Tag: O’Byrne Cup
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Treat people like fools and you’ll look like one yourself
Exhibit A: Clones, July 1993, what was to become known as the mudbath Ulster (SFC) Final. How St Tiarnach’s Park was ever passed as playable I’ll never know. It can only be assumed whoever arrived at the decision came from a land of draught. Exhibit B: Dunboyne, May, 2002. A hotly anticipated local derby between…
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New old guard get Meath up and running for new season
Meath… 1-15 Wexford… 1-10 It really must be like a drug. On Saturday evening, I began my 32nd consecutive season on the GAA ‘circuit’ in the familiar and most comfortable surroundings of Donaghmore/Ashbourne. Never has an O’Byrne Cup game meant so much as it did for the occupant of this seat to be in position…
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Newman calls time on Royal service
Kilmainham’s Mickey Newman tonight announced his retirement from inter county football. The languid, accurate forward previously stepped away in 2020 in an effort to recover from a succession of injuries which blighted his career but returned to the fold last season. Very similar to Brian Stafford in style of play and place-kicking, Newman was part…