Tag: Connacht SFC
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Humble Messiah O’Mahony’s greatness lay in his quiet approach
Joe Brolly tells a story about the late former Derry manager Eamonn Coleman pulling a newspaper cutting out of his back pocket minutes before the team were due to take the field for a crunch Ulster SFC encounter. The cutting was an ‘article’ in which a player – possibly Tony Scullion but I can’t swear…
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You don’t pay for a cow’s silage when ordering a litre of milk!
The thing that surprised me most was the fact that it took a very open, honest interview with Wexford legend Tom Dempsey for me to catch onto and agree with the point he was making. To go forward with this production we must first go back. What is probably more years than any of us…
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New York leave Leitrim on the wrong side of history
Start spreading the news, they’ve finally done it. After scaring the living daylights out of several teams over the years, the New York footballers recorded their first ever Connacht SFC victory in the early hours of Sunday morning. Nobody can say it hasn’t been coming. Diaspora from this part of the world can be very…
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Selections for Galway – July 26th 2022
5.10: TELECON – EW – (RICKY DOYLE/MARK FAHEY) 5.40: WESTERN COWBOY – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.10: ANGELS FEATHER – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 6.40: SALTONSTALL – EW – (CIAN MACREDMOND (5)/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS) 7.15: BUTTERFLY ISLAND (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 7.50: EARLS – EW – (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 8.20: BLACKPOINT – EW –…
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Being old fashioned might become the norm!
Fr Dougal is trapped on the explosive milk float, Ted has the lads from the neighbouring island over to help come up with a plan to rescue the dimwitted Curate. After all sorts of tomfoolery, it finally dawned on some of them to put a brick on the accelarator. Enabling Dougal to get off the…
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Could ‘New Look’ Mayo be viable dark horses?
A week on and around the dinner table this evening the discussion was still about the short spell a week ago when it appeared Meath might, just might, rock the football world. Alas it wasn’t to be, but as one national media outlet put it in the aftermath of the match that Meath’s valiant effort…
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Competitive imbalance doing the game a disservice
Blaming Dublin for all of what ails Gaelic football became something of a hobby horse for a while. Which propagated the hideous notion that dividing those who represent the capital would somehow diminish the ferocity of the marauding force. Bull. A two-headed monster would be far more difficult to slay than a lone wolf. Apart…
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DriveThru Sports Weekly – Ep. 8 (Plus Extras)
Firstly ladies and gents, my sincere apologies for the length it has taken me to get another piece up in this here arena! The initial intention was to have the usual variety of sporting topics herein. However, whether by accident or design, I ended up sticking solely to the appearances of Pat Gilroy and Andy…
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A different flavour to Mayo but they’re still too generous
“There won’t be a cow milked in Clare for a week” is surely one of the most famous lines ever uttered during a sports commentayy in this country. So much so that it is regularly trotted out in the most ill-fitting of scenarios going. The quip has aged much better than he who spoke the…