Tag: Dr McKenna Cup
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Treat people like fools and you’ll look like one yourself
Exhibit A: Clones, July 1993, what was to become known as the mudbath Ulster (SFC) Final. How St Tiarnach’s Park was ever passed as playable I’ll never know. It can only be assumed whoever arrived at the decision came from a land of draught. Exhibit B: Dunboyne, May, 2002. A hotly anticipated local derby between…
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Good auld GAA – always one false move away from shooting itself in the foot
I think David Hosie from the Navan O’Mahonys club was the first player who can be recalled playing adult football at 15 years of age. Ballivor’s Mairtin Doran wasn’t far behind him. From a hurling perspective, there’s no doubt that one of our own – the one and only Paul Fagan – was the youngest…
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Mickey did it his way…and deserved better
It would be hypocritical in the extreme of me to begin dispensing platitudes about Mickey Harte in the aftermath of his departure as Tyrone manager without an acknowledgement, also, that I haven’t always been in favour of some of the Ballygawley man’s utterances and his willingness to offer them on non-sporting matters in particular over…