Tag: Paddy Reilly
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Forget about a day like this, how about a week?
“We’ll drink to those who are here today, and remember those who are gone”. So begins one of the verses in the beautiful, moving number penned by Charlie Walls Lord knows how long ago, The Big Tree which has very much become Dunboyne’s ‘national’ anthem. Especially since being eternally enshrined as such on Mick McAuley’s…
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Shake the tree hard enough and eventually the fruit will fall
The bit of set dancing engaged in by Meath and Mayo in the early stages of the 1996 All Ireland Final replay has to be the most exaggerated piece of shadow boxing in public discourse since Bertie Ahern told Gay Mitchell he was a waffler and the current Taoiseach chided a certain Donegal politician about…
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Selections for Galway – Sept. 5th 2022
4.10: HUBRISKO (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.40: JUST JACOB – EW – (KIEREN BUCKLEY (5)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.15: THE SHUNTER (MARK WALSH/EMMET MULLINS) 5.45: BEECHROAD WINNIE (JACK FOLEY (3)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 6.15: SWEET WILL – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/GAVIN CROMWELL) 6.45: SIT DOWN LUCY (SEAN FLANAGAN/PETER FAHEY) 7.15: STORMEY – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/PAUL GILLIGAN) 7.45: COASTGUARD LADY…
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Sports Wordle No. 3
A hurling stronghold where they are never short of somewhere to play. https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=whyhyvu
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Selections for Punchestown – Jan. 18th 2021
1.05: COULTOR (JACK KENNEDY/DERMOT WELD) 1.35: HARDWIRED (AUBREY MCMAHON (7)/TED WALSH) 2.10: LADY BREFFNI (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.40: LOW LIE THE FIELDS (RACHAEL BLACKMORE//HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.15: FANTASIO DALENE (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.45: PICTURES OF HOME (JACK KENNEDY/TED WALSH) 4.15: CUTE CHERRY (JAMIE CODD/GORDON ELLIOTT)