Tag: Limerick
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Selections for Limerick – Dec. 27th 2023
12.19: MILANAWAY – EW – (DAN KING (3)/DENIS HOGAN) 12.52: STORMY STORY (JORDAN CANAVAN (7)/SAM CURLING) 1.27: HARMONIYA MAKER (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.02: NO TIME TO WAIT (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.37: COSMIC ROCK – EW – (JODY TOWNEND/EOIN MCCARTHY) 3.27: MAHTALUZA – EW – (JOSH HALFORD (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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The half day of the underdog
Maybe it’s the pondering of the thing about faraway hills always being greener, but, for a certain time every year, the occupant of seat does wonder what it’d be like to have been domiciled in the catchment area of one of the serially successful clubs. A St Vincent’s or a Kilmacud Crokes or a Corofin…
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Selections for Limerick – Oct. 21st 2023
2.05: LIBERATED LIGHT – EW – (JOHN GLEESON (5)/ JOHN E. & T. KIELY) 2.40: DARK IMAGE – EW – (RICHIE DEEGAN/EOIN MCCARTHY) 3.15: SPACE TOURIST (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.50: HIGH CLASS HERO (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.21: ANDYOURBIRDCANSING – EW – (LIAM QUINLAN (5)/JOHN RYAN) 4.56: KNOCKNAGAPPAGH – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/PETER FAHEY) 5.31: MA…
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The best day of the sporting year
Dear Larry McCarthy, Please leave well enough alone. Thank you. The dust had hardly settled on the best day of the sporting year when the outgoing GAA President started blurting about fixing it that the Leinster and Munster SHC Finals wouldn’t be on the same day again. Utter idiocy. It’s not as if people attending…
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Selections for Limerick – May 25th 2023
5.30: NAME ME FAMOUS – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/EOIN MCCARTHY) 6.00: HURRICANE GEORGIE (BEN HARVEY (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 6.30: SHANNON GLORY – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/PAUL POWER) 7.00: TECH TALK – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/JIM DREAPER) 7.30: GALI FLIGHT (BRIAN HAYES/PHILIP FENTON) 8.00: GONDOR – EW – (RICHIE CONDON (5)/COLM MURPHY) 8.30: EARTHS FURIES – EW…
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A product is only as good as how it’s manufactured
Anyone who has been perusing material in this space for long enough will undoubtedly have seen reference made to the Corner House. That being my father’s ancestral family home. A book could and maybe one day will be produced on how beloved the old place was to me. Its appearance here today pertains to the…
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Selections for Limerick – Apr. 22nd 2023
2.10: SWEETEST ROSE (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 2.45: MAGNANIMUS MEHMUS – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/ADRIAN MURRAY) 3.20: LORD VADER – EW – (LEIGH ROCHE/EMMET MULLINS) 3.55: GAMBE VELOCI (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.25: CHEERS AGAIN – EW – (ROBERT WHEARTY (7)/PAUL FLYNN) 5.00: PICTURE OF A CITY (NATHAN CROSSE/ANDY OLIVER) 5.30: SECRET ROCK (COLIN KEANE/TONY…
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Selections for Limerick – Mar. 30th 2023
1.40: HEATHER BEAR (ALAN RYAN (7)/ANDY SLATTERY) 2.15: SO DES FLOS (DENIS O’REGAN/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.50: TRUCKERS ANGEL – EW – (JOHN SHINNICK (7)/TERENCE O’BRIEN) 3.25: YOUNG FITZY – EW – (ROBBIE GEOGHEGAN (7)/NORMAN LEE) 4.00: MISSIEE – EW – (GARY NOONAN (5)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 4.35: HANOI JANE – EW – (DENIS O’REGAN/TED WALSH) 5.10: TWO OF…
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Selections for Limerick – Mar. 6th 2023
1.40: FERONLY (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 2.15: DEEPLY SUPERFICIAL (AIDAN KELLY (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.50: CAFE CON LECHE – EW – (JACK GILLIGAN/CHARLES BYRNES) 3.25: THEDEVILSCOACHMAN (DENIS O’REGAN/NOEL MEADE) 4.00: FROM THE ASHES (PHILIP BYRNES (5)/CHARLES BYRNES) 4.35: MISTY HOLLOW (JJ SLEVIN/EDDIE CAWLEY) 5.10: OSSIE’S LODGE – EW – (JOHN GLEESON/TONY MARTIN)
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Selections for Limerick – Mar. 12th 2023
1.40: YOUR HONOR – EW – (GAVIN BROUDER/JAMES NASH) 2.15: HAUTURIERE (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.50: CHELSEAS FRIEND – EW – (MICHAEL O’CONNOR (5)/JIMMY MANGAN) 3.25: EASY FELLA (DONAGH MEYLER/RAY CODY) 4.00: IRISH BLAZE (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.35: HAPPY JACKY – EW – (TOMMY BRETT (7)/RAY HACKETT) 5.10: LUCKY LYREEN (JAMIE CODD/GORDON ELLIOTT)