Tag: Dunboyne
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Workin’ on the Railroad – Harvest 2022
In this video, yours truly makes it 37 consecutive years with at least one day out Harvest Spotting. Here, the Castlefarm Partnership tackle a massive crop of wheat adjacent to Dunboyne Railway Station. Three generations of the Clarke family hard at it with a Claas Lexion 760TT, a Fendt 720, a Fendt 718, a Massey […]
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Selections for Gowran Park – Aug. 10th 2022
4.20: ESCULENTA -EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 4.50: BARRETSTOWN – EW – (CHARLIE O’DWYER (7)/CONOR O’DWYER) 5.20: DIDNTHAVEMUCHTODO (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.55: VICTORIA ROAD (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 6.30: MASSAMAN – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/JACK DAVISON) 7.05: ENDLESS SEASON – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/MICK HALFORD) 7.35: FASTMAN – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOHN MCCONNELL) 8.10: INUIT […]
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A different kind of excitement
As I begin typing this, it’s 2:19am. Insomnia and a galloping mind rule the roost yet again. To completely extract the urine out of this writer, the song I can’t get out of my head is Lou Reed’s Perfect Day. Now read on… It most certainly is not. The old man not being about for […]
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Upcycling A Calf Trough
To my utmost heartache, farming is off the agenda for the minute because I’m waiting on an upgrade to my wheelchair so can’t really venture too far. But with the weather half decent I want and need to be at something outdoors. Here’s step one. Power washing one of our calf feeding troughs as it […]
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Lenihan revives Dunboyne Riverside connection
Republic Of Ireland defender Darragh Lenihan has completed his transfer from Blackburn Rovers to fellow Championship hopefuls Middlesbrough. While the 28-year-old’s decision to leave Ewood Park – where he had been club Captain – might raise a few eyebrows, it’s clear Rovers didn’t appreciate the asset they had on their books. Plenty of others did, […]
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Selections for Leopardstown – June. 2nd 2022
5.05: UNLESS (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.40: ZAHEE – EW – (CILLIAN MCCONNELL (7)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 6.15: CADILLAC (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 6.50: IDES OF AUGUST – EW – (GARY CARROLL/GER LYONS) 7.20: BOUNDLESS OCEAN (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER) 7.50: RAZDAN – EW – (GEORGIA DOBIE/CHRIS TIMMONS) 8.20: ROCK OF CANDY – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON)
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John was at the heart of everything good about Dunboyne
Where do nicknames originate? Every town, village and city in the country has them to identify characters of note in the locality. If the individual or their kinfolk are long enough established or well enough known in an area, it becomes the case that they become more recognisable by their ‘other’ title than their Christian […]
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Selections for Naas – Apr. 25th 2022
4.45: DENEUVE (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.15: NORDIC PASSAGE – EW – (DONOGH O’CONNOR/JOHNNY LEVINS) 5.45: MIGHT AND MERCY – EW – (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 6.15: MOONIESTA (OISIN ORR/JACK DAVISON) 6.45: EMILY DICKINSON (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 7.15: KNIGHTAILA – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 7.45: LUCKY NUMBER – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 8.15: BARRETSTOWN (CHARLIE […]
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He’s only gone and done it again
It’s hard to know which is the most surprising, that the bookies let Lord Lariat go off at 40/1, or that yours truly forgot to put a few bob thereon having had the pleasure of spending an evening in the company of the steed’s wonderful trainer, Dermot McLoughlin. Sometimes though, it’s not about the punting. […]
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Selections for Dundalk – Mar. 23rd 2022
5.00: AJAX TAVERN (COLIN KEANE/JAMES MCAULEY) 5.30: HIGHTOWN HEIGHTS (COLIN KEANE/JAMES MCAULEY) 6.00: RAZDAN (ROBERT WHEARTY (7)/CHRIS TIMMONS) 6.30: RIPS DREAM (JAKE COEN (7)/PAT FLYNN) 7.00: INCRIMINATION (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 7.30: NORTH WIND – EW – (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/MUIRDEACH KELLY) 8.00: CHERRY BLOOM – EW –(BILLY LEE/GILLIAN SCOTT) 8.30: HARBANAKER – EW – (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL)