Tag: Kildare

  • Selections for Clonmel – Mar. 22nd 2022

    Selections for Clonmel – Mar. 22nd 2022

    1.45: SPARE BRAKES (PHILIP ENRIGHT/ROBERT TYNER) 2.18: EN AVANT – EW – (RICHIE CONDON (7)/LOUISE LYONS) 2.53: PLAINS INDIAN (CIAN QUIRKE (7)/ANDY SLATTERY) 3.28: CARRIGEEN CASTLE – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/JIM DREAPER) 4.03: YABO (SEAN FLANAGAN/LIZ DOYLE) 4.38: BLACKBOW (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.10: HAZELHATCH LADY – EW – (DEREK O’CONNOR/JAMES FAHEY)

  • Passion, enthusiasm and the knowledge to back it up

    Passion, enthusiasm and the knowledge to back it up

    If you’ve ever been physically or emotionally invested in a sporting occasion, chances are the seminal moment in a given event may pass you by. Simply owing to being caught up in either joy or despair of whatever has just occurred. The point was made to somebody only recently that in the chaos that was…

  • Not ideal but it would certainly add to the excitement

    Not ideal but it would certainly add to the excitement

    Genoa, Italy, June 1990. An utterly forgettable game of football at that summer’s World Cup is completely overshadowed by an occurance which merits accreditation as surely the most dramatic Irish sporting moment of all time. A nation did indeed hold its breath as David O’Leary of Arsenal blasted Ireland into the last eight of the…

  • Selections for Navan – July 10th 2021

    1.00: DAISY PEERS (JOEY SHERIDAN (5)/FOZZY STACK) 1.35: MOVING FOR GOLD – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/FOZZY STACK) 2.10: IT MIGHT BE YOU – W/O FAV –  (GARY CARROLL/MICK MULVANY) 2.45: AMAZING EMMA – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/LIAM MCATEER) 3.20: TAZARAL (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD) 3.55: SEA TROUT REACH – EW – (ROBERT WHEARTY (7)/WILLIE MCCREERY) 4.30:…

  • Frailties ruthlessly exposed by evolving Kildare

    Frailties ruthlessly exposed by evolving Kildare

    Kildare…1-14 Meath… 0-14 Sometimes it is as simple as it looks. Gaelic football, like everything in life, constantly changing. Evolution, though, often means things have been known to end up back where they once were. Now read on… If you were to look at footage if the Dublin-Kerry games from the 1970s – lauded as…

  • Good and bad during dry run in the west

    Good and bad during dry run in the west

    Meath…… 2-12 Mayo…… 3-17 Let’s get the ugly business out of the way first. Meath conceded far too many scores, with a worrying degree of generosity. The case for the defence has plenty going for it however. Whether by accident or design, Andy McEntee made eight changes from the announced line up, but those given…

  • Meath find their goal-den touch to get due reward

    Meath…..5-09 Kildare……0-15 One of the biggest drawbacks during Meath’s National League campaign, which resulted in them being relegated from the top tier, was the difficulty they had in raising green flags. Whatever happened during the lockdown, the Royal County have registered a dozen ‘majors’ in their two Championship outings to date. Every one of the…

  • Geraghty has “Long Road” ahead as journey of recovery continues

    Amanda Geraghty issued a positive update regarding her husband Graham’s ongoing recovery from major surgery two weeks ago. The former Meath captain and selector was rushed to hospital on October 28th gravely ill and underwent emergency surgery at a Dublin hospital. In the aftermath of the procedure, Mrs Geraghty said the two-time All Star was…

  • Selections for Gowran Park – Oct. 19th 2020

    2.05: TIGER MYLK – EW – (MIKEY SHEEHY (7)/DERMOT WELD) 2.35: BREAKING NEWS (WILLIE BYRNE (7)/JIM BOLGER) 3.05: KING OF THE CASTLE (COLIN KEANE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 3.35: EVEN FLOW (NATHAN CROSSE (5)/WILLIE MCCREERY) 4.05: ROCKVIEW EMPRESS (COLIN KEANE/JOHN MCCONNELL) 4.35: LE JOYA (COLIN KEANE/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.05: SWIFT VERDICT (COLIN KEANE/WILLIE MULLINS)

  • Selections for Naas – Oct. 18th 2020

    1.25: COULTHARD (LEIGH ROCHE/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 1.55: GOLDEN LYRIC (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 2.30: WOOD RANGER (NATHAN CROSSE (5)/WILLIE MCCREERY) 3.05: VAFARTINO (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.40: PARENTS PRAYER (BEN COEN/ARCHIE WATSON, IN GB) 4.15: BARRINGTON COURT (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 4.50: EBONY MAW (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 5.20: POSTER CHILD (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER)