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5th October, 2007
TG4 travel north this Sunday to Markievicz Park for the Sligo senior final
this Sunday, a match where not many viewers outside the north west will
be too familiar with many of the protagonists involved.
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27th September 2007
After all the fuss of the last few weeks, itÕs fair to say that Ois’n
McConville will be happy to get back to doing what he does best next Sunday
in the familiar surroundings of St. Oliver Plunkett Park in Crossmaglen
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24th September 2007
Pearse îg provide the opposition as Crossmaglen Rangers go in search of
a remarkable 11th consecutive Armagh championship, and it is hard to see
past the All-Ireland club champions on a day when there are a number of
big county finals up for decision.
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21 September 2007
The footballers of Kerry and hurlers of Kilkenny might be taking some
well earned rest after their medals have been secured in the last few
weeks, but for the club players of Ireland the medals are pretty much
still all there to play for.
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07 September 2007
The weekend between All Ireland Finals is invariably one of the best for
club games all across Ireland and certainly 2007 is no different in that
regard.
Cats
Are Evens for 3-in-a-row
03 September 2007
Kilkenny are even money to win the All Ireland title for the third year
in a row in the 2008 Senior Hurling Championship according to Ladbrokes.
Beaten finalists Limerick are 16/1 to win the McCarthy Cup next year.
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22 August 2007
Kerry versus Dublin – when a rivalry is so famous that it has an
entire book dedicated to it (Dublin vs Kerry, Tom Humphries, Penguin Press
2006) you know there’s a lot more going on than just another game
of football.
Club
odds
16 August 2007
Ladbrokes have come up with odds for many of the club championships around
the cou
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16 August 2007
1943 to 1948 – six consecutive years in Gaelic Football that represented
the longest run of All Ireland finals without a Leinster team being involved.
The second longest such run started in 2002, and unless either Meath or
Dublin do the honours over the next two weekends, this unhealthy run for
Ireland’s most populous province will continue, matching the record
set in the emergency.
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08 August 2007
6th August 2000 – Offaly 0-19, Cork 0-16. This Sunday will be seven
years and six days after that famous semi final when the formbook was
turned on it’s head and the expected Cork vs Kilkenny All Ireland
final failed to materialise.
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25 July 2007
This time last week we recommended Wexford plus five points against Tipperary
at 11/10 – due to tragic events in Kilkenny that bet will now be
voided and your stakes returned. However for all the reasons that we stated
last week, this is still a good bet and thus we will once again recommend
it as our starting point.
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18 July 2007
Ask any journalist or bar stool pundit and they’ll tell you in no
uncertain terms what the big GAA story of the week will be – it’ll
be Ger Loughnane and whatever tricks he has up his sleeve to try and upset
the All Ireland Champions and steer Galway to an All Ireland hurling semi
final.
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12 July 2007
Sixteen teams gone, fifteen more to go before we know the winner of the
All Ireland football championship this year. So far in this column we’ve
been tipping weekly matches, but at this halfway juncture when every team
has played at least two games and has form on the board, we thought we’d
step back and recommend a couple of antepost wagers to keep you all interested
between now and the end of the year.
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04 July 2007
With 26 games going on in 21 different counties this weekend, whether
you’re a punter or a spectator you’re spoilt for choice. Every
county barring Kilkenny is in action this weekend so it’s highly
possible that you were planning to go along to support your own county
in their quest for glory, but spare a thought for the poor bookie who
is overworked trying to assess all these different games, ranging in intensity
from the Munster Hurling final in Thurles to Tommy Murphy Cup games in
Ardfinnan, Dungarvan, Ruislip and Aughrim.
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29 June 2007
You won’t have to travel far before you’ll meet an upset backer
in the GAA. Armed with the logic that 3/1 or bigger is a “great price
in a two horse race” they look out for dangerous underdogs and try
to cash in. So far this year it’s been lean pickings for these bettors
in the 2007 Championship.
