Tag: Donaghmore/Ashbourne

  • Donal’s dozen takes Dunboyne to a 10th Final

    Donal’s dozen takes Dunboyne to a 10th Final

    St Peter’s, Dunboyne… 1-18 Donaghmore/Ashbourne… 3-10 Donal Lenihan scored 12 points – including five two-pointers – as Dunboyne qualified for the Div. 1 FL Final for a tenth time. Though therein they will be attempting to claim the Mooney Cup for only a second time.  When the home side’s Evan Kelly and former Waterford forward…

  • Cleary straight back in to skipper Royals

    Cleary straight back in to skipper Royals

    Meath manager Shane McCormack has opted to put captain Aisling Cleary straight back into his starting 15 ahead of their showdown with Dublin in the first round of the TG4 Leinster LSFC at Pairc Tailteann. This despite the fact that the Donaghmore/Ashbourne clubwoman missed the closing stages of the National League. Presumably in readying herself…

  • First Meath GAA Fixtures of 2025

    First Meath GAA Fixtures of 2025

    And so it begins. The rapidly approaching new season has`probably been on plenty of minds already between the annual roll out of the managerial merry-go-round and some fairly high profile incoming ‘signings’ for clubs. But, it is, at last in my view, starting to feel a lot more real now with the release of the…

  • One Board backs the other

    One Board backs the other

    Meath Co Board were last night successful in their appeal to the GAA’s Central Hearings Committee which contested the earlier decision of the Leinster Council to mandate the Royal County’s governing body to replay the third round ‘regulation’ game between Donaghmore/Ashbourne and Na Fianna. Now read on… The furore erupted after the two aforementioned clubs…

  • Meath Board To Appeal Leinster Decision

    Meath Board To Appeal Leinster Decision

    BREAKING NEWS The furore surrounding the concluding stages of the Meath SFC took another twist this evening when it emerged that the Meath Co Board are reportedly about to appeal Leinster Council ruling which decreed that the clash of Donaghmore/Ashbourne and Na Fianna be re-fixed. The complications regarding the conclusion of the race for the…

  • Battling young Royals bag draw

    Battling young Royals bag draw

    Meath… 1-09 Tyrone… 0-12 In recent years, blessedly many hours have been put in behind this keyboard heralding significant underage successes for Meath football teams. Wins that were both desperately needed and a long time coming. You can see the fruits of it coming through by degrees already. With the likes of Harry Hogan and…

  • Dunboyne dig out final ticket after dour derby

    Dunboyne dig out final ticket after dour derby

    Dunboyne…0-09 Donaghmore/Ashbourne…0-05 A bit of personal business to get out of the way first, if I may. The GAA’s own advertising uses the tagline that ‘Nothing Beats Being There’ and they are of course correct. Thanks to modern technology though, one can be there in every other way bar in body. To that end, credit…