Tag: Kildare GAA
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A snippet of the opening round fixtures in the Allianz Leagues
All Ireland football champions Dublin will welcome Monaghan to Croke Park (presumably) in the opening round of the NFL, it was revealed this evening as some details of the fixtures in the perceived secondary competition were released on Friday afternoon. The Farney Army have caused the all conquering Dubs more problems than most over the…
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Meath opt for McCormack
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.…
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Only a game? It is in my a**e
On the morning after his brother Tom was laid to rest, da met his namesake the Meath manager in the shop. Meath were playing Dublin in a ‘regulation’ National League match in Croker later that day. Initial inclinations here were for there to be no family representation in GAA HQ that afternoon. Until the herbalist…
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Selections for Sligo – July 9th 2023
2.00: SHAJAK (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.35: ARTEMIS ANGEL (SEAN FLANAGAN/PETER FAHEY) 3.10: RED BALL OF FIRE (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN (3)/MARK MCNIFF) 3.45: STAGING POST (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN (3)/MARK MCNIFF) 4.20: CORKBEG – EW – (CIAN QUIRKE (7)/HARRY KELLY) 4.55: DINOLAND – EW – (BEN HARVEY (5)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 5.30: GIVEAGO (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Watching, admiring, hoping
Did you ever watch somebody, sporting or otherwise, and just get an inkling straight away they were destined for stardom? Off the top of my head I could name a plethora, quite a few of them close to home. Graham Geraghty and Emma Duggan are two that jump off the page. On a larger scale,…
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Glenn might be left thinking ‘less said, soonest mended’
Undoubtedly one of the most famous – or infamous, depending on whicb way you view it – media interactions in the history of the Premier League was when Kevin Keegan absolutely lost the plot during the season in which his Newcastle United were engaged in a protracted title tussle with Manchester United. The Magpies boss’s…
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Selections for The Curragh – May 1st 2023
1.20: NEO SMART (RORY CLEARY/JIM BOLGER) 1.50: NOCHE MAGICA (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 2.25: PADDINGTON (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 3.00: QUEENIE ST CLAIR – EW – (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 3.35: STAR GIRLS AALMAL – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.10: INSINUENDO (BILLY LEE/WILLIE MCCREERY) 4.45: TRANSCANDENTAL – EW – (ROBERT WHEARTY (4)*/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.20: MOGWLI –…
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Strange Sundays – Part I
If any writers, or producers of any media content, have ever experienced the following please drop a line down in the comments. On Sunday morning I started writing a piece relating to the two semi finals of the World Snooker Championship. Specifically, the contrast between the two. The epic encounter between Luca Brecel and Si…
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Running to stand still… at best
Meath… 0-08 Kildare… 0-13 Before a ball was kicked in Div. 2 of this year’s Allianz NFL, the opinion was expressed in this space that survival therein might represent an achievement in itself. Now however, with the campaign concluded, that feels like an underachievement. If only due to the highly encouraging start achieved in defeating…
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Four changes for final League fling
The Meath team to take on Kildare in tomorrow’s final round of the Allianz NFL shows four changes from that which lost out to Dublin last weekend. At least one of the alterations is enforced with Donal Keogan’s incredible 83-game not-out streak ended after the inspirational Rathkennny clubman was forced off with a hamstring injury…