Tag: David Power

  • Royal rethink required as duo depart

    Royal rethink required as duo depart

    No doubt there will be players who weren’t part of the Meath senior football panel this season will have caught the eye of Colm O’Rourke and his fellow mentors thus far in the local club championships and – if they aren’t called in directly – they will surely be aiming to utilise the Regional Championships…

  • No Gray areas as Meath take care of business

    No Gray areas as Meath take care of business

    Meath… 1-19 Tipperary… 0-11 In many ways, Meath were on a hiding to nothing this evening. They were expected to win and win well. Having done so, it’s very much a case of taking care of business. If they hadn’t, it would’ve been a case of wigs on the Fair Green. Doubtless, when the locals…

  • Three new faces as Tailteann takes off

    Three new faces as Tailteann takes off

    Goalkeeper Sean Brennan, midfielder Conor Gray and corner forward Aaron Lynch will make their Championship debuts for Meath in tomorrow’s Tailteann Cup opener against Tipperary in Navan. Dunderry’s Brennan was a member of a successful county Minor side a few years ago and made his competitive debut earlier in the year in the O’Byrne Cup.…

  • Meath face familiar foes as ‘normal’ appears on the horizon

    Meath face familiar foes as ‘normal’ appears on the horizon

    It will be a case of familiarity prompting caution when Meath take on either Longford or Carlow in their opening joust of the 2021 Leinster SFC. The road map for a return to the playing fields became a modicum clearer this week with the staggered roll out of the Championship draws in both football and…

  • A way forward based on continuity

    There was much conjecture surrounding the ‘debate’ involving Pat Gilroy and Andy McEntee thrown onto The Sunday Game in a scatter-gun manner at the end of last year. To call it a debate, though, would be to deploy it with the utmost linguistic licence. What it actually amounted to was a party political broadcast on…

  • Looking on in either hope or despair

    Talk about best laid plans going by the wayside. Anyone who saw my Twitter feed on Saturday morning will know that, in theory at least, I had the perfect day planned out. Encompassing watchling hurling, football, horse racing, rugby, soccer and darts. It was an ambitious agenda. So that some of it – namely the…

  • Understanding must not open the gate to the slippery slope

    In the course of rounding up last weekend’s events in the National Football League, this corner had no problem expressing solidarity with the Leitrim footballers in their decision to concede a walkover to Down as they were seemingly unable to fulfill the fixture. At the time, my thinking was that even the mere mention of…