Tag: Monaghan GAA
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Working away in the shade
What is probably close to thirty years ago now, a word manufacturing machine being propelled by yours truly produced a piece headlined exactly as above. Back then, it mostly centred on how the All Ireland successes carved out by Down (twice), Derry and Donegal could be – and as it happened, was – ground breaking…
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Monaghan’s O’Connell vacates inter county street
Rory Beggan and Jack McCarron are edging ever closer to being the last men standing from Monaghan’s bountiful era of the early 2010s. The perhaps double edged status comes about after former All Star Karl O’Connell became the latest decorated warrior from that era to inform manager Gabriel Bannigan his race at the highest level…
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Cahill crescendo carries Meath to All Ireland semi final
MEATH…3-20 MONAGHAN…3-17 The completion of a hat-trick by Dunsany’s Stephen Cahill added another sensational chapter to the Meath encyclopaedia of escapism as the county’s Minor footballers advanced to the Tier II All Ireland semi final after emerging from this pulsating encounter at Carrickmacross on Saturday morning. The thing is though, unless you were related to…
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A lot done, a lot more to do, glass half full
MEATH… 1-20 MONAGHAN… 1-29 Let’s get the ugly business out of the way first. The four game unbeaten run has come to an end. In all honesty, that such is the case wouldn’t be that big of a shock. Now read on… It is beyond question that Meath have made significant progress thus far this…
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Gallagher threatens legal action over Burns email
The Irish Independent are reporting that Rory Gallagher has threatened legal action if GAA President Jarlath Burns fails to withdraw the email he sent to the Naas club in Kildare pertaining to the Fermanagh native’s proposed assuming of a coaching role with the serial Lilywhite county champions. News broke on Sunday evening that Mr Gallagher…
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Selections for Tipperary – Jul. 4th 2024
5.10: INSPIRE HOPE (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.40: LIBERATED LIGHT – EW – (JOHN GLEESON (5)/JOHN E. & T. KIELY) 6.15: DADDY LONG LEGS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.50: DORAN’S LAW (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/MICHAEL HOURIGAN) 7.25: HENNING – EW – (DAN KING/DENIS HOGAN) 8.00: MOYVILLA LASS – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/EOIN MCCARTHY) 8.30: THE GREAT NUDIE (B. FINN…
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Waiting on a meadow of hay, watching the time roll away
“Just as quickly as it started, the firing stopped, and a terrible silence hung over the valley. A lone figure lay on the roadside, in the drizzling August rain. A hurried, whispered act of contrition and the firing breaks out again”. If you are a long time supporter of this space, thank you, firstly, but,…
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‘Tis not the defeat but the manner of it which hurts the most
MEATH…0-09 LOUTH…3-10 Of course it had to happen sometime. And when it did, there could be no qualms about it. Louth were much the better side and thoroughly deserving of their win. Indeed, considering their Blitzkrieg start, the Wee County would be entitled to feel a little underwhelmed that they didn’t kick on to a…