After a highly successful and entertaining inaugural staging of the Dioralyte Regional Football Championships in Dunganny over the past month or so, the Chosen Ones – those who caught the eye the most, who will take on Colm O’Rourke’s Meath selection at the Meath Centre Of Excellence (11am) are as follows: SEAN BRENNAN (DARNLEY/DUNDERRY) MICHAEL… Read More REGIONAL FOOTBALL ALL STARS
Colm O’Rourke has revealed the team and panel chosen to take to the field for his first match in charge of the Royal County when they take on the Regional Football Championship All Stars in Dunganny tomorrow morning, 11am. The Meath selection includes familiar names such as Harry Hogan, Shane McEntee, Robin Clarke, Ross Ryan… Read More O’Rourke reveals first Royal hand
Boyne Valley… 2-11 Tara… 0-07 A varied and attractive style of football – something synonymous with Cathal O’Bric-trained teams – held sway as the Walterstown/Bective/Rathkenny/Slane were deserving winners of the inaugural Regional Football Championship Final in Ashbourne on Sunday. At this point, this writer would like to place on record sincere thanks to Coiste Na… Read More River men’s free running style sees them sail to success
Boyne Valley…1-16 Lough Crew…1-13 They say an ounce of breeding is worth a tonne of feeding, and that certainly proved to be on the money in the second Regional Football Championship semi final at Dunganny on Tuesday evening. Now read on… For when the dust settled on this enthralling encounter in the Dioralyte sponsored competition,… Read More Out from the Valley with success they roared
Tara…2-02 An Tuaisceart…0-07 Whether Tara manager Ger Robinson and his fellow mentors have somebody like renowned statistician and analyst Ray Boyne working with them is unknown. If they have, I would love to be a fly on the wall for the de-brief after last night’s Regional Football Championship semi final against Brian Farrell’s An Tuaisceart… Read More Scores like buses as Tara secure title tilt
Boyne Valley… 1-07 Moyfernagh… 1-02 My late father was of the opinion that a 0-0 draw in a soccer match was the most boring purgatory in the sporting world. An easy enough summation to concur with but easily deconstructed too with a little more nuanced analysis. Granted, an occasion where both teams park the bus,… Read More Not many scores but no shortage of bite either
Tara… 3-12 Blackwater… 2-13 Thirty scores between two teams in what was meant to be a ‘meaningless’ match certainly knocked the theory of it being so on the head. Instead, acting as the best advertisment the Regional Championships have had to date. Factually speaking, both teams did indeed know their fate before the ball was… Read More The best advertisment for the Regionals so far
Lough Crew… 3-15 Darnley… 1-08 It almost turned into an Oldcastle v. Dunderry shoot out in Tuesday’s second Regional Football Championship encounter under the Dunganny lights. Guaranteeing that at least half of the new competition’s final four will be representing the north of the county. Davy Nelson’s side dug and poured the foundations for their… Read More Lough cruise into final four
An Tuaisceart…0-12 Bru Na Boinne…0-12 Dare it be said, Bru Na Boinne’s 12 Apostles almost replicated Dublin’s unforgettable feat of annexing Sam Maguire in 1983 minus three of their troops? If not that, it could at least be mused that it’s unlikely young Moynalty official Kieran Olwell will become as (in)famous as Antrim’s John Gough… Read More Bru Na Boinne make light of numbers game but it’s all in vain
Moyfernagh… 1-09 Blackwater… 1-07 Brendan Murphy’s Moyfernagh side advanced to the knockout stages of the Dioralyte Regional Football Championship at Dunganny on Wednesday evening. Those clad in green and white made light of the absence of the phenomenal Mickey Burke as well as Longwood’s Billy Hogan to advance to the knockout stages with a round… Read More Moyfernagh March On