Tag: GAA
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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…
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Dunboyne do Major amount to secure victory in first half
ST PETERS…5-14 SKRYNE…1-09 Despite there being a crestfallen cloud engulfing the black and amber camp after the senior team produced their best display of the season against Kilbride all to no avail, those in reserve for that one also put in a clinical shift to advance to the All County IFC semi final. With the…
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Glory to the hill with Aussie generosity?
Bellewstown racecourse is one of my favourite places to write about. And visit. Though it has been far too long since the latter happened. In the company of the late, great and desperately missed Paul B. Garvey. The Hill Of Crocafotha is actually a writer’s dream. The history, the stories and the views which wouldn’t…
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Whatever about attendances, circus acts are alive and well in other ways
By pure coincidence recently, I came across the bereavement notices of the leading lady of the Irish circus industry, Marion Faucett, and her male counterpart Tom Duffy, within a few days of each other. Now read on. . . Every one of us was surely brought to a circus at least once in our lifetime.…