Tag: Dessie Farrell
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Cup football still has its value
Mention has been made previously on these pages of how the idea of bucket lists doesn’t sit at all well here. If only because it makes a body think about, well, the journey around this big auld ball. And that’s challenging enough without bringing a stopwatch into the equation. That’s not to say, that there…
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After eight number ones Deano decides to stop making records
There’s a scene in an episode of The Simpsons in which Homer thinks he has just died. On his way in the gates of Heaven he encounters Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr. Typical Homer, he barges past the triumvirate of musical greats and is quickly chided by the brash Martin for doing…
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It may be the end but it doesn’t have to be
Dublin… 1-15 Kerry… 1-13 Unless Meath are involved and regardless of who else is, I hate All Ireland Final days. They are the last days of summer. Thereafter, evenings get shorter, sport to actually attend becomes scarce and – as has blessedly been the case for our lads this year – any progress made is…
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One book to absolutely not judge by the cover
There are certain side effects to my disability which rarely if ever make it into discourse here. Today, however, will be an exception. And, yes, it will be a case of going from the frying pan into the fire. But it will be brief and reason for doing so will become obvious as this particular…
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Glenn might be left thinking ‘less said, soonest mended’
Undoubtedly one of the most famous – or infamous, depending on whicb way you view it – media interactions in the history of the Premier League was when Kevin Keegan absolutely lost the plot during the season in which his Newcastle United were engaged in a protracted title tussle with Manchester United. The Magpies boss’s…
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Strange Sundays – Part II
“Somewhere far away a lonely bell is ringing, and it echoes through the canyon like the disappearing dreams of yesterday. On a Sunday morning sidewalk…” Over the last decade or so, enduring and getting used to scenarios which at one stage would’ve been utterly unthinkable has become an unfortunate addendum to supporting and/or writing on…
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Neither of them have gone away – Sideline Cuts (27)
It’s the hope that kills you. At the start of every season, it’s in the DNA of a GAA fan to get a new transfusion of hope. Regardless of whether it’s club or county, whether new players have come in or you’ve actually lost some. There’s something woven into the GAA psyche which plants This…
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Spuds are only as good as what you serve with them
Meath…1-11 Dublin…2-19 When Sean Boylan took over as Meath manager in October of 1982, the Royal County hadn’t beaten Dublin in quite some time. Whether it was quite as long as is the current chasm I am unsure, but, in an effort to re-invigorate his then charges in readiness for the battle with the two…
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Dublin’s Cooper calls time on county career
Possibly the final major GAA news story of 2022 was, to this writer at least, a surprising one. It being the announcement by Dublin’s Jonny Cooper that he has taken his leave of the inter county stage. The Na Fianna clubman has been very nearly ever present since the blue wave which transformed Gaelic football…
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Sideline Cuts – 20
Dessie gets deserved extension Despite much speculation over his future, it was confirmed this week that Dessie Farrell will remain in charge of Dublin for at least another two years. Which is only as it should be after the Na Fianna clubman guided the sky blues to an All Ireland, three more Leinsters and at…