Tag: Sean Delaney
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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…
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Big Gally Jnr is on point to win a classic
MEATH… 2-17 GALWAY… 2-16 Inches. How often have you heard it quoted, here and in other places? Al Paccino’s Inches speech from Any Given Sunday. Well, lads and lassies, it’s about to get another run out. Before getting into the nuts and bolts of that though, it is surely a gross indictment of those behind…
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Stop-start Meath keep ticking over to advance
MEATH…1-19 LONGFORD…3-10 My late father would have called it a performance that was like the Curate’s Egg – good in spots. But the Meath Minors were good in enough spots to keep themselves ticking over as they saw off the challenge of a plucky home side in Clonguish on Thursday night to advance to the…
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Learning from the past to avoid similar hardships
Amongst what is a fairly vast memorabilia collection in Boylan Talks Sport HQ, it’s presumably only natural that some artefacts therein command greater reverence than others. In no particular order, Brendan Reilly’s jersey from the 1990 All Ireland SFC Final, the replica of the Feis Cup presented to the late Tom Yourell by St Peter’s…
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Enjoy it – it takes longer than you think
Repetition is one of the greatest foibles in this business. Balancing such worries, though, is the reality that, if a point retains credence, it’s worth ploughing up again. Now read on… Again, we return to the task of tending to some of da’s stuff. Specifically, a few GAA photos – including the one of the…
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Herald the young heroes writing their own history
Dunboyne… 2-13 St Colmcille’s… 2-12 AFTER EXTRA TIME Life is indeed like a box of chocolates. You never do know what’s coming next. And if been wheeling around this big old ball for four and a bit decades has taught me anything, it’s that such being the case is one of life’s simplest yet greatest…