Tag: Jack Flynn
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The Jacks are back – and Meath are as good as
MEATH… 3-24 TYRONE… 2-22 Barring an catastrophic development commensurate with Thierry Henry getting away with the most blatant hand ball in football history, Meath have one foot in the doorway to Div. 1 of the National Football League following this ballsy victory over Tyrone at Croke Park. Every one of us aspires to start anything…
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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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The Mighty Flynn gets Meath off to a flyer
MEATH…0-19 DERRY…1-13 Little fish are sweet. A bit of history being made into the bargain never hurts either. The latter being applicable on two fronts. Firstly, on a personal level, as it was the first time yours truly was at a match (that finished) under the bulbs in GAA HQ. And secondly, in the first…
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Meath go with strongest team available
If National League team announcements are worth the paper or screens they are written on, Meath have gone with the strongest combination available to them for Saturday’s National League opener against Derry in Croke Park. That means, despite missing Summerhill’s Leinster Club SFC encounter with Athy nearly three months ago, Eoghan Frayne captains the side…
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With Captain Mainwairing’s torch we can see the light
MEATH…1-25 OFFALY…0-21 When under the black cloud that is depression, sometimes something as simple as a comedy on the television can start the engine running to start the wheels turning again. However, where people of a certain age group might go for an episode of Friends or The Big Bang Theory or, Lord help us…
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We mightn’t be the A-Team but we’re on the move…
MEATH… 0-24 DOWN… 1-18 The iconic John ‘Hanibal’ Smith character in the A-Team was renowned for regularly proclaiming that he “Love(d) it when a plan comes together”, and it’s not hard to imagine similar sentiments being expressed in the Meath dressing room and around the camp after Robbie Brennan’s charges recorded a perhaps mildly surprising…
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Interesting blend of ‘old’ and new in Brennan’s maiden crew
Seamus Lavin, Bryan Menton and Jack Flynn make intriguing returns to the Meath team while there are first National League starts for Brian O’Halloran (?) and Jack Kinlough as Robbie Brennan has revealed his first matchday panel to take on Cork at Pairc Ui Chaoimh. Dunboyne’s Lavin resumes his old berth at corner back, while…
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Don’t Panic! Corporal Jones promoted to Captain!
“Permission to speak, Sir?” was how the excitable Lance Corporal Jack Jones would prevail on the often mithered Captain Mainwaring to allow him go off on one of his meandering rambles, urging calm by imploring all and sundry to “Don’t Panic”! even though he was doing the polar opposite of his own advice himself. If…
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Regan and Costello claim individual awards
Runai Coiste Na Mi, Ciaran Flynn, posted a photo from the GAA awards ceremony this (Friday) evening showing the 13 Royal County representatives honoured on the night denoting the successes enjoyed by our Senior hurlers and footballers during the past season. For the hurlers, that meant accomplishing the noteworthy double of achieving promotion in the…
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An excellent eight recognised after terrific Tailteann triumph
Footballers join Christy Ring heroes already honoured this week Eight members of Meath’s Tailteann Cup winning team have been selected on the Team Of The Year for what I like to think of as the All Ireland Intermediate Football Championship. No doubt, the knockers and begrudgers will sneer at such a thing being celebrated but,…