Tag: Pairc Mhic Eoin

  • Good auld GAA – always one false move away from shooting itself in the foot

    Good auld GAA – always one false move away from shooting itself in the foot

    I think David Hosie from the Navan O’Mahonys club was the first player who can be recalled playing adult football at 15 years of age. Ballivor’s Mairtin Doran wasn’t far behind him. From a hurling perspective, there’s no doubt that one of our own – the one and only Paul Fagan – was the youngest…

  • Sombre reminders of stark perspective

    Sombre reminders of stark perspective

    One day a couple of decades ago now, Dunboyne lost out in a Junior hurling final by a point thanks to a goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time. It was the third year on the trot we’d lost by a point in the decider at that particular grade. Now read on… To compound…

  • Saran settles the issue in the fifth minute

    Saran settles the issue in the fifth minute

    Dunboyne…..0-09 Wolfe Tones……1-09 Like the Down footballers, it had to happen to us eventually too. Where Cork undid the hitherto 100% record of the men from the Mourne Mountains in All Ireland finals in 2010, Wolfe Tones deservedly gave Dunboyne their first taste of defeat in a Keegan Cup at Pairc Tailteann this afternoon. In…

  • Goals prove major as Meath add to Minor haul

    Goals prove major as Meath add to Minor haul

    Meath…3-08 Dublin…1-03 If, like me, you are superstitious in nature, the prospect of garnering a 13th Leinster MFC title in the county’s history will have been approached with quite a degree of trepidation. We should have feared not, now read on… To the utmost joy of many and the betterment of the county’s present and…

  • A way forward based on continuity

    There was much conjecture surrounding the ‘debate’ involving Pat Gilroy and Andy McEntee thrown onto The Sunday Game in a scatter-gun manner at the end of last year. To call it a debate, though, would be to deploy it with the utmost linguistic licence. What it actually amounted to was a party political broadcast on…