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  • Another talent scout gone to the dugout above

    Another talent scout gone to the dugout above

    #GAA #Meath On a dark September evening what’s close to thirty years ago now, yours truly was bemused to hear raucous applause and cheering erupt in the centre of Dunboyne as the arrival of the Meath team who’d gone under to Cork in the previous day’s All Ireland SFC final was awaited. Meath’s misfortune that…

  • Continuity and adventure are a workable mix

    Continuity and adventure are a workable mix

    #GAA It was probably in fourth class that things got serious. Games had been attended for a few years prior to that but it was then that the opportunity to actually become involved arose. Well, it was cultivated. John Moriarity obviously twigged that I’d a fair good understanding of – or at least interest in…

  • The advert is right but technology fills the void

    #SOCCER There’s something special about the FA Cup. A lair of insulating reassurance in a soccer world where reasons to become disillusioned are numerous. It’s often been mentioned before but worth another gallop now – even in terms of coverage (or maybe especially due to same) football has moved to another world in the last…

  • Ongoing legacy only part of a changing landscape

    Life is an ongoing collection of fine margins. A few inches in a different direction at any time can alter circumstance beyond recognition. For the purpose of what’s about to roll out here, consider Munster’s eventual scaling of the European rugby mountain top.  

  • A fondness for collating information bordering on hoarding

    A fondness for collating information bordering on hoarding

    Becoming more directly involved in farming was the best decision I ever made. Equally the most frustrating however. Now, it would be easy to pin the aforementioned reservations on price volatility and changing markets. These are ongoing concerns. Greatest angst, though, is generated out of not being able to do more. Part of life’s menu…

  • Pursuit of winter glory should be defining

    Pursuit of winter glory should be defining

    #GAA Whittling away the time prior to a dreaded hospital appointment may seem a curious time to be ruminating on matters GAA. Then again, said organisation is one of the mainstays which makes some of life’s more trying travails more negotiable. A while back, a video was encountered on YouTube of the potato harvest in…

  • From Moynalvey to Ballinacree to Pungaheru this was big business

    From Moynalvey to Ballinacree to Pungaheru this was big business

    Even from the time of my school days, which is not all that long ago, how we ingest the daily news has altered seismically. Where once the day commenced with David Hanley on Morning Ireland and Gay Byrne followed, now a tap of a phone – even a dinosaur model of same – or comparable…

  • Pride and Heartbreak entangled for away from home

    Pride and Heartbreak entangled for away from home

    #RACING The abundance of land that goes for sale these days often causes a sentimental sadness. Partly out of farming instinct, more so, however, on seeing a chapter in a locality’s history ending. Traditions and country customs have to count for something and must be maintained. November 1st is always a big day in these…

  • Part of me knew it’d be the loneliest place on earth

    #GAA For a multiplicity of reasons, it seems scarcely believable that it’s November. The cattle are still out grazing and National Hunt racing is getting better every week.Those morsels presently represent the only beacons of positivity on the horizon. Desperately needed they are, as well.

  • Who writes their scripts?

    #Rugby #Racing Last March sent a sporting curve ball which life can often summon spinning this way. Parochial, tribal tendencies are the fabric of what stitches the GAA together. For those of us exposed to the association at a young age, its influence can be all consuming. Some might say to the point of addiction.…