Life And Sport From An Armchair View
Meath...2-12 Mayo...1-09 A blitzkrieg at the start of the second half which saw Meath register 2-5 without riposte set them on their way to another Final date in Croke Park. This time it will be Donegal providing the opposition in the Lidl Ladies NFL Div. 1 decider on April 10th. Eamonn Murray's side trailed by... Continue Reading →
1.55: WRECKING BALL PAUL (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.35: AUTUMN CRUSADE - EW - (DANNY HAND (4)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 3.15: O'TOOLE (BEN CRAWFORD (7)/STUART CRAWFORD) 3.55: BIG DEBATES (PHILIP ENRIGHT/ROBERT TYNER) 4.35: SAMCRO (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) The enigmatic Samcro 5.15: ASK D'MAN (DECLAN LAVERY (3)/DAVID CHRISTIE) 5.50: I AM SHADOW - EW - (EOIN O'BRIEN (7)/CIARAN MURPHY)
Irish sport's worst kept secret is out. Jack O'Connor has returned for a third stint as Kerry senior football manager. Once again, the Dromad Pearses clubman has brought Diarmuid Murphy and Mike Quirke as part of his backroom team. O'Connor recently left Kildare in the lurch, heading for where the pale moon was rising even... Continue Reading →
Tyrone...2-14 Mayo...0-15 Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. When Ryan O'Donoghue snatched at a handy point chance and then skewed a penalty wide minutes later, that old, terribly familiar black cloud must have loomed large on the green and red horizon once again. As with the Meath ladies just shy of... Continue Reading →
The immediate future of this season's All Ireland SFC has been cast into doubt with the revelation that Tyrone will not be fulfilling their already re-fixed All Ireland SFC semi final against Kerry. The O'Neill County camp has been ravaged by cases of Covid-19 in the last couple of weeks, with reportedly only 11 members... Continue Reading →
Meath......2-15 Down......0-14 A brace of well taken goals from the speedy Cillian O'Sullivan set Meath on their way as they departed Armagh's Athletic Grounds with both points to leave everything to play for going into their remaining fixture against Mayo. Today's encounter was staged at the neutral venue after Paddy Tally's team were forced to... Continue Reading →
The return of gifted attacker Mickey Newman jumps off the page as Meath manager Andy McEntee announced his panel for the forthcoming National Football League. Entering his fifth season at the helm, the boss will be hoping to steer his charges back to the top flight straight away having only dined thence for one campaign.... Continue Reading →
4.30: GEE REX (JORDAN GAINFORD (7)/EMMET MULLINS) 5.05: BIG DEBATES - EW - (DANNY HAND/ROBERT TYNER) 5.40: CHAMPAGNE SPARKLES (JORDAN GAINFORD (7)/DENISE FOSTER*) 6.10: GET PHAR (MARK MCDONAGH (4)/EOIN DOYLE) 6.40: GALON DE VAUZELLE (JAMES O'SULLIVAN (4)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) Philip Rothwell has experienced a welcome upturn in fortunes recently 7.10: HALF SHOT - EW - (HUGH... Continue Reading →
It will be a case of familiarity prompting caution when Meath take on either Longford or Carlow in their opening joust of the 2021 Leinster SFC. The road map for a return to the playing fields became a modicum clearer this week with the staggered roll out of the Championship draws in both football and... Continue Reading →
If you click into the 'Categories' tab, head for GAA and go through my Football Team of the Year (posted December 26th) there's not a whole pile of differences between what appeared here and the 'official' lineup announced on Friday. But differences there were. In the old world, where we had at least some control... Continue Reading →