Life And Sport From An Armchair View
1.35: PRETTY REBEL (JAMIE POWELL (7)/GER O'LEARY) 2.10: ASTAR - EW - (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 2.45: MISTER MISTER (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH 0'BRIEN) 3.20: PLANKTON - EW - (COLIN KEANE/ANDY MCNAMARA) 3.55: KAWIDA - EW - (DECLAN MCDONOGH/ED WALKER, IN GB) Ed Walker is the latest in an increasing number of UK based trainers to travel... Continue Reading →
4.40: POLITICISE (DARRAGH O'KEEFFE/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS) 5.15: OCEAN OF MERCY (DANNY MULLINS/PAUL HENNESSY) 5.45: SHANNON GLORY - W/O FAV - (JACK KENNEDY/PAUL POWER) 6.15: FINAL ORDERS (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 6.45: LIEUTENANT HIGHWAY (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) Lieutenant Highway has progressed with racing 7.15: A MERE BAGATELLE - EW - (PADDY O'HANLON (5)/JOHN HANLON) 7.45: NOTNOWNED (JODY TOWNEND... Continue Reading →
There are things in life which, even though you know they are coming, you are never quite ready for it. In Meath, that day arrived in September 2005 when Sean Boylan announced he wasn't going forward for a 24th season as senior football manager. Hindsight, of course, has proven that it should never have come... Continue Reading →
Limerick...1-31 Kilkenny...2-26 In a game of 60 scores over 74 minutes, it almost feels somewhere between futile and knit picking to start looking for and talking about turning points. Yet though this will doubtless be painful by the banks of the Nore at the minute, there were a few vital things which went against Kilkenny... Continue Reading →
Tipperary... 1-17 Offaly... 1-16 Leo O'Connor must absolutely hate being involved in All Ireland Finals at this stage. It was he, Cantona-esque, with collar up, who essayed over Limerick's final score in the 1994 decider before Offaly manufactured a resurrection to rival anything produced by Our Lord on a Friday long ago. Yesterday, he was... Continue Reading →
Kilkenny... 2-26 Clare... 0-20 When Dunshaughlin were a distance ahead of the pack in Meath football under Eamonn Barry, the highly successful and unfairly maligned coach had inculcated in his players the belief that 16 points was the very minimum required to win matches. It would be very interesting to see what the comparative score... Continue Reading →
"Less than a minute remains on the clock, as I tighten my boot lace, and turn down my sock/Is that the crowd I hear, or is it the ghosts, of men who before me had faced the same test, and never once failed to give of their best? " This corner would never claim to... Continue Reading →
1.45: CULCOR (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 2.20: YERMANTHERE - EW - (GAVIN RYAN/PAT FOLEY) Pat Foley has made a fine start to following in the footsteps of his late father, Tom. 2.55: HARBANAKER - EW - (ROBERT WHEARTY (4)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.30: PARIS PEACOCK (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 4.05: THE REBEL BREEN - W/O FAV - (CHRIS HAYES/NOEL... Continue Reading →
HARRY'S HEROICS ALL IN VAIN Now is not the time for a major analysis or critique. For personal reasons which should be fairly obvious. Meath's defeat in Ennis last night is still far too raw. Emotionally and in other ways. Suffice to say that the end result was bitterly disappointing. Have got off to a... Continue Reading →
When a 'Back Door' system was first introduced to hurling in 1997, aside from the usual and expected negative, entrenched, old-fashioned mindsets declaring it the ruination of hurling as we knew it, the other fascinating factor was the fixtures it threw up. In that sense, the meeting of Tipperary and Down. As a contest, of... Continue Reading →