Tag: Dunboyne GAA

  • Jones return a needed lift for club and county

    Jones return a needed lift for club and county

    St Peter’s, Dunboyne…2-11Moynalvey…2-11 On a weekend when reasons for cheer were as scarce for devotees of Meath football as hen’s teeth, the return to action of Ronan Jones as a second half sub was a telling boost for Dunboyne as they maintained their recent run of momentum in the FL Div. 1 when coming from…

  • Martin I. Kelly – Dunboyne and Dunshaughlin – RIP

    Martin I. Kelly – Dunboyne and Dunshaughlin – RIP

    It can probably be fairly safely assumed that it was a parent or a similar leadership figure who first planted the love of sport within. It certainly was with yours truly, and while that initially manifested as da bringing me to internal matches involving my own class mates in primary school. That then evolved to…

  • DriveThru Sports Show – Ep. 21

    DriveThru Sports Show – Ep. 21

    The latest edition of our sports show is essentially a follow up to last week’s episode revolving around Adult Football Finals weekend in Meath. A few days of highly mixed emotions for St Peter’s, Dunboyne in particular but it was very much a case of ladies first.

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  • Glory Days Are Here Again

    Glory Days Are Here Again

    Meath…1-11 Dublin…0-12 If you dream it, you can do it. Though I doubt even the most fanatical Meath person, cough, could’ve predicted this. It’s not all that long ago the Meath Ladies team registered only three points in a game and were somewhere below rock bottom. Today, the revolution was completed. They brought the Brendan…

  • A way forward based on continuity

    There was much conjecture surrounding the ‘debate’ involving Pat Gilroy and Andy McEntee thrown onto The Sunday Game in a scatter-gun manner at the end of last year. To call it a debate, though, would be to deploy it with the utmost linguistic licence. What it actually amounted to was a party political broadcast on…

  • A homegrown All Ireland success if ever there was one

    Meath… 2-17 Westmeath… 4.05 I have a few vague but treasured memories of the aftermath of Meath’s All Ireland win of 1988. Being on the shoulders of the late John McCrory for the homecoming and then Sean Boylan, Brendan Reilly and Liam Hayes bringing the Sam Maguire into the school. Those were the days which…