-
Furze have the horsepower to dig out safety
(Last edited 12:50pm on 21/9/26 to correct several typos. Mea Culpa). Seneschalstown…1-26 Simonstown Gaels…2-19 (AET) It’s difficult if not impossible now to visualise a world without the ability to stream events online. Either in real time or to be able to go back and re-watch them after the fact. In a sporting sense, the advent…
-
Selections for Listowel – Sept. 20th 2026
2.18: MINELLA BUOY (DAN KING/JOHN NALLEN) 2.48: TUMBLING IN (MARK WALSH/ERIC MCNAMARA) 3.18: FRAHER FIELD – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/J.E. & T. KIELY) 3.48: RUN TED RUN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.18: SKY LORD (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.48: COSTACOURTA – EW – (MIKE O’CONNOR/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.18: GREEN HINT (PADDY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
-
Selections for Gowran – Sept. 19th 2026
2.06: MUMHAN – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JIM BOLGER) 2.41: CASTILIAN QUEEN (GARY CARROLL/GER LYONS) 3.15: ALBANY COUNTY (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 3.50: CAUGHT YOU SLEEPING – EW – (BEN COEN/NOEL MEADE) 4.25: COLPE CROSS – EW – (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/NATALIA LUPINI) 5.02: MOYASSR – EW – (SAM COEN/ADO MCGUINNESS) 5.37: RESPONSE FINALE (REESE HOLOHAN (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL)
-
Selections for Navan – Sept. 19th 2026
1.07: IVATT – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.42: HOPEFUL HERO – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/TOM HOGAN) 2.17: ANY CHANCE (CONOR STONE-WALSH/CIAN HUGHES) 2.52: PURE LOGIC – EW – (PADDY HANLON (5)/JOHN HANLON) 3.26: MOTHER SHIP – EW – (PADDY HANLON (5)/JOHN HANLON) 4.02: EMERALD ENIGMA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.45: CAN HAPPEN – EW…
-
A lot of ‘What ifs’ for one parish to ponder
KILBRIDE…0-21 NA FIANNA…1-15 (AET) VEGAS’S MEN WERE OUTSIDERS FOR SURVIVAL Sometimes, personally speaking, when confidence is a bit shot, it takes a bit of a boost from a perhaps unexpected source to keep the wheels turning. In this case, confirmation that reading and judgment of the local GAA scene is still fairly well on the…
-
Selections for Dundalk – Sept. 18th 2026
5.25: FORCE NOIR (BEN COEN/ROBSON DI AGUIAR) 6.00: KINDACAN (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 6.30: THE BEAR TRAP – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS) 7.00: STARFLOW – EW – (CONOR CUSACK (7)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 7.30: CELTIC DRUID – EW – (SADHBH TORMEY (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 8.00: WHOSEYHEBESTBOY – EW – (BILLY LEE/DICK BRABAZON) 8.30: NUMANTIA (PADDY HARNETT (3)/DONNACHA…
-
Selections for Downpatrick – Sept. 18th 2026
1.37: WORLD AS ONE (DAN KING/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.12: BEGGARS ROCK (KEVIN SEXTON/IAN DONOUGHUE) 2.47: JOHN DIXEN – EW – (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN (3)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 3.22: INVINCIBLE OSCAR – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/NOEL KELLY) 3.57: GANGSTER GRANNY – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/COLM MCBRATNEY) 4.28: SEA OF DOUBT – EW – (CONOR STONE-WALSH/IAN DONOGHUE) 5.02: ANODANDAWINK (PETER SMITHERS…
-
The place will certainly be painted red as Fleetwood nab plum draw
Some of you of similar vintage to myself might recall a television advert of a good while back went something along the lines of ‘Would Fleetwood wood, would Fleetwood’? You can be damn sure they would – have taken your hand off for the draw they have nabbed in the fourth round of the Carabao…
-
Selections for Naas – Sept. 17th 2026
1.50: BLOOMING SALLY – EW – (ANDREW J. SLATTERY/ANDY SLATTERY) 2.22: SALT LAKE (DONOGH O’CONNOR/ROBSON DE AGUIAR) 2.52: NEW BOND STREET (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 3.22: SUMMER SENT YOU (BILLY LEE/KEN CONDON) 3.52: NANDOS ROYALE (REESE HOLOHAN (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.25: ELYATA (BILLY LEE/NOEL MEADE) 4.56: STAR GLORY (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.32: SOLDAT (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS)
-
Meath nail great team goal with appointment of former King Cole
Take yourself back more than three decades. A different world. One which still hadn’t
Got any book recommendations?