Tag: Shane McCormack

  • Golden Oldies and a Sunday morning adjusting to a new high

    Golden Oldies and a Sunday morning adjusting to a new high

    With exactly 11 minutes to go in Tullamore on Saturday evening last, my significant other began imploring referee Joe McQuillan to blow for full time. Now read on… After removing the Michael out of the poor woman over her time keep miscalculation, it was readily admitted that such was the astonishment and excitement surrounding the…

  • McCormack maintains consistency of selections

    McCormack maintains consistency of selections

    Shane McCormack has once against kept the faith with those who got much closer to winning the Leinster SFC last month than most people expected. Indeed, they may have actually achieved the feat were it not for the fact that certain Meath players couldn’t get a free off Amazon, never mind the referee. Still, they…

  • No Rowe for Dubs as Royals stay the same

    No Rowe for Dubs as Royals stay the same

    Carla Rowe is a notable absentee from the Dublin starting 15 ahead of Sunday’s TG4 Leinster LSFC Final in Croke Park, while opponents Meath have named an unchanged line up from that which survived a late scare against Kildare in Newbridge on Sunday last. Country Crest Farms employee Rowe will be joined on the Dublin…

  • Cleary straight back in to skipper Royals

    Cleary straight back in to skipper Royals

    Meath manager Shane McCormack has opted to put captain Aisling Cleary straight back into his starting 15 ahead of their showdown with Dublin in the first round of the TG4 Leinster LSFC at Pairc Tailteann. This despite the fact that the Donaghmore/Ashbourne clubwoman missed the closing stages of the National League. Presumably in readying herself…

  • Housekeeping with one eye on the next part of the odyssey

    Housekeeping with one eye on the next part of the odyssey

    A couple of horrendous refereeing decisions – which of course the whistler will not face any censure for – may have cost Meath a place in the Lidl LNFL Div. 1 final, but it can still regarded as a successful spring sojourn for the green and gold. With that in mind, manager Shane McCormack has…

  • Duggan absent from Royal line up

    Duggan absent from Royal line up

    Emma Duggan is a notable and very worrying absentee from the Meath team published as that which will take on Kerry in the Lidl Ladies NFL at Austin Stack Park in Tralee tomorrow (Saturday). Throw in is scheduled for 2pm and the game will be shown live on TG4. Katie Newe comes in as an…

  • Another new midfield combination for the Ladies

    Another new midfield combination for the Ladies

    Manager Shane McCormack has again shuffled his deck in preparation for Saturday’s date with the Dubs in Round 5 of the Lidl Ladies NFL at Parnell Park. Throw in is at 3pm and the game will be shown live on TG4. The positional switches see Nicole Troy reclaim her usual corner back berth with Ratoath’s…

  • Sometimes Cliches Are Unavoidable

    Sometimes Cliches Are Unavoidable

    MEATH…4-04 TYRONE…0-02 The above is one of the cases that absolutely merits appendage to the headline in question. For the reality is that were it not for Meath’s four goals – a brace apiece from Kerrie Cole and the introduced Michelle Collins – were the crucial interventions as the 2021 Div. 1 champions got their…

  • McCormack’s new look Ladies head for the land of the Red Hand

    McCormack’s new look Ladies head for the land of the Red Hand

    This writer cannot actually remember a time – other than when she was being rested – when Monica McGuirk wasn’t between the posts for the Meath Ladies. But that is exactly the case this weekend as Shane McCormack takes his new look troop to, ironically, Newtownstewart, home of the legendary goalkeeping brothers – Finbarr and…

  • Surprises aplenty as Meath reveal hand for trip to Tralee

    Surprises aplenty as Meath reveal hand for trip to Tralee

    There are bound to be more than a few raised eyebrows after manager Shane McCormack revealed his Meath Ladies selection for tomorrow’s (Saturday) All Ireland SFC quarter final against last term’s beaten finalists Kerry in Tralee. Throw in at Austin Stack Park is scheduled for 5.30pm on an epic sporting Saturday. That the inclusion of…