Life And Sport From An Armchair View
MEATH... 0-10 ARMAGH... 2-16 Armagh - for a place yours truly has only been on four separate occasions during the four and a bit decades rolling around this world - causes a serious emotional tumult. From the time of my first excursion up the reunite with the Blair family in Crossmaglen whom we'd met in... Continue Reading →
Republic Of Ireland Ladies manager Vera Pauw is free to concentrate on plotting her team's historic journey to the World Cup after the conclusion of a mammoth investigation into abuse cases in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in America. Donegal's Amber Barrett having drilled home the historic winner against Scotland in Hampden Park only... Continue Reading →
4.40: SURAC (DANNY MULLINS/RICHARD O'BRIEN) 5.15: SCENIC LOOK (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.50: PEACE PARTY - EW - (EOIN WALSH (5)/DESSIE MCDONOGH) 6.25: EVENWOODSONOFAGUN (DANNY MULLINS/RICHARD O'BRIEN) 7.00: SALVADOR ZIGGY (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 7.30: LILY LIGHT FOOT (KIEREN BUCKLEY (5)/E&P HARTY) 8.00: JETARA (MIKEY O'SULLIVAN (7)/JESSICA HARRINGTON)
Almost immediately after it was announced that Colm O'Rourke was the preferred choice of Meath's power brokers to assume the role of county senior football manager, thoughts turned to next year's National Football League. Specifically, what 'Colm O'Rourke's Meath' will look like, in personnel and style of football. Which in itself builds excited anticipation for... Continue Reading →
You've often heard mention of Maurice Healy's wonderful documentary Waiting For Houlihan which was basically the mountain of a man from the mountains of Kerry telling his own story in his own words. Interspersed therein also, mind you, were tributes to the great man from such contemporaries as Tony Meade of The Kerryman and Eoghan... Continue Reading →