We’re in that strange time of the GAA year, when club competitions around the country are winding down, but the restart of the inter county fare still feels a long way off. Or does it?… As you will (hopefully) have seen on these pages during the week, the Meath Regional Football Championships kicked off in… Read More Home is where the heart is as old boys reunite
Dunboyne…3-14 Seneschalstown…1-06 Having just been a solitary point to the good at half time, Joe Breen Cup holders Dunboyne turned in an exceptional second half effort in this re-fixed Ladies SFC semi final in Ashbourne on Tuesday night. The Yellow Furze outfit were actually much the quicker into their stride and constructed a five point… Read More Holders still standing with one hurdle to go
3.27: STROMBERG (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.02: ROCK DANDY (JAMIE POWELL (5)/PAT MURPHY) 4.37: MANHATTAN DANDY – EW – (SEAN BOWEN (7)/TOMMY COYLE) 5.12: HAZALAYA (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 5.45: FLEETFLOOT (RORY CLEARY/JIM BOLGER) 6.15: LUKE SHORT (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 6.45: EASTMORE (SCOTT MCCULLAGH (3)/KEVIN PRENDERGAST) 7.15: MACINAMILLION (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL)
Meath LGFA will, at their meeting of September 11th, put forward the name of Kildare man Shane McCormack as the preferred candidate to be ratified to assume the position of county senior team manager. The former Kildare men’s custodian has plenty of managerial experience having most recently guided Armagh to a Lidl Ladies NFL Div.… Read More Meath opt for McCormack
2.05: SIGNORA DI MILANO (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.40: GWAN TADGH (BEN HARVEY (3)/EDDIE O’GRADY) 3.15: MARV MICHAEL (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.50: JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN (RICKY DOYLE/GERRY KEANE) 4.20: GROZNI (PHILIP BYRNES (2*)/CHARLES BYRNES) 4.55: I AM SPIDER MAN (PHILIP BYRNES (5)/CHARLES BYRNES) 5.25: ATTITASH – EW – (CARAGH MONAGHAN (7)/IAN DONOGHUE)
No doubt there will be players who weren’t part of the Meath senior football panel this season will have caught the eye of Colm O’Rourke and his fellow mentors thus far in the local club championships and – if they aren’t called in directly – they will surely be aiming to utilise the Regional Championships… Read More Royal rethink required as duo depart
5.30: GENTLE AND KIND (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.00: HASHTAG PRETENDER (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN/BARRY CONNELL) 6.30: FILL THE TANK – EW – (CIAN QUIRKE (5)/AENGUS KING) 7.00: GENTLEMAN JOE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 7.30: AGIRLCALLEDCHLOE – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 8.00: TECH TALK – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/JIM DREAPER) 8.30: PORTCAMMON (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
Meath… 2-13 Down… 0-14 In The Cure At Troy Seamus Heaney tells us “Hope and history rhyme”. Well, they most certainly did for Meath at Croke Park on Saturday afternoon as the county’s male senior footballers lifted a first trophy in the big field since 2010. Hopefully that will at long last extinguish dross about… Read More Royal templates usher in a new era
In what must be seen as a nod of satisfaction with the form and confidence in and within her team, Jenny Rispin has again named the same Meath team to take on Kerry in Saturday night’s All Ireland Ladies SFC quarter final in Tralee. Since the sides met in the Brendan Martin Cup Final 51… Read More Same again for second half of Super Saturday
Meath… 0-12 Donegal… 1-10 Why or how Milwall ever came up with their infamous “We are Milwall, nobody likes us, we don’t care” chant is beyond me. It’s not as if they were ever any good. Affixing the same mantra to Meath football teams is far easier to understand. Reason being none other than the… Read More Time to invoke the siege mentality