Tag: Leinster SFC
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Some days even I can’t find the words…
Meath… 0-10 Offaly… 1-11 Posted: 6:15p.m. 23/4/23 Updated: 3:35p.m. 24/4/23 It had to happen some day. Earnest hope was that it wouldn’t be today. For a multiplicity of reasons. But, for the first time in 33 years attending matches and 28 reporting thereon, I honestly don’t know where to begin evaluating what I’ve just seen…
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2023 provincial football championship draws
The draws for the 2023 provincial football championships have been confirmed this afternoon. Colm O’Rourke will have his first Championship match as Meath manager against either Longford or Offally. If my reading of the draw is correct, the above will be a home fixture for the Royal County. “We’ll be starting with a clean slate, picking…
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Andy McEntee ‘Off The Ball’ interview – June 10th 2022
An exclusive interview with the now former Meath senior football manager, recounting the highs and lows of his six year spell in charge. It may actually be an eye opener for people into what it really takes when operating at the highest level.
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Being old fashioned might become the norm!
Fr Dougal is trapped on the explosive milk float, Ted has the lads from the neighbouring island over to help come up with a plan to rescue the dimwitted Curate. After all sorts of tomfoolery, it finally dawned on some of them to put a brick on the accelarator. Enabling Dougal to get off the…
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A few people having to sit up and take notice…
Meath…1-14 Dublin…1-27 Regardless of what transpired between the lines, what you are about to read hereafter was always going to be a story of two halves. However, even if there was a semblance a script in mind it could be torn up before the chariot conveying yours truly had docked on the fourth floor of…
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Same again for Meath
Meath have announced the same starting 15 as that which bypassed Wicklow to take on Dublin in tomorrow’s Leinster SFC semi final at Croke Park. James McEntee will wear the No.5 shirt have swapped roles with Jason Scully at the throw-in the last day in Pairc Tailteann, the switch stays in place. The only other…
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Job done as impact subs live up to their billing.
Meath…4-13 Wicklow…1-12 It was a case of job done for Meath as their eye for goal emphasised the gulf in class between the sides in this Leinster SFC quarter final at a damp Pairc Tailteann this afternoon. The home side started as they meant to go on for as Curraha clubman Jack O’Connor marked his…
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McEntee shakes things up for Championship opener
Meath manager Andy McEntee and selectors Colm Nally, Paul Nestor and Mark Brennan have announced their chosen ones for tomorrow’s Leinster SFC opener against Wicklow at Pairc Tailteann (2pm). There are a number of interesting alterations with Oldcastle’s Jason Scully redeployed at wing back while James McEntee moves in the opposite direction, accompanying his Curraha…
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Meath’s Football, Hurling and Ladies Football National League fixtures for 2022
If, like me, you are not the biggest fan of the whole Festive Season mallarkey and need something to look forward to as a means of getting to the far side of it, we have the solution. Below we have up to date fixture schedules for the Royal County’s senior teams LADIES FOOTBALL The Brendan…
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Brave Display Points To Better Days Ahead
Meath…..1-13 Dublin……2-16 Tears. The first reaction that comes to mind. Emotion for very personal reasons, immense pride at a performance woven thick with the acrylic of the famed Meath never-say-die attitude and then finally heartache at what felt like one that certainly got away. Items two and three are what need to be focused upon…