Tag: DJ Carey
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Don’t try to figure it out just admire it
Limerick…0-30 Kilkenny…2-15 Any hurling aficionados among you might recognise the above headline. It has been here before. On the occasion Meath defeated Antrim for the first time in the Christy Ring Cup Final some years back before a re-fixture was ordered over some cock up with the full time score. But Meath were so good…
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The baseball cap finally retires to the peg
There are things in life which, even though you know they are coming, you are never quite ready for it. In Meath, that day arrived in September 2005 when Sean Boylan announced he wasn’t going forward for a 24th season as senior football manager. Hindsight, of course, has proven that it should never have come…
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Selections for Gowran Park – May 24th 2022
4.50: TOOSO – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 5.20: MOE SEDWAY (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.50: SHOW OF STARS (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 6.20: MARHABBA ASHMAYNE (BILLY LEE/KEN CONDON) 6.50: GATSBY CAP – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/PADDY HAYES) 7.20: THE BOG BANK – EW – (JAMES RYAN (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 7.50: COUMSHINGAUN – EW – (WAYNE LORDAN/KEVIN COLEMAN)…
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Assuming the limelight in the afterglow of Brady’s brilliance
Whether Colm O’Rourke made a formal announcement regarding his retirement from inter county GAA cannot be recalled. There was definitely activity in the media the following year when rumours of a comeback began to swirl. Either way, feelings in this seat were of tremendous sadness. An era was ending. Of course, the disappointment from a…
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Rebel leader with a cause guides the troops home
Cork… 1-37 Kilkenny… 1-32 For a good few years, the 1994 meeting of Offaly and Limerick was beyond compare as the greatest game of hurling the one seeing eye has ever taken in. Thereafter, Kilkenny’s spells of dominance and breakthroughs for Clare and Wexford were momentous occasions in their own right, but in terms of…