Tag: Big Red Bench
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Selections for Cork – July 25th 2025
5.05: PINTS IN PEACE (BEN COEN/DANIEL MCLOUGHLIN) 5.37: KANSAS (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 6.12: RED EVOLUTION – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 6.45: WASHINGTON STREET (GARY CARROLL/GER LYONS) 7.20: ZARAGOZA – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 7.55: SONORAN (GARY CARROLL/GER LYONS) 8.30: WHAT’S NEW (ANDREW J. SLATTERY/ANDY SLATTERY)
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Selections for Cork – June 13th 2025
4.52: HAVANNA ANNA (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 5.25: PINAR DEL RIO – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/KIERAN COTTER) 5.59: KILMOOD SUSAN (SHANE FOLEY/DAN MURPHY) 6.34: MAGNUM FORCE (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 7.09: BOLD OPTIMIST – EW – (BEN COEN/DAN MCLOUGHLIN) 7.44: BUBBLE GUM (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 8.15: TILANI – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD)
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A little bit of history as evolving Meath break new ground
MEATH… 1-13 CORK… 0-12 The last time this writer can recall rain of such torrential proportions falling in Pairc Tailteann was on the occasion of Colm O’Rourke’s last outing for Meath on the home sod. The first round of the Leinster SFC of 1995. Now read on… So bad was it that day that Westmeath…
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Selections for Cork – May 20th 2025
5.15: ROGUE LEGEND (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 5.50: JORGE ALVARES (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 6.25: CARRIGAN’S GROVE – EW – (GARY CARROLL/PAT FLYNN) 6.50: TWOTOLOSE – W/O FAV – (BEN COEN/DANIEL MCLOUGHLIN) 7.20: HIGHTIMEYOUWON (JACK KEARNEY/STEPHEN THORNE) 7.50: TSWALU (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 8.20: GARDONE – EW – (BILLY LEE/ERIC MCNAMARA)
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Selections for Cork – Sept. 11th 2024
3.45: REBEL DIAMOND (BILLY LEE/NATALIA LUPINI) 4.20: MONTPELLIER GREEN – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.55: HEART OF DARKNESS (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 5.25: GOLDMOYNE (RONAN WHELAN/TIM DOYLE) 5.55: LOR’S GIRL – EW – (JAMIE POWELL (3)/RODGER SWEENEY) 6.25: HAPPIEST (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 6.55: RUBIES FROM BURMA (BILLY LEE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 7.25: ALESSIA FERNANDA –…
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Selections for Cork – Aug. 5th 2024
2.05: AURORA VEGA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.35: DISCO DANCER – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.05: FAST FELIX (TIARNAN POWER-ROCHE (7)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 3.35: ONEFORTHEDITCH (SIMON TORRENS/EAMONN GALLAGHER) 4.05: OUR GIRL SAL – EW – (JAKE COEN (3)/PETER FAHEY) 4.35: BEACON EDGE (CARL MILLAR (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.05: LIBERATED LIGHT – EW – (JOHN GLEESON (5)/J. E.…
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Selections for Tipperary – Jul. 2nd 2024
1.33: THECOMPANYSERGEANT (DONAGH MEYLER/DENIS HOGAN) 2.03: GREAT BEAR (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.33: LIKABLE CHANCER – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN (3)/DANNY HOWARD) 3.03: ROBIN DE ROOST – EW – (AILEEN O’SULLIVAN (7)/TOM GIBNEY) 3.33: KILMURRAY JJ (KIERAN CALLAGHAN (2*)/TERENCE O’BRIEN) 4.03: JUDICIEUCE ALLEN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.35: WINDING RIVER – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/OLIVER MCKIERNAN)…
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Selections for Cork – May 10th 2024
4.05: CAPTAIN GALLAGHER – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 4.40: HEART OF DARKNESS – EW – (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 5.15: MONASTERBOICE (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.50: CHEERS AGAIN – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/PAUL FLYNN) 6.25: SHIGAR – EW – (JAMES RYAN/BILL DURKAN) 7.00: PSALM (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 7.35: LADY DORIS (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 8.10: QUESTION…
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Experimental Royals lose out to locals on poignant day
MEATH… 1-09 CORK… 3-12 Strip away the fact that no team likes losing any match – let alone after undertaking a road trip as that completed by the visitors to Pairc Ui Chaoimh on Saturday – and, essentially, the result didn’t matter. The poignance of the occasion remembering a unique, iconic sporting legend will be…
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Don’t Panic! Corporal Jones promoted to Captain!
“Permission to speak, Sir?” was how the excitable Lance Corporal Jack Jones would prevail on the often mithered Captain Mainwaring to allow him go off on one of his meandering rambles, urging calm by imploring all and sundry to “Don’t Panic”! even though he was doing the polar opposite of his own advice himself. If…