Tag: KCLR Radio
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Selections for Gowran Park – Jan. 26th 2023
1.05: SIXHANDSINMYPOCKET – EW – (CHARLIE O’DWYER (7)/CONOR O’DWYER) 1.40: HANDS OF GOLD – EW – (AINE O’CONNOR (3)/ARTHUR MOORE) 2.15: TEAHUPOO (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.50: COKO BEACH – EW – (BEN HARVEY (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.25: SIR GERHARD (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.55: LADY RITA – EW – (RICHIE CONDON (2*) /LOUISE LYONS) 4.25: ANKUD (HARRY…
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Strong second half gives new look Royals encouraging start
Meath… 0-16 Carlow… 1-09 Meath got their 2023 football season off to a winning start at a windy and wet Netwatch Cullen Park tonight. New manager Colm O’Rourke gave debuts to seven newcomers for his first match in charge. And in truth, it took the new Royal combination quite a while to settle. Mostly because…
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Trim gladiators depose Cats under their own tin roof
Trim… 0-16 Danesfort… 0-15 ‘Into the valley of death they charged, canons to the left of them, canons to the right of them, canons in front of them/Boldly they rode and well’. The above is a quote from The Charge Of The Light Brigade and, to this writer, nothing could summarise the magnificent achievement by…
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Selections for Gowran Park – Oct. 18th 2022
1.30: STATIC CHARGE (GARY CARROLL/JOE MURPHY) 2.00: YOUNG IRELAND – EW – (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER) 2.30: JEANIEMACARONEY – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.00: STORMIE OUTLOOK – EW – (BILLY LEE/EDDIE O’GRADY) 3.30: SHEILA – EW – (JOEY SHERIDAN (3)/DENIS HOGAN) 4.00: FACETHEPUCOUT (EMMET MCNAMARA/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 4.35: ENGAGEMENT RING (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.10: STAR OFFICIAL…
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Selections for Gowran Park – Oct. 1st 2022
1.45: CHARLIE LUCIANO (BRYAN COOPER/NOEL MEADE) 2.17: RIAAN (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.52: WA WA (BRYAN COOPER/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 3.27: GLENQUIN CASTLE – EW – (MARK WALSH/MARTIN BRASSIL) 4.02: EASY GAME (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.37: OLD TOWN GARDE – EW – (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.12: BANBRIDGE (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.42: BLACKSTAIR ROCCO (BRIAN HAYES/EMMET MULLINS)
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Selections for Gowran Park – Sept. 30th 2022
1.35: CATENA ZAPATA (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.07: SAYLAVEE (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.42: A MERE BAGATELLE (DANNY MULLINS/JOHN HANLON) 3.17: ONLY ONE PLAN – EW – (JAMES O’SULLIVAN (5)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 3.52: CHAMPAGNE PROBLEM (PAT TAAFFE (7)/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.27: JIMMY JIMMY – EW – (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.02: SERPOLETTE – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/EAMON DELANY) 5.37:…
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Selections for Gowran Park – Sept. 17th 2022
1.35: PRETTY REBEL (JAMIE POWELL (7)/GER O’LEARY) 2.10: ASTAR – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 2.45: MISTER MISTER (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH 0’BRIEN) 3.20: PLANKTON – EW – (COLIN KEANE/ANDY MCNAMARA) 3.55: KAWIDA – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/ED WALKER, IN GB) 4.30: FOOLS GLORY – EW – (MIKEY SHEEHY/PAUL MCENERY) 5.05: CHERUB (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN)
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There’s always something to make you think twice
Willie Mullins recently ran a horse in a bumper owned by the Curb Your Enthusiasm Syndicate. Whether the steed won or not cannot be recalled, but is not relevant to the remainder of what you will read hereafter. Now read on… When I got into farming in my own right nearly a decade ago, one…
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The baseball cap finally retires to the peg
There are things in life which, even though you know they are coming, you are never quite ready for it. In Meath, that day arrived in September 2005 when Sean Boylan announced he wasn’t going forward for a 24th season as senior football manager. Hindsight, of course, has proven that it should never have come…
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There’s no system to decommision simplicity
Kilkenny… 2-26 Clare… 0-20 When Dunshaughlin were a distance ahead of the pack in Meath football under Eamonn Barry, the highly successful and unfairly maligned coach had inculcated in his players the belief that 16 points was the very minimum required to win matches. It would be very interesting to see what the comparative score…