Tag: John Kiely
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The best day of the sporting year
Dear Larry McCarthy, Please leave well enough alone. Thank you. The dust had hardly settled on the best day of the sporting year when the outgoing GAA President started blurting about fixing it that the Leinster and Munster SHC Finals wouldn’t be on the same day again. Utter idiocy. It’s not as if people attending…
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Selections for Punchestown – Apr. 25th 2023
3.40: SHECOULDBEANYTHING (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.15: FACILE VEGA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.50: MERLIN GIANT – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 5.25: BLUE LORD – W/O FAV – (DARYL JACOB/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.00: ARUNTOTHEQUEEN – EW – (AINE O’CONNOR (3)/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 6.35: SIR GERHARD (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 7.10: DE NORDENER (DEREK O’CONNOR/ENDA BOLGER) 7.45: JOYEUX VIVO –…
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Selections for Naas – Mar. 12th 2023
1.57: NICK ROCKETT (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.32: IRISH POINT (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.07: FALVIO – EW – (PETER CARBERRY/TONY MARTIN) 3.42: HANDS OF GOLD (MARK WALSH/ARTHUR MOORE) 4.17: LIMERICK LACE (MARK WALSH/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.52: THE TACK ROOM (SIMON TORRENS/JOHN KIELY) 5.27: FANCY GIRL (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Selections for Limerick – Dec. 29th 2022
12.20: SIR BOB (MARK WALSH/ROBERT TYNER) 12.55: THE TACK ROOM – EW – (GAVIN BROUDER (5)/JOHN KIELY) 1.30: BRAZIL (MARK WALSH/PADRAIG ROCHE) 2.05: BENZ – W/O FAV – (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.35: SENIOR CHIEF (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.05: JEWELINTHESKY – EW – (GARY NOONAN (7)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 3.35: DOYEN TO WIN – EW – (KEVIN…
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Selections for Wexford – Oct. 30th 2022
1.00: THE MEDIATOR (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.35: AIDE DE CAMP – EW – (AIDAN COLEMAN/DENIS HOGAN) 2.05: MARTHA DEVINE (SEAN O’KEEFFE/PAUL NOLAN) 2.40: FOX LE BAI – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/LIZ DOYLE) 3.15: GOLD CUP BAILY (DARYL JACOB/STUART CRAWFORD) 3.50: OPTIONAL MIX (JORDAN GAINFORD/EOIN DOYLE) 4.20: GLORY LISS (DAVY KIELY (7)/JOHN KIELY)
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Selections for Tipperary – Aug. 26th 2022
4.15: PAULLIAC (BILLY LEE/WILLIE MCCREERY) 4.50: LIBRARY (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.25: FREESCAPE (MIKEY SHEEHY (3)/DAVID MARNANE) 6.00: HONEY GIRL – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.35: EROSANDPSYCHE (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 7.10: WAYNE R WALKER (SEAN BOWEN (4)*/DONAL KINSELLA) 7.40: BLACKPOINT – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JOHN KIELY)
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Selections for Tipperary – Aug. 5th 2022
5.00: ULTRAMARINE (MIKEY SHEEHY (3)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.35: MOSS TUCKER (JOEY SHERIDAN (3)/KEN CONDON) 6.10: BUTTERFLY ISLAND – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 6.45: LE DOLCE VITA (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 7.20: RICK DALTON (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 7.55: OVERHEER – EW – (GARY CARROLL/JOE MURPHY) 8.25: HI STRANGER – EW – (O.M. QUEALLY (7)/JOHN KIELY)
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Selections for Galway – July 26th 2022
5.10: TELECON – EW – (RICKY DOYLE/MARK FAHEY) 5.40: WESTERN COWBOY – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.10: ANGELS FEATHER – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 6.40: SALTONSTALL – EW – (CIAN MACREDMOND (5)/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS) 7.15: BUTTERFLY ISLAND (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 7.50: EARLS – EW – (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 8.20: BLACKPOINT – EW –…
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Limerick’s greatness indisputable as the road ahead looks mapped out
Limerick…1-31 Kilkenny…2-26 In a game of 60 scores over 74 minutes, it almost feels somewhere between futile and knit picking to start looking for and talking about turning points. Yet though this will doubtless be painful by the banks of the Nore at the minute, there were a few vital things which went against Kilkenny…
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Selections for Tipperary – July 17th 2022
1.50: HIGHSTREET ROLLER – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/TOM GIBNEY) 2.22: DON DIABLO – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.57: REBELLIOUS GALE (PETER CARBERRY/TONY MARTIN) 3.32: MICA MALPIC (JOHN SHINNICK (4)*/ENDA BOLGER) 4.07: L’IMPERTINENT (SIMON TORRENS/ENDA BOLGER) 4.41: FANCY FOUNDATIONS (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.16: PAT’S PICK – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/STUART CRAWFORD)