Tag: Anthony Moyles

  • Transfers often leave players stuck between two stools

    Transfers often leave players stuck between two stools

    It was learnt a long time ago that communication via text message or WhatsApp or email or online forums can be tricky business. Leave aside issues like predictive text or space contraints, from personal experience, the biggest drawback to communication in such ways is an inability to display or convey context or emotion to your…

  • Genoa or Pairc Tailteann or Kilbride – it’s all the same

    Genoa or Pairc Tailteann or Kilbride – it’s all the same

    KILBRIDE…0-20 CASTLETOWN…1-16 “David O’Leary of Arsenal…This kick could decide it all…Yes! We’re there.” George Hamilton’s immortal utterance on the midweek afternoon during which the nation did indeed hold its breath in the midst of the penalty shootout between Ireland and Romania at the 1990 World Cup in Genoa, Italy. . Even the haymaking stopped. It…

  • Meath Football Championships Update

    Meath Football Championships Update

    And breathe! That was some weekend of club championship action in the Royal County. In the interest of fairness and transparency, it will be stated that, due to having to deal with some very trying personal circumstances, I was unable to get to any of the matches, but, thanks to the media miracles that are…

  • The mirror houses the sternest jury

    The mirror houses the sternest jury

    At the outset, let me be very clear here – when you only win one game out of three, two of which were against teams who failed to rise a gallop last season, you can really blame nobody but yourself. When you have parity at worst going down the stretch in the two defeats and…

  • Regional Championships ready for the off

    Regional Championships ready for the off

    The Brady’s Skoda sponsored Regional Football Championships are set to thrown in next midweek and anticipation of their second staging is growing with team managements and fixtures confirmed. In a change from last year’s arrangements when all matches in the Regional Championships took place in Dunganny, this time they will actually live up to their…

  • O’Leary makes his point as Kilbride shut down Europe

    O’Leary makes his point as Kilbride shut down Europe

    Kilbride (Meath)…0-13 Amsterdam (Europe)…0-12 Davy O’Leary’s pointed penalty in the seventh minute of second half injury time got Kilbride over the line in their Leinster Club Championship debut after the near 70 minutes of action in Ashbourne were spent in strenuous negotiations with their EU counterparts. Leo Turley’s team were quickly into their stride, as…

  • Moyles and Ronan to assist at Regionals

    Moyles and Ronan to assist at Regionals

    Brady’s Garage have come on board as sponsors for the Meath Regional Football Championships, details for which were announced earlier this week. Last year’s inaugural incarnation of the competition – in which teams compete for the Richie Barry Cup – was extremely well received by clubs, players and fans alike with – fittingly – the…

  • Underage proposals are well intentioned but pointed in the wrong direction

    Underage proposals are well intentioned but pointed in the wrong direction

    Back in the day when lads of my own age were involved in GAA at Juvenile level – and for decades before that probably – it wasn’t uncommon for a mentor from one of the competing teams to step in as referee. As when anybody takes up the whistle they are of course admired and…

  • Another go at solving the unanswerable question

    Another go at solving the unanswerable question

    With Guest Contributor Paraic Farrelly (@FarrellyParaic1 on Twitter) The more things change, the more they stay the same. Laois defeating Meath in the first round of the 1992 Leinster SFC is as fresh in the mind today as the shock was when it happened. To an impressionable 11-year-old, this wasn’t supposed to happen. For the…