Tag: Martin Murphy
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Strange Sundays – Part II
“Somewhere far away a lonely bell is ringing, and it echoes through the canyon like the disappearing dreams of yesterday. On a Sunday morning sidewalk…” Over the last decade or so, enduring and getting used to scenarios which at one stage would’ve been utterly unthinkable has become an unfortunate addendum to supporting and/or writing on…
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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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Three newcomers in Royal championship selection
Colm O’Rourke has handed Championship debuts to Adam O’Neill (Wolfe Tones), Michael Flood (St Brigid’s) and Sean Coffey (Ballinabrackey) in his first starting line up as Meath make their bow in the serious business of the season in Sunday’s Leinster SFC quarter final at Glenisk O’Connor Park, Tullamore. Coffey was a member of a Meath…