Tag: Dublin GAA
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Team revealed for title defence Round 1
Meath have revealed their starting 15 and extended panel who will take on Dublin in the first defence of their Leinster U-20 title at Donaghmore/Ashbourne later this evening, 7.30pm. Manager Cathal O’Bric and his fellow mentors have a half dozen of last season’s victorious panel available to them and five of them take their places…
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O’Bric unveils troops to defend our crown
Meath U-20 football manager Cathal O’Bric and his fellow mentors have announced the panel with whom they will go into battle and attempt to hold onto the provincial title they annexed at Louth’s expense in Parnell Park almost a year ago. The Seamus Flood Cup holders will be able to call on six members of…
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Another new midfield combination for the Ladies
Manager Shane McCormack has again shuffled his deck in preparation for Saturday’s date with the Dubs in Round 5 of the Lidl Ladies NFL at Parnell Park. Throw in is at 3pm and the game will be shown live on TG4. The positional switches see Nicole Troy reclaim her usual corner back berth with Ratoath’s…
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Have wheels will travel… If only the opportunity was afforded
FOGRA: This writer hates repetition as much as the rest of ye. But, rather the deploying my usual line of justification about matters retaining relevance over time, with what you will read hereafter, the drum will be banged until it smashes and the stick falls out its ar** end. Now read on… There he was.…
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Land of minnows and millions – Part I
“Ah here now, before you start onto me about the state of our dressing rooms, what about that ould hut ye had with the leaky roof”. It’s the late summer or early autumn of 1996. The buzz is back in Meath football as Sean Boylan’s side hurtle towards what must be regarded as the county’s…
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One brave warrior’s special day exposes GAA bluff
Early April, 1999, but it’s more like a day in November. Wind and rain sheet into the old disabled viewing area in Croke Park. The corner where the Nally Stand and Hill 16 meet. The kindly old Steward, Bobby, who da and I had got to know from years of being in and out, says…
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The West will be wide Awake if there are any more defections
“When all beside a vigil keep, the West’s asleep, the West’s asleep”… It may now be the case that if there are many more defections – real or rumoured – from Connacht counties, they may a vigil keep in persuance of a night’s sleep. Firstly, Cian O’Neill switched from watching the sun go down on…
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Two greats bowing out with very different tales to tell
Carlow’s Darragh Foley and James McCarthy of Dublin announced their respective inter county retirements on the same day a few weeks back. One of the national papers carried a piece in the days which followed lamenting how – understandably but nevertheless unfortunately – for one individual, media outlets were festooned with pages of coverage while…
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Na bfhacha tu mo Sheamasin?
Has anyone seen my Jimmy? We’ve all encountered scenario. The offspring of a legend arrives on the scene, touted as being ‘even better than the father’. You might also even be told ‘There’s a younger lad at thehome that’s even better thtan this fella’. In nearly 35 years of being consumed by all things GAA,…
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The Railway rides again in attempt to marry the old and the new
We were presumably all that kid who relentlessly badgered a parent or sibling to buy us thrash food until they gave in and did it, at some stage. Well, in my case, that would probably translate as coercion to transport me to wherever there was a tractor or combine or hay turner could be seen…