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  • An emotional mix of recollections

    An emotional mix of recollections

    Recently, in the midst of another bout of insomnia, an airing of the All Ireland SFC semi final of 2006 between Dublin and Mayo was encountered at about 2am. At the time, what resonated greatest was hearing the dulcet tones of Kevin Mallon, formerly of LMFM, conveying the action. To my mind, anyway, undoubtedly Kevin’s…

  • Pursuit of winter glory should be defining

    Pursuit of winter glory should be defining

    #GAA Whittling away the time prior to a dreaded hospital appointment may seem a curious time to be ruminating on matters GAA. Then again, said organisation is one of the mainstays which makes some of life’s more trying travails more negotiable. A while back, a video was encountered on YouTube of the potato harvest in…

  • Positive steps, but they must be the beginning of a journey

    #GAA At half time in the 2002 #Meath Minor football final (three days before Christmas) Tommy O’Connor made an impassioned rallying cry to his colleagues in the middle of the pitch in Walterstown: “Lads, we’ve been together since we were 12, but everything has been building towards this day”…  I was honoured and privileged to…

  • Is there anything to be said for a bit of inward inspection?

    Remember the episode of Father Ted where Fr Dougal ends up on the explosive milk float? In the midst of frantic efforts to rescue the dim-witted young priest Fr Beeching – one of a fairly unimaginative think tank brought in by Crilly to aid in the crisis – organises a Mass on a bale trailer…

  • There’s more to life than sport

    The above words do not emanate easily from yours truly. Thus, their appearance hence should underline the gravity of that which dominates the majority of the space hereafter. One day, several moons ago, these wheels were inching their way away from a Meath match – which they happened to have lost – when the following…

  • Sunburnt and left roasting old chestnuts

    During this period in 1991, one of the most iconic occurrences in the history of the GAA – the four game saga between Meath and Dublin – held the nation enthralled. Think back to the seminal moments in the entire events. Now fast forward to the state Gaelic football currently finds itself in…

  • It wouldn’t take a genius to figure out the problems

    Einstein reckoned that repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting different results was “The definition of insanity”. The latter might have been a fairly strong adjective to deploy, but banging your head continually off a stone wall hardly wafts of intelligence either. Sport seems to have recently been littered with situations of this ilk and…

  • Maybe no dancing, but there’s a buzz at the crossroads

    One of the most treasured gems of information – for me at least – pertaining to the history of St Peter’s GAA Club in Dunboyne is the inexorable link between the establishment of things in the locality in 1902 and Bob O’Keefe. A native of Mooncoin, Co Kilkenny, he was teaching in the town at…