Tag: Christy Moore

  • Selections for Galway – Aug. 4th 2024

    Selections for Galway – Aug. 4th 2024

    1.50: BYTHESAMETOKEN – EW – (TOM HARNEY (4*) /ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 2.20: DORAN’S LAW – EW – (TIARNAN POWER-ROCHE (7)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 2.55: MONBEG PARK – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/SEAN DOYLE) 3.30: THE DASHER CONWAY – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/GILLIAN CALLAGHAN) 4.00: PHYSIQUE – EW – (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/MICKY FENTON) 4.30: RIGHT AND TRUE (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.00:…

  • Never mind the bullsh** – treat yourself to a night with Christy

    Never mind the bullsh** – treat yourself to a night with Christy

    At some point either towards the end of my ‘career’ in primary school and in the early stages of life at the next level, I took quite the chiding – and absolutely not all of it was light hearted – from my contemporaries regarding my musical preferences. The bugbear seemingly being that I was too…

  • Only a game? It is in my a**e

    Only a game? It is in my a**e

    On the morning after his brother Tom was laid to rest, da met his namesake the Meath manager in the shop. Meath were playing Dublin in a ‘regulation’ National League match in Croker later that day. Initial inclinations here were for there to be no family representation in GAA HQ that afternoon. Until the herbalist…

  • Johnny Sullivan Snr – R. I. P.

    Johnny Sullivan Snr – R. I. P.

    With profound sadness, I have just learned of the passing of former Meath GAA underage football mentor John (Johnny) Sullivan. May he rest in peace. A bastion of the St Patrick’s club in Stamullen, Johnny Sullivan was a legend when I was growing up, if you know what I mean. As a mentor with numerous…

  • Selections for Kilbeggan – May 14th 2021

    Selections for Kilbeggan – May 14th 2021

    4.10: FAMA ET GLORIA (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.40: TRIXIE MC (KEVIN BROUDER/TOM GIBNEY) 5.10: COASTAL SOON (JACK DOYLE/PAT DOYLE) 5.40: PALM BEACH (MARK WALSH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.15: FLYING COLUMN – EW – W/O FAV – (ROBBIE POWER/MOUSE MORRIS) 6.50: THE GREAT WHITE – EW – (CONOR MAXWELL/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 7.25: BLAZER (SIMON TORRENS (3)/WILLIE MULLINS) 7.55: SONNY…

  • Dunboyne’s Vikki Wall is the 2020 TG4 Intermediate Players’ Player of the Year

    The Meath Ladies shone brightest as the award ceremonies for the 2020 season contiuned over the weekend, with seven members of Eamonn Murray’s side making the Intermediate Team of the Year list. To put extra icing on an already sweet leftover Christmas cake, Dunboyne’s Vikki Wall was named the 2020 TG4 Intermediate Players’ Player of…