Life And Sport From An Armchair View
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) Freddie Tylicki could be in the Parade Ring as a winning owner this evening 6.15: LUKE SHORT (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 6.45: EASTMORE... Continue Reading →
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.... Continue Reading →
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) Meath footballer Caragh Monaghan... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
5.30: GENTLE AND KIND (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) Side with Henry and Rachael in Roscommon 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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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. Emma Duggan evades the attention of two Kerry tacklers in last... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
Jenny Rispin has named the same Meath team as was programmed to take on Waterford on Sunday last ahead of the weekend's Round Robin encounter with Donegal on Saturday evening at Pairc Tailteann. Victory in which will guarantee the defending All Ireland Champions home comforts at the third last hurdle in that defence. The old... Continue Reading →
How oft have you heard it said, when the bovine excrement hits the fan, go back to basics. To what's known best and trusted. This corner has no intention of going into the nuts and bolts of why Davy Nelson and his team stepped down. Quite simply because they are not known. Nor do they... Continue Reading →