Tag: Rathkenny GFC
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Four changes for final League fling
The Meath team to take on Kildare in tomorrow’s final round of the Allianz NFL shows four changes from that which lost out to Dublin last weekend. At least one of the alterations is enforced with Donal Keogan’s incredible 83-game not-out streak ended after the inspirational Rathkennny clubman was forced off with a hamstring injury…
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Strong second half gives new look Royals encouraging start
Meath… 0-16 Carlow… 1-09 Meath got their 2023 football season off to a winning start at a windy and wet Netwatch Cullen Park tonight. New manager Colm O’Rourke gave debuts to seven newcomers for his first match in charge. And in truth, it took the new Royal combination quite a while to settle. Mostly because…
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Dublin’s Cooper calls time on county career
Possibly the final major GAA news story of 2022 was, to this writer at least, a surprising one. It being the announcement by Dublin’s Jonny Cooper that he has taken his leave of the inter county stage. The Na Fianna clubman has been very nearly ever present since the blue wave which transformed Gaelic football…
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River men’s free running style sees them sail to success
Boyne Valley… 2-11 Tara… 0-07 A varied and attractive style of football – something synonymous with Cathal O’Bric-trained teams – held sway as the Walterstown/Bective/Rathkenny/Slane were deserving winners of the inaugural Regional Football Championship Final in Ashbourne on Sunday. At this point, this writer would like to place on record sincere thanks to Coiste Na…
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Not many scores but no shortage of bite either
Boyne Valley… 1-07 Moyfernagh… 1-02 My late father was of the opinion that a 0-0 draw in a soccer match was the most boring purgatory in the sporting world. An easy enough summation to concur with but easily deconstructed too with a little more nuanced analysis. Granted, an occasion where both teams park the bus,…
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Familiar faces and family values to the fore
Boyne Valley… 1-13 Blackwater… 0-14 The most notable thing about this evening’s Regional Football Championship double header at Dunganny tonight was surely the appearance of decorated Royal warriors Mickey Burke and Mickey Newman with their respective Divisional sides. Well, that and the decisive influence of the Curtis clan in this close contest. We’ll get back…