Tag: Pat Gilroy
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Gut punch for Royals as Armstrong goes airborne
In the first race at Tipperary today (Friday), talented 5lb claiming rider Charlie O’Dwyer rode a horse for James Nash called COULDNTMAKEITUP and one would venture plenty of those with an interest in, passion for or involvement with Meath GAA would’ve had a punt thereon. Alas, like the rest of what you will read hereafter,…
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Na bfhacha tu mo Sheamasin?
Has anyone seen my Jimmy? We’ve all encountered scenario. The offspring of a legend arrives on the scene, touted as being ‘even better than the father’. You might also even be told ‘There’s a younger lad at thehome that’s even better thtan this fella’. In nearly 35 years of being consumed by all things GAA,…
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It may be the end but it doesn’t have to be
Dublin… 1-15 Kerry… 1-13 Unless Meath are involved and regardless of who else is, I hate All Ireland Final days. They are the last days of summer. Thereafter, evenings get shorter, sport to actually attend becomes scarce and – as has blessedly been the case for our lads this year – any progress made is…
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Dublin’s Cooper calls time on county career
Possibly the final major GAA news story of 2022 was, to this writer at least, a surprising one. It being the announcement by Dublin’s Jonny Cooper that he has taken his leave of the inter county stage. The Na Fianna clubman has been very nearly ever present since the blue wave which transformed Gaelic football…
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Wintry Sundays while the sun’s still shining
I only saw Brian Mullins playing once. It will probably come as a surprise to many that the once blonde colossus was seen at all. It just happened to be my second year going to matches and, as far as can be recalled, it was Brian’s final match. Tiernach and Robbie Gilbert have been family…
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One day a year dreaming of living somewhere else
O’Donovan Rossa from Cork against the great Eire Og team representing Carlow is the first All Ireland Club SFC Final this corner can remember. If the memory box serves me correctly, the hurling final that day was between Galway side Sarsfields and Dunloy Cuchulainns from Antrim. That football final in particular is now recalled with…
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Meath onto a winner with horses for courses move
Before 1997, I’d never been in Bective. Thereafter however, it would be a GAA ground with which I would become familiar. Always receiving a wonderful welcome whenever wheels with yours truly aboard touched down thence. It has always been a happy hunting ground for Dunboyne teams too. Early in ’97, our U-14 hurlers won their…
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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…
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DriveThru Sports Weekly – Ep. 8 (Plus Extras)
Firstly ladies and gents, my sincere apologies for the length it has taken me to get another piece up in this here arena! The initial intention was to have the usual variety of sporting topics herein. However, whether by accident or design, I ended up sticking solely to the appearances of Pat Gilroy and Andy…
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If solutions were that simple there wouldn’t be a problem
For the last 3 years as @MeathGAA P.R.O. I have asked for a Commercial Manager to be employed. Unfortunately on numerous occasions I’ve been told to stop bringing it up. We have needed this for years and we must act promptly to rectify it. Ciaran Flynn Sir Alex Ferguson was loathsome of football agents. A…