Tag: #GAA2024
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Fans make GAA what it is – give them their say
Typical of a lot of what’s produced on this site, this offering is going to begin pointed in one direction and conclude veering off in a completely different one. Now read on… Let’s begin by dealing with what is – from a personal perspective – the ugly business on this particular ramble. Namely, that nearly…
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Land of minnows and millions – Part I
“Ah here now, before you start onto me about the state of our dressing rooms, what about that ould hut ye had with the leaky roof”. It’s the late summer or early autumn of 1996. The buzz is back in Meath football as Sean Boylan’s side hurtle towards what must be regarded as the county’s…
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Greville’s gang face significant Northern Exposure
Unlike the county senior footballers in their first campaign under the stewardship of Robbie Brennan, Johnny Greville’s Meath hurlers have the biennial fixture flip flop on their side with three – or half of the Allianz NHL Div. 2 outings slated for St Loman’s Park in Trim. Why the matches aren’t fixed for Pairc Tailteann…
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One brave warrior’s special day exposes GAA bluff
Early April, 1999, but it’s more like a day in November. Wind and rain sheet into the old disabled viewing area in Croke Park. The corner where the Nally Stand and Hill 16 meet. The kindly old Steward, Bobby, who da and I had got to know from years of being in and out, says…
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Regional Football Championship All Stars 2024
The third annual Meath Regional Football Championship All Star panel has been announced. Almost a week after Bru Na Boinne became the first ‘new’ outfit to lift the Richie Barry Cup after Boyne Valley had captured the first two incarnations of the competition sponsored by Brady’s Skoda and Ideal Bathrooms. Bru finding the winning cocktail…
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Two greats bowing out with very different tales to tell
Carlow’s Darragh Foley and James McCarthy of Dublin announced their respective inter county retirements on the same day a few weeks back. One of the national papers carried a piece in the days which followed lamenting how – understandably but nevertheless unfortunately – for one individual, media outlets were festooned with pages of coverage while…
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John 2:3 – the gospel for the Regional Championship
BRU NA BOINNE… 2-14 AN TUAISCEART… 1-14 How do you go about winning the Meath Regional Football Championship? Have John McCarthy managing your team! Now, of course it’s not as simple as that to garner the Richie Barry Cup – sponsored by Brady’s Skoda and Ideal Bathrooms – but, the former county Minor and U-20…
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Did Dunsany get dosed with Pringles?
DUNSANY (MEATH)…1-14 KILCAVAN (LAOIS)…1-10 The tubularly packaged crisps with the figure who is almost a doppelganger of Manuel from Fawlty Towers as their mascot also have the sales tagline ‘once you pop you can’t stop’, well, it appears the mighty men of Dunsany have adapted it slightly to suit their own narrative. Something along the…
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Gut punch for Royals as Armstrong goes airborne
In the first race at Tipperary today (Friday), talented 5lb claiming rider Charlie O’Dwyer rode a horse for James Nash called COULDNTMAKEITUP and one would venture plenty of those with an interest in, passion for or involvement with Meath GAA would’ve had a punt thereon. Alas, like the rest of what you will read hereafter,…
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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.…