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I’d gladly clean the toilets just to feel part of it
One night what’s a long time ago now, in Brady’s of Dunboyne, which sadly is more a memory for me than the mainstay it blessedly once was, the diesel tank in this seat was a little too full. At the time, Sean Boylan’s position as Meath senior football manager was up for ratification. For so […]
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Selections for Sligo – Aug. 4th 2022
5.00: KNOCKANAGAPPAGH (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.30: DARTINGTON (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 6.00: JUST JACOB (SEAN FLANAGAN/GAVIN CROMWELL) 6.30: RED STRIKER (DILLON MAXWELL (7)/ANDY MCNAMARA) 7.05: ABSTRACT – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/RICHARD O’BRIEN) 7.35: PECKHAM SPRINGS (PADDY O’HANLON (5)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 8.05: ARTEMIS ANGEL – EW – (SEAMUS PERRY (7)/PETER FAHEY)
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Selections for Leopardstown – Aug. 4th 2022
4.45: MISCHIEF STAR (SHANE FOLEY/JAMES MCAULEY) 5.15: FASTMAN – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOHN MCCONNELL) 5.45: GISELLES AUSIE (CHRIS HAYES/GAVIN CROMWELL) 6.15: BEAMISH (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 6.45: CHILLED OUT – EW – (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.20: THREE LAWS – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 7.50: INNAMORARE – EW – (ROBERT WHEARTY (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 8.25: TAKARENGO […]
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Selections for Sligo – Aug. 3rd 2022
5.30: ALHAAJEB (SHANE FOLEY/JAMES MCAULEY) 6.00: BUTTERFLY GARDEN (SCOTT MCCULLAGH (5)/KEVIN PRENDERGAST) 6.30: DARK VEGA – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 7.00: KAMI – EW – (WAYNE LORDAN/MARK MCNIFF) 7.30: STATIC CHARGE (GARY CARROLL/JOE MURPHY) 8.00: PILBARA GOLD – EW – (BILLY LEE/ANDREW KINIRONS) 8.30: BAROMETER (COLIN KEANE/JOHN MURPHY)
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Listening to Joe Dolan is all well and good but who will benefit from his wise words?
Shortly after Westmeath were crowned the inaugural winners of the Tailteann Cup, it became known to this writer that their current Captain, Kevin Maguire, had actually played some of his underage football with St Peter’s, Dunboyne, as the family lived in the area and both his parents worked in a large place of business in […]
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Selections for Roscommon – Aug. 2nd 2022
5.25: HOMME D’UN SOIR (DARRYL JACOB/STUART CRAWFORD) 5.55: AN DROICHEAD GORM – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/SONNY CAREY) 6.25: FOLLOW THE CROWD (MARK WALSH/AIDAN HOWARD) 7.00: GOLDEN ARMOUR – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 7.30: LORCA – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/EDDIE O’GRADY) 8.00: LESSOFDNEGATIVITY – EW – (PADDY O’HANLON (5)/ANDY MCNAMARA) 8.30: RESILIENT FRONT (PAT TAAFFE […]
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Selections for Cork – Aug. 1st 2022
2.30: SILVER BREEZE – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.00: GOLF MARIN (MARK WALSH/TONY MARTIN) 3.30: VICEREGENT – EW – (PHILIP BYRNES (4*)/CHARLES BYRNES) 4.00: NATURAL LOOK (D.L. QUEALLY/DECLAN QUEALLY) 4.35: ONE LAST TANGO – EW – (MARK WALSH/EOIN GRIFFIN) 5.08: STRATUM (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.40: BEASELY STREET (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Selections for Naas – Aug. 1st 2022
2.10: DAME KIRI (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.40: DUBAWI SPECTRE (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 3.10: SIOUX SWEET – EW – (JOE DOYLE/DENIS HOGAN) 3.40: BADB – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 4.10: LOPES GOLD (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 4.45: MISSEMMA – EW – (SAM EWING/KIERAN COTTER) 5.20: LONGSEOIR (JACK CLEARY (7)/MICHAEL GRASSICK)
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Twice as nice
Meath 3-10 Kerry… 1-07 1949, 1954, 1967, 1987, 1988, 1996, 1999, 2021, 2022. Even looking at it written in front of you is to be struck by awe. Before anyone says anything, the majestic achievements of Eamonn Murray’s charges over the past two seasons merit equal if not greater commendation than the seven All Ireland […]
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Selections for Galway – July 31st 2022
2.00: TEED UP (CONOR CLARKE (4)*/EMMET MULLINS) 2.30: SUMMER TIDE – EW – (PHILIP BYRNES (7)/CHARLES BYRNES) 3.05: BATTLEOVERDOYEN (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.40: RUSSIAN DIAMOND – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 4.10: SALTONSTALL – EW – (COLIN KEANE/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS) 4.40: WILD ROVER (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 5.10: ELMO’S FIRE – EW – (BILLY LEE/ANDREW KINIRONS) 5.40: […]