Tag: Clonard GFC
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A change between the posts
Manager Joe Cowley has made one to the team which defeated Longford two weeks ago ahead of tonight’s Leinster MFC last eight encounter against Offaly at Pairc Tailteann. In what is, in fairness, a rare occurrence, Seneschalstown’s Charlie Finnegan takes over between the posts with Kian Campbell of Clonard making way. The young Royals will…
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The old cliche points the way as river men make floodlit hay
BRU NA BOINNE… 2-09 MOYFENRAGH… 0-10 If it aint broke don’t fix it. Using a cliche to defend the use of cliches is possibly the most Irish thing going. But it literally was a case of goals winning games as Bru Na Boinne got their Regional Football Championship challenge up and running in front of…
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Plunkett to skipper the Good Ship Royal forward
Clonard clubman Jason Plunkett was this evening (Monday) elected as the new Chairperson of the Meath Co Board at their annual convention which took place in Navan O’Mahonys GAA. Plunkett, who is, or at least to the best of my knowledge, an efficient and popular referee whilst, in more recent times, has served the county…
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Longwood Law abides as Moyfenragh advance
MOYFENRAGH… 1-17 AN TUAISCEART… 1-10 Life taught me a long time ago never to judge a book by its cover. Sure my own journey about this big old ball is living proof of the futility of such a practice. Now read on… With no disrespect intended to anybody, it would be ventured a few of…
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Not many scores but no shortage of bite either
Boyne Valley… 1-07 Moyfernagh… 1-02 My late father was of the opinion that a 0-0 draw in a soccer match was the most boring purgatory in the sporting world. An easy enough summation to concur with but easily deconstructed too with a little more nuanced analysis. Granted, an occasion where both teams park the bus,…
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Things can always be worse
One would almost feel guilty writing anything about actual sport at the moment considering the unspeakable tragedy and grief which has befallen Clonoulty/Rossmore, Tipperary and the GAA community at large following the passing of 24-year-old Dillon Quirke during a Tipperary SHC encounter at Semple Stadium on Friday evening. Only weeks ago, the young defender was…