Tag: Susan Farrell

  • Jimmy Brady – Ballinlough GFC (RIP)

    Jimmy Brady – Ballinlough GFC (RIP)

    I honestly can’t believe the following is having to be written in the applicable context. The appended letters in brackets aside, one could simply write Jimmy Brady Ballinlough GFC and no more would be required. Jimmy was the club, and the club was Jimmy. One simply couldn’t imagine one without the other. Yet that is…

  • From slide rule passes to egg and spoon races

    From slide rule passes to egg and spoon races

    Meath…1-16 Derry…1-10 There’s something earthy, indefatigable, primal almost about rural GAA teams. The smaller the club, the more raucous and enormous their support will be. When all of the above are in sync, the bigger potential banana skin they become for often ‘softer’ ‘townie’ outfits. Ballinlough have tripped up as many as anybody in Meath…