Tag: #AllianzLeagueSunday

  • Meath’s ‘Summer’ journeys mapped out

    Meath’s ‘Summer’ journeys mapped out

    Competitively speaking, life under Robbie Brennan and Johnny Greville’s stewardship hasn’t even begun and already the bigger picture looms on the horizon, with Championship fixture schedules confirmed for all county teams bar the senior hurlers. Brennan’s bunch will begin their odyssey in the ‘main’ competition at home to Carlow on March 6th. Should they clear…

  • Gallagher threatens legal action over Burns email

    Gallagher threatens legal action over Burns email

    The Irish Independent are reporting that Rory Gallagher has threatened legal action if GAA President Jarlath Burns fails to withdraw the email he sent to the Naas club in Kildare pertaining to the Fermanagh native’s proposed assuming of a coaching role with the serial Lilywhite county champions. News broke on Sunday evening that Mr Gallagher…

  • Meath’s NFL Div. 2 Fixtures 2025

    Meath’s NFL Div. 2 Fixtures 2025

    Robbie Brennan will become the third consecutive Meath senior football manager to begin his tenure in the Allianz National Football League with an away fixture against Cork. And, where Colm O’Rourke got his all too brief stewardship of the county’s football fortunes off to a great start with a 3-14 to 0-19 victory in Pairc…

  • The West will be wide Awake if there are any more defections

    The West will be wide Awake if there are any more defections

    “When all beside a vigil keep, the West’s asleep, the West’s asleep”… It may now be the case that if there are many more defections – real or rumoured – from Connacht counties, they may a vigil keep in persuance of a night’s sleep. Firstly, Cian O’Neill switched from watching the sun go down on…

  • The stereotype won’t die if you keep feeding it

    The stereotype won’t die if you keep feeding it

    A late and sincerely missed friend of mine used to knock great sport out of telling what is a sizable Leitrim contingent in our locality that it took one of his people (Longford) to sing their ‘native’ song. Larry Cunningham and Lovely Leitrim. Given events in the last week or so, that little nugget of…

  • The race for Richie is under starter’s orders (updated 11.40am 22/10/24)

    The race for Richie is under starter’s orders (updated 11.40am 22/10/24)

    It may make me a bit of an oddball, but I tend to be a champion of matters which others belittle or ridicule. See the Railway Cup, the International Rules Series or the scandalously shafted Tommy Murphy Cup. The Brady’s Skoda-sponsored Meath Regional Football Championship is another such gem. The brainchild of Colm O’Rourke and…

  • Advantage forwards after weekend of Retro Ball

    Advantage forwards after weekend of Retro Ball

    You can bring the horses to water but you can’t make them drink. For more than a decade now, Gaeldom, myself included, have been articulating ad nauseum how pedantic, restrictive, and frankly boring snooze fest Gaelic football has become. You can blame Mickey Harte or Jim McGuinness or Eamon Ryan or Elon Musk or whoever…

  • The Railway rides again in attempt to marry the old and the new

    The Railway rides again in attempt to marry the old and the new

    We were presumably all that kid who relentlessly badgered a parent or sibling to buy us thrash food until they gave in and did it, at some stage. Well, in my case, that would probably translate as coercion to transport me to wherever there was a tractor or combine or hay turner could be seen…

  • Brennan takes on the Royal baton

    Brennan takes on the Royal baton

    BREAKING NEWS In a historic development for St Peter’s, Dunboyne, Robbie Brennan becomes the third representative of the club to hold the position of Meath senior football manager following his appointment tonight (Wednesday) on a three year term. The current Kilmacud Crokes and former Dunboyne manager – who also played for both clubs – of…

  • Shrewd operator Deeley on the ball about the brawl

    Shrewd operator Deeley on the ball about the brawl

    At the outset here, it will be admitted that I do not know Ciaran Deeley nor have I ever met him. Though in this line of business, powers of observation are the vice grips and no. 13 wrench of your toolbox. And, even without any great knowledge of the methodology of the aforementioned, it’s obvious…