Meath v Mayo All Ireland Minor Football Semi Final "After the Final Whistle"
Dublin 0-14 Meath 1-05
Sun 23 Sep 2012
Sun 23 Sep 2012
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Saturday 29 September 2012
Andy McEntee will not be the next Meath senior football manager.
Andy McEntee will not be the next Meath senior football manager. 
This year's county minor manager was seen as a potential successor to Seamus McEnaney but has opted not to allow his name go forward for interview. McEntee has cited time constraints as the reason for his decision, explaining that his involvement with the Meath minor team so late into the season left no time to put any plans in place.
There are now just four names remaining in the ring from the County Board's original hit-list of ten.
Interviews have already taken place and the Board hopes to put a name forward for ratification at its October meeting in ten days' time.
The four men currently in the running for the post are Paddy Carr, Graham Geraghty, Colm O'Rourke and Mick O'Dowd.
Monday 24 September 2012
Donegal win All Ireland Gaelic Football Championship
Donegal win All Ireland Gaelic Football Championship
Donegal 2-11
Mayo 0-13
Sun 23 Sep 2012
Donegal have been crowned All-Ireland champions for the first time in 20 years and for only the second time in their history following a four-point victory over Mayo.
Early goals from Michael Murphy and Colm McFadden left Mayo playing catch-up for the entire game in front of 82,269 spectators at a blustery Croke Park this afternoon. When McFadden fired home the winners' second goal in the 11th minute to give them a 2-1 to 0-0 cushion, it looked like a rout was on the cards, but to Mayo's credit, they never gave up the ghost and had cut Donegal's lead to three points, 2-4 to 0-7, by half-time.
http://hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=177895
Jim McGuinness had just completed perhaps the great coaching journey of the modern era in Gaelic football an hour earlier, but when he walked into the post-match press conference it quickly became obvious that he had something on his mind.
The positivity that had radiated from him all season was absent as he fixed his stare on a stopwatch strapped to his arm, clearly gathering his thoughts. He rose from his chair and returned briefly to the ante room that links the TV interview area and the dressing-room corridor.
When McGuinness re-entered the auditorium he gave the background to the request and why, after 10 months, he was now addressing the vexed issue of Cassidy's contribution and seeking the author's removal. Bogue had been to all of Donegal's post-match press conferences this summer without any disapproval from McGuinness and had even been to the Donegal media night in advance of the final three weeks earlier
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/furious-mcguinness-lets-rip-over-books-untruths-and-vile-articles-3239541.html
Donegal 2-11
Mayo 0-13
Sun 23 Sep 2012
Donegal have been crowned All-Ireland champions for the first time in 20 years and for only the second time in their history following a four-point victory over Mayo.
Early goals from Michael Murphy and Colm McFadden left Mayo playing catch-up for the entire game in front of 82,269 spectators at a blustery Croke Park this afternoon. When McFadden fired home the winners' second goal in the 11th minute to give them a 2-1 to 0-0 cushion, it looked like a rout was on the cards, but to Mayo's credit, they never gave up the ghost and had cut Donegal's lead to three points, 2-4 to 0-7, by half-time.
http://hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=177895
Jim McGuinness had just completed perhaps the great coaching journey of the modern era in Gaelic football an hour earlier, but when he walked into the post-match press conference it quickly became obvious that he had something on his mind.
The positivity that had radiated from him all season was absent as he fixed his stare on a stopwatch strapped to his arm, clearly gathering his thoughts. He rose from his chair and returned briefly to the ante room that links the TV interview area and the dressing-room corridor.
A representative from the Croke Park press
office then re-entered to deliver a request from McGuinness to Declan Bogue, the
Ulster-based
journalist who had collaborated with Kevin Cassidy for the controversial book
'This Is Our Year' that led to Cassidy's removal from the squad last November,
to leave the room. Only if his request was acceded to, it emerged, would he
return to conduct any print media interviews.
