Tag: #GAA2025
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Sarah’s finest hour steers Meath back to Croker
MEATH…2-12 KERRY…1-09 For any team to even strive to reach the maximum of their perceived potential, there will be days when those who are often the unsung heroes or heroines ascend to the highest notes to bring the crescendo to its desired conclusion. Thus was the scenario at Glenisk O’Connor Park on Saturday evening as…
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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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Donal’s dozen takes Dunboyne to a 10th Final
St Peter’s, Dunboyne… 1-18 Donaghmore/Ashbourne… 3-10 Donal Lenihan scored 12 points – including five two-pointers – as Dunboyne qualified for the Div. 1 FL Final for a tenth time. Though therein they will be attempting to claim the Mooney Cup for only a second time. When the home side’s Evan Kelly and former Waterford forward…
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Not every picture tells a true story
MEATH… 0-15 DONEGAL… 3-24 A picture might be worth a thousand words but that’s damn all good if the majority of the words are bullsh** which completely distort the reality of a given situation. There is no way Donegal are 20 points a better team than Meath. They’re not that far ahead of anybody. Indeed,…
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The Dublin job and the four faced auld clock
Ger Brennan’s decision to step down as Louth senior football manager may have caught a lot of people cold. Nowhere more so than in the Wee County. However, while folk in Louth might have their own theories – some of which may seem blatantly obvious – but it might not be as simple as that.…
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And ‘Raffa’ said unto them “Throw on more maroons” but there were no more…
MEATH…2-16 GALWAY…2-15 Do you remember what’s probably a scary number of years ago at this stage, the Republic Of Ireland played Russia in a Qualifier for some tournament or other and, during the contest, Richard Dunne’s jersey got torn to such an extent that he had to be thrown a plain white jersey with no…
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No class, insensitively crass
There are times when sporting rivalries get parked up or clamped altogether. And the reality is that it’s probably in times of strife at best or, sadly, more commonly, when those who are struck by tragedy which renders sport itself irrelevant. Unfortunately, during a lifetime of being involved in and working around sport, there have…
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Two’s company, will three be a game changer?
I’d love to get talking to a bookmaker someday to attain a better understanding of how the form markets. Or, put another way, price up events. Decide what price participants are going to be for a given event. For example, they can’t just pluck figures from the sky and decide, say, that Donegal are going…
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Golden Oldies and a Sunday morning adjusting to a new high
With exactly 11 minutes to go in Tullamore on Saturday evening last, my significant other began imploring referee Joe McQuillan to blow for full time. Now read on… After removing the Michael out of the poor woman over her time keep miscalculation, it was readily admitted that such was the astonishment and excitement surrounding the…
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Costello absence glaring as Meath face State exam
If the litmus test for the progress or otherwise of any Meath team is how they acquit themselves against Dublin, then for any senior inter county team attempting to gauge their current state of wellbeing, tackling Kerry must be the on-pitch equivalent of sitting the State exams currently frying the brains of young people nationwide.…