Tag: Rian McConnell
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New names, same old bravery, heart and skill
MEATH… 2-11 WICKLOW… 1-12 Meath won’t have shortened in the betting for the All Ireland, or the Leinster Championship or even promotion out of Div. 2 of the National Football League. But, taken for what it was, John McCarthy – head of Meath’s Development Squads – would have to have been delighted with the progress…
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Auditions begin for season two of Robbie’s Royals
Conor Gray, Daithi McGowan and Diarmuid Moriarity provide a smidgeon of experience as Robbie Brennan unveils a largely experimental side for his team’s season opener against Wicklow in the resuscitated Dioralyte O’Byrne in Aughrim’s Echelon Park. Throw in among the Wicklow hills is at 1.30pm and the match will be shown live on Clubber TV.…
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History for An Tuascairt on day veiled in poignance
AN TUASCAIRT…0-17 MOYFENRAGH…2-09 Perhaps the following is down to the innate superstition which tends to shape a lot of the road yours truly travels in life, but, there’s still a part of me which fears that interest in and commitment to the Brady’s Skoda Regional Football Championship will wain and that it will be let…
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Meath survive rough and tumble to advance
MEATH… 4-08 LAOIS… 1-10 Eamon Armstrong’s goal in the first of seven minutes of injury time gave the full time score a fairer reflection of Meath’s superiority – particularly in the second half – of this tempestuous Leinster U-20 FC quarter final in Ashbourne. Tempers initially frayed towards the end of normal time when Conor…