1.25: LARK IN THE MORNIN (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.00: SHEILA (SEAN BOWEN (7)/DENIS HOGAN) 2.35: WESTERNESSE (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 2.10: THE BLUE PANTHER – EW – (GARY CARROLL/MICK MULVANY) 2.45: BUTTERFLY GARDEN – EW – (JESSICA O’GORMAN (10)/KEVIN PRENDERGAST) 3.20: FLYING DOLPHIN (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 4.55: THE VERY MAN – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON)… Read More Selections for Listowel – Sept. 22nd 2022
2.35: CARRIGMOORNA QUEEN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.05: NEPHIN BEG (JORDAN GAINFORD/SEAN DOYLE) 3.35: PRAIRIE DANCER – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.05: CHURCHTOWN RUBY – EW – (JAMES KIRWAN/DECLAN QUEALLY) 4.35: ROCK ON SEAMIE – EW – (TOMMY BRETT (7)/RAY HACKETT) 5.05: GRAND ROI (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.35: BUKHILL (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
Kerry…1-14 Dublin…1-13 If something looks too good to be true, it generally is. Against that, however, the simplest and most obvious explanation is indeed often the correct one. Such was the case in Croke Park on Sunday last. The meeting of Kerry and Dublin was indeed the game of the season, so far, or, for… Read More Left wondering how Con would have portrayed it all
3.55: KARKIYNA (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 4.30: LEVEL PITCH (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER) 5.00: DROMBEG DUKE – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/EOIN MCCARTHY) 5.30: MISE LE MEAS (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 6.00: BARRETSTOWN – EW – (CHARLIE O’DWYER (7)/CONOR O’DWYER) 6.30: WORDSWORTH (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 7.00: FREE ROYAL – EW – (ROBBIE COLGAN/SHEILA LAVERY) 7.30: BREFFNI GIRL – EW… Read More Selections for Gowran – April 7th 2022
ANNOUNCEMENT It gives me great pleasure and no little pride to announce that my second book Rolling Down Memory Lane is hot off the presses and available to pre-order now. This book is the product of the first Covid-19 Lockdown of March 2020. With the world at a standstill, something had to be done to… Read More ROLLING DOWN MEMORY LANE
Recalling the best, worst and funniest of one of the GAA’s greatest rivalries
No secret has ever been made of the fact that being able to write about sport is the nearest I will ever get to filling the void left by not being able to partake therein. Especially in more recent years when being involved in team management was no longer an option. Now read on… The… Read More Pride in whatever shade it is
1.35: DARRENS DIAMOND – W/O FAV – (AMBROSE MCCURTIN/ROBERT MURPHY) 2.05: DIGBY – EW – (ADAM SHORT/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 2.35: PYTHION (DONIE MCINERNEY/MICK WINTERS) 3.05: LOST OSCAR (SIMON TORRENS/PETER FAHEY) 3.35: MINDSMADEUP – EW – (LUKE DEMPSEY/MATT SMITH) 4.05: SAMCRO (BARRY BROWNE (3)/DENISE FOSTER*) 4.35: WARRIORS TALE – EW – (MAXINE O’SULLIVAN (5)/EUGENE O’SULLIVAN) 5.05: BARDENSTOWN… Read More Selections for Listowel – June 7th 2021
You’ve often heard mention of Maurice Healy’s wonderful documentary Waiting For Houlihan which was basically the mountain of a man from the mountains of Kerry telling his own story in his own words. Interspersed therein also, mind you, were tributes to the great man from such contemporaries as Tony Meade of The Kerryman and Eoghan… Read More Closing the stable door when the ginnit has long bolted