Tag: GAA
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Good start not enough
St Peter’s, Dunboyne… 2-13 Nobber… 5-10 For the second Div. 4 FL outing on the spin, Dunboyne’s second string had to give best to a north county outfit’s top team. This time returning from a road trip to Nobber empty handed. Despite Cathal Melia’s early ‘major’, the visitors were unable to establish a foothold on…
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Patchy display leaves Peter’s pointless
St Peter’s, Dunboyne…0-13 Wolfe Tones…1-17 Home side Dunboyne got off to a flying start in the basking Tuesday evening heat, opening up a lead of 0-05 to 0-00 before their old rivals in purple and gold completely dominated the remainder of the first half with Caolan and Fiachra Ward and Tomas O’Reilly leading a blitz…
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It’s the ones that blindside you that sting the most
MEATH…1-24 CORK…0-30 Reference to being blindsided is not meant in terms of the overall result. These teams are very evenly matched. With never more than a kick of the ball between them. So it was again, with the irony being that John Cleary’s crew didn’t need a goal to pull off a win that –…
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There’s no need for such cruelty
MEATH… 1-16 KILDARE… 2-13 * *Kildare win 5-3 on penalties There’s no need for such cruelty to be used to decide games of such magnitude on penalties. Another case of the GAA hierarchy bowing to the whingers. ‘Fixing’ something that wasn’t even broken. Right here, right now, let it be made abundantly clear, these misgivings…
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Hoping to reunite with a familiar friend
Trevor Giles and his Meath Minor side will be aiming for a reunion with a familiar friend at Laois Hire O’Moore Park in Portlaoise this evening (7:35 throw in) when they tackle a rematch against Kildare in the Electric Ireland Leinster MFC Final. Should they manage to turn around the result of their initial encounter…
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Top lot trump seconds in game of two halves
St Peter’s, Dunboyne…2-08 Ballinlough…2-14 Dunboyne’s second string were unable to build on a promising first half against Ballinlough’s top lot on Sunday morning. Though the sides were knotted together at 1-05 apiece at the change of ends, but, it was the north county outfit who very much had the better of matters in the second…
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Flying first half sets visitors on the road to victory
St Peter’s, Dunboyne…2-18 Na Fianna…0-10 First half goals from Fergal Watters and Jason Gleeson set Dunboyne on their way in Baconstown as they led by 2-10 to 0-04 at the break on Saturday evening before going on to record their second victory of the season in the race for the Mooney Cup. The eventual victors…
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Harvest in the hills all in vain
MEATH…2-18 DONEGAL…1-16 No matter what competition structure a governing body in any code put together, there will always be somebody left feeling hard done by if they end up on the wrong side of a tight margin call. Whether their umbrage is justified or not. Think of Thierry Henry’s disgraceful handball against Ireland that Stevie…
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Cummins called to the bench for judgement day
Na Fianna’s Conor Cummins replaces Philip O’Brien as substitute goalkeeper in the only change to the matchday panel from that which rescued a dramatic draw against Derry a week ago ahead of tomorrow’s crunch encounter against Donegal in the final round of regulation fixtures in the Christy Ring Cup at O’Donnell Park in Letterkenny. What…
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A whole heap of wrongs don’t make a right
If I thought the scheduling of the All Ireland U-20 FC semi finals for midweek was demeaning and grotesquely unfair, it was only the tip of an iceberg of ignominy which has sunk the GAA into an even bigger crator of farce. As if playing both football matches at the same time wasn’t bad enough,…