Life And Sport From An Armchair View
4.00: NO SPEED LIMIT - EW - (KILLIAN LEONARD/PAT MCKENNA) No Speed Limit would nearly go around Dundalk blindfolded at this stage! 4.30: NORTH DORSET - EW - (KEITHEN KENNEDY (7)/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 5.00: ELEGANT MAN (MIKEY SHEEHY/ADRIAN MURRAY) 5.30: GATSBY CAP - EW - (HUGH HORGAN (5)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 6.00: FERRYBANK - EW - (BILLY LEE/TED... Continue Reading →
Meath...2-17 Tyrone...0-08 Second half goals from Eamon Og O'Donnchadh and substitute Paddy Barnwell put a coat of gloss on a polished Meath performance in O'Neill's Healy Park, Omagh as the visitors booked their place in the Allianz NHL Div. 2B Final with a game to spare. On a weekend that, locally at least, was a... Continue Reading →
Meath manager Seoirse Bulfin has shuffled his deck somewhat ahead of tomorrow's Allianz NHL Div. 2B clash with Tyrone at O'Neill's Healy Park. The Royal County will be aiming to continue their unbeaten run in the competition. Ace marksman Jack Regan (Kiltale) will lead the attack from the 40, while Seanie Geraghty reverts to midfield... Continue Reading →
Meath... 2-19 Antrim... 0-04 It was all one way traffic under the lights of Fr McManus Park on Friday night as Meath's U-20 footballers had little difficulty in maintaining their unbeaten run in the Leo Murphy Cup. However, their progression or otherwise in the pre-championship competition is out of their hands and will depend on... Continue Reading →
The Meath team to take on Antrim tonight in Round 3 of the Leo Murphy Cup has been announced. John McCarthy's charges are unbeaten after two outings, having drawn with defending All Ireland champions Tyrone and defeated Down in Burren last time out. Throw in at Fr McManus Park, Skryne is at 7.30 and admission... Continue Reading →
Irish sport's worst kept secret is out. Jack O'Connor has returned for a third stint as Kerry senior football manager. Once again, the Dromad Pearses clubman has brought Diarmuid Murphy and Mike Quirke as part of his backroom team. O'Connor recently left Kildare in the lurch, heading for where the pale moon was rising even... Continue Reading →
Tyrone...2-14 Mayo...0-15 Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. When Ryan O'Donoghue snatched at a handy point chance and then skewed a penalty wide minutes later, that old, terribly familiar black cloud must have loomed large on the green and red horizon once again. As with the Meath ladies just shy of... Continue Reading →
The immediate future of this season's All Ireland SFC has been cast into doubt with the revelation that Tyrone will not be fulfilling their already re-fixed All Ireland SFC semi final against Kerry. The O'Neill County camp has been ravaged by cases of Covid-19 in the last couple of weeks, with reportedly only 11 members... Continue Reading →
With the draws for the 2021 All Ireland Championships taking place throughout the week and in so doing offered glimmers of hope on the horizon, what could be beter than to stir memories of summers past.
Maurice Fitzgerald and Peter Canavan gave two of the best individual displays the one seeing eye here ever witnessed in All Ireland football finals. Maurice practically steered Kerry past Mayo, Peter and his colleagues were robbed of at least a second chance by an utterly attrocious decision from a referee who considered himself the greatest... Continue Reading →