Tag: Graham Geraghty
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Podcast Episode: Paul B. Garvey Naulswood and New Inn – A Tribute
Pip: There are tributes, and then there are tributes that make you wish you'd known the person being written about. Brendan has written one of the latter. Mara: This episode is one long piece — a tribute to a man named Paul B. Garvey, covering friendship, loyalty, and the kind of adventures that only happen…
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A time of opportunity rather than a problem
Transition. Movement. Change. Difference. Essentially, they all describe the same thing. But can have seismically different meanings for different people. Indeed, they can have vastly fluctuating connotations for the same people in differing circumstances. Even for yours truly. For instance, the notion of doing Transition Year after completing the Junior Cert. appeared to be a…
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A Lifetime in The Pairc – Part 2
In the opening instalment of this sojourn down memory lane, no secret was made of the fact that my ‘relationship’ with Pairc Tailteann got off to the most disastrous start possible. Between ‘Gate gate’ in 1991, my own personal flag disaster of county final day of 1990 and my initial viewing of a Meath match…
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Kildare need to do what they must to save Private Ryan
“Farmer, farmer, put away that DDT, I don’t care about spots on my apples, leave me the birds and the bees”. One of the verses from Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi there. Which I have always interpreted as ‘stick to what you know, even with whatever faults or flaws may be present. Because, as Mitchell’s…
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Lenihan the difference as Dunboyne get desired start
Dunboyne… 2-14 Seneschalstown… 0-12 A Tailteann Cup medal, a wedding ring and the small matter of a honeymoon – it’s been some couple of weeks for Donal Lenihan. Now read on… The good vibes continued for the accurate forward tonight in Dunsany as he hit 1-10 when Ger Robinson’s men opened their SFC Group B…
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New York leave Leitrim on the wrong side of history
Start spreading the news, they’ve finally done it. After scaring the living daylights out of several teams over the years, the New York footballers recorded their first ever Connacht SFC victory in the early hours of Sunday morning. Nobody can say it hasn’t been coming. Diaspora from this part of the world can be very…
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Sideline Cuts 28 – Sometimes the most obvious answer is the right one
In the dark old days of the National Leagues before each division (rightly) was seen as a separate competition which their own Final, trophy and the like, the knockout stages went in such a way that whoever qualified from Div. 1 played whatever team came out of the fourth tier. Thus, it went that whoever…
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Donegal chaos continues as Carr faces for the road
Exactly what caused the turmoil currently engulfing Donegal football will surely emerge with the fullness of time but the chaos has reached something of a nadir given the news which has emanated from Tir Chonaill this evening. Highland Radio began reporting the following around lunchtime – “It seems Paddy Carr has resigned as Donegal Senior…
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Hideous Horner should put down the shovel
I’ve been lucky to have legendary former Meath football manager Sean Boylan central to my life for as long as there’s been a pulse here. There’s hardly a superlative in the English language which hasn’t been used in praise of the man. Of the numerous articles, interviews, television programmes and books produced about this mosy…
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Common sense never lives up to its name
Former Meath and Dunboyne dual player Paul Fagan is now domiciled in Kildalkey. Soon, he will line out for TG4’s Underdogs against Davy Fitzgerald’s Waterford hurlers. Now read on… As far as hurling in Meath goes, P. Fagan has seen and done it all. Indeed, he did his bit for the GAA in London when…