Tag: Sligo
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Selections for Sligo – Aug. 4th 2022
5.00: KNOCKANAGAPPAGH (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.30: DARTINGTON (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 6.00: JUST JACOB (SEAN FLANAGAN/GAVIN CROMWELL) 6.30: RED STRIKER (DILLON MAXWELL (7)/ANDY MCNAMARA) 7.05: ABSTRACT – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/RICHARD O’BRIEN) 7.35: PECKHAM SPRINGS (PADDY O’HANLON (5)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 8.05: ARTEMIS ANGEL – EW – (SEAMUS PERRY (7)/PETER FAHEY)
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Selections for Sligo – Aug. 3rd 2022
5.30: ALHAAJEB (SHANE FOLEY/JAMES MCAULEY) 6.00: BUTTERFLY GARDEN (SCOTT MCCULLAGH (5)/KEVIN PRENDERGAST) 6.30: DARK VEGA – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 7.00: KAMI – EW – (WAYNE LORDAN/MARK MCNIFF) 7.30: STATIC CHARGE (GARY CARROLL/JOE MURPHY) 8.00: PILBARA GOLD – EW – (BILLY LEE/ANDREW KINIRONS) 8.30: BAROMETER (COLIN KEANE/JOHN MURPHY)
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Selections for Sligo – July 10th 2022
1.35: EDGE OF MY SEAT (MARK MCDONAGH (5)/AIDAN HOWARD) 2.10: DAISY DUFRESNE (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.45: MIND YOUR MONEY (HARRY SWAN (7)/TIM HYDE) 3.20: ENA BAIE (CHARLIE O’DWYER (4)*/CONOR O’DWYER) 3.55: ZACCARELLA – EW – (NIALL MOORE (7)/PHILIP FENTON) 4.30: SILVER PLANEUR – EW – (COREY MCGIVERN (7)/ERIC MCNAMARA) 5.05: ATTABOYARCHIE – EW – (EMMA […]
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Fear of the unknown without foundation
Somewhere recently, Meath’s defeat of Donegal in the NFL quarter final of 1990 came up in conversation. Brian McEniff’s men had been kicking our lads around Breffni Park – in more ways than one – all day before two late goals from David Beggy set the Royals on a collision course with arch nemesis of […]
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Selections for Sligo – June 21st 2022
5.35: MAJESTIC JEWEL (COLIN KEANE/ANDY MCNAMARA) 6.10: DUTCH GLORY – EW – (SIOBHAN RUTELEDGE (5)/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 6.45: CNODIAN (NATHAN CROSSE (3)/WILLIE MCCREERY) 7.20: INVENTOR (BILLY LEE/GILLIAN SCOTT) 7.50: GRACESOLUTION – EW – (JAKE COEN (7)/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 8.20: SELADOR (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN)
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Tailteann Cup opening pairings revealed
Anybody who questions the GAA’s willingness to and alacrity at the accepting and implementation of change should use the the example of the coalition between Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the GanGreen Party as a reference point. Now read on… Nobody really wanted it, nobody is sure how it came about but it’s holding steadily […]
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Selections for Sligo – May 17th 2022
5.10: KINGS VIEW – EW – (SIOBHAN RUTELEDGE (5)/PAT MCKENNA) 5.40: PRINCESS RAJ (TOM MADDEN/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 6.10: BRIDGE OF DAWN – EW – (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER) 6.40: DARK NOTE (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.10: MIRAMIS – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/SHEILA LAVERY) 7.40: ENTROPY (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 8.10: ZAYNUDIN (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN)
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One day a year dreaming of living somewhere else
O’Donovan Rossa from Cork against the great Eire Og team representing Carlow is the first All Ireland Club SFC Final this corner can remember. If the memory box serves me correctly, the hurling final that day was between Galway side Sarsfields and Dunloy Cuchulainns from Antrim. That football final in particular is now recalled with […]
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Early season joy and false dawns
A well travelled sage of the inter county football scene once dubbed a certain team ‘Kings of the challenge match”! The meaning was clear, and franked by the fact they once beat a team by 2-16 to 0-00 at a pitch opening. A few months later, those who had been whitewashed sat atop the pile. […]
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Selections for Sligo – Oct. 22nd 2021
1.10: CIEL DE NEIGE (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 1`.45: BREEZY BELLE – EW – (CHRIS TIMMONS/EDDIE CAWLEY) 2.20: SEVENNA STAR – EW – (RUTH DUDFIELD (2)/EMMET MULLINS) 2.55: RIPPON LODGE (PHILIP DONOVAN (5)/JOHN RYAN) 3.30: HESTHEWON – EW – (EOIN WALSH (5)/PAT MARTIN) 4.05: HUMBLE GLORY (JORDAN GAINFORD (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.35: MINELLA CROONER (JAMIE CODD/GORDON ELLIOTT)