Tag: Limerick
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Continuity assured as Andy gets green light
Andy McEntee will continue as Meath senior football manager for a sixth season. The St Peter’s, Dunboyne clubman got a resounding endorsement (46-27) from the county’s club delegates in the Knightsbrook Hotel. This comes after the ‘Powers That Be’ had decided to vote against the incumbent doing the third of his three years term. The…
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Selections for Dundalk – Oct. 1st 2021
4.45: HARRY’S BAR (WAYNE LORDAN/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS) 5.15: LADIES CHURCH (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 5.45: THAT’S JUST DANDY – EW – (ROBBIE COLGAN/PADDY TURLEY) 6.15: NERO TULIP (SAM EWING/GER LYONS) 6.45: ABSOLUTE RULER (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 7.15: BURNING LAKE (WESLEY JOYCE (7)/JOE MURRAY) 7.45: BROSNA EMPRESS (SCOTT MCCULLAGH (5)/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 8.15: SENSE OF WORTH – EW –…
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Another of the ‘Dreaper Lads’ heads for the gallops above
No matter what one’s interests are in life, if they become a big enough part of your life, it moves away from the realm of pass time to something more significant. Then, if you happen to be blessed like me, it can be how you earn your few bob as well. I wouldn’t call it…
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Limerick’s big men make their point
Limerick… 1-25 Waterford… 0-17 Peter Casey’s moment of madness will be the main talking point, but what shone through most was Limerick’s mental and physical strength as they qualified for a third All Ireland Final in four years. The corner forward saw red after becoming involved in a tangle with Waterford’s Conor Gleeson, but, as…
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Selections for Limerick – July 22nd 2021
4.40: SHAKE HIM UP (BRIAN HAYES/EMMET MULLINS) 5.10: ROBYNDEGLORY (CONOR MCNAMARA (3)/DECLAN QUEALLY) 5.40: VIKING HOARD – EW – (PHILIP BYRNES (7)/CATHAL BYRNES) 6.10: THE GETAWAY STAR (SHANE FITZGERALD (7)/DECLAN QUEALLY) 6.40: GOOD RECEPTTION (MARK WALSH/PAT FOLEY) 7.10: CORNERKOVA (MIKE O’CONNOR (7)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 7.40: SOME JOKE – EW – (PHILIP BYRNES (7)/CATHAL BYRNES) 8.15:…
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A game to define an era?
They say that time nor tide waits for no man or woman or child. However, there are moments in life – and not just sporting ones – that appear to make tlme stand still. The likes of the Moon Landing, 9/11, the Omagh bombing or the election of Barack Obama to the White House, you’ll…
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Selections for Limerick – May 27th 2021
4.20: TARQUEENS GLORY – EW – (PADDY KENNEDY/MICHAEL KENNEDY) 4.50: SUPREME JOY – EW – (PADDY KENNEDY/MICHAEL KENNEDY) 5.20: FAMA ET GLORIA – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.55: BALTIC MOON (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.30: DEEALLI – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/KARL THORNTON) 7.05: MARIA FRANCESCA – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/MICK WINTERS) 7.40: WESTERN COWBOY (RACHAEL…
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Selections for Gowran – May 26th 2021
4.30: TIMEMAKESITFINE (COLIN KEANE/JAMES MCAULEY) 5.00: CRYSTAL BLACK – EW – (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD) 5.35: LA PETITE COCO (RONAN WHELAN/PADDY TWOMEY) 6.10: WEXFORD SOIL – EW – (WILLIE BYRNE (7)/JIM BOLGER) 6.40: EASTERN RACER – EW – (NATHAN CROSSE (5)/SEAN BYRNE) 7.10: ANGELS TRUMPET – EW – (SAM EWING (5)/PETER FAHEY) 7.40: DROMOD LAD –…
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Sideline Cuts – 13
Back To Basics Approach Works Mention has often been made in this space on numerous occasions of how reading habits are sporadic at best. As if to underscore that fact, a sizable chunk of Davy Fitzgerald’s autobiography was ingested in a fairly quick time, only for the excellent collaboration with Vincent Hogan to be parked…
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Green hills not that far away that i’ll get back to some day soon
‘There is a green hill far away; I’m going back there one fine day’ proclaims the seminal line in Glastonbury Song by The Waterboys who of course saw the whole of the moon in their time too. The quoted lines reverberated virulently in the mind recently. For two reasons in particular. Firstly out of utter…