Tag: Marion Farrelly
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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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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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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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McCormack’s new look Ladies head for the land of the Red Hand
This writer cannot actually remember a time – other than when she was being rested – when Monica McGuirk wasn’t between the posts for the Meath Ladies. But that is exactly the case this weekend as Shane McCormack takes his new look troop to, ironically, Newtownstewart, home of the legendary goalkeeping brothers – Finbarr and…
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Surprises aplenty as Meath reveal hand for trip to Tralee
There are bound to be more than a few raised eyebrows after manager Shane McCormack revealed his Meath Ladies selection for tomorrow’s (Saturday) All Ireland SFC quarter final against last term’s beaten finalists Kerry in Tralee. Throw in at Austin Stack Park is scheduled for 5.30pm on an epic sporting Saturday. That the inclusion of…
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Deise have no answer to the Gallogly express
MEATH…2-10 WATERFORD…2-05 The record books will show that Ailbhe Leahy and Marion Farrelly bagged the two goals as Meath made it three wins from as many outings in the Lidl Ladies NFL, but it was the fact that Na Deise simply had no answer to the ceaseless, marauding runs of Niamh Gallogly that really swung…
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Meadhbh, Marion strike to keep Dubs at arm’s length
MEATH…2-05 DUBLIN…0-07 When Emma Duggan’s fortuitous goal set Meath on their way to a sensational victory over Dublin in the 2021 All Ireland LSFC Final, it was seen as a Robin Hood moment. Or, for those of us old enough to recall, it resembled Ger Canning’s observation when Declan Bonnar curled over the insurance score…