Tag: Galway
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Seeing too much of yourself in others
My mind often fluctuates in thought regarding how Meath’s greatest ever team – that at their zenith between 1986 and 1991 – would fair out in the Gaelic football of today. Part of me thinks they wouldn’t last jig time owing to a combination of snowflakes having the game sanitised to a point of no […]
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Get the tiers in quick to avoid more tears
At some point during Pat Comer’s excellent video diary of Galway’s 1998 All Ireland SFC win – A Year ‘Til Sunday, then Tribesman wing forward Shay Walsh said that the season was going “A whole lot better than being beaten by crap teams in Tuam”. Now read on… A few people who were very dear […]
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Sports Wordle No. 3
A hurling stronghold where they are never short of somewhere to play. https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=whyhyvu
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Selections for Thurles – Feb. 24th 2022
1.55: DOLCITA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.30: THAT’S LIFEBOUY – EW – (LIAM QUINLAN (5)/JOHN RYAN) 3.05: FOUR COUNTRY ROADS – EW – (HARRY SWAN (7)/BRIAN MCMAHON) 3.40: THE LITTLE YANK (LIAM QUINLAN/JOHN RYAN) 4.15: RAJSALAD – EW – (CHARLIE O’DWYER (7)/CONOR O’DWYER) 4.50: SEFTON WARRIOR – EW – (AINE O’CONNOR (5)/JOHN HANLON) 5.20: BROOKLINE (PATRICK […]
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Passion, enthusiasm and the knowledge to back it up
If you’ve ever been physically or emotionally invested in a sporting occasion, chances are the seminal moment in a given event may pass you by. Simply owing to being caught up in either joy or despair of whatever has just occurred. The point was made to somebody only recently that in the chaos that was […]
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Sideline Cuts – 18
LANDO SIGNS ON AS BLAME GAME RUMBLES ON It only seems like the blink of an eye ago that Max Verstappen was crowned Fomula 1 World Champion in dramatic and highly controversial circumstances, but the real life Batmobiles are being fired up again as the chequered flag prepares to fall on another season. If you […]
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Meath announce the same starting 15
The Meath senior football management team have announced the same starting 15 for tomorrow’s Allianz National Football League Div. 2 encounter with Roscommon at Pairc Tailteann. While it seems highly unlikely the published team will play as selected, there will no doubt be a strong determination to produce a huge performance after last week’s disappointment […]
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Improved second half won’t mask bitter disappointment
Meath……0-06 Galway……1-14 Though Meath fans of a certain age mightn’t realise it, there have been tough days like this before. As far back as 1990 in fact, the first season during which yours truly began attending matches. Meath were beaten 14 points by Antrim and 16 by Roscommon. What happened thereafter? Now read on… They […]
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Early season joy and false dawns
A well travelled sage of the inter county football scene once dubbed a certain team ‘Kings of the challenge match”! The meaning was clear, and franked by the fact they once beat a team by 2-16 to 0-00 at a pitch opening. A few months later, those who had been whitewashed sat atop the pile. […]
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King Henry to confront the locals as draws offer hope
It had to happen, didn’t it? Newly installed Galway manager Henry Shefflin will come up against his own people just three games into his Championship management career. That was undoubtedly the headline story to emrrge from Saturday’s 2022 Mac Carthy Cup draws. The former green helmet-clad wizard will make his summer bow on the sideline […]