Tag: Joe McMahon
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Strong Coffey and The Duke Of Dunshaughlin concoct a winning recipe
MEATH… 2-18 ROSCOMMON… 0-17 Do not adjust your sets. This is not a drill. There may be genuine grounds for optinism. Not cockiness. Not arrogance. Hope. Whilst loathe to over egg the pudding, this was a significant shift put in by this Meath team. For not only was it a victory over a team who,…
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Ratoath grab the headlines again with Galvin acquisition
No, not the racehorse, the other lad. You have to admire entities, sporting or otherwise, with their ambitions pointed in the right direction and the b***s to go after them. On that score, Ratoath are never found wanting. Since first making their breakthrough on the Meath club football scene in the early 2000s, they have…
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Robbie Brennan’s first interview as Meath senior football manager
Robbie Brennan sits down with Meath Co Committee P.R.O. Brian Kelly for his first interview since his appointment as successor to Colm O’Rourke. In a wide ranging discussion, the new boss discusses his own Meath lineage, the unique place his dad Pat holds in the Wolfe Tones club, growing up as a Meath man in…
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Gillespie addition gives Brennan’s band local bite
When news of Robbie Brennan’s appointment as Meath senior football manager broke on Thursday evening last, the point was made in this space that labelling of the new boss as an outside manager would be well wide of the mark. With his dad Pat occupying a position of reverence with the Wolfe Tones club having…
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The standard Dunboyne initiation that gave so much more in return
From as far back as when I was in Primary school, my powers of recall were often a topic of discussion. Especially if the subject matter was either sport or farming related. Even though to some of the assembled audience, mention of either would constitute fountains of useless information. Be that as it may, I…
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Brennan takes on the Royal baton
BREAKING NEWS In a historic development for St Peter’s, Dunboyne, Robbie Brennan becomes the third representative of the club to hold the position of Meath senior football manager following his appointment tonight (Wednesday) on a three year term. The current Kilmacud Crokes and former Dunboyne manager – who also played for both clubs – of…