Tag: Regional Football Championships

  • Regional Championships ready for the off

    Regional Championships ready for the off

    The Brady’s Skoda sponsored Regional Football Championships are set to thrown in next midweek and anticipation of their second staging is growing with team managements and fixtures confirmed. In a change from last year’s arrangements when all matches in the Regional Championships took place in Dunganny, this time they will actually live up to their…

  • REGIONAL FOOTBALL ALL STARS

    REGIONAL FOOTBALL ALL STARS

    After a highly successful and entertaining inaugural staging of the Dioralyte Regional Football Championships in Dunganny over the past month or so, the Chosen Ones – those who caught the eye the most, who will take on Colm O’Rourke’s Meath selection at the Meath Centre Of Excellence (11am) are as follows: SEAN BRENNAN (DARNLEY/DUNDERRY) MICHAEL…

  • Scores like buses as Tara secure title tilt

    Scores like buses as Tara secure title tilt

    Tara…2-02 An Tuaisceart…0-07 Whether Tara manager Ger Robinson and his fellow mentors have somebody like renowned statistician and analyst Ray Boyne working with them is unknown. If they have, I would love to be a fly on the wall for the de-brief after last night’s Regional Football Championship semi final against Brian Farrell’s An Tuaisceart…

  • Bru Na Boinne make light of numbers game but it’s all in vain

    Bru Na Boinne make light of numbers game but it’s all in vain

    An Tuaisceart…0-12 Bru Na Boinne…0-12 Dare it be said, Bru Na Boinne’s 12 Apostles almost replicated Dublin’s unforgettable feat of annexing Sam Maguire in 1983 minus three of their troops? If not that, it could at least be mused that it’s unlikely young Moynalty official Kieran Olwell will become as (in)famous as Antrim’s John Gough…

  • The ball’s not even thrown in and the off-the-ball digs are flying

    The ball’s not even thrown in and the off-the-ball digs are flying

    Note to self: Don’t read fan forums. At half time in what I think was the 1992 Leinster SFC Final, legend has it the Dublin and Kildare players got a little hot and bothered about each other on the way down the tunnel. It was the first incident of its type this writer can recall.…