Tag: Niall Grimley

  • Geezer eventually gets to rock the establishment with deliverence day

    Geezer eventually gets to rock the establishment with deliverence day

    Maybe I do know what I’m at after all. At the outset here, a shameless confession – outside of Meath, obviously, I’ve a fondness for Armagh greater than any other county. Perhaps for no particular reason, but broadly based upon: their people, their back-story, their song, Geezer, Francie, Jarlath Burns, Crossmaglen Rangers and the way…

  • Evolution of Jimmy Ball decides the finalists but the architect misses out

    Evolution of Jimmy Ball decides the finalists but the architect misses out

    There was something very fitting about Rian O’Neill emerging from under the crossbar at the Canal End seconds before David Gough blew for full time. Armagh football pedigrees don’t come more purebred. McConville. Crossmaglen. Besides that though, nobody has typified Kieran McGeeney’s Armagh model more than the fair haired forward. Remember the piece which appeared…