Tag: Meath Hurling
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A rising tide might carry all boats but some need life jackets
When steadily hurtling towards a fourth decade of being enveloped in sport at a level which far exceeds fandom, you do begin to think you’ve seen all there is to see. The good, the bad and the ugly, as the original Mr Eastwood might put it. Thank you very much to him! That said, there…
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One more role of the dice
Defeat to home side Wicklow in Echelon Park, Aughrim last weekend took Meath’s Christy Ring Cup ambitions out of their own hands, but to have any chance of maintaining their interest therein, the must get the better of a typically obstinate Donegal side at St Loman’s Park, Trim at 1.30pm tomorrow (Saturday). Manager Johnny Greville…
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Two changes for hurlers ahead of Aughrim assignment
The Meath team to take on Wicklow in their next Christy Ring Cup assignment at Echelon Park in Aughrim tomorrow shows two alterations from that which ground out a gutsy success against Derry two weeks ago. Trim’s David Murtagh and Cian Rogers from county kingpins Ratoath replace James Kelly and Mikey Cole respectively. Meanwhile, in…
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Greville goes for a half dozen changes
Meath manager Johnny Greville and his fellow mentors have opted to make a half dozen changes to the side which disappointingly lost out to London last week ahead of tomorrow’s Christy Ring Cup second round encounter against Tyrone at Trim. The green and gold will be hoping to repeat their NHL victory of earlier in…
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Greville recalibrates in attempt to bloom against the Lilies
Johnny Greville has made wholesale changes to the Meath Senior Hurling team ahead of Saturday’s Allianz NHL Div. 2 promotion shoot out against high flying Kildare in Trim. No more than our lady footballers against Kerry, the green and gold stickmen will be hoping to redress a negatively lopsided recent record against their floury opponents.…
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Eventually the elastic has to snap
Charlie Ennis*, Brendan McKeon, Adam O’Connor, Kyle Donnelly, Padraig O’Hanrahan, Eamonn Og O’Donnchadh, Ethan Devine, Shane Whitty,Stephen T. Morris and Adam Gannon. That’s just off the top of my head. There may be more. The above list? Those who were central tenets of the Meath senior hurling panel over the last couple of seasons who…
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Quigley in for Meath
Sean Quigley of St Peter’s, Dunboyne will make his first start of the season for the Meath hurlers when Johnny Greville’s charges put their unbeaten record in Div. 2 of the Allianz NHL on the line this afternoon in Austin Stack Park, Tralee, when they take on a Kerry combination that lost to Donegal last…
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Kildalkey double does the trick up North
MEATH… 2-22 TYRONE… 2-14 Goals in each half from Kildalkey clubmates Nicky Potterton and Evan Fitzgerald proved to be priceless as Meath came away from Tyrone’s Centre Of Excellence in Garvaghy with their unbeaten record in NHL Div. 2 still intact. Poacher Potterton cut in along the endline and fired home after 26 minutes and,…
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Greville unveils first group as Tir Chonaill men come to town
New Meath Senior Hurling manager Johnny Greville has announced his first Royal County match day panel prior to his first competitive outing in charge as Donegal come to Trim for the first round of the Allianz National Hurling League Div. 2 on Saturday afternoon. Undoubtedly, the headline grabbing development is the return of the former…
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Meath’s NHL Div. 2 Fixtures 2025
New Meath senior hurling manager Johnny Greville will have his first day in the dugout at St Loman’s Park in Trim when his charges take on Donegal in the opening round of the Allianz National Hurling League Div. 2 on January 26th. Such is the way their division is structured this term that the Royal…