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Selections for Listowel – June 1st 2026
1.47: SALSINHA (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.22: MO GIOLLA MHAR (GARY NOONAN/JOHN HANLON) 2.57: WHOLELOTOFBUSINESS – EW – (GARY NOONAN/EOIN MCCARTHY) 3.32: WHISPERING WILLOW (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.07: BLOOD DESTINY (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.42: SOLITARY MAN (JOSH HALFORD (7)/ENDA BOLGER) 5.17: THELITTLEBALLERINA (JOEY DUNNE (7)/IAN DONOGHUE)
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Selections for Gowran – June 1st 2026
1.29: ELUSIVE ECHO (SHANE FOLEY/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 1.59: ROYAL COUNTY GLORY – EW – (JULIAN PIETROPAOLO/KEVIN M. SMITH) 2.34: JUSTENZIA – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DENIS HOGAN) 3.09: PINK OXALIS – EW – (JACK KEARNEY (3)/STEPHEN THORNE) 3.44: BROWNSTOWN – EW – (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.19: SHARKEYBOY – EW – (COLIN KEANE/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.54: ACCELEREIGHT (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/JOHNNY MURTAGH)…
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Pointless friendlies and dirty point scoring
Only days ago in this space, mention was afforded to the fact that, at the time of typing, there’s still one game of the club soccer season still to be played – the Champions League Final – yet other clubs like Barcelona and Manchester United are already engaging in prep work for next term with…
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Selections for Listowel – May 31st 2026
2.14: GLENADE (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 2.44: BIG NEGOTIATOR (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 3.15: MERCURIAL – EW – (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/JOHN NALLEN) 3.50: SATOYAMA (JOEY SHERIDAN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.20: NOTFORALONGTIME – EW – (RORY MULLIGAN (5)/LAURA HOURIGAN) 4.50: SONIC INVADER (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.20: NDAAWI (HARRY SWAN/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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Good start not enough
St Peter’s, Dunboyne… 2-13 Nobber… 5-10 For the second Div. 4 FL outing on the spin, Dunboyne’s second string had to give best to a north county outfit’s top team. This time returning from a road trip to Nobber empty handed. Despite Cathal Melia’s early ‘major’, the visitors were unable to establish a foothold on…
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Selections for Tramore – May 30th 2026
5.23: FUTURE PROSPECT (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.00: BETTER TIMES – EW – (JAMES HENDRICKS/SONNY CAREY) 6.30: MY GOOD PAL – EW – (BARRY COONAN (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 7.00: SEVEN TOWERS – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 7.30: THE ANNIVERSARYMAN – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN/JIMMY BARCOE) 8.00: THISCOULDBETHEONE (MARK WALSH/MARTIN BRASSIL) 8.30: COTSWOLD BLUE (PADDY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Selections for Listowel – May 30th 2026
2.06: MURCIA (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.41: TOUCH THE MOON (PHILIP BYRNES/BILL DURKAN) 3.16: BURNING ABILITY – EW – (EOIN WALSH/EOIN MCCARTHY) 3.51: SEAN MC – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (7)/PAUL NOLAN) 4.26: GARNACHO – EW – (TOMMY O’CONNOR (7)/MARK FAHEY) 5.00: EMBRACE THE DAY – EW – (EOGHAN FINEGAN (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.30: TELL THE BOYS…
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Selections for Tramore – May 29th 2026
4.50: GIANT HAYSTACKS (DANNY GILLIGAN/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 5.20: ENDLESS TALKING (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.55: FEMME MAGNIFIQUE – EW – (CIAN QUIRKE/HARRY KELLY) 6.30: MUTED MELODY – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/TONY MULLINS) 7.00: TEDWORTH – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (7)/MICHAEL BARRY) 7.35: EASTMORE (PHILIP BYRNES/CHARLES BYRNES) 8.10: ONE DAY IN MAY (ANNA MCGUINNESS (7)/ROBERT TYNER)
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Sideline Cuts – 46
Desperation in which corner? If you take it that, at the time of typing, the soccer season – at club level – still has one assignment to hand in, the Champions League Final between Arsenal and Paris Saint German – it’s a bit difficult to quantify that, in the formative stages of the off-season, the…
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Selections for Limerick – May 28th 2026
4.40: LUKER’S TIPPLE (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.15: LE COTE FLUERIE (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.50: GAOITHE GLORY – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/ERIC MCNAMARA) 6.20: MARIAN AVENUE (PHILIP BYRNES/CHARLES BYRNES) 6.50: CHEMDAWG (PHLLIP ENRIGHT/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 7.20: SPELLACY’S CROSS – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/JIMMY BARCOE) 7.55: CRAIC EILE – EW – (CARL MILLAR (5)/KEN BUDDS) 8.30: MISTAKENFORANOTHER…
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