Tag: Simply Fruit

  • 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…

  • Geezer eventually gets to rock the establishment with deliverence day

    Geezer eventually gets to rock the establishment with deliverence day

    Maybe I do know what I’m at after all. At the outset here, a shameless confession – outside of Meath, obviously, I’ve a fondness for Armagh greater than any other county. Perhaps for no particular reason, but broadly based upon: their people, their back-story, their song, Geezer, Francie, Jarlath Burns, Crossmaglen Rangers and the way…

  • A chastening night in the Orchard

    A chastening night in the Orchard

    MEATH… 0-10 ARMAGH… 2-16 Armagh – for a place yours truly has only been on four separate occasions during the four and a bit decades rolling around this world – causes a serious emotional tumult. From the time of my first excursion up the reunite with the Blair family in Crossmaglen whom we’d met in…