Tag: Football
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Meath trio star in Sigerson sizzler
Tech. Uni. Dublin… 2-15 Uni. Of Limerick… 2-11 Cian McBride, Jordan Morris and Billy Hogan all played leading roles as the first named duo saw their Sigerson Cup journey extended in this lively encounter in Grangegorman tonight (Tuesday). McBride and Kildare’s Sean Hanafin dominated the midfield exchanges and, with Colm Basquel, Morris and Monaghan’s Sean…
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Two more great examples to be ignored
On the face of it, objective analysis of a refereeing performance is probably highly difficult to arrive at. Neither of the competing teams could be expected to engage open mindedly. Neither are the whistler’s own kinfolk likely to overly critical. Furthermore, it’s difficult to escape the inclination RTE commentators and pundits are contractually forbidden from…
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Knockout pairings revealed
At tonight’s Meath Co Board meeting in Dunganny (Monday), as well as management teams being confirmed for county underage teams for 2024, the draws were made for the concluding stages of the club football championships at both Senior and Intermediate level. Both for those chasing silverware and salvation. Before getting into all that though, the…
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Boylan’s Sporting Wordle – No. 38
This man manages to splatter the ambitions of nearly every team he comes up against… https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=vzrwlr
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Things going to script is a one way street
It’s strangely apt to be writing the following just as the Tailteann Cup semi finals are down for decision. The point was made not so long ago on these pages that hurling was ahead of football in coming up with a tiered championship. Because of the inception of the McDonagh, Ring, Rackard and Meagher Cup…
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Being old fashioned might become the norm!
Fr Dougal is trapped on the explosive milk float, Ted has the lads from the neighbouring island over to help come up with a plan to rescue the dimwitted Curate. After all sorts of tomfoolery, it finally dawned on some of them to put a brick on the accelarator. Enabling Dougal to get off the…
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Sports Wordle No. 1
With Catchphrase having made a comeback in the popularity stakes and the Wordle word puzzle taking the world by storm, it would be remiss of us here at BTS not to get in on the action. To start we have a football team https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=jogrwm&lang=any We would be delighted if you, our readers, could let us…
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Oddities and unfairness – that’s the GAA folks!
As most or all of you will know by now, I lost my da on June 10th. Six months into his 92nd year. Don’t let anyone ever tell you you’re ready for it, you never are. When the inevitability of what was ahead became obvious a day or two before he actually passed, this corner…
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BOYLAN TALKS SPORT FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE YEAR
RAYMOND GALLIGAN – CAVAN 2. MICK FITZSIMONS – DUBLIN 3. OISIN MULLEN – MAYO 4. DAVID BYRNE = DUBLIN 5. JAMES MCCARTHY – DUBLIN 6. CIARAN BRADY – CAVAN 7. PADDY DURCAN – MAYO 8. BRIAN FENTON – DUBLIN 9. MATTHEW RUANE – MAYO 10. BRIAN FOX – TIPPERARY 11. CIARAN KILKENNY – DUBLIN MICHAEL…
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Lavin, McGill and McMahon return as Championship team takes shape
Meath have made three changes for tomorrow’s NFL clash with Monaghan in Clones. The game – which will be shown live on TG4’s YouTube Channel – is of no material significance to already relegated Meath, however, there are bound to be players hoping to at least give the management a decision to make ahead of…