Tag: Friday Night Football
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Dunboyne make it three from three
St Peter’s, Dunboyne..2-18Killary Emmets…1-13 It was a case of exactly as it said in the above headline as, despite fielding a much changed line up from their previous two outings, Dunboyne made it three Friday nights, three wins, in this U-19 FC encounter at Castletown. Their prior victories over St Patrick’s and Ratoath meant that…
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Two from two under the Friday night lights
St Peter’s, Dunboyne…2-13 Ratoath…2-04 Winners Dunboyne registered all of their 2-13 total from open play as they made home advantage count against local rivals Ratoath at Kepak Park on Friday night. This was a much better all round display from the home side than that in Stamullen seven nights previously. County U-20 player Cian Duggan…
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Dunboyne survive Stamullen stumble
Dunboyne survive Stamullen stumble St Peter’s, Dunboyne… 1-07 St Patrick’s… 0-09 Dunboyne had to dig in to ensure they came away with all the spoils against their obdurate opponents in this U-19 FC opening round encounter at Stamullen on Friday night. An Eoghan McDonald goal had got the 2023 MFC winners away to a flying…
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Meath Football Championships Update
And breathe! That was some weekend of club championship action in the Royal County. In the interest of fairness and transparency, it will be stated that, due to having to deal with some very trying personal circumstances, I was unable to get to any of the matches, but, thanks to the media miracles that are…
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Dunboyne’s Third Final In A Week
St Peter’s, Dunboyne…2-13Navan O’Mahonys…0-12 Following in the footsteps of the club’s first and third teams, the black and ambers second string qualified for their League final when having seven points to spare over the Hoops at Kepak Park on Friday evening. Two of the home side’s first three scores were goals – scored by Darragh…
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Richie Barry Cup Semi Final Team News
As reported here earlier, one of this evening’s Meath Regional Football Championship – sponsored by Brady’s Skoda and Ideal Bathrooms – between An Tuaisceart and Ardbraccan has been postponed due to a bereavement, but the second penultimate hurdle encounter goes ahead as planned. Albeit with a throw in time 20 minutes earlier than originally intended.…
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Mrs Joyce Farrell (Nobber) – R.I.P.
Sincere sympathy is extended to the family and friends of the late Mrs Joyce Farrell of Nobber Co Meath who passed on away yesterday (Thursday). The deceased, a native of Kingscourt in Co Cavan, was the wife of former Meath Minor and U-21 (now U-20) manager and senior selector Dudley Farrell and the mother to…
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The old cliche points the way as river men make floodlit hay
BRU NA BOINNE… 2-09 MOYFENRAGH… 0-10 If it aint broke don’t fix it. Using a cliche to defend the use of cliches is possibly the most Irish thing going. But it literally was a case of goals winning games as Bru Na Boinne got their Regional Football Championship challenge up and running in front of…
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Advantage forwards after weekend of Retro Ball
You can bring the horses to water but you can’t make them drink. For more than a decade now, Gaeldom, myself included, have been articulating ad nauseum how pedantic, restrictive, and frankly boring snooze fest Gaelic football has become. You can blame Mickey Harte or Jim McGuinness or Eamon Ryan or Elon Musk or whoever…
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The Railway rides again in attempt to marry the old and the new
We were presumably all that kid who relentlessly badgered a parent or sibling to buy us thrash food until they gave in and did it, at some stage. Well, in my case, that would probably translate as coercion to transport me to wherever there was a tractor or combine or hay turner could be seen…