Tag: Sean Delaney
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Patchy display leaves Peter’s pointless
St Peter’s, Dunboyne…0-13 Wolfe Tones…1-17 Home side Dunboyne got off to a flying start in the basking Tuesday evening heat, opening up a lead of 0-05 to 0-00 before their old rivals in purple and gold completely dominated the remainder of the first half with Caolan and Fiachra Ward and Tomas O’Reilly leading a blitz…
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Flying first half sets visitors on the road to victory
St Peter’s, Dunboyne…2-18 Na Fianna…0-10 First half goals from Fergal Watters and Jason Gleeson set Dunboyne on their way in Baconstown as they led by 2-10 to 0-04 at the break on Saturday evening before going on to record their second victory of the season in the race for the Mooney Cup. The eventual victors…
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Scoring diversity the biggest plus as winning run goes on
MEATH… 3-15 LONGFORD… 0-12 Meath repeated their victory of 12 months ago over Longford in Newtownforbes – the home of Clonguish GAA – to complete the group stages of their Dalata Hotels Group Leinster U-20 FC campaign unbeaten. The upshot of which is that they stay on the main road and thereby the shortest route.…
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An impressive tally in no-win situation
MEATH… 5-19 CARLOW… 2-09 Cathal O’Bric’s Meath U-20 footballers got the county’s quest for a third consecutive provincial final appearance with a 19 point win at Netwatch Dr Cullen Park on Wednesday night. With the greatest respect to the host county, no matter what way the evening went for the young Royals, they were on…
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Many young men of 20 will aim to take Meath to final hat-trick
If you’ll forgive the bit of journalistic licence, it should of course read many young men of U-20, but one couldn’t resist the opportunity to include a reference to the rebel ballad best performed – in my humble opinion – by Ronnie Drew. Anyway, you get the gist. Meath U-20 football manager Cathal O’Bric has…
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Dunboyne complete notable U-19 double
St Peters, Dunboyne 1:14St Patrick’s 0:09 Dunboyne’s U19 Footballers took home the 2025 Div1 championship cup this afternoon in front of a good crowd in Pairc Tailteann. This talented group of footballers almost had the clean sweep of Div 1 titles through their underage career with the U13, U17 and now U19 wins. The one…
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Dunboyne make it three from three
St Peter’s, Dunboyne..2-18Killary Emmets…1-13 It was a case of exactly as it said in the above headline as, despite fielding a much changed line up from their previous two outings, Dunboyne made it three Friday nights, three wins, in this U-19 FC encounter at Castletown. Their prior victories over St Patrick’s and Ratoath meant that…
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Two from two under the Friday night lights
St Peter’s, Dunboyne…2-13 Ratoath…2-04 Winners Dunboyne registered all of their 2-13 total from open play as they made home advantage count against local rivals Ratoath at Kepak Park on Friday night. This was a much better all round display from the home side than that in Stamullen seven nights previously. County U-20 player Cian Duggan…
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Dunboyne survive Stamullen stumble
Dunboyne survive Stamullen stumble St Peter’s, Dunboyne… 1-07 St Patrick’s… 0-09 Dunboyne had to dig in to ensure they came away with all the spoils against their obdurate opponents in this U-19 FC opening round encounter at Stamullen on Friday night. An Eoghan McDonald goal had got the 2023 MFC winners away to a flying…
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Cahill crescendo carries Meath to All Ireland semi final
MEATH…3-20 MONAGHAN…3-17 The completion of a hat-trick by Dunsany’s Stephen Cahill added another sensational chapter to the Meath encyclopaedia of escapism as the county’s Minor footballers advanced to the Tier II All Ireland semi final after emerging from this pulsating encounter at Carrickmacross on Saturday morning. The thing is though, unless you were related to…