Colm O’Rourke has handed Championship debuts to Adam O’Neill (Wolfe Tones), Michael Flood (St Brigid’s) and Sean Coffey (Ballinabrackey) in his first starting line up as Meath make their bow in the serious business of the season in Sunday’s Leinster SFC quarter final at Glenisk O’Connor Park, Tullamore. Coffey was a member of a Meath… Read More Three newcomers in Royal championship selection
With it being the first weekend of club hurling action in the county, it’s a quiet one on the football front, though our two Minor teams do belatedly get their seasons underway and there’s also the small matter of a certain local derby in the National Football League in which our club will be very… Read More ST PETER’S GAA FOOTBALL BULLETIN – 17/3/23
The question has often been fired in this direction, like a curve ball shooting out of a scrum – at which point did the realisation dawn that Colm O’Rourke was my favourite player and my hero? Who blessedly over the years has become a treasured friend. It’s a valid and interesting query, but one which… Read More Something new in every interview
Meath… 1-07 Derry… 2-15 Do you often wonder where certain phrases originate from? Tonight, hope in this seat would be that the mantra will be ‘What doesn’t break you will only leave you stronger’ in the Meath dressing room. Those of us who’ve been around long enough – none more so than the Meath manager… Read More Time to dust ourselves down and go again
The Meath team to play Clare in tomorrow’s Allianz NFL encounter at Pairc Tailteann shows two changes from that which started in Cork last week. Two of those who impressed when introduced during the very impressive victory – Adam O’Neill and Diarmuid Moriarity – are rewarded with starting berths. MEATH: Harry Hogan; Adam O’Neill, Michael… Read More Two changes for Clare clash
Meath… 0-16 Carlow… 1-09 Meath got their 2023 football season off to a winning start at a windy and wet Netwatch Cullen Park tonight. New manager Colm O’Rourke gave debuts to seven newcomers for his first match in charge. And in truth, it took the new Royal combination quite a while to settle. Mostly because… Read More Strong second half gives new look Royals encouraging start
There was once a Dunboyne footballer – no names, if you know, you know – who was selected for a county team despite not currying favour with the local Brains Trust. That is actually not unique, as, towards the end of his tenure as Meath manager, Sean Boylan brought Damien Byrne into the county panel… Read More To whom it concerns, it really struck a chord
I’ve been lucky to have legendary former Meath football manager Sean Boylan central to my life for as long as there’s been a pulse here. There’s hardly a superlative in the English language which hasn’t been used in praise of the man. Of the numerous articles, interviews, television programmes and books produced about this mosy… Read More Hideous Horner should put down the shovel
Dunboyne…1-13 Dunshaughlin/Royal Gaels…1-10 At the outset here, I must again defer to a piece of advice imparted in this direction via Ireland’s greatest man of letters, the gentle giant from Castle Island. He once wrote, in the context of his own failing health at the time that “If you have knowledge on a subject and… Read More I’ve met some folks who say that I’m a dreamer – but this is a glorious reality!