Tag: RTE
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Selections for Killarney – Aug. 22nd 2025
5.10: BELLAMANO (PADDY MCGETTIGAN (7)/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 5.41: SUJET (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD) 6.11: EVENING BLOSSOM – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.41: TOUTED PLAN (GARY CARROLL/JOE MURPHY) 7.11: KILMEADEN (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 7.41: GANGSTER GRANNY – EW – (KEITHEN KENNEDY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 8.15: SORRENTINO (PADDY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Fantastic Friday proves nobody’s home and dry
At the outset here, an admission – while a very high percentage of the World Cup action has been consumed in this seat, an equally large quantity thereof has been viewed without sound. Simply as ITV is too damn awkward to find on the Sky box and the RTE commentators – with a few notable…
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This Lad owes his spot in the Press Box to AFR
This corner has often opined that an idle mind is a dangerous thing. Speaking wholly from personal experience, it can be a grave threat to one’s mental stability. On that score, An Fear Rua never had any such worries. Now read on… Liam Cahill slipped quietly out of the world last week. From what I…
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Fields of Gold – Previously posted in 2006
FOGRA: The below was the first non-GAA related piece I ever sent to the late Liam Cahill for his much loved and sadly missed website http://www.anfearrua.com Never for a minute thinking he would print it. But he did, and not only did it open up a whole new avenue of writing for me, it stands as a…
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Selections for The Curragh – June 1st 2022
5.10: SEGOMO (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 5.45: AGE OF KINGS (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 6.15: ZANIYKA (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 6.45: LOVEDAY – EW – (NATHAN CROSSE (3)/WILLIE MCCREERY) 7.15: THE NAME’S JOCK – EW – (JAKE COEN (7)/JOHN KIELY) 7.50: SCHIELE (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 8.20: SUNSET NOVA – EW – (AMY J. HAYES/ANDY SLATTERY)
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Sports Wordle No. 5
This Cork camogie player had a glittering career on the pitch and has developed an equally successful one off it. https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=csruj
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Philly may have been in Mayo dressing room
In Pat Comer’s wonderful A Year ‘Til Sunday documentary chronicling Galway’s ultimately glorious 1998 campaign, it cuts to a team meeting in between the drawn and replayed Connacht finals against Roscommon. John O’Mahony is letting his players have it after a lack lustre display in the drawn game. He produced the local papers and read…
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Duff opens with derby defeat but will lift League
Hasn’t this scenario played out many times before? The big star returns home to take over the local team. The crowds flock for the first game, the ground is full, the atmosphere buzzing and the entire competition lifted by the local boy done good. If anything is going to go off script, it will be…
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Inspired by the best to emulate them
Dunboyne……3-23 Seneschalstown……1-09 During the early part of the summer of 1990, myself, ma, da and my eldest brother Des were on holiday in Co Kerry. It was the ideal time for a break, wheels carrying yours truly had just started rocking up at GAA matches. Meath had just won the National Football League – defeating…