Tag: Paul Carberry
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‘Also-rans’ cause carnage carving up the field
It’s actually very fitting that what you will read hereafter is being produced so close to St Stephen’s (Boxing) Day. For the day after Christmas itself was the occasion on which Gavin Sheehan cajoled a truly rousing rally out of Hewick which nabbed the King George in most unlikely fashion for ‘Shark’ Hanlon’s (temporarily Tara…
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They did it their way!
“Don’t ever f*****g tell me how to ride a horse again”. There’s not many lines of work in which one could so vehementally rail against instructions dispensed by an employer and hope to survive such a skirmish. You couldn’t exactly imagine WP Mullins or PF Nicholls or AP O’Brien reacting as serenely as the berated…
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Poignant double for Donoghue as gentleman Andy remembered
Local jockey Keith Donoghue recorded a poignant double on Saturday afternoon’s Navan card. The rider sported a black armband in memory of his grand uncle Andy Lynch who was laid to rest this afternoon. Dunsany’s Andy was himself a highly distinguished and universally popular member of the local horse fraternity. Through his role as whipper-in…
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Would You Like To Buy My Books?
Over the last couple of years I have written and published two books – “Heroics And Heartache” and ” Rolling Down Memory Lane”. Details about both and how you can purchase them are contained within.
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You were alright Michael on the night
He hadn’t gone away you know. Just as one doesn’t become a good sportsperson or team overnight, nor does it dissipate rapidly. Doubtless, those who specialise in reactionism will look at the current landscape in Gaelic football and conclude Dublin have shot their bolt. Likewise Limerick in hurling. Without taking extenuating circumstances into consideration. Mileage…
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Reserving the right to be confused
In the world of the GAA long ago, there was a utility player who was all the rage. He could fill in at any position from goalkeeper to left corner forward. He was the perfect manifestation of the ‘roving role’ in that he was availabe to each of the 32 counties. London and New York…
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Healing hands and words that gave us faith in ourselves
Be honest, were any of you ever caught with drink on you in school? In your possession, not actually on board? This corner was, now read on… A bottle containing poitin was once domiciled in my schoolbag for a few hours. And of course it had to fall out. Before the gaskets in your mind…
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ROLLING DOWN MEMORY LANE
ANNOUNCEMENT It gives me great pleasure and no little pride to announce that my second book Rolling Down Memory Lane is hot off the presses and available to pre-order now. This book is the product of the first Covid-19 Lockdown of March 2020. With the world at a standstill, something had to be done to…
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So near, yet so far away
New Year’s Day, 2011. Beginning another round of the calender in Fairyhouse. Same as it ever was. Except in that case it was anything but that. For about 18 months beforehand, dad and his best friend, the late former undertaker Oliver Cunningham, were tipping around with a few horses in training with Tom Taaffe. Spruce…
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Back to the future with a winning pedigree
A retired local farm worker, long since departed to the calving pens up yonder, once told my father “Don’t let anyone ever tell you about the good old days, the good days are now”. Keeping in mind that this would’ve been in the late 1970s or early ’80s anyone who had done a decade or…