Tag: #LGFA2025
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Eating cake and having it do not compute
“You can’t stop young people having the opportunity to have a career in sport because there’s not many as sports here in Ireland where there’s that chance as there are in Australia”. Cora Staunton And there you have it. Somebody finally puts it in black and white. Even if the person in question loves talking out…
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Sarah’s finest hour steers Meath back to Croker
MEATH…2-12 KERRY…1-09 For any team to even strive to reach the maximum of their perceived potential, there will be days when those who are often the unsung heroes or heroines ascend to the highest notes to bring the crescendo to its desired conclusion. Thus was the scenario at Glenisk O’Connor Park on Saturday evening as…
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Golden Oldies and a Sunday morning adjusting to a new high
With exactly 11 minutes to go in Tullamore on Saturday evening last, my significant other began imploring referee Joe McQuillan to blow for full time. Now read on… After removing the Michael out of the poor woman over her time keep miscalculation, it was readily admitted that such was the astonishment and excitement surrounding the…
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McCormack maintains consistency of selections
Shane McCormack has once against kept the faith with those who got much closer to winning the Leinster SFC last month than most people expected. Indeed, they may have actually achieved the feat were it not for the fact that certain Meath players couldn’t get a free off Amazon, never mind the referee. Still, they…
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No Rowe for Dubs as Royals stay the same
Carla Rowe is a notable absentee from the Dublin starting 15 ahead of Sunday’s TG4 Leinster LSFC Final in Croke Park, while opponents Meath have named an unchanged line up from that which survived a late scare against Kildare in Newbridge on Sunday last. Country Crest Farms employee Rowe will be joined on the Dublin…
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One change for the Ladies
In a nod to the fact that while a few results haven’t gone their way of late but at the same time they haven’t been doing a whole lot wrong, Meath have made just one change ahead of what amounts to a semi final in the TG4 Leinster LSFC against Kildare at Cedral St Conleth’s…
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Cleary straight back in to skipper Royals
Meath manager Shane McCormack has opted to put captain Aisling Cleary straight back into his starting 15 ahead of their showdown with Dublin in the first round of the TG4 Leinster LSFC at Pairc Tailteann. This despite the fact that the Donaghmore/Ashbourne clubwoman missed the closing stages of the National League. Presumably in readying herself…
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Housekeeping with one eye on the next part of the odyssey
A couple of horrendous refereeing decisions – which of course the whistler will not face any censure for – may have cost Meath a place in the Lidl LNFL Div. 1 final, but it can still regarded as a successful spring sojourn for the green and gold. With that in mind, manager Shane McCormack has…
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Duggan absent from Royal line up
Emma Duggan is a notable and very worrying absentee from the Meath team published as that which will take on Kerry in the Lidl Ladies NFL at Austin Stack Park in Tralee tomorrow (Saturday). Throw in is scheduled for 2pm and the game will be shown live on TG4. Katie Newe comes in as an…
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Another new midfield combination for the Ladies
Manager Shane McCormack has again shuffled his deck in preparation for Saturday’s date with the Dubs in Round 5 of the Lidl Ladies NFL at Parnell Park. Throw in is at 3pm and the game will be shown live on TG4. The positional switches see Nicole Troy reclaim her usual corner back berth with Ratoath’s…