Tag: Castletown GFC
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Selections for Killarney – Jul. 18th 2024
5.02: FAST FELIX (JORDAN GAINFORD/EOIN MCCARTHY) 5.32: REDWOOD QUEEN (PHILIP BYRNES (3)/CHARLES BYRNES) 6.02: ONE NIGHT STANDARD – EW – (JACK KEARNEY (2*) /GAVIN CROMWELL) 6.37: TRAMPS LIKE US – EW – (PETER SMITHERS (7)/HARRY KELLY) 7.10: THE NAME’S JOCK – EW – (JOHN GLEESON (3)/JOHN E. & T. KIELY) 7.42: HEY BOY (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE…
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Meath survive rough and tumble to advance
MEATH… 4-08 LAOIS… 1-10 Eamon Armstrong’s goal in the first of seven minutes of injury time gave the full time score a fairer reflection of Meath’s superiority – particularly in the second half – of this tempestuous Leinster U-20 FC quarter final in Ashbourne. Tempers initially frayed towards the end of normal time when Conor…
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Selections for Dundalk – Nov. 8th 2023
1.25: SUNDAY SOVREIGN (COLIN KEANE/JAMES MCAULEY) 2.00: CLONMACASH (WAYNE HASSETT (7)/NATALIA LUPINI) 2.35: PIER PRESSURE (JACK KEARNEY (5)/GER LYONS) 3.10: INTERNATIONAL LADY – EW – (JAMES RYAN (5)/KEVIN SMITH) 3.45: SKONTONOVSKI (RONAN WHELAN/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS) 4.20: MERE ACCOUNTANT – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 4.55: DOCTOR GRACE – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/CONYNGHAM LODGE) 5.25: MADS BLACK…
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What is the past and will soon become the past gone in the space of a day
Again, I find myself referring to Ireland’s greatest man of letters, Con Houlihan. Apologies if mention of the man who – as he put it himself – was born in a blizzard in December 1925 – has become a bit laboursome. It will be contended, though, that if a point retains credence, it warrants repetition.…
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Bru Na Boinne make light of numbers game but it’s all in vain
An Tuaisceart…0-12 Bru Na Boinne…0-12 Dare it be said, Bru Na Boinne’s 12 Apostles almost replicated Dublin’s unforgettable feat of annexing Sam Maguire in 1983 minus three of their troops? If not that, it could at least be mused that it’s unlikely young Moynalty official Kieran Olwell will become as (in)famous as Antrim’s John Gough…
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Johnny Cash was right about Sundays!
If you’re involved in GAA – or most likely any sport – it’s a fairly safe wager that you’ll experience more defeat than victory. In both 1997 and 2002, the number of finals Dunboyne teams lost hit double figures. Undoubtedly the most painful loss of the lot, however, was actually in the Junior Hurling Championship…