He s such an icon in Longford - the methodical manager aiming to take down Meath
The42 takes a look at the development of Longford manager Pádraic Davis. By Sinead Farrell Sunday 4 Jul 2021, 8:30 AM 15 hours ago 13,007 Views 5 Comments
IN 2013, THE Longford U21 footballers produced a shock result when they defeated the then All-Ireland champions Dublin in the Leinster quarter-final. Longford manager Pádraic Davis. Source: Bryan Keane/INPHO
On a rainy evening at Parnell Park, a Dublin team featuring some of the biggest stars in the modern game were contained to a humble tally of 1-5, one point less than Longford’s final account.
Meath fire 4-22 against Longford to book Leinster semi-final place
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By Colin Payne
This became an all too common scene at Vicarage Road because of the pandemic. Picture: Action Images
The Watford Observer has again teamed up with its friends at The Watford Treasury to share stories from its new book, Coming Home.
In this piece titled Space - The Final Frontier, Colin Payne explains why a half-empty stadium is a wonderful thing. If the current ‘situation’ has taught me something, and of course it has, it is that I am quite an unsociable person. Although that is probably a fact most people who know me would already have deduced. It’s not that I don’t like company, I just prefer my own! This simple fact would no doubt go a long way in explaining why I would rather watch my football in sparsely populated stadiums. Watching games played out in front of empty stands has reinforced that. How I would love to be in one of those seats, not just to exclusively see the proceedings first-hand,
Winning is not everything - not for anything would I part from my Leitrim team mates” - Packie McGarty
The late great Galway defender Jack Mahon penned this tribute to his former opponent Packie McGarty in 1993, describing him as “irrepressible, a born footballer”
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A picture of Leitrim s Columba Cryan, Packie McGarty & Cathal Flynn on the Connacht Railway Cup winning team of 1958 );
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It s a dangerous game naming anyone as the greatest ever. A writer can only cover what he saw himself, his own lifetime.
Leitrim won the county s only Connacht Senior Football Championship title in 1927 and that was five years before I was born.