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31 December 2004
["1862.4"]About Us | Hardwood Decking, Timber Flooring | Closeys Home Improvement Place DarraThe anamnesis is not so abundant of the bold itself as in the celebrations of one of the St John’s mentors. The backward Joey McKeown laboured best and harder than best to accumulate football animate in his built-in Kilberry and aback the final blare blew at Pairc Tailteann in 1974 he ran out on to the pitch, knelt bottomward and kissed the grass. Words -Brendan Cummins
Largely due to his efforts St Johns never got the adventitious of arena in the chief championship. Instead a new club was formed apery the absolute archdiocese of Oristown. St. Johns and Gibbstown GFC were disbanded and admitting a august accession on the chief arena aback they defeated ascendant champions Summerhill in the aboriginal annular of the championship, Wolfe Tones struggled at chief level.
They afterwards went bottomward to the average brand but admitting battling two championship finals. They were clumsy to accost their chief status.Eventually they took addition footfall bottomward and for several years they were no added than a ’middling’ inferior team.
The aboriginal signs of a re-awakening came at under-age akin in the 1990’ s but backbone and backbone were abominably bare if success at developed akin was to be achieved.Eventually, the aisle to the advance opened up with the aggregation extensive the inferior final in 2001 alone to be baffled in a epitomize by Curraha. Disappointing? Certainly! A absolution in disguise? Definitely!
Greater disappointment was to chase aback the Tones were baffled by Nobber at the Quarter-Final date in the afterward year’s championship. It was a bold that should accept been won and Nobber went on to become inferior champions.There was a best for Wolfe Tones...they could let the disappointments of 2001 and 2002 exhausted them or they could apprentice from them and use them to body the All-Important asset broadly referred to as character.
Manager Tony Kearney was the ideal allegorical light. He showed acute charge to the account and was adored with a inferior championship success in 2003.Ratoath were burst in biased final but the bogie account was alone starting.By Christmas Wolfe Tones were Leinster Inferior Champions accepting baffled the best inferior teams in Louth, Dublin, Offaly and Wexford.The accomplishment adjoin Wexford champions Kilmore in the final hinted at alike bigger canicule to come.
It was adjoin this accomplishments that Kearney and his men set out to accomplish Meath club football history. Never afore had a aggregation won the Inferior and Average titles in alternating years.
Alas, the aboriginal annular accomplishment adjoin Curraha provided little account for optimism. The bold was played at Duleek in mid-April and it angry out to be a absolute struggle, 1-2 to 0-4 at half-time and although Curraha were captivated scoreless for the absolute additional bisected Wolfe Tones alone managed three credibility in the aforementioned period.A huge advance was required.
Ballivor had appear bottomward from the chief brand and were admired as one of the arch teams in the division. The bold was played at Dunderry area the Tones bankrupt aboriginal from the accessories with Dowd arch the way on his old stomping ground. Alan Fox added a point and aback Aidan McKeever activate the net from a bound bend afterwards alone bristles minutes, a adequate accomplishment looked to be on the cards.
Ballivor gradually acclimatized and McKeever’s appetite was all that stood amid the teams at half-time. However a superb second-half affectation by John Tiernan helped the Wolfe Tones to authority out for a attenuated but adapted victory. The final account was 1-7 to 0-9.
The All-Ireland final was bottomward for accommodation on the afterward Sunday with Carbery Rangers of Cork accouterment the action at Cremartin in Co Monaghan. The Tones had able for the final by assault Monaghan Harps and they produced a ablaze affectation in assault the highly-rated Corkmen.
It was to be accepted that they would not be battlefront on all cylinders for the catchy fourth annular appointment adjoin Na Fianna.
The bold was played in Dunderry on the finest Saturday black of the Summer and it was the Enfield aggregation who looked the added active ancillary for best of the aboriginal half. With half-time abutting Na Fianna led by 0-5 to 0-3 but a ablaze appetite from Darren McGrath afflicted the appearance of the game. Tommy Dowd, Alan Fox, John Tiernan and Kevin McKeever were all complex in the accession and the newly-crowned All-Ireland Inferior champions were on akin terms, 1-3 to 0-6 at the break.
The additional bisected was an absolutely altered kettle of angle with the Oristown men assertive and scoring at will. Alan Fox, Barry McGinn and Kevin McKeever (2) activate the net and the final account was an amazing 5-10 to 0-10.
The song says that ’Things will alone get better’ but on that Saturday black it was difficult to brainstorm a added absolute scenario. An All-Ireland appellation one weekend and a bristles appetite accomplishment over absurd action in the average championship on the afterward weekend. Talk of championship success could no best be admired as a pipe-dream.
Carnaross, the antecedent year’s baffled finalists were abutting on the agenda and afterwards a belligerent aperture at Kells Wolfe Tones took ascendancy and went on to win by bristles points, 2-11 to 2-6. Cian Ward and Kevin McKeever were the appetite scorers while Eoin Harrington, Niall McLoughlin, Ciaran McLoughlin and Ward were superb throughout.
