Tag: BBC Northern Ireland
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Monaghan’s O’Connell vacates inter county street
Rory Beggan and Jack McCarron are edging ever closer to being the last men standing from Monaghan’s bountiful era of the early 2010s. The perhaps double edged status comes about after former All Star Karl O’Connell became the latest decorated warrior from that era to inform manager Gabriel Bannigan his race at the highest level…
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Selections for Down Royal – Mar. 17th 2025
1.52: WALK ON THE BEACH (JOHN GLEESON (3)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.27: TIMMY TUESDAY – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.02: CHER TARA – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.37: FAVORI DE CHAMPDOU (DANNY GILLIGAN/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.12: LISTENTILLITELLYA – EW – (ANNA MCGUINNESS (7)/TOM GIBNEY) 4.47: BIG INTEREST (BARRY O’NEILL/DAVID CHRISTIE) 5.22: ECHOING SILENCE (JOHN GLEESON (3)/HENRY…
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The good and the shaky of Derry
These are strange times in the sporting world. We have GAA Championships being played at a ludicrous time of the year, new fangled pundits giving it a No Country For Old Men feel, telling us the most basic and best way of playing Gaelic football is wrong, and old men taking on jobs when they…