Tag: Conor Laverty
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Analysis and criticism is fine but don’t make liars of yourselves
The amazing thing was that it took until now. May 2025. When a county manager lost the head with a member of the press corps to the point of intimidation. Yes, there are certain individuals who drove buses over some very thin ice on the same road previously, but never left a crater commensurate to…
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We mightn’t be the A-Team but we’re on the move…
MEATH… 0-24 DOWN… 1-18 The iconic John ‘Hanibal’ Smith character in the A-Team was renowned for regularly proclaiming that he “Love(d) it when a plan comes together”, and it’s not hard to imagine similar sentiments being expressed in the Meath dressing room and around the camp after Robbie Brennan’s charges recorded a perhaps mildly surprising…
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Mixed emotion wintry Sundays
Adam Screeney and Rory Beggan were probably never mentioned in the same sentence previously, but such is the magic woven by the AIB All Ireland Club Championships that here we are. Now read on… There are 10,000 reasons why hurling is the greatest sport in the world, but among the most basic is it really…
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Royal templates usher in a new era
Meath… 2-13 Down… 0-14 In The Cure At Troy Seamus Heaney tells us “Hope and history rhyme”. Well, they most certainly did for Meath at Croke Park on Saturday afternoon as the county’s male senior footballers lifted a first trophy in the big field since 2010. Hopefully that will at long last extinguish dross about…
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Lannigan’s Ball one more time
“I stepped out/And I stepped in again” So begins the chorus of the breathless, brilliant Lannigan’s Ball. And it seems the most appropriate synopsis of Meath’s team selections during the Tailteann Cup campaign. Primarily because a few players – Cathal Hickey, Ronan Jones, Jack Flynn and Daithi McGowan have been involved in a revolving door…
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SIDELINE CUTS – 28
What you will read hereafter is in the above category solely due to breadth of material likely to be covered. Quite simply because there was a compulsion to write something. But not about anything in particular, if you get me. Unlike, say, last week, when a tumultuous week for Meath GAA meant things more or…
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The sum of the collective delivered by the individual parts
Meath… 1-11 Down… 1-09 Meath and Down both have very decorated chapters in the history of the GAA. From Down’s record of having only lost one All Ireland SFC final, to Meath being the last county to win the old Sam Maguire and the first to collect the new. There are further stanzas which could…
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McEntee in for Meath
James McEntee will make his first competitive start of 2023 for Meath in tomorrow’s Tailteann Cup third round encounter against Down in Parnell Park tomorrow (1P.M. T/I) as Colm O’Rourke continues his rotational policy with his charges on the cusp of knockout football once again. The Curraha clubman will lead the Royal County attack on…
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More sequels than Star Trek!
In the previous offering on this site, mention was afforded to that wonderful trilogy of motion pictures revolving around Doc and Marty McFly – Back To The Future. This time around, I’ll have to send for either 007 or Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek. However, it’s quite possible that, in relation to what you…