Tag: GAA
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Maeve flying the flag for town, county and country
UPDATED 12.55PM 20/10/2026 Maeve Clince of Warrenstown, Dunboyne – aka The Back Road – will become the latest sports star from the locality to take to the International stage when she lines out under the tricolour in the Camogie/Shinty clash with Scotland in Cork on Saturday next. The game having a 4pm throw in time.…
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The most frustrating time of the GAA year
The Downs retained their Westmeath SFC title on Sunday last. A fine achievement for any team at any time, but, in the one seeing eye of this neutral observer it becomes even more significant when you factor the travails experienced by the mercurially talented Luke Loughlin both in terms of sporting injuries and the difficulties…
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Old wisdom still stands as combination win match of the year
DULEEK/BELLEWSTOWN…3-19 WALTERSTOWN…3-12 “Oh sweet Jesus what a point from Eamonn Armstrong” Davy Rispin – Clubber TV It is said that goals win games, but, when both sides accumulate commensurate quantities thereof, what splits the atom? Well, in the humble estimation of this neutral observer, it was the sum of the contributions of Oisin Miland, Eamonn…
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Galway pull off left of field coup landing big Fitz
In the days following Meath’s defeat by Monaghan in Round 3 of the Round Robin part of the All Ireland SFC – Lord rest it’s gentle soul – of 2024, Colm O’Rourke met with his outgoing selectors Stephen Bray and Barry Callaghan. One of the items on the agenda was the standard end of season…
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Podcast Episode – Sept. 24th: Meath Football Championship Drama
Pip: Welcome to Boylan Talks Sport — where the GAA weekend is never quite over until someone's pondered every last what-if from a parish that probably shares a post office. Mara: Brendan has been across a full slate of Meath SFC action this week — relegation drama, a quarter-final thriller, the defending champions flexing, and…
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Champs flex muscles with ominous force
SUMMERHILL…0-30 ST COLMCILLE’S…1-16 At some stage in life, it’s probable we’ve all been told never to judge a book by its cover. The wise words were most certainly apt for deployment in relation to this final quarter final of the Fairyhouse Steel Meath SFC for 2026, played in St Loman’s Park, Trim on Sunday evening.…
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O’Brien lifts it and shifts Ratoath past the neighbours
RATOATH…2-18 DUNSHAUGHLIN/ROYAL GAELS…2-16 Ratoath businessman Gabriel O’Brien has what is perhaps the leading crane hire business in the country, which operates under the advertising slogan “Don’t lift it, let O’Brien shift it”. Now read on… Whether Bobby of the same surname is one of Gabriel’s gang or not I am not sure, but the experienced…
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Cometh the hour, cometh the Moran
WOLFE TONES…1-12 RATHKENNY…0-13 If memory serves me correctly, Kyle Moran came on as a substitute in a Meath SFC knockout game a few years back and netted a crucial goal for Wolfe Tones as they progressed to a Meath SFC Final against Dunshaughlin/Royal Gaels. As it happened, before the corresponding phase of competition for the…
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How strange the change from minor to major
Every time I feel like I am getting close to some form of peace with the GAA’s split season, something crops up to remind me again of how hideous and counterproductive it is. As one former Meath player put it to me over the weekend “Lads busting their guts training since January for three games…
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The best for last but all in vain
St Peters…2-15 Kilbride…0-11 Whilst writing the match report for Dunboyne’s SFC opening round draw against Rathkenny the point was made that their failure to close out the job on that evening would come back to bite them in the backside. And, though they produced their best display of the entire season against the other side…