Tag: Colm O’Rourke
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I’d gladly clean the toilets just to feel part of it
One night what’s a long time ago now, in Brady’s of Dunboyne, which sadly is more a memory for me than the mainstay it blessedly once was, the diesel tank in this seat was a little too full. At the time, Sean Boylan’s position as Meath senior football manager was up for ratification. For so […]
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Listening to Joe Dolan is all well and good but who will benefit from his wise words?
Shortly after Westmeath were crowned the inaugural winners of the Tailteann Cup, it became known to this writer that their current Captain, Kevin Maguire, had actually played some of his underage football with St Peter’s, Dunboyne, as the family lived in the area and both his parents worked in a large place of business in […]
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A different kind of excitement
As I begin typing this, it’s 2:19am. Insomnia and a galloping mind rule the roost yet again. To completely extract the urine out of this writer, the song I can’t get out of my head is Lou Reed’s Perfect Day. Now read on… It most certainly is not. The old man not being about for […]
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BREAKING NEWS: O’Rourke to be next Meath boss
The Management Committee of Meath GAA have recommended that Colm O’Rourke be put before the County Committee for ratification as Meath Senior Football manager. The legendary former Skryne and Royal County forward has long being linked with the Meath management position, but by now many might have felt that ship had sailed. Especially given that […]
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Armagh – saving Gaelic football one long ball at a time
When Meath broke through to the big time in Gaelic football circa 1986, I was five. Not a jot is recalled of the wet day Dublin were eventually usurped, but once this corner was properly attuned to the goings on of such matters – which in truth was the following year – the importance of […]
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Selections for Sligo – May 17th 2022
5.10: KINGS VIEW – EW – (SIOBHAN RUTELEDGE (5)/PAT MCKENNA) 5.40: PRINCESS RAJ (TOM MADDEN/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 6.10: BRIDGE OF DAWN – EW – (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER) 6.40: DARK NOTE (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.10: MIRAMIS – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/SHEILA LAVERY) 7.40: ENTROPY (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 8.10: ZAYNUDIN (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN)
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Passion, enthusiasm and the knowledge to back it up
If you’ve ever been physically or emotionally invested in a sporting occasion, chances are the seminal moment in a given event may pass you by. Simply owing to being caught up in either joy or despair of whatever has just occurred. The point was made to somebody only recently that in the chaos that was […]
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Sideline Cuts – 18
LANDO SIGNS ON AS BLAME GAME RUMBLES ON It only seems like the blink of an eye ago that Max Verstappen was crowned Fomula 1 World Champion in dramatic and highly controversial circumstances, but the real life Batmobiles are being fired up again as the chequered flag prepares to fall on another season. If you […]
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Reserving the right to be confused
In the world of the GAA long ago, there was a utility player who was all the rage. He could fill in at any position from goalkeeper to left corner forward. He was the perfect manifestation of the ‘roving role’ in that he was availabe to each of the 32 counties. London and New York […]
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Selections for Thurles – Oct. 7th 2021
1.15: TIMIYRA (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD) 1.45: PLAY BY THE RULES (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER) 2.20: NOTRE BELLE BETE (CHRIS HAYES/DARREN BUNYAN) 2.55: FENOR CROSS – EW – (DONOGH O’CONNOR/JOHN MCCONNELL) 3.30: COMEDY LA VEGA – EW – (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 4.05: DALILEO – EW – (BILLY LEE/JOHN HANLON) 4.40: DUFFLE COAT (SAM EWING (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT)