Tag: Ray Mitchell

  • Selections for Punchestown – Nov. 29th 2022

    Selections for Punchestown – Nov. 29th 2022

    11.45: GET MY DRIFT (MARK WALSH/MICHAEL MORRIS) 12.15: LADY MCCABE – EW – (AMBROSE MCCURTIN/MARTIN FITZGERALD) 12.50: HUNTERS YARN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.25: TIMMY TUESDAY (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.55: FALCON EIGHT (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/DERMOT WELD) 2.25: HALSAFARI – EW – (CIAN QUIRKE (7)/MICHAEL BOWE) 2.55: SANDOR CLEGANE (SEAN O’KEEFFE/PAUL NOLAN) 3.25: PENNY JAR – EW –…

  • A town divided in celebration!

    A town divided in celebration!

    After the euphoria conveyed in the last offering in this space relating to Dunboyne’s victory in the Junior Hurling Championship, in a way, this is chapter two of the same story. Initially, one had felt quite low at Act II coming to fruition. Not out of bitterness or begrudgery, just because of feeling removed from…

  • ‘Spoggy’s one liner still rings true

    ‘Spoggy’s one liner still rings true

    For those of you who might not be aware, yours truly walked with a walking aid between 1986 and 1991. That coming about after major corrective surgery on my legs. They had been tangled in an x shape from the time I was born. The manner in which the procedure was carried out was barbaric…