Tag: Connacht Tribune
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Selections for Galway – July 29th 2025
5.05: EMILY LOVE – EW – (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.37: JET SETTING JIM – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/JOHN QUEALLY) 6.07: EMILIA EARHART (JACK CLEARY (5)/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 6.40: ORANDI – EW – (JIMMY DALTON (10)/TONY MARTIN) 7.15: COLLECTING COIN (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 7.50: APACHE OUTLAW – EW – (SAM COEN (7)/ADO MCGUINNESS) 8.20: SI SENOR –…
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Selections for Galway – July 28th 2025
5.10: DAVY CROCKETT (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.40: TELL US THIS – EW – (EOIN STAPLES (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 6.10: MASABAN – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 6.40: COMFORT ZONE – EW – (DEREK O’CONNOR/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.15: AVATRICE (LUKE MCATEER/DAVID MARNANE) 7.50: KILMEADEN (PADDY HARNETT (5)/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 8.20: GOMEZ ADAMS – EW – (ADAM RYAN (5)/ANDY SLATTERY)
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Big Gally Jnr is on point to win a classic
MEATH… 2-17 GALWAY… 2-16 Inches. How often have you heard it quoted, here and in other places? Al Paccino’s Inches speech from Any Given Sunday. Well, lads and lassies, it’s about to get another run out. Before getting into the nuts and bolts of that though, it is surely a gross indictment of those behind…
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Selections for Galway – Jul. 31 2024
4.50: MY GREAT MATE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.25: SEA MUSIC – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 6.00: ENFRANCHISE (DANNY MULLINS/JOHN HANLON) 6.40: ALFHEIM – EW – (DAVID DOYLE (7)/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 7.10: AMIRITE – EW – (SAM TWISTON-DAVIES/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 7.45: MONASTERBOICE (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 8.15:HALLOWED STAR – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/JOHN HANLON)
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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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Selections for Galway – Aug. 3rd 2023
2.10: JUNGLE PROSE – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.45: HERCULE DE SEUIL (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.20: SARAQAEL – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/PETER FAHEY) 3.55: KEEP IN TOUCH – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 4.30: WHAT PATH (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.05: PARTY CENTRAL – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLOTT) 5.40: GRAPPA NONINO – EW…
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Sideline Cuts 28 – Sometimes the most obvious answer is the right one
In the dark old days of the National Leagues before each division (rightly) was seen as a separate competition which their own Final, trophy and the like, the knockout stages went in such a way that whoever qualified from Div. 1 played whatever team came out of the fourth tier. Thus, it went that whoever…