Tag: News Ticker
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Reasons to keep the faith
#ATHLETICS David Walsh is one of the eminent sports writers of our time. For some, the Kilkenny native’s output may be tedious. In that he continually champions a cause he feels strongly about – clean sport. He is, however, more often than not, on the money. See his tireless efforts to expose Lance Armstrong as…
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Blessings often come from where they’re least expected
#GAA #MEATH Castleblaney is one GAA pitch which, if you’ve been in it, you’re unlikely to forget. There are a few of similar ilk in Meath – #Nobber and #Simonstown and #Donore and the old field in #Kells stand comparison. Similarities being that the playing surfaces are well below the area from which spectators view.
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Play it again, Des – actually no thanks!
It probably stemmed from a feeling – whether justified or otherwise – of feeling left out. How I started going to #GAA matches, that is. Dad was gently ‘persuaded’ to get me a wheelchair ticket for a ticket for the league semi final of 1990 between #Meath and Cork. With the help of the late…
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Unending inspiration will be the greatest legacy
It has probably cropped up here previously, but now merits another spin. For many of my younger years we didn’t have ‘all’ the television stations. That is to say, we only had RTE by two. When that eventually changed, initial greatest glee centred on being able to watch Match Of The Day and Father Ted.…
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Don’t try to figure it out, just enjoy it!
With about twelve minutes to go in what was the middle instalment of a trilogy of games between #Meath and Westmeath in the 2001 football championship, a group of supporters from another county proclaimed (stupidly within earshot of yours truly!) “It’s great to be here to see the end of (Sean) Boylan”. No way was…
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A glorious time to make a comeback!
#GAA – To anyone that saw it, it probably seemed innocuous. That is, if anyone copped what had happened. Truth be told, initially nothing was thought of it here either. Dropping a pint glass is hardly that much of an earth shattering development. Hardly surprisingly, greatest annoyance at the time was over the loss of…
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Sombre reminders of the gifts we have
#GAA Our story begins in O’Toole Park, #Dublin, on a balmy summer evening in 1995. Wheels transporting yours truly had parked on the sideline thence twice previously. For Dublin #IFC clashes involving St Brigid’s in 1992. The occasion this time round was a #Leinster U-21 FC encounter between the host county and #Meath. As far…
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Changing of the guard – to the delight of one place in particular
#Snooker #Soccer 1985 was a particularly trying year in some ways. Both my maternal grandparents passed away, I underwent major surgery – just some of plenty in those years – and, as far as can be deciphered, there were other significant hurdles to be negotiated. All of which made it a year to forget.
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An appointment that strikes many chords
#FARMING #IFA We were surely all told as youngsters that politics and religion were two topics never to discuss in a pub. In the case of the latter, it was a totally understandable as it really is a matter for each individual. Avoiding discourse on the former is much more difficult. To me, essentially, party…
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There’s a bit of truth all round
#Kilkenny #GAA Within a sporting horizon where #KatieTaylor loses a bout, #Barcelona lose a few matches and it is thus deemed a crisis and Jordan Spieth suffers a wobble similar to yours truly trying to negotiate an ice cream cone and thus surrenders his chances of retaining the #USMasters, should it not be obvious enough…