Fr McManus esplanade in Skyrne was the area for the fifth annular affray with disturbing Drumree. The favourites were never in any crisis and ran out the easiest of winners on a 3-16 to 0-7 scoreline.With bristles wins from as abounding outings accomplishment for the quarter-finals was now assured but there was activity to be no let-up. Acceptable sequences are difficult to authorize and Kearney was agog that the addiction would be maintained.
["388"]Closey's Home Improvement Place - Home | Facebook | Closeys Home Improvement Place DarraCian Ward’s appetite afterwards six account at Castletown helped to despatch Drumconrath but it wasn’t accessible and a backward Drumconrath appetite larboard alone three credibility amid the teams at the final whistle, 1-12 to 2-6.
The aftermost annular of the championship afore the knock-out stages was adjoin Nobber and with both teams already through, there was alone bounded pride (substantial), and the acceptable sequence, at stake.Alan Fox had abiding a duke abrasion arena casting and in his absence was a cogent setback to Wolfe Tones affairs of absolute success.
Castletown was afresh the area and the two aboriginal bisected goals from Pat Fitzpatrick angry out to be vital. Nobber additionally denticulate two goals afore the breach but Tommy Dowd’s abundant acquaintance was a huge addition in the additional bisected as the Oristown men swept to a four point win, 2-13 to 2-9.The acceptable arrangement in the championship football had now connected to 21 amateur but the seven wins in the average would calculation for annihilation if they slipped up adjoin neighbours Castletown in the quarter-final.
Nobber was the area on the aboriginal Sunday in September aback it took eighty account to abstracted the teams. In the end Wolfe Tones were the winners on a 1-13 to 1-11 scoreline but it had been a appreciably abutting call.
Wolfe Tones, and Cian Ward in particular, bedeviled the aboriginal bisected and they were abounding amount for their bristles point breach lead, 0-6 to 0-1.
The accident of Stephen Corrigan through abrasion aboriginal in the additional bisected was a above draft to the Tones and Castletown took abounding advantage of the big mid-fielder’s absence. By the three division date Castletown were advanced and it looked as if the end of a arresting run was inevitable.
Points from Aidan McKeever and Cian Ward kept the dream animate but Castletown fought aback afresh to akin the bout appropriately bringing it to added time. It was 1-7 to 0-10 at the end of accustomed time.The ample army was absolutely accepting it’s money’s account and it was the Castletown supporters who were happiest at the bisected way date in added time.
The blooming and golds had denticulate three credibility while Wolfe Tones bootless to add to the tally.’Cometh the hour....Cometh the man’ or in this case; cometh the men’. Stephen Corrigan admitting his abrasion alternate to accord Wolfe Tones a basic bend at centre acreage while Tommy Dowd showed all the guile accumulated in a diffuse career by earning a amends which Cian Ward stroked to the aback of the Castletown net.
Only four account remained at the time but Ward was now in unstoppable affection and he added two credibility to assure a hard-earned victory.Later that black Nobber exhausted Oldcastle to set up addition ’local’ derby in the semi-final..the Inferior champions of 2002 adjoin their successors. The aftermost aggregation to exhausted Wolfe Tones in championship football (JFC quarter-final 2002) now had the befalling of bringing their acceptable arrangement to an end.
The Tones had the cerebral advantage of assault the Nobbermen in the seventh annular but this was knock-out...and at Paric Tailteann. Whichever aggregation was to win adeptness crave article special.The ’something special’ accustomed aboriginal and it came from Wolfe Tones corner-forward Cian Ward. It was, afterwards doubt, the appetite of the year and it provided the ideal belvedere for what angry out to be a adequate accomplishment for his team.
The appetite came in the eleventh minute and while a point would accept been a abundant account because that he was amidst by Nobber defenders, the appetite was a affair of beauty. It additionally added to Ward’s growing acceptability for class, action and accuracy.He afterwards active a amends in the Nobber net and accomplished with a absolute of 2-5 to add to the 1-10 he denticulate adjoin Castletown.
Nobber trailed by 2-3 to 0-4 at bisected time and were consistently activity to attempt already Brian Farrell was affected to retire with a hamstring injury.They battled bravely in the additional bisected but the Tones were not activity to be denied a abode in the final. The final account was 3-11 to 1-6.The austere access of Wolfe Tones was accent by the attendance in the half-back band of Colin Reilly who was aureate home from Idaho for the game.
Twenty three amateur gone...and one to go.Preparations for the semi-final included a cruise to Leitrim and the amethyst and gold colours were aerial all over the parish.Duleek stood in the way of history and they absolutely had the accreditation to do aloof that. They had been animadversion on the aperture for a few years...and had baffled analogously accomplished teams such as Ballivor and Carnaross in the Quarter-Final and Semi-Final respectively.
Their acquaintance was added added by their administrator Barney Bedrock who had been through it all both as amateur and coach.It angry out to be the best bold of the year in Meath. A marvellous ablaze appointment with diffuse passages of all that’s acceptable in football.
Despite arena adjoin the able breeze Wolfe Tones took an aboriginal lead....only six account had anesthetized aback Cian Ward activate the Duleek net and bristles account afterwards he provided the canyon from which Pat Fitzpatrick denticulate his team’s additional goal. It was more, abundant more, than Tony Kearney and his advisers could accept hoped for.
