Tag: Tyrone
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Trying to stop a tsunami with a mop and bucket
At the outset here, let it be made abundantly clear that the decision of Watty Grahams GFC to lodge an objection to the outcome of last Sunday’s All Ireland Club SFC Final is not only understandable but the correct decision. However, that the matter has come to this is a horrendous indictment of GAA leadership […]
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Evidently nothing learned since 2010
It may be time for the GAA to go and learn from other sports again. Recently, this corner learned that both American Football and Basketball have in their arsenal a transgression called ‘Delay Of Game’. It means exactly what it says on the tin. Penalty for which, in the latter at least, means free throws […]
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A string to Willie’s bow as Brown drops down
A former inter county dual GAA player once said to me “There’s only one place to really judge a player’s character – Croke Park. I knew what he meant. For a golfer see Augusta National, anyone in National Hunt horse racing is judged by what they do – or don’t – at the Cheltenham Festival […]
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Things going to script is a one way street
It’s strangely apt to be writing the following just as the Tailteann Cup semi finals are down for decision. The point was made not so long ago on these pages that hurling was ahead of football in coming up with a tiered championship. Because of the inception of the McDonagh, Ring, Rackard and Meagher Cup […]
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Armagh – saving Gaelic football one long ball at a time
When Meath broke through to the big time in Gaelic football circa 1986, I was five. Not a jot is recalled of the wet day Dublin were eventually usurped, but once this corner was properly attuned to the goings on of such matters – which in truth was the following year – the importance of […]
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Selections for Dundalk – Mar. 11th 2022
5.00: BLASTOFMAGIC – EW – (COLIN KEANE/GER O’LEARY) 5.30: FORM OF PRAISE (CIAN MCREDMOND (5)/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS) 6.00: CAPLA KNIGHT – EW – (LUKE MCATEER (3)/PAT MCKENNA) 6.30: DANCES WITH STARS (MIKEY SHEEHY (3)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.00: DRAKENSBERG – EW – (SAM EWING/TONY MARTIN) 7.30: GORGEOUS STAR (COLIN KEANE/ADRIAN MURRAY) 8.00: SAN ANDREAS (JAKE COEN (7)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) […]
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Sideline Cuts – 18
LANDO SIGNS ON AS BLAME GAME RUMBLES ON It only seems like the blink of an eye ago that Max Verstappen was crowned Fomula 1 World Champion in dramatic and highly controversial circumstances, but the real life Batmobiles are being fired up again as the chequered flag prepares to fall on another season. If you […]
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Leonard sends Meath to the promised land
Meath… 1-12 Tyrone… 1-11 Tommy Mahon, Benny Gartland, Patsy Duff, Brian Reilly, Oliver Harding, that was for you. Men who laid the foundations a generation ago upon which days like today were founded. It also represents due reward for those who kept the faith – maybe more than I did myself at times – to […]