Tag: Emma Duggan
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The only way is up
MEATH…0-08 GALWAY….0-16 It is symbolic of a team’s current status and ambitions when one hears open mention of the fact that top flight survival will suffice as far as priorities for a National League campaign. Of course there’s always the possibility that such a non-fussed approach could come back and bite you in such a…
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Duggan debuts as skipper as Galway hit the ‘Hill
Emma Duggan will Captain the Meath seniors for the first time when Wayne Freeman’s tenure begins when the Royal County ladies take on familiar foes Galway in the first round of the Lidl Ladies National League at Summerhill on Sunday afternoon. Duggan will lead the locals out in her role as joint Vice Captain –…
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Golden Oldies and a Sunday morning adjusting to a new high
With exactly 11 minutes to go in Tullamore on Saturday evening last, my significant other began imploring referee Joe McQuillan to blow for full time. Now read on… After removing the Michael out of the poor woman over her time keep miscalculation, it was readily admitted that such was the astonishment and excitement surrounding the…
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One change for the Ladies
In a nod to the fact that while a few results haven’t gone their way of late but at the same time they haven’t been doing a whole lot wrong, Meath have made just one change ahead of what amounts to a semi final in the TG4 Leinster LSFC against Kildare at Cedral St Conleth’s…
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Cleary straight back in to skipper Royals
Meath manager Shane McCormack has opted to put captain Aisling Cleary straight back into his starting 15 ahead of their showdown with Dublin in the first round of the TG4 Leinster LSFC at Pairc Tailteann. This despite the fact that the Donaghmore/Ashbourne clubwoman missed the closing stages of the National League. Presumably in readying herself…
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Housekeeping with one eye on the next part of the odyssey
A couple of horrendous refereeing decisions – which of course the whistler will not face any censure for – may have cost Meath a place in the Lidl LNFL Div. 1 final, but it can still regarded as a successful spring sojourn for the green and gold. With that in mind, manager Shane McCormack has…
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Duggan absent from Royal line up
Emma Duggan is a notable and very worrying absentee from the Meath team published as that which will take on Kerry in the Lidl Ladies NFL at Austin Stack Park in Tralee tomorrow (Saturday). Throw in is scheduled for 2pm and the game will be shown live on TG4. Katie Newe comes in as an…
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Bermingham to make Royal bow
Dunboyne’s Katie Bermingham will make her first start for the Royal County in Sunday’s Lidl Ladies NFL encounter against Kildare at Pairc Tailteann. Meath boss Shane McCormack has made two changes in all to the side which defeated Mayo a fortnight ago for the clash with his native county. The debutant and the also included…
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It’s up to you to strike when the iron’s hot to your own benefit
There was a line doing the rounds some time ago – presumably with the stats to back it up – which maintained that Ladies Gaelic Football was the fastest growing sport in the country. In terms of participation numbers. Very understandable given the backing affixed to the sport by the likes of Lidl and TG4.…
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System allows for positives in defeat
Aside from the fact that, despite their implosion which has led to three Championship defeats, Derry remaln in contention for Sam Maguire, competition structure is the gift that keeps on giving from a writer’s perspective. As far as I’m aware, the current system in the All Ireland SFC – Round Robin and then for knockout…