Tag: Artane

  • Land of minnows and millions – Part I

    Land of minnows and millions – Part I

    “Ah here now, before you start onto me about the state of our dressing rooms, what about that ould hut ye had with the leaky roof”. It’s the late summer or early autumn of 1996. The buzz is back in Meath football as Sean Boylan’s side hurtle towards what must be regarded as the county’s…

  • Never mind the bullsh** – treat yourself to a night with Christy

    Never mind the bullsh** – treat yourself to a night with Christy

    At some point either towards the end of my ‘career’ in primary school and in the early stages of life at the next level, I took quite the chiding – and absolutely not all of it was light hearted – from my contemporaries regarding my musical preferences. The bugbear seemingly being that I was too…