Tag: #AIBGAA
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Poignant day as new heights scaled
St Peter’s, Dunboyne (Meath)…0-12St Lazarian’s Abbeyleix (Laois)…1-08 Edited 10/11/25 – 15:13pm Some days things occur in sport which convince you that there are spectators in the stadium for away that have your back. Today was certainly one of those days for the camogie faithful in Dunboyne. The ball bobbled in and out around their goalmouth…
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Dunboyne Camogs make history on home soil
St Peter’s, Dunboyne (Meath)…4-12 St Cillian’s (Offaly)…1-01 To be the first to achieve something in life is extremely special. Stating the blindingly obvious, it’s historic. Which is an amazing feeling at the time, naturally, but, of even greater significance is that in the weeks, months, years and generations ahead, when people look back, they will…
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Two more great advertisements for Meath hurling
In the immediate aftermath of Stephen Masterson blowing the full time whistle at the end of another epic between Ratoath and Kiltale in the Meath SHC Final replay, temptation was to headline this piece ‘Podge and Rog lead Ratoath to title retention’. But that would have only told a fraction of the story… Not only…
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Have wheels will travel… If only the opportunity was afforded
FOGRA: This writer hates repetition as much as the rest of ye. But, rather the deploying my usual line of justification about matters retaining relevance over time, with what you will read hereafter, the drum will be banged until it smashes and the stick falls out its ar** end. Now read on… There he was.…
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Please watch your step, you’re on thin ice
There’s an episode of The Simpsons in which Mr Burns brings the staff of the power plant to a resort up in the snow-capped mountains for a bonding weekend. As these things also tend to be in real life, the few days were dominated by tasks which had to be done, at a minimum in…
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Fans make GAA what it is – give them their say
Typical of a lot of what’s produced on this site, this offering is going to begin pointed in one direction and conclude veering off in a completely different one. Now read on… Let’s begin by dealing with what is – from a personal perspective – the ugly business on this particular ramble. Namely, that nearly…
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One brave warrior’s special day exposes GAA bluff
Early April, 1999, but it’s more like a day in November. Wind and rain sheet into the old disabled viewing area in Croke Park. The corner where the Nally Stand and Hill 16 meet. The kindly old Steward, Bobby, who da and I had got to know from years of being in and out, says…
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Did Dunsany get dosed with Pringles?
DUNSANY (MEATH)…1-14 KILCAVAN (LAOIS)…1-10 The tubularly packaged crisps with the figure who is almost a doppelganger of Manuel from Fawlty Towers as their mascot also have the sales tagline ‘once you pop you can’t stop’, well, it appears the mighty men of Dunsany have adapted it slightly to suit their own narrative. Something along the…
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Classy Cottrell drives Dunsany through battle with Aughrim
DUNSANY (Meath)…2-10 AUGHRIM (Wicklow)…1-07 Jack Cottrell’s converted penalty on the call of half time may not have ultimately been the decisive score in this AIB Leinster Club JFC quarter final at wintry Pairc Tailteann, but the lively full forward’s class throughout absolutely was as Kevin Cahill’s charges put another chink of brightness – along with…
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Fergus Gibson would be unemployed if depending on the Tones
Trying to predict the outcome of sporting events, or maybe anything in life is predicated on things going according to script, as it were. The thing is, though, time and experience are very much showing, though, that Wolfe Tones are very much of a mind to write and produce their own scripts. Going back as…