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- Tue Dec 12, 2023 5:48 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Shane Dooley Retirement
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24865
Re: Shane Dooley Retirement
Surprised to see no mention of this. Such a central figure in Offaly hurling for so long. I agree. A great servant to Offaly through a prolonged period of difficulty for hurling in the County. Perhaps his retirement has been coming for some time and with a sense of expectation, people are less quic...
- Mon Sep 26, 2022 10:11 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Club Football Championship 2022
- Replies: 168
- Views: 132212
Re: Club Football Championship 2022
In pretty close to perfect weather conditions (Ok, it was a little bit windy), this was a County Final low on quality. Tullamore entered the game as warm favorites, but after watching the first 15 minutes of the game, it became clear that it was going to be a difficult afternoon for them. The Tullam...
- Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:04 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: National Foothall league Div 2 predictions
- Replies: 200
- Views: 136554
Re: National Foothall league Div 2 predictions
Lone Shark has touched on something that is evident on this board, but also across the county. The expectations that people have on the U20 footballers to progress and carry Offaly forward are extraordinary. Last year was a real fairy-tale for Offaly. It felt great to be back in Croke Pk winning a f...
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 5:37 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Sigerson/Fitzgibbon 2020
- Replies: 33
- Views: 61597
Re: Sigerson/Fitzgibbon 2020
I'm pretty sure Keith O'Neill from Clonbullogue is in Maynooth?
- Fri Nov 19, 2021 5:45 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Football Championship 2021
- Replies: 89
- Views: 80600
Re: Offaly Senior Football Championship 2021
There's always a greater sense of an era ending when a long established team gets the run-around from an emerging, young and energetic team. This is a key point. Unless there is a significant change, any flavour of a Rhode team should be top 4 material for some time. And if you’re top 4 material un...
- Fri Nov 12, 2021 6:00 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Football Championship 2021
- Replies: 89
- Views: 80600
Re: Offaly Senior Football Championship 2021
Having attended an enjoyable County Final, I thought this was worth a post. In no particular order: 1. Niall McNamee is doing what Ronaldo is doing. At times against Tullamore, he was triple-marked. We all know how the game ended. He put the ball in just about the only place he could squeeze it in a...
- Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:25 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Niall McNamee Retires
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12306
Re: Niall McNamee Retires
I haven't posted here in a while for a number of reasons, but Niall McNamee deserves the respect of a short message. An exceptional forward who was good enough to make any of the finest Offaly Football teams - for sure, in another generation, he would be a Winner of Leinster, All-Ireland medals and ...
- Mon Sep 26, 2016 8:54 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Advancement from Group Stages Football
- Replies: 41
- Views: 70677
Re: Advancement from Group Stages Football
Big weekends for Bracknagh and Ferbane in the Football championships. Bracknagh will go to Senior B next year having beaten Shannonbridge in the Intermediate Final, while Ferbane's victory over Tullamore will see them contest their first County Final since that most controversial of defeats to Edend...
- Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:27 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Club Hurling C'ship 2016
- Replies: 341
- Views: 390344
Re: Offaly Club Hurling C'ship 2016
I know it's difficult to understand Frank, but you've missed one vital point.
Offaly compete in both Hurling and Football and getting the fixtures right to suit both is not easy.
Tipp only have to worry about Hurling.
Offaly compete in both Hurling and Football and getting the fixtures right to suit both is not easy.
Tipp only have to worry about Hurling.
- Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:00 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Paddy Hanamy RIP
- Replies: 27
- Views: 49235
Re: Paddy Hanamy RIP
I'm pretty sure Artie Pyke also passed away recently. Given his contribution to local GAA, he too should be remembered.
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 4:52 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: 2015 SFC Final - Edenderry vs. Rhode 11/10/15
- Replies: 37
- Views: 60305
Re: 2015 SFC Final - Edenderry vs. Rhode 11/10/15
In the depths of Winter early in the afternoon, when shadows grow long and tilt slightly, does the small village of Rhode cast a north-easterly shadow over the town of Edenderry? It would be almost impossible, wouldn’t it, for a satellite to relegate a larger gravitational body to darkness? In the w...
- Sun Dec 14, 2014 12:14 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Rhode in Leinster - 2014
- Replies: 138
- Views: 138209
Re: Rhode in Leinster - 2014
There is no doubt that Rhode have grown into this Leinster campaign. It's hard to know whether or not we should be surprised. Having won a memorable three-in-a-row between 2004-2006, Rhode have returned to collect the Dowling Cup every second year since. While that makes them the envy of other clubs...
- Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:11 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly Senior Football Management 2015
- Replies: 72
- Views: 133957
Re: Offaly Senior Football Management 2015
He was a whisker away from winning the All-Ireland with Garrycastle that year, as they drew with Cross in the final. I'm surprised you omitted the fact that he won a Connacht (football) club title too - with your newly adopted club. Anyway, if he meets with the expected opposition from Brendan Lynsk...
- Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:44 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Leinster Under 21 Football
- Replies: 59
- Views: 43177
Re: Leinster Under 21 Football
This is a group of footballers to be taken seriously. At least 8 of those named figured strongly in the wave that has swept through the schools in Ferbane (Darragh Corbett, Aaron McDonagh & Joe Maher) and Edenderry (Sean Moriarty, Sean Doyle, Philip Foy, Conor & Ruairi McNamee) with other fi...
- Wed Oct 16, 2013 2:00 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: senior football final Rhode vs Tullamore 15.30 sunday 13th
- Replies: 32
- Views: 39777
Re: senior football final Rhode vs Tullamore 15.30 sunday 13
The League Final Replay is yet to be played.
Lone Shark wrote:(1) On the one hand, it's hard to condemn Dingle Daly too much for a season in which they won the league