Tag: Christy Ring Cup
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Disappointment lessened by a garnish of context
When the Meath senior hurlers got within a half dozen points of an Offaly side who the previous September had been beaten by Clare in the Liam Mac Carthy Cup Final and Kilmessan’s Anton O’Neill was awarded RTE’s Man Of The Match – and especially with the Royal County having already defeated the Faithful and…
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A rising tide might carry all boats but some need life jackets
When steadily hurtling towards a fourth decade of being enveloped in sport at a level which far exceeds fandom, you do begin to think you’ve seen all there is to see. The good, the bad and the ugly, as the original Mr Eastwood might put it. Thank you very much to him! That said, there…
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One more role of the dice
Defeat to home side Wicklow in Echelon Park, Aughrim last weekend took Meath’s Christy Ring Cup ambitions out of their own hands, but to have any chance of maintaining their interest therein, the must get the better of a typically obstinate Donegal side at St Loman’s Park, Trim at 1.30pm tomorrow (Saturday). Manager Johnny Greville…
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Two changes for hurlers ahead of Aughrim assignment
The Meath team to take on Wicklow in their next Christy Ring Cup assignment at Echelon Park in Aughrim tomorrow shows two alterations from that which ground out a gutsy success against Derry two weeks ago. Trim’s David Murtagh and Cian Rogers from county kingpins Ratoath replace James Kelly and Mikey Cole respectively. Meanwhile, in…
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Early Cole goals keep Meath on a roll
MEATH…3-17 DERRY…1-22 Whoever the odds compilers are on GAA matches are, they must be from some county that Meath stuffed in times past. Furthermore, they must be perfectly balanced with a chip on both shoulders, because the manner in which they have chalked up matches involving Meath teams of late has been nothing short of…
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Greville goes for a half dozen changes
Meath manager Johnny Greville and his fellow mentors have opted to make a half dozen changes to the side which disappointingly lost out to London last week ahead of tomorrow’s Christy Ring Cup second round encounter against Tyrone at Trim. The green and gold will be hoping to repeat their NHL victory of earlier in…
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Meath hurling reeling as Bulfin bids adieu
Meath’s preparations for the forthcoming Joe McDonagh Cup campaign have been tossed into turmoil with the shock announcement that manager Seoirse Bulfin has left his role with immediate effect. The native of Bruff, Co Limerick cited “Personal reasons” being behind his abrupt departure. During his time at the helm, the Royal County stickmen captured the…
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Regan and Costello claim individual awards
Runai Coiste Na Mi, Ciaran Flynn, posted a photo from the GAA awards ceremony this (Friday) evening showing the 13 Royal County representatives honoured on the night denoting the successes enjoyed by our Senior hurlers and footballers during the past season. For the hurlers, that meant accomplishing the noteworthy double of achieving promotion in the…
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An excellent eight recognised after terrific Tailteann triumph
Footballers join Christy Ring heroes already honoured this week Eight members of Meath’s Tailteann Cup winning team have been selected on the Team Of The Year for what I like to think of as the All Ireland Intermediate Football Championship. No doubt, the knockers and begrudgers will sneer at such a thing being celebrated but,…
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Don’t try to figure it out just admire it
Limerick…0-30 Kilkenny…2-15 Any hurling aficionados among you might recognise the above headline. It has been here before. On the occasion Meath defeated Antrim for the first time in the Christy Ring Cup Final some years back before a re-fixture was ordered over some cock up with the full time score. But Meath were so good…