Tag: AllianzLeagues
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The Jacks are back – and Meath are as good as
MEATH… 3-24 TYRONE… 2-22 Barring an catastrophic development commensurate with Thierry Henry getting away with the most blatant hand ball in football history, Meath have one foot in the doorway to Div. 1 of the National Football League following this ballsy victory over Tyrone at Croke Park. Every one of us aspires to start anything…
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Meath’s NFL and NHL fixtures confirmed in full
To look at Meath’s finalised fixture last in both football and hurling ahead of the commencement of the 2026 National Leagues is to endorse long held suspicions that upper echelons of the GAA couldn’t give a toss about fans. Aside from their hard earned readies, that is. The following may not go down well in…
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Oh Kevin, go hibernate in a bag of sugar
As a newly diagnosed diabetic I can’t believe the above headline has had to be produced, but it was the first thing that came to mind having digested Kevin McStay’s remarks regarding David Clifford in the aftermath of last Sunday’s Allianz FL Div. 1 final. Where, for the umpteenth time and then some, the green…
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Sobering Saturday underlines it’s tough at the top
Derek Thompson, arguably the most recognisable horse racing anchor/presenter over the past few decades, once drew the ire of Ruby Walsh when, after the latter had just finished second in the Cheltenham Gold Cup aboard the legendary Kauto Star – to his Paul Nicholls teammate Denman. Now, I will admit that, to me, it was…
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Greville recalibrates in attempt to bloom against the Lilies
Johnny Greville has made wholesale changes to the Meath Senior Hurling team ahead of Saturday’s Allianz NHL Div. 2 promotion shoot out against high flying Kildare in Trim. No more than our lady footballers against Kerry, the green and gold stickmen will be hoping to redress a negatively lopsided recent record against their floury opponents.…
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Eventually the elastic has to snap
Charlie Ennis*, Brendan McKeon, Adam O’Connor, Kyle Donnelly, Padraig O’Hanrahan, Eamonn Og O’Donnchadh, Ethan Devine, Shane Whitty,Stephen T. Morris and Adam Gannon. That’s just off the top of my head. There may be more. The above list? Those who were central tenets of the Meath senior hurling panel over the last couple of seasons who…
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Cheltenham – Day 2 2025
1.20: TURNERS NOVICE HURDLE The New Lion has been one of the talking horses of the current jump season, and in fairness with good reason as, apart from being unbeaten in his career to date, his victory in the Challow Hurdle in Newbury was his biggest step forward to date with said contest being a…
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We mightn’t be the A-Team but we’re on the move…
MEATH… 0-24 DOWN… 1-18 The iconic John ‘Hanibal’ Smith character in the A-Team was renowned for regularly proclaiming that he “Love(d) it when a plan comes together”, and it’s not hard to imagine similar sentiments being expressed in the Meath dressing room and around the camp after Robbie Brennan’s charges recorded a perhaps mildly surprising…
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Returning Regan right on time to rescue Royals
MEATH… 2-12 DONEGAL… 1-14 Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Meath hurling folk were left to ponder what they were missing last term as three points in injury time from the outstanding Jack Regan got Johnny Greville’s tenure away to a winning beginning in wintry Trim. A trademark coralling of possession, powerful run and bullet…
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There’s no instruction manual for captaincy
It’s funny, the things that pop into your mind when looking for solace. Actually, that’s not the term. It’s more reassurance. Hope. I’m sure, like me, there were plenty of people a tad surprised at Robbie Brennan’s nomination of Eoghan Frayne and Ciaran Caulfield as captain and vice captain respectively for his first campaign working…