19 Footballers took home the 2025 Div1 championship cup this afternoon in front of a good crowd in Pairc Tailteann. This talented group of footballers almost had the clean sweep of Div 1 titles through their underage career with the U13, U17 and now U19 wins. The one…
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‘Twas Micko’s world – we were just there too
It would be ventured that if you found anybody else on Point Nemo – scientifically recognised as the most remote place on Earth – and they had heard of Gaelic football, chances are ‘Micko’ would be the first words uttered. Likewise that island which Donald Trump imposed a tariff on last week, even though only…
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Selections for Punchestown – May 2nd 2024
3.40: UNDENIABLE ALIBI – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.15: GUA DU LARGE – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.50: COKO BEACH (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.25: GAELIC WARRIOR (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.00: TEAHUPOO (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 6.35: O’MOORE PARK – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 7.05: ME WEE BONNIE LASS – EW – (KIEREN…
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Meath survive rough and tumble to advance
MEATH… 4-08 LAOIS… 1-10 Eamon Armstrong’s goal in the first of seven minutes of injury time gave the full time score a fairer reflection of Meath’s superiority – particularly in the second half – of this tempestuous Leinster U-20 FC quarter final in Ashbourne. Tempers initially frayed towards the end of normal time when Conor…