Tag: Pat Havern
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Royal templates usher in a new era
Meath… 2-13 Down… 0-14 In The Cure At Troy Seamus Heaney tells us “Hope and history rhyme”. Well, they most certainly did for Meath at Croke Park on Saturday afternoon as the county’s male senior footballers lifted a first trophy in the big field since 2010. Hopefully that will at long last extinguish dross about…
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SIDELINE CUTS – 28
What you will read hereafter is in the above category solely due to breadth of material likely to be covered. Quite simply because there was a compulsion to write something. But not about anything in particular, if you get me. Unlike, say, last week, when a tumultuous week for Meath GAA meant things more or…
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The sum of the collective delivered by the individual parts
Meath… 1-11 Down… 1-09 Meath and Down both have very decorated chapters in the history of the GAA. From Down’s record of having only lost one All Ireland SFC final, to Meath being the last county to win the old Sam Maguire and the first to collect the new. There are further stanzas which could…
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Morris makes his point to get Meath off the mark
Meath…2-06 Down…2-06 At the outset here, it will be admitted that yours truly wasn’t match fit for today’s outing to Pairc Tailteann. Having been blessed to come through the worst of the Covid-19 unscathed and battled Celulitis for the last month, Storm Franklin had whipped up too bad a day to lock horns with. However,…