Tag: Castletown
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Selections for Dundalk – Dec. 5th 2025
5.00: PRAIRIE GIRL (COLIN KEANE/DANNY MURPHY) 5.30: ABBOTSFORD – EW – (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD) 6.00: INSTANT APPEAL (JACK KEARNEY (3)/STEPHEN THORNE) 6.30: BEAT THE DEVIL (JACK KEARNEY (3)/PADDY MAGEE) 7.00: FERRYBANK (BILLY LEE/TED WALSH) 7.30: SEOLA (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 8.00: SOMEONE’S WISH – EW – (WAYNE HASSETT/GORDON ELLIOTT) 8.30: GAUCHER (COLIN KEANE/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Dunboyne make it three from three
St Peter’s, Dunboyne..2-18Killary Emmets…1-13 It was a case of exactly as it said in the above headline as, despite fielding a much changed line up from their previous two outings, Dunboyne made it three Friday nights, three wins, in this U-19 FC encounter at Castletown. Their prior victories over St Patrick’s and Ratoath meant that…
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Selections for Naas – Aug. 25th 2024
1.22: MIDNIGHT HORIZON – EW – (BILLY LEE/WILLIE MCCREERY) 1.57: REVOKE – EW – (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 2.32: RION RUBETTE (SHANE FOLEY/MICHAEL BUTLER) 3.07: FIREBIRD (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 3.42: LADY DAAR – EW – (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.17: DABOYA – EW – (JACK KEARNEY/DERMOT WELD) 4.52: NEWFIRE – EW – (PADDY HARNETT/RAY CODY) 5.27: SEE…
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Moyles and Ronan to assist at Regionals
Brady’s Garage have come on board as sponsors for the Meath Regional Football Championships, details for which were announced earlier this week. Last year’s inaugural incarnation of the competition – in which teams compete for the Richie Barry Cup – was extremely well received by clubs, players and fans alike with – fittingly – the…
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Poignant double for Donoghue as gentleman Andy remembered
Local jockey Keith Donoghue recorded a poignant double on Saturday afternoon’s Navan card. The rider sported a black armband in memory of his grand uncle Andy Lynch who was laid to rest this afternoon. Dunsany’s Andy was himself a highly distinguished and universally popular member of the local horse fraternity. Through his role as whipper-in…
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Chaotic catastrophe in the life of Brian a betrayal of players everywhere
On several occasions in the not too distant past, this corner has enviously pined that one’s own club would be operating at a similar level to the horribly titled ‘Super Clubs’. Without getting into the nuts and bolts of what affords the clubs in question the dubious honour, at a very basic level, it refers…
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Schoolboy marks the half century in style
Having done the one job for a half century, you would either be an expert at whatever discipline it happened to be or completely fed up with it. There’s no way Noel Meade could be dissatisfied with the 50th anniversary of producing equine excellence from his Tu Va base in Castletown, Co Meath. Having belatedly…
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Time doesn’t stand still so the only option is to Move With It
The victory of Drumbear in the Downpatrick Bumper of March 21st hardly made any headlines. Even allowing for the continued ascent of the winning trainer John McConnell and rider Ben Harvey. But for another reason it was a seminal contest regarding the current state of Irish racing. Now read on… Finishing in sixth place that…