Tag: Boyne Valley

  • Regional Football Championship All Stars 2024

    Regional Football Championship All Stars 2024

    The third annual Meath Regional Football Championship All Star panel has been announced. Almost a week after Bru Na Boinne became the first ‘new’ outfit to lift the Richie Barry Cup after Boyne Valley had captured the first two incarnations of the competition sponsored by Brady’s Skoda and Ideal Bathrooms. Bru finding the winning cocktail…

  • Treble chasing holders get Regional Championships under way

    Treble chasing holders get Regional Championships under way

    The 2024 Brady’s Skoda Meath Regional Football Championship gets underway in the impressive surrounds of Ballinlough GFC this evening, as holders Boyne Valley go in search of a third consecutive Richie Barry Cup triumph, beginning their latest title defence against the local Lough Crew Gaels divisional outfit. Boyne manager Joe Sheridan and his fellow mentors…

  • Brady’s Skoda Regional Championship All Stars

    Brady’s Skoda Regional Championship All Stars

    The second edition of the Meath Regional Football Championship All Star selection, generously sponsored by Brady’s Skoda, has been revealed. Now read on… It would appear that, thankfully, the Regional Championship is here to stay, and the closing stages of this year’s edition did no harm in canvassing on their behalf when a late goal…

  • Marry weds Boyne to title as Richie stays at home

    Marry weds Boyne to title as Richie stays at home

    BOYNE VALLEY… 1-11 MOYFENRAGH… 0-13 A late goal from Francis Marry of the Slane club was ultimately what turned this Brady’s Skoda-sponsored Regional Football Championship Final on its head at Dunganny Sunday lunchtime. Thus ensuring the Richie Barry Cup remains in the care of Boyne Valley – who number in their rank players from Walterstown,…

  • Bowden strikes up the right Bru after a belter

    Bowden strikes up the right Bru after a belter

    BRU NA BOINNE…1-11 BOYNE VALLEY…0-14 If one was to go by team names alone, this second round Regional Football Championship encounter had all the makings of a local derby. That is to say, not much between the sides and a little bit of needle thrown in. However, geographically speaking they’re not actually that close to…

  • Tully’s three pointer sets holders on road to repeat victory

    Tully’s three pointer sets holders on road to repeat victory

    BOYNE VALLEY… 1-08 TARA… 0-09 Football in Slane is on the up once again as evidenced by the emergence of players like Tadhg Martyn and Brayden Colfer on county underage teams and the fact was underscored still further when the Louth-border club’s Matt Tully turned in an outstanding display in the opening round of the…

  • REGIONAL FOOTBALL ALL STARS

    REGIONAL FOOTBALL ALL STARS

    After a highly successful and entertaining inaugural staging of the Dioralyte Regional Football Championships in Dunganny over the past month or so, the Chosen Ones – those who caught the eye the most, who will take on Colm O’Rourke’s Meath selection at the Meath Centre Of Excellence (11am) are as follows: SEAN BRENNAN (DARNLEY/DUNDERRY) MICHAEL…

  • River men’s free running style sees them sail to success

    River men’s free running style sees them sail to success

    Boyne Valley… 2-11 Tara… 0-07 A varied and attractive style of football – something synonymous with Cathal O’Bric-trained teams – held sway as the Walterstown/Bective/Rathkenny/Slane were deserving winners of the inaugural Regional Football Championship Final in Ashbourne on Sunday. At this point, this writer would like to place on record sincere thanks to Coiste Na…

  • Out from the Valley with success they roared

    Boyne Valley…1-16 Lough Crew…1-13 They say an ounce of breeding is worth a tonne of feeding, and that certainly proved to be on the money in the second Regional Football Championship semi final at Dunganny on Tuesday evening. Now read on… For when the dust settled on this enthralling encounter in the Dioralyte sponsored competition,…

  • Not many scores but no shortage of bite either

    Not many scores but no shortage of bite either

    Boyne Valley… 1-07 Moyfernagh… 1-02 My late father was of the opinion that a 0-0 draw in a soccer match was the most boring purgatory in the sporting world. An easy enough summation to concur with but easily deconstructed too with a little more nuanced analysis. Granted, an occasion where both teams park the bus,…