Tag: Kieran Donnelly

  • Eventually the elastic has to snap

    Eventually the elastic has to snap

    Charlie Ennis*, Brendan McKeon, Adam O’Connor, Kyle Donnelly, Padraig O’Hanrahan, Eamonn Og O’Donnchadh, Ethan Devine, Shane Whitty,Stephen T. Morris and Adam Gannon. That’s just off the top of my head. There may be more. The above list? Those who were central tenets of the Meath senior hurling panel over the last couple of seasons who…

  • Point lost or point gained?

    Point lost or point gained?

    MEATH… 0-12 FERMANAGH… 1-09 It would be ventured the above will be the most asked question in Meath tonight. By players, mentors and supporters. At this moment in time, this writer is unsure. Temptation is to think a point dropped. But at the same time, the home side were so flat hands would’ve been taken…

  • Three League newcomers for Royals

    Three League newcomers for Royals

    Mick Murphy, Ciaran Caulfield and Sean Coffey will make their Allianz National Football League debuts for Meath tomorrow as part of the team announced to take on Fermanagh. Ballinabrackey’s Coffey holds the unusual distinction of having played Championship for the Royal County before featuring in the springtime competition. Elsewhere, skipper Ronan Jones reverts to his…

  • The good and the shaky of Derry

    The good and the shaky of Derry

    These are strange times in the sporting world. We have GAA Championships being played at a ludicrous time of the year, new fangled pundits giving it a No Country For Old Men feel, telling us the most basic and best way of playing Gaelic football is wrong, and old men taking on jobs when they…

  • Cavan are the template others must follow – SIDELINE CUTS (26)

    Cavan are the template others must follow – SIDELINE CUTS (26)

    For some reason which has never quite been figured out, this corner has always had something of a hidden soft spot for the Cavan Senior Football team. The nearest to an explanation which can be arrived at is that – for a while – during my school years, our jerseys were blue and white replicas…