Tag: Limerick GAA
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Whatever plan you have, they’ll come up with a better one
Limerick… 2-24 Galway… 1-18 Evidence that good players don’t always make good managers is ample. No need to name names but there have quite a few Galacticos who’ve flopped worse than a Premier League footballer trying to con their way to a penalty. Henry Shefflin absolutely does not belong in the above category. He couldn’t…
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Dempsey departure GAA peculiarity at its finest
Temptation was to begin this piece with reference to people starting things and not finishing them and having form for same. Perhaps best to leave that parked though. If only because Ray Dempsey could hardly have started much in Limerick and today he departed after just five league games. Ironically only days after getting their…
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A hard habit to break
Meath…2-11 Limerick…0-17 In what turned out to be Mick O’Dowd’s last game as Meath manager, his charges led Derry by seven points at half time in an All Ireland SFC Qualifier before capitulating spectacularly after half time. This corner cannot recall whether it had happened prior to that, but it certainly has been a habit…
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Two changes for Treaty trip
The Meath team for Sunday’s crucial Allianz NFL clash with Limerick shows two changes from that which lost out to Louth last weekend. Both alterations are enforced, with Seneschalstown’s Cathal Hickey replacing the suspended Harry O’Higgins and the experienced Padraic Harnan making his first appearance of the season. The Moynalvey clubman is listed to start…