Tag: Saturday GAA Live
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O’Halloran starts – on paper at least – for Meath
Despite a sense that a promise from a politician is probably as believable, if not more so, than what appears on a Meath team sheet these days, the humble hack can only work with the material supplied. Thus, Brian O’Halloran’s inclusion in place of Eoin Harkin represents the only the only change from the the…
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One brave warrior’s special day exposes GAA bluff
Early April, 1999, but it’s more like a day in November. Wind and rain sheet into the old disabled viewing area in Croke Park. The corner where the Nally Stand and Hill 16 meet. The kindly old Steward, Bobby, who da and I had got to know from years of being in and out, says…
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A handful of changes ahead of battle Royal
Colm O’Rourke and his fellow mentors have made five changes to the side which drew against Limerick ahead of tomorrow’s eagerly awaited clash with Dublin in the penultimate round of fixtures in Div. 2 of the Allianz NFL at Pairc Tailteann. Every time the Old Firm face off there’s something at stake and tomorrow will…
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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…