Tag: Limerick
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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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Selections for Tipperary – July 17th 2022
1.50: HIGHSTREET ROLLER – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/TOM GIBNEY) 2.22: DON DIABLO – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.57: REBELLIOUS GALE (PETER CARBERRY/TONY MARTIN) 3.32: MICA MALPIC (JOHN SHINNICK (4)*/ENDA BOLGER) 4.07: L’IMPERTINENT (SIMON TORRENS/ENDA BOLGER) 4.41: FANCY FOUNDATIONS (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.16: PAT’S PICK – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/STUART CRAWFORD)
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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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Guts and effort not enough to trump instinct and knowhow
Limerick… 0-27 Galway… 1-21 Inches. That’s often all the separates glory from gloom. If the break for you, it’ll be the former scenario. The ball breaking one inch the wrong way and your dreams are dashed. Finite margins. Early on, Conor Cooney fails to rise a 25 metre free, wasted. HawkEye takes a point apiece…
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The defining exhibition of the greatest game in the world
A long time ago, a dear departed family acquaintance said to my father, regarding the state of the world at that time, “Don’t let anybody tell you about the good old days, the good times are now”. Personally, I would find such an assertion hard to concur with for a lot of reasons but that’s…
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Being old fashioned might become the norm!
Fr Dougal is trapped on the explosive milk float, Ted has the lads from the neighbouring island over to help come up with a plan to rescue the dimwitted Curate. After all sorts of tomfoolery, it finally dawned on some of them to put a brick on the accelarator. Enabling Dougal to get off the…
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Selections for Punchestown – May 29th 2022
1.55: MITIVA (MARK WALSH/LIZ DOYLE) 2.30: ANOTHER CHOICE (PAUL TOWNEND/MATTHEW SMITH) 3.05: MARSHALLED – EW – (AINE O’CONNOR (5)/PADRAIG ROCHE) 3.40: WHATUCALLHER – EW – (NICOLAS TERRASSIN/E & P HARTY) 4.15: FIVE O’CLOCK – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.50: OLD TOWN GARDE (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.05: GAOTH CHUIL (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN (7)/TED WALSH)
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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 Killarney – May 15th 2022
2.00: ROCK YA BOY YA (PADDY O’HANLON (5)/FRANCIS CASEY) 2.30: MARVEL DE CERISY (RACHAEL BLACKMORE /HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.00: ANNA BUNNINA (SIMON TORRENS/JOHN MCCONNELL) 3.30: SIT DOWN LUCY – EW – (CHARLIE O’DWYER (7)/PETER FAHEY) 4.00: EGALITY MANS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.30: NORWIGI (MARK WALSH/ENDA BOLGER) 5.00: STEALTHY TOM (SHANE FITZGERALD (5)/ENDA BOLGER) 5.30: FELIX…
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Seeing too much of yourself in others
My mind often fluctuates in thought regarding how Meath’s greatest ever team – that at their zenith between 1986 and 1991 – would fair out in the Gaelic football of today. Part of me thinks they wouldn’t last jig time owing to a combination of snowflakes having the game sanitised to a point of no…