Tag: Sligo
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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)
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Selections for Sligo – Sept. 15th 2021
1.35: THE SLIDING ROCK (BRYAN COOPER/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.10: BENTHAM (JAMES O’SULLIVAN (5)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.40: JACK HOLIDAY – EW – (GAVIN BROUDER (7)/JOHN GLEESON) 3.15: THAT’S LIFEBUOY (BRYAN COOPER/JOHN RYAN) 3.45: EMIR DES ROTTES (RICKY DOYLE/CONOR O’DWYER) 4.15: FANCY FOUNDATIONS (BRYAN COOPER/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.50: FAVORI LOGIQUE (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN (7)/ROSS O’SULLIVAN)
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Royal County Continuing To Put Best Foot Forward
Meath…2-14 Sligo…2-09 For the third week in a row, it is a wonderful position to be in, writing about a Meath team in an All Ireland Final. Following on from the U-20 hurlers – for whom two James Murray goals got them over the line against Derry – and the almost unfathomable manner in which…
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Selections for Sligo – Aug. 5th 2021
4.30: DON’T HAVE TIME (PAUL TOWNEND/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 5.00: MARS HARPER (JACK KENNEDY/DENISE FOSTER*) 5.35: GENERAL MORIVIERE (MARK WALSH/SHANE BRODERICK) 6.05: BLOODSTONE (MIKE O’CONNOR (7)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.35: THE BANGER DOYLE – W/O FAV – (JODY MCGARVEY/KEITH WATSON) 7.10: SHES SOME DOLL (CONOR MCNAMARA/GAVIN CROMWELL) 7.45: NOS NA GAOITHE (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Selections for Sligo – Aug. 4th 2021
1.15: SWISS ARMY OFFICER (EMMET MCNAMARA/KEVIN COLEMAN) 1.45: TEN TEN TWENTY (COLIN KEANE/JOHN MURPHY) 2.17: SO I TOLD YOU (HUGH HORGAN (7)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.52: ARGES (ROBBIE COLGAN/JOHN MURPHY) 3.27: MIST OF THE DEEP – EW – (JOEY SHERIDAN (5)/FOZZY STACK) 4.02: SECRET ROAD (COLIN KEANE/GERRY KEANE) 4.37: CLAN JOCK – EW – (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD)