11.45: THREE CARD BRAG – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.15: TEMPO CHAPTER TWO – EW – (CARAGH MONAGHAN (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 12.50: HELVIC DREAM – EW – (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 1.25: ANY ROAD – EW – (MARK MCDONAGH/EDDIE O’GRADY) 2.00: SOLNESS – EW – (CONOR STONE-WALSH (7)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.35: GUST OF WIND (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS)… Read More Selections for Fairyhouse – Dec. 2nd 2023
Meath LGFA will, at their meeting of September 11th, put forward the name of Kildare man Shane McCormack as the preferred candidate to be ratified to assume the position of county senior team manager. The former Kildare men’s custodian has plenty of managerial experience having most recently guided Armagh to a Lidl Ladies NFL Div.… Read More Meath opt for McCormack
2.05: SIGNORA DI MILANO (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.40: GWAN TADGH (BEN HARVEY (3)/EDDIE O’GRADY) 3.15: MARV MICHAEL (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.50: JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN (RICKY DOYLE/GERRY KEANE) 4.20: GROZNI (PHILIP BYRNES (2*)/CHARLES BYRNES) 4.55: I AM SPIDER MAN (PHILIP BYRNES (5)/CHARLES BYRNES) 5.25: ATTITASH – EW – (CARAGH MONAGHAN (7)/IAN DONOGHUE)
No doubt there will be players who weren’t part of the Meath senior football panel this season will have caught the eye of Colm O’Rourke and his fellow mentors thus far in the local club championships and – if they aren’t called in directly – they will surely be aiming to utilise the Regional Championships… Read More Royal rethink required as duo depart
In what must be seen as a nod of satisfaction with the form and confidence in and within her team, Jenny Rispin has again named the same Meath team to take on Kerry in Saturday night’s All Ireland Ladies SFC quarter final in Tralee. Since the sides met in the Brendan Martin Cup Final 51… Read More Same again for second half of Super Saturday
Meath… 0-12 Donegal… 1-10 Why or how Milwall ever came up with their infamous “We are Milwall, nobody likes us, we don’t care” chant is beyond me. It’s not as if they were ever any good. Affixing the same mantra to Meath football teams is far easier to understand. Reason being none other than the… Read More Time to invoke the siege mentality
Jenny Rispin has named the same Meath team as was programmed to take on Waterford on Sunday last ahead of the weekend’s Round Robin encounter with Donegal on Saturday evening at Pairc Tailteann. Victory in which will guarantee the defending All Ireland Champions home comforts at the third last hurdle in that defence. The old… Read More Meath bidding to seal home comforts
Meath… 1-13 Waterford… 1-08 Don’t try to figure out how the world works. You’ll only shorten and enrage your time in it. For the second time in six months, Meath GAA, and Dunshaughlin/Royal Gaels in particular, have been plunged into grief, disbelief and heartache. On December 3rd last, Maria Kealy could give no more to… Read More Ladies make it a Royal double on a day enveloped in poignance
If there’s a sound system being piped into the Meath Ladies dressing room, you suspect Willie Nelson would be atop the playlist from Spotify at presently – I can’t wait to be on the road again. I do not know the ins and outs of what ultimately led to Davy Nelson’s departure as their manager,… Read More Champions ready for the road again
How oft have you heard it said, when the bovine excrement hits the fan, go back to basics. To what’s known best and trusted. This corner has no intention of going into the nuts and bolts of why Davy Nelson and his team stepped down. Quite simply because they are not known. Nor do they… Read More Rispin returns to steady Royal ship