Tag: #Hurling2025
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Sometimes jest is too close to the bone
On the evening of the day on which I made my Confirmation, April 16th 1994, the late Dermot Morgan was finishing a run of shows at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. For those of you with less than three decades mileage on this here planet, yes Dermot did exist before Father Ted. Firstly ironically as…
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Two more great advertisements for Meath hurling
In the immediate aftermath of Stephen Masterson blowing the full time whistle at the end of another epic between Ratoath and Kiltale in the Meath SHC Final replay, temptation was to headline this piece ‘Podge and Rog lead Ratoath to title retention’. But that would have only told a fraction of the story… Not only…
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A rising tide might carry all boats but some need life jackets
When steadily hurtling towards a fourth decade of being enveloped in sport at a level which far exceeds fandom, you do begin to think you’ve seen all there is to see. The good, the bad and the ugly, as the original Mr Eastwood might put it. Thank you very much to him! That said, there…
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Analysis and criticism is fine but don’t make liars of yourselves
The amazing thing was that it took until now. May 2025. When a county manager lost the head with a member of the press corps to the point of intimidation. Yes, there are certain individuals who drove buses over some very thin ice on the same road previously, but never left a crater commensurate to…
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One more role of the dice
Defeat to home side Wicklow in Echelon Park, Aughrim last weekend took Meath’s Christy Ring Cup ambitions out of their own hands, but to have any chance of maintaining their interest therein, the must get the better of a typically obstinate Donegal side at St Loman’s Park, Trim at 1.30pm tomorrow (Saturday). Manager Johnny Greville…
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Two changes for hurlers ahead of Aughrim assignment
The Meath team to take on Wicklow in their next Christy Ring Cup assignment at Echelon Park in Aughrim tomorrow shows two alterations from that which ground out a gutsy success against Derry two weeks ago. Trim’s David Murtagh and Cian Rogers from county kingpins Ratoath replace James Kelly and Mikey Cole respectively. Meanwhile, in…
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Early Cole goals keep Meath on a roll
MEATH…3-17 DERRY…1-22 Whoever the odds compilers are on GAA matches are, they must be from some county that Meath stuffed in times past. Furthermore, they must be perfectly balanced with a chip on both shoulders, because the manner in which they have chalked up matches involving Meath teams of late has been nothing short of…
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Greville goes for a half dozen changes
Meath manager Johnny Greville and his fellow mentors have opted to make a half dozen changes to the side which disappointingly lost out to London last week ahead of tomorrow’s Christy Ring Cup second round encounter against Tyrone at Trim. The green and gold will be hoping to repeat their NHL victory of earlier in…
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Greville recalibrates in attempt to bloom against the Lilies
Johnny Greville has made wholesale changes to the Meath Senior Hurling team ahead of Saturday’s Allianz NHL Div. 2 promotion shoot out against high flying Kildare in Trim. No more than our lady footballers against Kerry, the green and gold stickmen will be hoping to redress a negatively lopsided recent record against their floury opponents.…
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Quigley in for Meath
Sean Quigley of St Peter’s, Dunboyne will make his first start of the season for the Meath hurlers when Johnny Greville’s charges put their unbeaten record in Div. 2 of the Allianz NHL on the line this afternoon in Austin Stack Park, Tralee, when they take on a Kerry combination that lost to Donegal last…