3.25: SCORCHIO (WESLEY JOYCE (5)/JACK DAVISON) 3.55: CUBAN CONFUSION (LUKE MCATEER/DAVID MARNANE) 4.25: NOT JUST YET (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.00: HODDS GIRL – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY (5)/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS) 5.30: CIAO ADIOS – EW – (KILLIAN LEONARD/SHAUNA LARKIN*) 6.00: SWELLTIME – EW – (JACK CLEARY (7)/WILLIAM O’DOHERTY) 6.30: TIME TO TELL ( MIKEY SHEEHY/JOSEPH O’BRIEN)… Read More Selections for Dundalk – Nov. 29th 2023
A WEEK OF BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS IN MEATH This corner has an admission to make – the current incarnation of the Split Season has been a lot easier on the mental health than was the case with its maiden voyage. Why exactly that is can’t actually be defined but, of late, the processes of putting things… Read More Sideline Cuts – 32
12.30: BLOOMHILL – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/PHILIP FENTON) 1.00: RACHELS SECRET – EW – (JAMES O’SULLIVAN (3)/DECLAN QUEALLY) 1.30: CEST RIEN – EW – (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN/TOM MULLINS) 2.00: BUACHAILLBOCHT (MARK WALSH/TED WALSH) 2.30: LEISH OSCARS SON – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.00: INTERSKY SUNSET (JAMES HENDRICK (7)/DECLAN QUEALLY) 3.30: WHERE’S MY JET (JODY TOWNEND/WILLIE… Read More Selections for Tramore – Nov. 28th 2023
BOYNE VALLEY… 1-11 MOYFENRAGH… 0-13 A late goal from Francis Marry of the Slane club was ultimately what turned this Brady’s Skoda-sponsored Regional Football Championship Final on its head at Dunganny Sunday lunchtime. Thus ensuring the Richie Barry Cup remains in the care of Boyne Valley – who number in their rank players from Walterstown,… Read More Marry weds Boyne to title as Richie stays at home
12.00: PICTURE OF YOU – EW – (MICHAEL O’CONNOR (3)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.35: READIN TOMMY WRONG (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.10:BUKHILL (E. A. FITZGERALD (4*) /PETER FAHEY) 1.45: WHATSAVAILABLE – EW – (GAVIN BROUDER (5)/MICHAEL MORRIS) 2.20: HENNING – EW – (DAN KING (5)/SHAUNA LARKIN*) 2.50: BATTLE OF MIRBAT – EW – (ADAM RYAN (7)/MICHAEL MCDONAGH)… Read More Selections for Cork – Nov. 26th 2023
11.40: CHAMPAGNE PLATINUM – EW – (MARK MCDONAGH (3)/ENDA BOLGER) 12.10: TULLYHILL (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.45: BALKITO – EW – (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN) 1.20: SHECOULDBEANYTHING (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.55: UNCLE PHIL (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.30: GALLOPIN DES CHAMPS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.00: GABBYS CROSS – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.35: HELICON – EW –… Read More Selections for Punchestown – Nov. 25th 2023
LEINSTER… 21 MUNSTER… 16 It wouldn’t be a meeting of the two old foes if it wasn’t an epic. Score for score, massive hits given and taken on both sides. The pendulum swinging one way and then the other. As is often the case in these situations, it came down to who managed error limitation… Read More Error-prone holders pay the price
11.40: PACINI – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.15: PREDATORS GOLD (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.48: COOL SURVIVOR – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.23: FLOORING PORTER (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 1.58: WALK AWAY (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.35: STATE MAN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.08: POETS COTTAGE – EW – (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 3.40: THE ENABLER (HARRY… Read More Selections for Punchestown – Nov. 25th 2023
Viewed through a certain lens, anybody winning 13 caps at international level, garnering multiple Heineken Cup souvenirs and rearing offspring who also went on to perform on the biggest stage would have had what would constitute a glorious career in rugby. Yet I often wonder does Trevor Brennan ponder what might have been. Warren Gatland’s… Read More Kenny deserved better than being swept out the door
5.00: TARAJ (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 5.30: SEPTEMBER LEAVES – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 6.00: THE BOG BANK – EW – (JAMES RYAN (2*)/TOM MCCOURT) 6.30: HIGHTIMEYOUWON (ADAM CAFFREY (5)/ADO MCGUINNESS) 7.00: METHER – EW – (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/NATALIA LUPINI) 7.30: DABANA – EW – (JACK KEARNEY (5)/MARK FAHEY) 8.00: RIYAMI (SEAN BOWEN (5)/SHAUNA LARKIN) 8.30:… Read More Selections for Dundalk – Nov. 24th 2023