Tag: Dunshaughlin GAA
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Boylan Talks Sport Meath Club Footballers Team Of The Year 2025
Seeing the lads from We Are Meath podcast (Davy Rispin and Mickey Brennan) release the nominations for the CICO Sports We Are Meath Club All Stars earlier this week gave yours truly the necessary nudge to kick on with an idea which has been circulating in the upstairs brainstorm for a few weeks now. It’s…
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Costello absence glaring as Meath face State exam
If the litmus test for the progress or otherwise of any Meath team is how they acquit themselves against Dublin, then for any senior inter county team attempting to gauge their current state of wellbeing, tackling Kerry must be the on-pitch equivalent of sitting the State exams currently frying the brains of young people nationwide.…
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Impact subs rewarded with a start
Robbie Brennan has made two changes to the side which went within one bad refereeing decision of winning the Leinster SFC two weeks ago ahead of Saturday’s All Ireland SFC opening round encounter with familiar foes Cork at Pairc Tailteann. Fair play to Sam Mulroy for exacting punishment on a foul which only one person…
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The Saw Doctors, ABBA or Buddy Holly?
Even in this day and age, there are people who, unless and until they are affected by it themselves or you metaphorically lamp them with a sledge hammer, will still try to convince you mental health “Isn’t real”. Yes, I have been accosted by the “If it upsets you just don’t think about it” twaddle.…
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Meath Football Championships Knockout Fixtures
Following on from Sunday evening’s draws, the fixtures for the knockout stages of all the main football championship competitions in Meath have been confirmed. With three of the four SFC quarter finals taking place in Pairc Tailteann as two double headers over the weekend of September 21/22. The odd one out being the sequel to…
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‘Tis not the defeat but the manner of it which hurts the most
MEATH…0-09 LOUTH…3-10 Of course it had to happen sometime. And when it did, there could be no qualms about it. Louth were much the better side and thoroughly deserving of their win. Indeed, considering their Blitzkrieg start, the Wee County would be entitled to feel a little underwhelmed that they didn’t kick on to a…
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The page of history turns in bid to Folly Master(s)
A nondescript handicap, curtain raiser to a mundane midweek card with a €6,000 cut to the winner is unlikely to remain in the minds of many for long. Yet it provided a moment of history. The turning of a page. Beginning the next chapter in the most glorious anthology in the history of Irish sport.…
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Campion Returns For Royal Opener
Almost a year after suffering a serious scaphoid injury against the same opposition, Darragh Campion returns to the Meath starting XV for tomorrow night’s O’Byrne Cup clash against Louth under the Ashbourne lights. Throw in 7.30pm. Ronan Jones will Captain the side from centre back as manager Colm O’Rourke hands a competitive debut to Michael…
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An epic and equally upsetting weekend
If anybody has become bored or annoyed by my re-posting match text commentary in recent weeks I apologise. It’s my way of dealing with Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) and/or separation anxiety, whichever you want to call it. From not being able to attend matches it is desired to be at. Without wanting to play…
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What is the past and will soon become the past gone in the space of a day
Again, I find myself referring to Ireland’s greatest man of letters, Con Houlihan. Apologies if mention of the man who – as he put it himself – was born in a blizzard in December 1925 – has become a bit laboursome. It will be contended, though, that if a point retains credence, it warrants repetition.…