Tag: St Vincent’s Ardcath
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An impressive tally in no-win situation
MEATH… 5-19 CARLOW… 2-09 Cathal O’Bric’s Meath U-20 footballers got the county’s quest for a third consecutive provincial final appearance with a 19 point win at Netwatch Dr Cullen Park on Wednesday night. With the greatest respect to the host county, no matter what way the evening went for the young Royals, they were on…
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Nominations for the CICO Sports We Are Meath Club All Stars are revealed
What has become a valued and much anticipated event on the local sporting calendar moved a little bit closer with the announcement of the nominations for the 2025 CICO Sports We Are Meath Club Football All Star Team Of The Year Awards. The winners of which will be announced at a special event at The…
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Mc puts the knife in the neighbours
MEATH… 0-19 WESTMEATH… 0-12 How often do you see it, we in the media rave about a particular player, thus whenever he or she lines out again in one sense the masses expect an action replay and in another, forthcoming opponents obsess about ensuring that doesn’t happen. On the latter point, Westmeath full back Adam…
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John 2:3 – the gospel for the Regional Championship
BRU NA BOINNE… 2-14 AN TUAISCEART… 1-14 How do you go about winning the Meath Regional Football Championship? Have John McCarthy managing your team! Now, of course it’s not as simple as that to garner the Richie Barry Cup – sponsored by Brady’s Skoda and Ideal Bathrooms – but, the former county Minor and U-20…
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The old cliche points the way as river men make floodlit hay
BRU NA BOINNE… 2-09 MOYFENRAGH… 0-10 If it aint broke don’t fix it. Using a cliche to defend the use of cliches is possibly the most Irish thing going. But it literally was a case of goals winning games as Bru Na Boinne got their Regional Football Championship challenge up and running in front of…
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Regionals on the road again with Friday Night Football
In a deserved nod of recognition to the progress made by the St Vincent’s club in recent seasons – on and off the field – Round 2 of the Regional Football Championships, sponsored by Brady’s Skoda and Ideal Bathrooms, throws in this evening at Masterson Park in Ardcath with the meeting of the ‘local’ amalgam,…
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Forget about a day like this, how about a week?
“We’ll drink to those who are here today, and remember those who are gone”. So begins one of the verses in the beautiful, moving number penned by Charlie Walls Lord knows how long ago, The Big Tree which has very much become Dunboyne’s ‘national’ anthem. Especially since being eternally enshrined as such on Mick McAuley’s…
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Minors shuffle the decks for the Dubs
There are three changes in personnel and a number of positional alterations on the Meath Minor football team to take on Dublin in Round 2 of the ESB Leinster MFC at Pairc Tailteann this evening. Throw in for the latest encounter between the old foes is at 6.30pm. Having impressed when introduced off the bench…
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Morgan reveals his first Minor selection
Meath manager Stephen Morgan has announced the starting 15 and extended panel for this evening’s Leinster MFC opening round encounter against Westmeath in Kinnegad. In all, 16 different clubs are represented in the group. The team will be captained by Eamon Armstrong from the Duleek/Bellewstown club. BRAYDEN COLFER (SLANE); OLIVER MALONEY (WALTERSTOWN), OISIN O’NEILL (DUNDERRY),…
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Healing hands and words that gave us faith in ourselves
Be honest, were any of you ever caught with drink on you in school? In your possession, not actually on board? This corner was, now read on… A bottle containing poitin was once domiciled in my schoolbag for a few hours. And of course it had to fall out. Before the gaskets in your mind…