Tag: The Evening Echo

  • Selections for Cork – Mar. 19th 2026

    Selections for Cork – Mar. 19th 2026

    2.30: LYNCHES KNOCK (JOSH WILLIAMSON (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.00: WILD WILD WIND – EW – (HUGH HORGAN (5)/MARK CAHILL) 3.30: CAPTAINS SPEECH (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.00: DROP A THREAT – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.30: KIR – EW – (MIKE O’CONNOR/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.00: DANCING AFTER DARK – EW – (CAL SHINE (7)/JOHN G.…

  • A little bit of history as evolving Meath break new ground

    A little bit of history as evolving Meath break new ground

    MEATH… 1-13 CORK… 0-12 The last time this writer can recall rain of such torrential proportions falling in Pairc Tailteann was on the occasion of Colm O’Rourke’s last outing for Meath on the home sod. The first round of the Leinster SFC of 1995. Now read on… So bad was it that day that Westmeath…

  • Selections for Cork – Aug. 5th 2024

    Selections for Cork – Aug. 5th 2024

    2.05: AURORA VEGA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.35: DISCO DANCER – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.05: FAST FELIX (TIARNAN POWER-ROCHE (7)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 3.35: ONEFORTHEDITCH (SIMON TORRENS/EAMONN GALLAGHER) 4.05: OUR GIRL SAL – EW – (JAKE COEN (3)/PETER FAHEY) 4.35: BEACON EDGE (CARL MILLAR (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.05: LIBERATED LIGHT – EW – (JOHN GLEESON (5)/J. E.…

  • Selections for Tipperary – Jul. 2nd 2024

    1.33: THECOMPANYSERGEANT (DONAGH MEYLER/DENIS HOGAN) 2.03: GREAT BEAR (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.33: LIKABLE CHANCER – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN (3)/DANNY HOWARD) 3.03: ROBIN DE ROOST – EW – (AILEEN O’SULLIVAN (7)/TOM GIBNEY) 3.33: KILMURRAY JJ (KIERAN CALLAGHAN (2*)/TERENCE O’BRIEN) 4.03: JUDICIEUCE ALLEN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.35: WINDING RIVER – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/OLIVER MCKIERNAN)…

  • Selections for Cork – May 10th 2024

    Selections for Cork – May 10th 2024

    4.05: CAPTAIN GALLAGHER – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 4.40: HEART OF DARKNESS – EW – (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 5.15: MONASTERBOICE (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.50: CHEERS AGAIN – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/PAUL FLYNN) 6.25: SHIGAR – EW – (JAMES RYAN/BILL DURKAN) 7.00: PSALM (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 7.35: LADY DORIS (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 8.10: QUESTION…

  • Selections for Cork – Sept. 26th 2023

    Selections for Cork – Sept. 26th 2023

    1.20: SWEETEST (JACK CLEARY (7)/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 1.55: KIKI ROBERTS (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 2.30: ERISKAY – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 3.05: STARNIGHT – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 3.40: EZELIYA (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 4.15: CLEVER AND COOL – EW – (RORY CLEARY/JIM BOLGER) 4.50: CATENA ZEPATA – EW – (COLIN KEANE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.25: BREEZY…

  • Selections for Cork – Aug. 18th 2023

    Selections for Cork – Aug. 18th 2023

    4.15: SWEETEST (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 4.50: NOT TOO REAL BAD – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/TOM MULLINS) 5.20: TARAWA (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 5.52: TERMS OF ENDEARMENT – EW – (COLIN KEANE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.27: JUPITER ROCK (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.02: GYPSEY WOMAN (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 7.37: LAW LADY – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/TOM MULLINS) 8.12:…

  • A product is only as good as how it’s manufactured

    A product is only as good as how it’s manufactured

    Anyone who has been perusing material in this space for long enough will undoubtedly have seen reference made to the Corner House. That being my father’s ancestral family home. A book could and maybe one day will be produced on how beloved the old place was to me. Its appearance here today pertains to the…

  • Selections for Cork – Apr. 21st 2023

    Selections for Cork – Apr. 21st 2023

    1.58: SEA GARDENS (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.33: YOU OWE ME MONEY (DYLAN CURRAN (7)/DARREN BUNYAN) 3.08: TERM OF ENDEARMENT (WAYNE LORDAN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.43: NATIONS CALL (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 4.18: SERIOUS CHALLENGE (LUKE MCATEER (3)/JIM BOLGER) 4.50: DUBAI SPECTRE (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 5.23: TIMOURID (JAMIE POWELL (5)/PAUL FLYNN)

  • Closer but still not over the line

    Closer but still not over the line

    Meath…0-11 Cork…2-08 This writer has no idea where the saying ‘Close but no cigar’ originated from but at Pairc Ui Rinn on Saturday lunchtime it was a case of close but not over the line for the Meath as they slipped to another narrow defeat in the final round of the Lidl Ladies NFL. The…