Tag: Rory Beggan
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Monaghan’s O’Connell vacates inter county street
Rory Beggan and Jack McCarron are edging ever closer to being the last men standing from Monaghan’s bountiful era of the early 2010s. The perhaps double edged status comes about after former All Star Karl O’Connell became the latest decorated warrior from that era to inform manager Gabriel Bannigan his race at the highest level…
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A lot done, a lot more to do, glass half full
MEATH… 1-20 MONAGHAN… 1-29 Let’s get the ugly business out of the way first. The four game unbeaten run has come to an end. In all honesty, that such is the case wouldn’t be that big of a shock. Now read on… It is beyond question that Meath have made significant progress thus far this…
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Waiting on a meadow of hay, watching the time roll away
“Just as quickly as it started, the firing stopped, and a terrible silence hung over the valley. A lone figure lay on the roadside, in the drizzling August rain. A hurried, whispered act of contrition and the firing breaks out again”. If you are a long time supporter of this space, thank you, firstly, but,…
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Pursuit of ‘keeper trio underlines the competition
Never is, I think, one of those trick words put into the English language that none of us like using but not doing so is quite literally impossible. To put a degree of context on the rest of what will appear, many moons ago, it would have been said in this corner that there were…
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Mixed emotion wintry Sundays
Adam Screeney and Rory Beggan were probably never mentioned in the same sentence previously, but such is the magic woven by the AIB All Ireland Club Championships that here we are. Now read on… There are 10,000 reasons why hurling is the greatest sport in the world, but among the most basic is it really…