Tag: The Sunday Game
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Royal Famous Five Recognition And Opportunity (edited 26/9/25, 11.00am)
The Meath quintet of Sean Rafferty, Ciaran Caulfield, Mat Costello, Ruairi Kinsella and Jordan Morris have all been included in the PWC/GAA All Star Nominations. Their shortlisting represents due recognition for the significant progress achieved during Robbie Brennan’s first season as manager of the Royal County. What the acknowledgement of the lads’ excellence also does,…
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Camogie Association – or GAA – can no longer Skort around issues as Girl Power talks
In the end, as with many societal issues, you were left wondering what all the fuss was about. That is not meant by way of demeaning the issues which had caused the contention. Quite the contrary in fact. That the ballot called as a means of concluding the contentious kerfuffie ends up being very lopsided…
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One change for Meath ahead of litmus test
On taking on the role of Meath senior football manager, Colm O’Rourke opined that the true test of a Meath player or managers’ character and success or failure was how they fared against Dublin. If the retired school Principal really believes that truly is the barometer by which things should be judged, then the verdict…
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Two newcomers as Royals hit the ‘summer’ road
Before getting into the meat of matters here (sure there could be a tarrif on even talking about that now) can I just say that it’s a relief to be talking about football matters and a football match after what has been an extremely tough week. Made so by entities seemingly determined to make their…
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The call is from heroism, who will accept?
Perhaps if one had been around for the glorious yet curious duopoly between Dublin and Kerry in the 1970s and early 80s, it might be easier to reason with Dublin’s domination for the last decade and a half. Just to be clear, that is not in any way a criticism of those who are currently…
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Reality bites but if you look for it there’s hope there…
MEATH… 0-12 DUBLIN… 3-19 It’s 2:49am, and the wind and rain are beating off the window like a night in November. But it’s literally midway through April. And Meath’s quest for a Leinster SFC crown now officially gone into a 15th year. It simply doesn’t feel right. Not the result – there could be absolutely…
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My Jarlath Burns Wishlist
Following on from my first piece relating to the new President of the GAA, Jarlath Burns, as promised, I do have a broader wish list of what I’d hope/like to see the former Armagh midfielder address during his stewardship of the Association. Before going forward to that though, let me first go back to that…
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Return of three jewels boost hopes of holding onto the crown
Meath… 0-15 Laois… 0-05 Take Kevin De Bruyne, Ruben Dias and Erling Haaland out of the Manchester City team, they don’t win their fifth Premier League title in six years. Send Limerick out shorn of Declan Hannon, Gearoid Hegarty and Aaron Gillane and they wouldn’t know Liam Mac Carthy as well as they do. Now…
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You don’t pay for a cow’s silage when ordering a litre of milk!
The thing that surprised me most was the fact that it took a very open, honest interview with Wexford legend Tom Dempsey for me to catch onto and agree with the point he was making. To go forward with this production we must first go back. What is probably more years than any of us…
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Glenn might be left thinking ‘less said, soonest mended’
Undoubtedly one of the most famous – or infamous, depending on whicb way you view it – media interactions in the history of the Premier League was when Kevin Keegan absolutely lost the plot during the season in which his Newcastle United were engaged in a protracted title tussle with Manchester United. The Magpies boss’s…