Tag: GAABeo
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Disappointment lessened by a garnish of context
When the Meath senior hurlers got within a half dozen points of an Offaly side who the previous September had been beaten by Clare in the Liam Mac Carthy Cup Final and Kilmessan’s Anton O’Neill was awarded RTE’s Man Of The Match – and especially with the Royal County having already defeated the Faithful and…
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Many young men of 20 will aim to take Meath to final hat-trick
If you’ll forgive the bit of journalistic licence, it should of course read many young men of U-20, but one couldn’t resist the opportunity to include a reference to the rebel ballad best performed – in my humble opinion – by Ronnie Drew. Anyway, you get the gist. Meath U-20 football manager Cathal O’Bric has…
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It only takes a minute lads!
MEATH…2-17 CAVAN…1-18 My obsession with and love for farming and machinery, particularly classic or vintage or classic iterations thereof, is something which I hope is still in me even when the pulse is gone. That said, February 1st in a darkening Breffni Park might seem a curious time to be musing on such things, but…
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Thanks ‘Hoggy’ the pleasure has been all ours
I’ve no connection to Co Cork. Save for being transported there while still in the Moses Basket because my sister was competing in athletics in The Mardyke. Also competing on same ‘card’ that day was one G. Geraghty (Kentstown AC). Isn’t it funny the way the wheels of life turn? Other than that, the other…
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Sideline Cuts – 40
Midweek Meanderings For reasons that hardly need elaborating, there are those who think I have my knife in the GAA at large presently. For said reason and that alone, a guilty plea will readily be entered. However, outside of the aforementioned subject area, even the most steadfast Gael must surely on occasion admit that the…
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Cleary straight back in to skipper Royals
Meath manager Shane McCormack has opted to put captain Aisling Cleary straight back into his starting 15 ahead of their showdown with Dublin in the first round of the TG4 Leinster LSFC at Pairc Tailteann. This despite the fact that the Donaghmore/Ashbourne clubwoman missed the closing stages of the National League. Presumably in readying herself…
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Oh Kevin, go hibernate in a bag of sugar
As a newly diagnosed diabetic I can’t believe the above headline has had to be produced, but it was the first thing that came to mind having digested Kevin McStay’s remarks regarding David Clifford in the aftermath of last Sunday’s Allianz FL Div. 1 final. Where, for the umpteenth time and then some, the green…
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Meath’s NFL Div. 2 Fixtures 2025
Robbie Brennan will become the third consecutive Meath senior football manager to begin his tenure in the Allianz National Football League with an away fixture against Cork. And, where Colm O’Rourke got his all too brief stewardship of the county’s football fortunes off to a great start with a 3-14 to 0-19 victory in Pairc…
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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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Time to invoke the siege mentality
Meath… 0-12 Donegal… 1-10 Why or how Milwall ever came up with their infamous “We are Milwall, nobody likes us, we don’t care” chant is beyond me. It’s not as if they were ever any good. Affixing the same mantra to Meath football teams is far easier to understand. Reason being none other than the…