Tag: Ratoath GAA
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First Meath GAA Fixtures of 2025
And so it begins. The rapidly approaching new season has`probably been on plenty of minds already between the annual roll out of the managerial merry-go-round and some fairly high profile incoming ‘signings’ for clubs. But, it is, at last in my view, starting to feel a lot more real now with the release of the…
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Ratoath grab the headlines again with Galvin acquisition
No, not the racehorse, the other lad. You have to admire entities, sporting or otherwise, with their ambitions pointed in the right direction and the b***s to go after them. On that score, Ratoath are never found wanting. Since first making their breakthrough on the Meath club football scene in the early 2000s, they have…
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Fergus Gibson would be unemployed if depending on the Tones
Trying to predict the outcome of sporting events, or maybe anything in life is predicated on things going according to script, as it were. The thing is, though, time and experience are very much showing, though, that Wolfe Tones are very much of a mind to write and produce their own scripts. Going back as…
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Meath Football Championships Knockout Fixtures
Following on from Sunday evening’s draws, the fixtures for the knockout stages of all the main football championship competitions in Meath have been confirmed. With three of the four SFC quarter finals taking place in Pairc Tailteann as two double headers over the weekend of September 21/22. The odd one out being the sequel to…
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Take your points and the goals won’t matter
MEATH…2-12 KERRY…3-05 The equation was simple for the Meath camogie team at Rathmolyon on Saturday afternoon, and in the end so was the solution. Nothing other than a win would suffice for Gary Cole and Tommy Moloney’s team if last year’s run deep into the All Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championship is to be repeated. And,…
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Meath Football Championship Draws 2024
On Wednesday night in Dunganny, the draws for the Meath adult football championships took place. As a result of same, Keegan Cup holders Summerhill will begin their defence thereof against Ballinabrackey while 2023 runners up Ratoath start their campaign off against neighbours Skryne. Last year’s Intermediate winners Rathkenny are in with the aforementioned pair and…
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Gaffney grabs a draw for Meath
MEATH… 0-13 WESTMEATH… 2-07 Having had a dozen points to spare over Cavan last time out, spirits were no doubt high in Royal County camogie circles coming into Saturday’s encounter in the Very Ireland National Camogie League in Trim. However, over the years, it has been both painfully and joyously demonstratted that when it comes…
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Selections for Punchestown – Feb. 21st 2024
1.45: FAULTY – EW – (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 2.15: DR EGGMAN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.45: GALA MARCEAU (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.15: ATLANTICEXPRESS – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.50: CHER WHY NOT – EW – (DAVID DOYLE (7)/TIM DOYLE) 4.25: SHANNA CLOON (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.55: COLCANNON (FINN TERGETMEIR (7)/NOEL MEADE)
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Don’t Panic! Corporal Jones promoted to Captain!
“Permission to speak, Sir?” was how the excitable Lance Corporal Jack Jones would prevail on the often mithered Captain Mainwaring to allow him go off on one of his meandering rambles, urging calm by imploring all and sundry to “Don’t Panic”! even though he was doing the polar opposite of his own advice himself. If…
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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…