When McGuinness re-entered the auditorium he gave the background to the request and why, after 10 months, he was now addressing the vexed issue of Cassidy's contribution and seeking the author's removal. Bogue had been to all of Donegal's post-match press conferences this summer without any disapproval from McGuinness and had even been to the Donegal media night in advance of the final three weeks earlier
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/furious-mcguinness-lets-rip-over-books-untruths-and-vile-articles-3239541.html
Sunday 23 September 2012
Dublin Beat Meath in All Ireland GAA Minor Football
Dublin 0-14 Meath 1-05
Sun 23 Sep 2012
Dublin won their first All-Ireland Minor Football Championship title since 1984 with an efficient 0-14 to 1-05 dismissal of Leinster rivals Meath at Croke Park.
Cormac Costello nailed four points as the Dubs moved into a 0-07 to 0-02 interval lead over a defensive Royals side.
Fiachra Ward netted a 43rd minute penalty to narrow the gap to a point, but Dublin resumed control to cruise to victory with scores from Niall Scully, Niall Walsh, Shane Carthy and Costello.
Dublin scorers: C Costello 0-05 (4f), S Carthy 0-03 (2f), N Scully, N Walsh 0-02 each, E Lowndes, D Campbell 0-01 each.
Meath scorers: F Ward 1-02 (1 pen, 2f), J McEntee, C O’Sullivan, P Kennelly 0-01 each.
Dublin: L Molloy, E Mullan, D Byrne, R McGowan, E Lowndes, C Mulally, M MacDonncha, Stephen Cunningham, S Carthy, R Gaughan, N Scully, N Walsh, C McHugh, C Costello, G Burke.
Subs: Shane Cunningham for Gaughan, D Gormley for Burke, D Campbell for Walsh, M Deegan for Scully
Meath: R Burlingham, R O Coileáin, B Power, S Gallagher, D Smyth, P Harnan, S Lavin, S McEntee, A Flanagan, C O'Sullivan, J Daly, J McEntee, B Dardis, F Ward, S Coogan.
Subs: P Kennelly for Dardis, H Rooney for Coogan, C Carton for Smyth, C O Griofa for Ward, C O’Brien for Daly
Referee: Barry Cassidy (Derry)
http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/football/2012/0923/338717-dublin-too-good-for-meath-in-minor-final/
http://www.hoganstand.com/Meath/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=177893
http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/gaa/2012/0923/1224324312737.html
Wednesday 19 September 2012
Royal Meath Minor Footballers 7/1 odds to beat Dublin
Royal Meath Minor Footballers 7/1 odds to beat Dublin
Meath manager Andy McEntee isn't without hope ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland minor football final against Dublin.
Odds of 7/1 are available on the Royals to reverse their 12-point Leinster final drubbing by the highly-rated Dubs, who are desperate to make amends for last year's shock final loss to Tipperary.
"Dublin deserve to be favourites, especially in light of their big margin win over us a few weeks ago, but, still the odds don't make sense to me," he said in The Irish News.
"Anything can happen on the day and we certainly won't be going to Croke Park just to make up the numbers. We didn't set out to reach the All-Ireland final, but have achieved an amount and feel we have a sporting chance of upsetting the odds."
http://hoganstand.com/Meath/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=177726
The statistics and the formbook suggest that Meath will only be going to make up the numbers, to act in a supporting role as Dublin continue on their way towards a predictable All-Ireland MFC title at Croke Park on Sunday?
The minor game will hardly even warrant too much attention and with a 1.15 throw-in will be well out of the way by the time the main business of the day starts between Mayo and Donegal in the SFC decider at 3.30.
Twice this year already Dublin have beaten Meath in finals. Once in the back yard of the Royals in the Leinster MFL decider at Páirc Táilteann way back in March by four points (2-10 to 1-9) and then in the Leinster MFC final at Croke Park by a massive 3-17 to 1-11.
Meath manager Andy McEntee and his selectors are well aware of the challenge facing Meath on Sunday as they once more venture into Croke Park, a venue where they manufactured a 'great escape' at the end of August with a 2-10 to 1-11 semi-final victory over Mayo
Tuesday 11 September 2012
An Fear Rua Closure Notice for the 'Speak Out!' Forum
An Fear Rua Closure Notice for the 'Speak Out!' Forum
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