Tag: Oldcastle
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Apr. 1st 2024
2.10: REDSTONE (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.40: BATMAN GIRAC – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.15: O’MOORE PARK (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.50: THEDEVILSCOACHMAN (MARK WALSH/NOEL MEADE) 4.20: SAINT SAM (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.00: INTENSE RAFFLES (JJ SLEVIN/TOM GIBNEY) 5.40: ST DENISS WELL (JACK KENNEDY/IAN DONOGHUE) 6.10: REDEMPTION DAY (JODY TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Selections for Limerick – Dec. 28th 2022
12.20: SHANBALLY KID (SEAN O’KEEFFE/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.55: BLACKWATER – EW – (DENIS O’REGAN/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.30: MALINA GIRL – W/O FAV – (KIEREN BUCKLEY/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.05: TOMJACKWILLIAM – EW – (GARY NOONAN (7)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 2.40: VELVET ELVIS – EW – (GAVIN BROUDER (5)/TOM GIBNEY) 3.15: TIME MARCHES ON – EW – (KIEREN BUCKLEY (5)/JAMES MOTHERWAY) 3.45:…
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O’Rourke completes backroom team
Several additions to new Meath senior football manager Colm O’Rourke had several additions to his backroom team ratified at Monday night’s Co Committee meeting. The extra recruitment is headlined by the appointment of Paul Garrigan as team trainer, only weeks after the Oldcastle native stood down from a similar role with the county’s back-to-back All…
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Ireland crumble in Fortress Eden
Ireland… 19 New Zealand… 42 You might think that scoring three tries against the All Blacks – especially at Eden Park – represented a commendable day’s work. Don’t be fooled… This was a classic case of ‘come into my web, said the spider to the fly’, before the resident takes a choke hold of the…
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Selections for Thurles – Mar. 10th 2022
1.50: BUTTE MONTANA – EW – (DONIE MCINERNEY/MICK WINTERS) 2.25: GOOD BYE SAM (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.00: LISTENTILLITELLYA – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/TOM GIBNEY) 3.35: SILVERSTRAND – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/JOHN MCCONNELL) 4.10: HOLLINGTON – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/STUART CRAWFORD) 4.45: ROBINSTOWN (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.15: SIR ARGUS (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Passion, enthusiasm and the knowledge to back it up
If you’ve ever been physically or emotionally invested in a sporting occasion, chances are the seminal moment in a given event may pass you by. Simply owing to being caught up in either joy or despair of whatever has just occurred. The point was made to somebody only recently that in the chaos that was…
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Kelly and Callaghan Take Over U-20’s
The Dunderry duo of Sean Kelly and Barry Callaghan have stepped into the breach and assumed control of the county’s U-20 football team in the wake of the departure of Bernard Flynn and his backroom team from their roles last week. Both men enjoyed decorated careers in green and gold during their playing days –…
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Grassroots have to be the fulcrum of any sport
Over time, living with a disability, the realisation dawns that there are certain things you simply will not be able to do. Often a very long period of time. Furthermore, at no point is the possibility or mere nation of acceptance guaranteed. Foremost among them, and the latter point applies here more than anywhere else,…