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  • FeverPitch at Croke Park

    Fever_PitchLately it seems like the GAA have been looking MLB and NFL and how they run activities on match days, there have been stilt walkers and lifesize furry mascots getting photos taken with kids, music on match day and a chance to get your photo taken with either the Sam Maguire or the Liam McCarthy cups.

    Now they are taking this one step further and having an evening of fun and entertainment the night before the All Ireland Football Final, September 17th.

    Hector will act as MC on the night, there will be comedy from Neil Delamere and Fred Cooke and music on the night be be provided by Ryan Sheridan, Royseven and The Riptide Movement. The carnival feel will be pushed into overdrive by the latin rhythms of The Cuban Allstars. Tyrone legend Peter Canavan and memory man Jimmy Magee will there too, talking football.

    Tickets are limited to 1400 and start at €35 and are available from crokepark.ie and gaa.ie

  • Twenty Years Ago Today: Kevin Foley Became a Hero

    Imagine, it was twenty years ago today when Kevin Foley scored a goal and David Beggy slotted over a point to end the now infamous Meath Vs Dublin saga of 1991. Over four games the two teams played for five hours and forty minutes and 237,000 people attended the games.

    This was just a preliminary round game, Meath then drew with Wicklow, then beat Laois and Offaly in the Leinster Final. They played Roscommon in the All Ireland Semi but unfortunately lost to Down in the final – 1-16 to 1-14.

  • Leinster Final 11/07/2010 Meath vs Louth

    meath jersey crestToday was to be a historic day. Being from Meath I was hoping that the nine year Leinster GAA football title drought would come to an end. This morning I was buzzing and couldn’t wait for match time. Meath, my home county would take on Louth, our neighbours, who hadn’t won an All Ireland title since 1957.

    The game started, Louth drew first blood, after missing an open goal.. David Villa would have been extremely disappointed with himself.  Half time came though and despite Meath missing silly chances they were 3 points up.

    Second half, Meath seemed to be on the ropes, Louth rallying better. A loss to Louth, being honest, is not something I would want to endure. I’d rather lose to arch rivals Dublin. Meath have always had a fighting spirit, you can never rule them out of anything and with ten minutes to go, the game was 10 points all.

    Leinster Trophy - Worth fighting for?Louth got a goal through JP Rooney but the Meath fans urges pushed the players on, giving everything in the last few minutes. Some completely stupid time wasting by kicking the ball away and then a late tackle saw Colm Judge sent off for Louth. With three minutes additional time to be played, Meath threw everything at the ‘wee’ county. A high ball in towards the goal mouth was caught by Joe Sheridan who turned and shot, the ball somehow was kept out by Louth. It dropped to Sheridan again who tripped over the Louth Number 3, Dessie Finnegan, while also being rolled over by goalkeeper Neil Gallagher and somehow the ball ended up in the back of the net. The goal was awarded and Meath won the Leinster Senior Football title 2010.

    Whatever the result of the game, so be it. If Meath had to lose, we could have done nothing about it. If Louth had to take their open chances, they would have been celebrating. What happened next though, took our game and stamped all over everything it has ever stood for. (more…)