Tag: Peter Casey
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Whatever plan you have, they’ll come up with a better one
Limerick… 2-24 Galway… 1-18 Evidence that good players don’t always make good managers is ample. No need to name names but there have quite a few Galacticos who’ve flopped worse than a Premier League footballer trying to con their way to a penalty. Henry Shefflin absolutely does not belong in the above category. He couldn’t…
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Boylesports Irish Grand National Shortlist
FARCLAS (SHANE FITZGERALD (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT) Former Triumph Hurdle winner who, comparatively speaking, is a lightly raced sort. Not seen since finishing second behind stablemate (in the same ownership) RUN WILD FRED in the Troytown Chase at Navan last November. Raised 3lbs on foot of that run, but a proven stayer, Spring ground suits too. SCREAMING…
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The making of a Christmas cracker – Act II
Grimes, Joe Mc, Pairc Na nGaeil. Synonymous with Limerick. Two legends and an iconic sporting arena. All immortalised in a uniquely Irish sporting way. Facilitating the type of cross over which cements the special place sport commands in Irish life. Namely, having a horse named in their honour by J. P. McManus. There are many…