Tag: Mayo
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Selections for ballinrobe – May 4th 2021
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) 7.10: HALF SHOT – EW – (HUGH MORGAN (5)/NORMAN LEE) 7.40: THE ECHO BOY (CONOR MAXWELL/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN)…
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Selections for Punchestown – Apr. 28th 2021
3.40: THE GREAT WHITE – EW – (PADDY O’HANLON (4)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 4.15: GELEE BLANCHE – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.50: PANDA BOY (RICKY DOYLE/MARTIN BRASSIL) 5.20: GALOPIN DES CHAMPS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.55: AL BOUM PHOTO (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.30: ERIC BLOODAXE – EW – (TOM HAMILTON/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.00: CROSSED MY MIND – EW…
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Selections or Ballinrobe – Apr. 16th 2021
4.20: KARLA MARTINA (JJ SLEVIN/NORMAN LEE) 4.55: CALTHOR (MARK WALSH/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.30: HUMANITE – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/EDDIE O’GRADY) 6.00: NORWIGI (MARK WALSH/ENDA BOLGER) 6.30: LILY LIGHT FOOT – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/EDDIE HARTY) 7.00: BERGENTOWN (EOIN O’BRIEN (7)/PHILIP FENTON) 7.30: FAMEAFTERTHEGLORY (DEREK O’CONNOR/GAVIN CROMWELL)
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Trump used sport for his own benefit
Roy Keane has had many famous utterances throughout his playing, management and subsequent media career. “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail” may be the most famous thereof, but, for me, his correct excoriation of the “Prawn Sandwich Brigade”. Those corrosive pests are in every sport. The suits in Croke Park on an All Ireland weekend…
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Matchsticks and memories
The first time these wheels docked in Brady’s after the initial lockdown a quiet tear was shed. There’s nothing unusual about that now. But what many mightn’t cop or understand would be the reason(s). It’s always the simplest things. Now read on… Actually on reflection, the first evening wasn’t too bad. It being about a…
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BOYLAN TALKS SPORT FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE YEAR
RAYMOND GALLIGAN – CAVAN 2. MICK FITZSIMONS – DUBLIN 3. OISIN MULLEN – MAYO 4. DAVID BYRNE = DUBLIN 5. JAMES MCCARTHY – DUBLIN 6. CIARAN BRADY – CAVAN 7. PADDY DURCAN – MAYO 8. BRIAN FENTON – DUBLIN 9. MATTHEW RUANE – MAYO 10. BRIAN FOX – TIPPERARY 11. CIARAN KILKENNY – DUBLIN MICHAEL…
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A different flavour to Mayo but they’re still too generous
“There won’t be a cow milked in Clare for a week” is surely one of the most famous lines ever uttered during a sports commentayy in this country. So much so that it is regularly trotted out in the most ill-fitting of scenarios going. The quip has aged much better than he who spoke the…
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A look around the football leagues
In a very strange way, there was a buzz of excitement here in the office today watching the results filter in from around the grounds today as the Allianz National Football League continued in resumption mode. Naturally, the grounds looked eerily strange devoid of spectators – though as one media colleague pointed out, a lot…