Tag: 1983
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Selections for Kilbeggan – May 17th 2024
4.25: IF YOU LET ME (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.00: MASTER PLAYER – EW – (JODY MCGARVEY/JOHN HANLON) 5.35: MORTIMER DUKE (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN/BARRY CONNELL) 6.10: OLYMPY DE CERISY (SHANE FITZGERALD/DECLAN QUEALLY) 6.45: LISNAMULT LAD – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/IAN DONOGHUE) 7.20: JASMIN DE COTTE (JORDAN GAINFORD/PAUL NOLAN) 7.55: FARMERS LODGE (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN/BARRY CONNELL) 8.30: LOVELY HURLING…
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Bru Na Boinne make light of numbers game but it’s all in vain
An Tuaisceart…0-12 Bru Na Boinne…0-12 Dare it be said, Bru Na Boinne’s 12 Apostles almost replicated Dublin’s unforgettable feat of annexing Sam Maguire in 1983 minus three of their troops? If not that, it could at least be mused that it’s unlikely young Moynalty official Kieran Olwell will become as (in)famous as Antrim’s John Gough…
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The baseball cap finally retires to the peg
There are things in life which, even though you know they are coming, you are never quite ready for it. In Meath, that day arrived in September 2005 when Sean Boylan announced he wasn’t going forward for a 24th season as senior football manager. Hindsight, of course, has proven that it should never have come…
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Passion, enthusiasm and the knowledge to back it up
If you’ve ever been physically or emotionally invested in a sporting occasion, chances are the seminal moment in a given event may pass you by. Simply owing to being caught up in either joy or despair of whatever has just occurred. The point was made to somebody only recently that in the chaos that was…
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Sideline Cuts 11
A quick ramble on what was a major upset on the opening day of the 2021 of the six nations championship rugby as Scotland recorded their first win at Twickenham since 1983.