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13 June 2007
You’ll do well to find a man or woman in Ireland these days that
doesn’t at least have some idea how to play poker. TV channels have
discovered the public appetite for the game, with whole channels dedicated
to the sport, while even RTE covered the recent Irish Poker Open. Many
people are trying it for themselves, with Global websites like www.ladbrokespoker.com
all finding that Ireland has more players per head than pretty much any
other country.
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07 June 2007
We like to think that there’s more to this column than just telling
you how to bet – there’s also the equally important function
of dispelling some of the myths out there too, myths that could cost money
if followed blindly. Much like Irish society is currently finding out
that there’s a lot more to the property market than clichés
like “rent is dead money”, in GAA betting there are clichés
out there too.
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31 May 2007
There are some rivalries in the GAA that have an everlasting appeal, clashes
that would enthral the country irrespective how well or badly either side
is playing. Kerry vs Dublin in Football and Cork vs Tipperary in Hurling
are two such games, but many would argue that the Daddy of them all, consolidated
by their four game saga in 1991, is Dublin vs Meath.
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24 May 2007
Any GAA championship match has the potential to be a tense and hard hitting
encounter, but Munster Hurling Championship matches tend to increase that
potential another notch or two. The fiercely competitive nature of Munster
clashes makes for excellent viewing and most GAA followers not on duty
following their own club or county next Sunday will be glued to RTE 2
for Clare versus Cork.
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11 May 2007
Never mind the weather, or the groundhogs, or even the exams. The All
Ireland Football championship officially kicks off this Sunday at 2pm
in Pearse Park in Longford and that is the best guide for when the summer
really starts.
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02 May 2007
Leagues finished, championship yet to begin – yup, limbo it is. Still,
while most counties are training away in anticipation of battles yet to
come, for supporters of Cork and Laois the Under 21 decider on Saturday
evening is looming large and will be a clash to savour.
Sharp
shooters for 2007?
26 April 2007
Who will be the sharp shooter in this year’s All Ireland Football
Championship? Ladbrokes have installed Stephen McDonnell as favourite
with Kerry duo Colm Cooper and Kieran Donaghy a close second at 10/1.
Ladbrokes
GAA Betting Update
13 April 2007
A big weekend looms for John O’Mahony. So far the Ballaghderreen
man can do no wrong, but in Mayo it doesn’t get much more wrong than
losing to Galway! So will it be the all conquering John O’Mahony
in 2007?
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04 April 2007
Last weekend was a relief for your writer – after last minute goals
and close calls had gone against us for a few weeks in a row, yours truly
was beginning to look nervously at passers by in case they might have
been disgruntled punters waiting to pounce. Even little old ladies were
treated with caution because even the nicest people around don’t
like losing money, and a quick swipe of a handbag can bring a man down
to earth pretty quickly.
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28 March 2007
Goals win games I guess. That was the clear message from last week, when
our four underdogs scored 52 times between them, while their opponents
only managed 50 scores, and yet we failed to find even one win out of
four. Also, your writer was strongly tempted to tip up Laois this week
at 4/7 at home to Armagh, but seeing as Stephen McDonnell has grabbed
late goals to foil us both times we’ve opposed his beloved Armagh,
we’re going to learn our lesson and stay away!
Remarkable
peculiarities
15 March 2007
To borrow a quote from Tommy Tiernan – “It’s great being
Irish, people expect you to be drunk!” Some people might get offended
at this, but chances are this weekend they’ll be too drunk to do
anything about it, so now’s a good time to trot out the phrase
Tricky
formlines
08 March 2007
Following formlines can be a tricky thing. On the first week of the football
league, Donegal went down to Cork and beat the hosts comprehensively in
a Saturday night clash in Páirc Uí Rinn.
Results
could go any way
02 March 2007
On Sunday, 4th March we have five games where on paper the result could
go either direction, although among those five games Clare look absolute
certainties at odds of 2/7 at home to Wexford.
Experimental
teams
20 February 2007
It’s quite ironic that despite county sides still finding their feet
early in the season, several teams still putting out relatively experimental
teams, and the small matter of a minor rugby game on TV, the National
League games will still see over 100,000 paying customers click through
the turnstiles, maybe a lot more
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