Tag: Westmeath Post

  • A bunch of Westmeath bachelors in a different sense

    A bunch of Westmeath bachelors in a different sense

    EXCLUSIVE A few weeks back in this space, mention was made of the fact that one had been accosted in an online forum for, once again, pointing out the link between the odious split season and player loss due to emigration. Whether temporary or permenant. Those rebuking my support for the proposal to extend the…

  • Selections for Kilbeggan – Sept. 5th 2025

    Selections for Kilbeggan – Sept. 5th 2025

    3.57: NELSON MUNTZ (PETER SMITHERS (7)/HARRY KELLY) 4.32: ZILLOW (ANNA MCGUINNESS (7)/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.07: DOLCE N MILANA (SEAN CLEARY-FARRELL (4*)/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.37: SLIM MARVEL – EW – (TREVOR RYAN (5)/ANDY SLATTERY) 6.07: FULL OF LIFE (OAKLEY BROWN (5)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.37: A WAVE OF THE SEA (CHARLIE O’DWYER (5)/SHANE BRODERICK) 7.07: WARTIME LEADER (PADDY MULLINS/WILLIE…

  • Selections for Kilbeggan -Apr. 25th 2025

    Selections for Kilbeggan -Apr. 25th 2025

    4.20: DUNKERQUE (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.55: BAYOU BELLE – EW – (AIDAN KELLY (5)/JARLATH FAHEY) 5.25: KENTUCKY BEACH – EW – (TIERNAN POWER-ROCHE (5)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 5.55: KALNOO – EW – (CIAN QUIRKE (3)/PAUL KIELY) 6.25: LOOK TO THE WEST (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD ) 6.55: THREE IN A ROW (DONAGH MEYLER/ARTHUR MOORE) 7.25: FENWAY PARK…

  • Selections for Kilbeggan – Sept. 4th 2024

    Selections for Kilbeggan – Sept. 4th 2024

    2.15: ELUSIVE PRINCE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.45: HEY WHATEVER – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.15: WHERE’S NANNY – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.45: LEADING LION (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.20: SHANA CLUNE – EW – (CONOR STONE-WALSH (5)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.55: FOR FEAR OF FROST (JJ SLEVIN/MICHAEL MORRIS) 5.30: ROYAL CAVE – EW –…

  • Selections for Kilbeggan – Jul. 12th 2024

    Selections for Kilbeggan – Jul. 12th 2024

    4.25: SLIM MARVEL – EW – (PHILIP DONOVAN (5)/ANDY SLATTERY) 5.00: CHURCHWARDEN – EW – (BEN HARVEY/JOHN MCCONNELL) 5.35: CHAMPELLA (TOM HARNEY (7)/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 6.10: ONEFORTHEDITCH (SIMON TORRENS/EAMONN GALLAGHER) 6.45: KILASHEE – EW – (SHANE FITZGERALD/JOHN RYAN) 7.20: CEANNDANA (KEITH DONOGHUE/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 7.55: AMIRITE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 8.30: STUZZIKINI (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT)

  • Selections for Kilbeggan – Aug. 25th 2023

    Selections for Kilbeggan – Aug. 25th 2023

    4.35: NOTTODAYBOBO (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.05: SHAJAK (MARK WALSH/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.35: BUTTONS AND BOWS – EW – (MARK WALSH/PAT FLYNN) 6.10: GIVEAGO (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.45: FRGILLIGANS VOYAGE – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/JOHN CARR) 7.20: QUANTUM REALM (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 7.55: LISADELL LASS (L. DONNELLY (4)/WILLIE MULLINS)

  • Meath Minor Hurling team vs. Westmeath

    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…

  • Selections for Kilbeggan – Aug. 6th 2022

    Selections for Kilbeggan – Aug. 6th 2022

    5.20: NIKINI (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.55: MOVIE KING – EW – (LIAM MCKENNA (7)/TONY MARTIN) 6.25: ESPERTI (KEVIN SEXTON/PETER FAHEY) 6.55: DOCTOR DUFFY – EW – (PHILIP BYRNES (7)/CHARLES BYRNES) 7.25: HOLK COLBURN – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/BRIAN MCMAHON) 7.55: JACK HACKETT (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/CIARAN MURPHY) 8.25: LEITRIM PARK (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)

  • History repeated as Lake County claim landmark win

    History repeated as Lake County claim landmark win

    Westmeath… 2-14 Cavan… 1-13 There have been numerous examples in GAA of matches being turned on their head by moments of greatness. Anyone who has been kind enough to frequent this space for long enough will know my favourite exhibits of same. There is another one, mind you, which never got the acclaim it deserved.…

  • Fear of the unknown without foundation

    Fear of the unknown without foundation

    Somewhere recently, Meath’s defeat of Donegal in the NFL quarter final of 1990 came up in conversation. Brian McEniff’s men had been kicking our lads around Breffni Park – in more ways than one – all day before two late goals from David Beggy set the Royals on a collision course with arch nemesis of…