Tag: Tyrone Hurling
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Working away in the shade
What is probably close to thirty years ago now, a word manufacturing machine being propelled by yours truly produced a piece headlined exactly as above. Back then, it mostly centred on how the All Ireland successes carved out by Down (twice), Derry and Donegal could be – and as it happened, was – ground breaking…
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Greville goes for a half dozen changes
Meath manager Johnny Greville and his fellow mentors have opted to make a half dozen changes to the side which disappointingly lost out to London last week ahead of tomorrow’s Christy Ring Cup second round encounter against Tyrone at Trim. The green and gold will be hoping to repeat their NHL victory of earlier in…
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Kildalkey double does the trick up North
MEATH… 2-22 TYRONE… 2-14 Goals in each half from Kildalkey clubmates Nicky Potterton and Evan Fitzgerald proved to be priceless as Meath came away from Tyrone’s Centre Of Excellence in Garvaghy with their unbeaten record in NHL Div. 2 still intact. Poacher Potterton cut in along the endline and fired home after 26 minutes and,…
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Greville’s gang face significant Northern Exposure
Unlike the county senior footballers in their first campaign under the stewardship of Robbie Brennan, Johnny Greville’s Meath hurlers have the biennial fixture flip flop on their side with three – or half of the Allianz NHL Div. 2 outings slated for St Loman’s Park in Trim. Why the matches aren’t fixed for Pairc Tailteann…
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Meath nearly hit a score for every player on the pitch
Meath… 0-28 Tyrone… 0-20 When putting up the ‘Check In’ post on Facebook upon arrival at Pairc Tailteann early on Saturday evening, no secret was made of the reality that one was unsure what, if any, of the sliotar the one seeing eye here would be able to pick up. It being a first match…
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Meath leave well enough alone where possible
Sean Geraghty coming in as a direct replacement for the suspended James Toher is the only change to the Meath senior hurling team from that which defeated Derry ahead of Saturday’s encounter against Tyrone at Pairc Tailteann. That means that the great Mickey Burke is in line for what will be his 197th outing in…