Tag: Mayo GAA
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Don’t differentiate between one wrong and another
A guess would be hazarded that this corner is far from alone in having a collection of old VHS tapes. Encompassing football, hurling and rugby matches, race meetings, you name it. But there are also copious comedy collections therein. Today, one of them was catapulted to the forefront of thoughts in this seat. Namely, Vinny…
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Rousing resumption sends Royals to another Final
Meath…2-12 Mayo…1-09 A blitzkrieg at the start of the second half which saw Meath register 2-5 without riposte set them on their way to another Final date in Croke Park. This time it will be Donegal providing the opposition in the Lidl Ladies NFL Div. 1 decider on April 10th. Eamonn Murray’s side trailed by…
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Selectlons for Down Royal – Mar. 17th 2022
1.55: WRECKING BALL PAUL (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.35: AUTUMN CRUSADE – EW – (DANNY HAND (4)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 3.15: O’TOOLE (BEN CRAWFORD (7)/STUART CRAWFORD) 3.55: BIG DEBATES (PHILIP ENRIGHT/ROBERT TYNER) 4.35: SAMCRO (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.15: ASK D’MAN (DECLAN LAVERY (3)/DAVID CHRISTIE) 5.50: I AM SHADOW – EW – (EOIN O’BRIEN (7)/CIARAN MURPHY)
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O’Connor comes home to steer The Kingdom again
Irish sport’s worst kept secret is out. Jack O’Connor has returned for a third stint as Kerry senior football manager. Once again, the Dromad Pearses clubman has brought Diarmuid Murphy and Mike Quirke as part of his backroom team. O’Connor recently left Kildare in the lurch, heading for where the pale moon was rising even…
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Bench Press Works The Oracle For Dominant Red Hands
Tyrone…2-14 Mayo…0-15 Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. When Ryan O’Donoghue snatched at a handy point chance and then skewed a penalty wide minutes later, that old, terribly familiar black cloud must have loomed large on the green and red horizon once again. As with the Meath ladies just shy of…
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Breaking News: Tyrone Pull Out Of Kerry Re-fixture
The immediate future of this season’s All Ireland SFC has been cast into doubt with the revelation that Tyrone will not be fulfilling their already re-fixed All Ireland SFC semi final against Kerry. The O’Neill County camp has been ravaged by cases of Covid-19 in the last couple of weeks, with reportedly only 11 members…
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O’Sullivan Double Sees Meath Sail Home
Meath……2-15 Down……0-14 A brace of well taken goals from the speedy Cillian O’Sullivan set Meath on their way as they departed Armagh’s Athletic Grounds with both points to leave everything to play for going into their remaining fixture against Mayo. Today’s encounter was staged at the neutral venue after Paddy Tally’s team were forced to…
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Newman returns as Meath bid to bounce back
The return of gifted attacker Mickey Newman jumps off the page as Meath manager Andy McEntee announced his panel for the forthcoming National Football League. Entering his fifth season at the helm, the boss will be hoping to steer his charges back to the top flight straight away having only dined thence for one campaign.…
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Selections for ballinrobe – May 4th 2021
4.30: GEE REX (JORDAN GAINFORD (7)/EMMET MULLINS) 5.05: BIG DEBATES – EW – (DANNY HAND/ROBERT TYNER) 5.40: CHAMPAGNE SPARKLES (JORDAN GAINFORD (7)/DENISE FOSTER*) 6.10: GET PHAR (MARK MCDONAGH (4)/EOIN DOYLE) 6.40: GALON DE VAUZELLE (JAMES O’SULLIVAN (4)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 7.10: HALF SHOT – EW – (HUGH MORGAN (5)/NORMAN LEE) 7.40: THE ECHO BOY (CONOR MAXWELL/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN)…
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Meath face familiar foes as ‘normal’ appears on the horizon
It will be a case of familiarity prompting caution when Meath take on either Longford or Carlow in their opening joust of the 2021 Leinster SFC. The road map for a return to the playing fields became a modicum clearer this week with the staggered roll out of the Championship draws in both football and…