Tag: Westmeath GAA
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Meath Minor Hurling team vs. Westmeath
Manager Ger O’Neill has announced his starting 15 and substitutes prior to his young charges taking on their near neighbours in the opening round of the Electric Ireland Leinster MHC at TEG Cusack Park, Mullingar tomorrow (Saturday). In all, 12 different clubs are represented on the panel, and the team will be captained by Kyle…
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Minogue majors get Meath back on track
Meath… 2-13 Westmeath… 1-06 Don’t let anybody tell you the day of the dual player is no more. Anybody who has been following the progress of Meath’s Aoife Minogue could disprove that theory in a heartbeat. The talented Dunderry lady has been a breakthrough player on the Meath Ladies football team in recent months but…
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Midweek dead rubber fixture cancelled
The scheduled Bord Na Mona O’Byrne Cup third round encounter between Wexford and Louth – slated for Hollymount in the South East – has been cancelled as it would have transpired to be meaningless. By virtue of their victories over Westmeath and Kildare, Mickey Harte’s men had already qualified for a last four face off…
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Heroics and heartache for battling Ratoath
On numerous occasions over the years, this writer has referred to Al Paccino’s Inches speech in Any Given Sunday. Mostly because it’s something I defer to very regularly. As a means of keeping the wheels turning. On a more fundamentally sporting level, not only did it get me properly ‘into’ American Football but, even more…
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Tailteann Cup opening pairings revealed
Anybody who questions the GAA’s willingness to and alacrity at the accepting and implementation of change should use the the example of the coalition between Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the GanGreen Party as a reference point. Now read on… Nobody really wanted it, nobody is sure how it came about but it’s holding steadily…
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History repeated in more ways than one
Dunboyne…3-13 Tinahely (Wicklow)…1-18 Not only did lightening strike twice in terms of the rudiments of today’s game, events of four seasons ago were re-visited as Dunboyne just edged through to the Leinster Club SFC Final after an extra time epic at the Wicklow venue this afternoon. When last the two clubs crossed paths in the…
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Winter wonderland rolls on
Dunboyne…3-16 Milltown (Westmeath)…1-07 Possibly the only down side for teams who won county championships in 2020 was that they were denied – wrongly in my view – the opportunity to represent their county at Provincial level thereafter. Thus, having earned the right to do so again, St Peter’s, Dunboyne laid down a marker here that…
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O’Sullivan Double Sees Meath Sail Home
Meath……2-15 Down……0-14 A brace of well taken goals from the speedy Cillian O’Sullivan set Meath on their way as they departed Armagh’s Athletic Grounds with both points to leave everything to play for going into their remaining fixture against Mayo. Today’s encounter was staged at the neutral venue after Paddy Tally’s team were forced to…
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Call for back up pays off as bench boots Royals home
Meath……0-16 Westmeath……0-15 A game-changing contribution from those who came in off the bench proved crucial as the home side got their bid for an automatic return to the top flight off to a winning start. Though it was Eamon Wallace who curled over what turned out to be the winner, the contributions of his fellow…
