Tag: Michael Smith
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Green Machine drives on as Smith stumbles again
Sport can be fickle. Especially something like darts where competitors meet with the regularity some people go to the loo. Now read on… Stuart Pyke joked with Michael Van Gerwen on Wednesday night that if his current ‘slump’ in form continued he might need a wildcard to get into next season’s Premier League. Not likely!…
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Price’s combination punching floors all comers
This corner would wager quite the sum that when Gerwyn Price mentioned he was taking part in a charity boxing event whilst being interviewed by Emma Paton, there were plenty salivating at the thoughts of getting a crack at him. They might be well advised to be careful what they wish for. The numbers generally…
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Smith struck down by long lasting ‘Snakebite’
When you want something really badly and have been striving to attain it for an elongated period of time, getting over the line for the first time – or if there’s been a sustantial interval between drinks – can be fiercely difficult. The St Peter’s, Dunboyne hurlers, who haven’t won the Meath SHC since 1914,…
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Sometimes the formbook tells its own story
My late father had a saying “You never see a bookie on a bicycle”. He was speaking from experience, having helped out a local bookie, Willie Maguire, who “Ran a book” at most tracks – horse and dog – around the country. Inference being that no matter how much knowledge you might think you have…
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Loutish lot risk more than sport
There was only one occasion wheels transporting yours truly went to the dogs. Literally, that is. Myself and Eoghan D’Arcy were given the job of organising the Brady’s staff Christmas night out. We plumped for a night in Shelbourne Park at the greyhound racing. The two of us had a great night but reviews from…
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Predictable results achieved in unusual ways
How oft has it been said that, eventually, the cream always rises to the top. A couple of years ago, Liverpool were so far ahead of the pack in the Premiership the won the title pulling up in a manner commensurate to Honeysuckle’s demolition of the Champion Hurdle field last March. Go back a bit…
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Of jabs and arrows
At some point in the week leading up to the 1991 All Ireland SFC Final, it must have emerged that Colm O’Rourke was seriously doubtful. It’s highly umlikely anybody knew just how ill the legendary forward was. Now read on… On the Sunday evening after Down inflicted the pain that for some of us might…
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Icy class keeps the Snake in the long grass
Sometimes it really is as simple as it looks. For example, in the arena nearest and dearest to yours truly, we in Dunboyne are currently in the blessed position of being able to call the two best lady footballers in the country – Vikki Wall and Emma Duggan – our own. The fact that around…
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Death, taxes and seeds falling in December
Anybody that knows me or has been following my output for long enough will know the indescribably important part Brady’s Pub in Dunboyne has and will forever play in my life. Thus, just when I was rebuilding some semblance of normality into my life after it was destroyed when my mother fell ill nearly six…