Tag: Brendan Quinn
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I’ve met some folks who say that I’m a dreamer – but this is a glorious reality!
Dunboyne…1-13 Dunshaughlin/Royal Gaels…1-10 At the outset here, I must again defer to a piece of advice imparted in this direction via Ireland’s greatest man of letters, the gentle giant from Castle Island. He once wrote, in the context of his own failing health at the time that “If you have knowledge on a subject and…
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A bridge too far but our Champions will rise again
Dunboyne……0-05 Mourneabbey (Cork)…6-17 On the evening Dunboyne defeated Seneschalstown to retain their Meath LSFC title, the point was made here that our ladies – and many others besides them – were inspired by the Yellow Furze club to go on and emulate them. There is no apparent reason why a similar scenario cannot play out…
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Hunger the best sauce as Royals are Queens Of Leinster
Dunboyne…2-11 Foxrock/Cabinteely (Dublin)…2-08 Don’t try and figure it out, just enjoy it. However, for clarity and context, let it be pointed out once more that it was only in 2014 St Peter’s re-affiliated an adult Ladies Football team. Now, they stand crowned as one of the four best sides in the country at the highest…
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History repeated in more ways than one
Dunboyne…3-13 Tinahely (Wicklow)…1-18 Not only did lightening strike twice in terms of the rudiments of today’s game, events of four seasons ago were re-visited as Dunboyne just edged through to the Leinster Club SFC Final after an extra time epic at the Wicklow venue this afternoon. When last the two clubs crossed paths in the…
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Inspired by the best to emulate them
Dunboyne……3-23 Seneschalstown……1-09 During the early part of the summer of 1990, myself, ma, da and my eldest brother Des were on holiday in Co Kerry. It was the ideal time for a break, wheels carrying yours truly had just started rocking up at GAA matches. Meath had just won the National Football League – defeating…