Tag: Christy Ring

  • Thanks ‘Hoggy’ the pleasure has been all ours

    Thanks ‘Hoggy’ the pleasure has been all ours

    I’ve no connection to Co Cork. Save for being transported there while still in the Moses Basket because my sister was competing in athletics in The Mardyke. Also competing on same ‘card’ that day was one G. Geraghty (Kentstown AC). Isn’t it funny the way the wheels of life turn? Other than that, the other…

  • Morris misses out on trip overseas

    Morris misses out on trip overseas

    Having had to depart last week’s victory over Mayo early due to injury, Stephen Morris unfortunately misses Sunday’s Christy Ring Cup Round two encounter in which Meath head to McGovern Park in Ruislip to take on London. The Blackhall Gaels clubman is replaced by Nicky Potterton of Kildalkey and while it’s the only alteration in…

  • Rebel leader with a cause guides the troops home

    Rebel leader with a cause guides the troops home

    Cork… 1-37 Kilkenny… 1-32 For a good few years, the 1994 meeting of Offaly and Limerick was beyond compare as the greatest game of hurling the one seeing eye has ever taken in. Thereafter, Kilkenny’s spells of dominance and breakthroughs for Clare and Wexford were momentous occasions in their own right, but in terms of…

  • Selections for Wexford – March 20th 2021

    Selections for Wexford – March 20th 2021

    1.20: REGARDE (BARRY O’NEILL/COLIN BOWE) 1.55: ZAKAROV – EW – (SIMON CAVANAGH (7)/COLIN MCKEEVER) 2.30: HANS GRUBER (EOIN O’BRIEN (7)/JAMES MOTHERWAY) 3.05: MISS TEMPO (DAVY ROCHE (5)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.40: CROSSGALES OPHELIA – EW – (BENNY WALSH (7)/BENNY WALSH) 4.15: EYRE SQUARE (JOEY DUNNE (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.50: JEREMY CENTRAL (EOIN O’BRIEN (7)/CIARAN FENNESSEY)

  • Sports Direct Heading To Cork

    BY SUSAN KIERNAN No doubt that money is the biggest talking point in GAA these days…. but does it really help you win trophies? Well Cork has been handed a huge sponsorship deal to see if thats true. CORK GAA has agreed terms with sports retail giant Sports Direct for around €2million to replace Chill…