Tag: @SkySportsGAA

  • History repeated as Lake County claim landmark win

    History repeated as Lake County claim landmark win

    Westmeath… 2-14 Cavan… 1-13 There have been numerous examples in GAA of matches being turned on their head by moments of greatness. Anyone who has been kind enough to frequent this space for long enough will know my favourite exhibits of same. There is another one, mind you, which never got the acclaim it deserved.…

  • There’s no system to decommision simplicity

    There’s no system to decommision simplicity

    Kilkenny… 2-26 Clare… 0-20 When Dunshaughlin were a distance ahead of the pack in Meath football under Eamonn Barry, the highly successful and unfairly maligned coach had inculcated in his players the belief that 16 points was the very minimum required to win matches. It would be very interesting to see what the comparative score…

  • DriveThru Sports Show – Ep. 24

    DriveThru Sports Show – Ep. 24

    The first one of these I’ve done in a very long time and I will admit its existence is purely down to the fact that I hadn’t the energy to type anything after watching an epic day’s sport in Croke Park. Sit back, enjoy and please like and share if you think it’s decent!

  • Armagh – saving Gaelic football one long ball at a time

    Armagh – saving Gaelic football one long ball at a time

    When Meath broke through to the big time in Gaelic football circa 1986, I was five. Not a jot is recalled of the wet day Dublin were eventually usurped, but once this corner was properly attuned to the goings on of such matters – which in truth was the following year – the importance of…

  • Oh Hurling, don’t ever change!

    Oh Hurling, don’t ever change!

    David Dunne, Gareth Ghee, Mickey Cunniffe, Eamon Devlin and Gerry Keegan all share a common bond. Yet few outside of their realm will have even heard of them. They either are, or have been, the most recognisable hurlers in Louth, Longford, Roscommon, Tyrone and Kildare respectively throughout my lifetime. They undoubtedly have contemporaries in every…