Tag: Paddy O’Brien

  • Selections for Killarney – July 17th 2025

    Selections for Killarney – July 17th 2025

    5.01: MOON ECLIPSE – EW – (RICHIE DEEGAN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.32: EMILY LOVE (JOSH WILLIAMSON (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 6.02: GAELIC DES CHASTEYS – EW – (PADDY O’BRIEN (4*)/ERIC MCNAMARA) 6.37: DUKE SILVER – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.10: THE BANGER DOYLE (PADDY O’BRIEN (7)/JOHN QUEALLY) 7.42: MASKARVILLE – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (7)/HARRY KELLY) 8.15: MYFAVOURITE…

  • Selections for Down Royal – Dec. 26th 2024

    Selections for Down Royal – Dec. 26th 2024

    11.40: AIR OF ENTITLEMENT (SEAN FLANAGAN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.13: DOWNMEXICOWAY (SEAN FLANAGAN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.48: ST DENIS’S WELL – EW – (JACK SMITH (4*)/IAN DONOGHUE) 1.23: STEP OUT – EW – (LIAM QUINLAN (3)/STUART CRAWFORD) 1.58: FINNIANS ROW – EW – (PADDY O’BRIEN (7)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 2.33: ITS ON THE LINE (MAXINE O’SULLIVAN (5)/EMMET MULLINS) 3.08:…

  • Selections for Fairyhouse – Nov. 30th 2024

    Selections for Fairyhouse – Nov. 30th 2024

    11.35: WATERFORD WHISPERS – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.12: SHAJAK – EW – (AINE O’CONNOR/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.45: VISIONARION – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 1.20: IVYBROOK – EW – (PADDY O’BRIEN (7)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 1.55: GIVEMEFIVE – EW – (PADDY O’BRIEN (7)/HARRY DERHAM, IN GB) 2.30: APPLES OF BRESIL (SEAN FLANAGAN/BARRY CONNELL) 3.05: OLD…

  • Selections for Clonmel – Oct. 24th 2024

    Selections for Clonmel – Oct. 24th 2024

    1.53: MACHISSMO (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.28: STRAIGHT HOME (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.03: WHISPERING HOPES – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.38: CARLA’S BIG JIM – EW – (JOHN SHINNICK (5)/LEN ARCHDEACON) 4.13: SHECOULDBEANYTHING (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.48: AH REMY MARTIN (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/TOM GIBNEY) 5.23: FINNIAN’S ROW – EW – (PADDY O’BRIEN (7)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN)

  • Bertie Cunningham – R.I.P.

    Bertie Cunningham – R.I.P.

    Just weeks after his team Captain Peter Darby, Bertie Cunningham has sadly become the latest one of Meath’s 1967 All Ireland heroes to be called ashore to the great stadium above. He was 81. Right from the off here it will be admitted that I am not in the best position to put proper tribute…

  • Relegation – Geographic, demographic or other?

    Relegation – Geographic, demographic or other?

    In a piece heralding Davy Nelson’s appointment as Meath Ladies Senior manager, mention was made of the fact that, between his roles as player and manager, the former wing forward was involved in eight Meath SFC victories. The majority of those were achieved – from a playing perspective – in the mid to late 1980s,…