Tag: Meath
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One dream coming true keeps another one alive – 6/1/24
My niece Ciara graduated from university shortly before Christmas. As well as obviously being a very proud day, it brought back many memories. For it was nearly 21 years to the day yours truly rolled up the long hall in the RDS decked out in the usual gown (which kept getting caught under my wheels)…
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An eventful first year with Team Chronicle – 30/12/23
I was in the carpark of the Blanchardstown Centre when taking the call from the Sports Editor of this local institution. A call which, it will be openly admitted, had been yearned for for as long as the one typing finger here knew its way around a keyboard. So it took the sum total of…
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Decency doesn’t have ulterior motives – 23/12/23
As sure as the seagulls followed the trawler, the permanently offended were off the blocks quicker than Usain Bolt with their conspiracy theories. No such thing as acknowledging that John P. McManus is just a genuinely generous person. Decency doesn’t have ulterior motives. The knockers and begrudgers need to do their research. JP McManus has…
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Ignoring their own selling point – 9/12/23
“The GAA – Where We All Belong”. Really? It would be ventured the remarkable folk around Enfield and Baconstown might politely decline to concur. Liam Gaffney, director of operations in the Wheelchair Shed (I put that name on it myself as I was involved in the design of the viewing platform with Brendan Dempsey and…
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Local apprehension likely following Kenny departure – 2/12/23
Viewed through a certain lens, anybody winning 13 caps at international level, garnering multiple Heineken Cup souvenirs and rearing offspring who also went on to perform on the biggest stage would have had what would constitute a glorious career in rugby. Yet I often wonder does Trevor Brennan ponder what might have been. Warren Gatland’s…
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Life’s a Beach for Gordon on a day for hot Coko – 25/11/23
A colleague imparted some friendly advice in this direction during the week regarding my long held practice of putting tips online any day there’s a horse racing fixture in Ireland. Well, in fact, not so much that, as a bit of prudent and gladly received guidance in relation to sharing same on social media. I…
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Time for the G. P. A. to put up or shut up – 18/11/23
It was always going to come down to who blinked first. And it would appear the fixture makers have called the GPA’s bluff. The divisive player representative body have been agitating for the pre-season competitions to be done away with, but they can hardly stir up anymore dung with fixtures and competition structure already in…
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Ronan Keating was right! – 4/11/2023
How often have you seen a player excel at Minor level and be earmarked, as Michael O’Leary once said people were making Samcro out to be “The next coming of Jesus Christ” only for their careers to dissipate disappointingly before, in essence, they had even begun? Now, there’s often a very valid reason for such…
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The engine can only be fixed with the proper tools – 21/10/23
What old style life hacks can you remember from when you were growing up? For example, I know there was a method of mending a puncture on a bike (or wheelchair!) involving washing up liquid. The same substance was also deployed to counteract a disease in rose bushes which I think was called blackspot. Vinegar…
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Ladies showing the way again – 28/10/23
In various strands of life, Christmas is regarded as the silly season. Referring, of course, to the shopping and spending and socialising that seems to consume the entire month of December, if not beforehand. In a sporting sense, there are a number of incarnations of the silly season. From the Transfer Windows in soccer to…