Tag: Meath Chronicle Sports
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Selections for Fairyhouse – May 30th 2024
5.30: GUNSIGHT – EW – (WAYNE HASSETT (2*)/MICHAEL O’MEARA) 6.00: NATURALLY NIMBLE (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.30: SIGNOR FERRARI (HUGH HORGAN (5)/JOHNNY FEANE) 7.00: MADAME PLANTIFF – EW – (ROBERT WHEARTY (5)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 7.30: NATIONAL LADY (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 8.00: LAYOFTHELAND (COLIN KEANE/SEAN DAVIS) 8.30: EURIELLE – EW – (BILLY LEE/WILLIE MCCREERY)
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Backs drive Meath forward to final spot
MEATH… 2-09 KILDARE… 0-10 Goals either side of half time from Eamonn Armstrong and Sean O’Hare propelled Meath past the outgoing All Ireland U-20 champions and into a first Leinster Final at the grade in a decade. This was an accomplished performance throughout in Hawkfield (Newbridge) from Cathal O’Bric’s team, despite the Meath boss being…
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Selections for Bellewstown – Apr. 24th 2024
4.45: PINOT GRIS (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.20: HERCULANEUM – EW – (OISIN MCGILL (7)/NOEL KELLY) 5.55: JOLIE COEUR ALLEN (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.30: BREAK THE BOUNDARY (JAMES O’SULLIVAN/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 7.05: O’FAOILAINS GLORY (KEITH DONOGHUE/IAN DONOGHUE) 7.40: BALLYBRACK WOOD (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 8.14: WITHABITOFLUCK (JOHN GLEESON (5)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD)
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One dream coming true keeps another one alive – 6/1/24
My niece Ciara graduated from university shortly before Christmas. As well as obviously being a very proud day, it brought back many memories. For it was nearly 21 years to the day yours truly rolled up the long hall in the RDS decked out in the usual gown (which kept getting caught under my wheels)…
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Ignoring their own selling point – 9/12/23
“The GAA – Where We All Belong”. Really? It would be ventured the remarkable folk around Enfield and Baconstown might politely decline to concur. Liam Gaffney, director of operations in the Wheelchair Shed (I put that name on it myself as I was involved in the design of the viewing platform with Brendan Dempsey and…
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Local apprehension likely following Kenny departure – 2/12/23
Viewed through a certain lens, anybody winning 13 caps at international level, garnering multiple Heineken Cup souvenirs and rearing offspring who also went on to perform on the biggest stage would have had what would constitute a glorious career in rugby. Yet I often wonder does Trevor Brennan ponder what might have been. Warren Gatland’s…
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Selections for Dundalk – Dec. 20th 2023
4.15: LOMA LARNEE – EW – (COLIN KEANE/ANDY OLIVER) 4.45: ALTO SAX (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 5.15: HIGHTIMEYOUWON – EW – (JAMES RYAN (5)/ADO MCGUINNESS) 5.45: CHERRY BLOOM – EW – (SEAN BOWEN (5)/GILLIAN SCOTT) 6.15: FASTMAN – EW – (JOEY SHERIDAN/JAMES MCAULEY) 6.45: BERGAMASCO (JAMES RYAN (5)/JACK DAVISON) 7.15: HIGHER KINGDOM – EW – (DONOGH…
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Experimental Royals lose out to locals on poignant day
MEATH… 1-09 CORK… 3-12 Strip away the fact that no team likes losing any match – let alone after undertaking a road trip as that completed by the visitors to Pairc Ui Chaoimh on Saturday – and, essentially, the result didn’t matter. The poignance of the occasion remembering a unique, iconic sporting legend will be…
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Longwood Law abides as Moyfenragh advance
MOYFENRAGH… 1-17 AN TUAISCEART… 1-10 Life taught me a long time ago never to judge a book by its cover. Sure my own journey about this big old ball is living proof of the futility of such a practice. Now read on… With no disrespect intended to anybody, it would be ventured a few of…
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Herald the young heroes writing their own history
Dunboyne… 2-13 St Colmcille’s… 2-12 AFTER EXTRA TIME Life is indeed like a box of chocolates. You never do know what’s coming next. And if been wheeling around this big old ball for four and a bit decades has taught me anything, it’s that such being the case is one of life’s simplest yet greatest…