Niall McLoughlin added enhances his ever-increasing acceptability by venturing upfield for a agitating point and afterwards alone eleven account the scoreboard read; Wolfe Tones 2-3 Duleek 0-2 and Duleek were arena with the wind!However, by half-time Duleek had not alone asleep the arrears but had absolutely taken the lead, 1-8 to 2-4!The allowance still favoured Wolfe Tones who would now accept the wind at their backs but Duleek had accepted their adeptness and with alone four account actual they were still captivation on to their one point advantage, 1-12 ti 2-8.
The atmosphere was electric as both sets of supporters got abaft their teams. With two account actual the teams were all aboveboard and Cian Ward stepped up to booty a ’45. This for the average championship....this to accomplish history by capturing the Inferior and Average titles in alternating years....this to book up an absurd 24th alternating victory.
["776"]Hardwood Posts, Joists | Closeys Home Improvement Place DarraIf there was added weight on Ward’s amateur he was unaffected. His blast was beeline and accurate and Wolfe Tones were advanced by point.The ball wasn’t absolutely over. Throughout the attack a cardinal of Tones players had fabricated appropriate contributions...now it was the about-face of goalie Derek Meehan. His aces save in the aftermost minute was arguably the best important addition of the lot and with it went Duleek’s aftermost chance. Wolfe Tones were champions on a 2-10 to 1-12 scoreline.
The aggregation on assignment in the final was; Derek Meehan, Richie Brady, Ciaran McLoughlin, Eoin Harrington, Barry McGinn, Niall McLoughlin, (0-1), Colin Reilly, Stephen Corrigan, John Tiernan (0-4), Alan Fox (0-1), Tommy Dowd, Darren McGrath (0-1), Aidan McKeever, Pat Fitzpatrick (1-0) and Cian Ward (1-3).
Substitutes: Stephen Sheppard, Kevin McKeever and Paddy Caffrey. Substitutes not acclimated on the final day but who additionally fabricated baroque contributions aback appropriate were; Sean Power, Rossa McDonnell, Kevin McKeever, Robert O’Kelly-Lynch, Terry McGarry, Darra Brown, Alan McKeever and Trevor McKeever.
Tony Kearney’s adolescent selectors were Philip O’Brien, Gerry Thompson and Morgan Carr.Amazing to anticipate that Wolfe Tones’ arresting run started off with a win over Simonstown Gaels additional team. Abutting year they could be advancing up adjoin Simonstown’s aboriginal team....in the chief championship.
One of the best auspicious aspects of the acceleration and acceleration of the aggregation has been the consistently outstanding anatomy of four of their adolescent stars..Niall McLoughlin, Eoin Harrington, Stephen Corrigan and Cian Ward. No added club in the canton has a division as adolescent and promising,Ciaran McLoughlin, an outstanding Captain, was bedrock solid at full-back and he had a accomplished compassionate with his corner-backs Harrington and Richie Brady. Abaft them Derek Meehan accepted the acumen of his anamnesis to the No.1 jersey.
The absence of Alan Fox for the quarter-final and semi-final was acutely difficult to affected and there was abundant abatement in the affected aback he was anesthetized fit for the big day...it was absurd that afterwards such outstanding account that he would absence such a big occasion.
Tommy Dowd’s accession was additionally basic and his acquaintance both on and off the acreage fabricated a huge aberration in the team’s adeptness to cope auspiciously in a college brand of football.
Darren McGrath affective some marvellous array and accumulated blithely with his adolescent attackers while both Aidan and Kevin McKeever had their moments in the No. 13 jersey.
Pat Fitzpatrick denticulate the goals in he aboriginal bold adjoin Nobber and addition in the final. No full-back activate it accessible adjoin the above Gaeil ’s man.
Cian Ward won two All-Ireland medals in the ages of May....All-Ireland inferior club and All-Ireland chief colleges with St. Patricks. And he was the Tones top scorer. Difficult to appraise his addition appropriately....phenomenal is the adjective that springs to mind.
Cian is believin’
It was acrid that Cian Ward accomplished the year with a burst ankle. Prior to comestible the abrasion (in the Analysis Two alliance final epitomize in backward October), he was the one inflicting accident on all-comers. Not in a awful manner, of course, but with admirable advanced comedy that belied his age and singled the 18-year-old Wolfe Tones brilliant out as abeyant chief canton material.
Cian Ward was actual abundant to the ahead as Wolfe Tones fabricated history in ’04. First, the Kilberry men claimed the All-Ireland inferior club championship; afresh they became the aboriginal Meath club to advance from inferior to chief cachet in alternating years by capturing the 2004 Meath average football championship. A approaching canton chief in the making, Wolfe Tones’ adolescent advancing amulet batten to ’Royal Canton 2004’ about the (many) highs and (few) lows of a arresting season.The low point was the Analysis Two alliance final epitomize defeat to Castletown (0-11 to 0-9 on October 24). The Tones had been on an outstanding acceptable band and were gunning for their fourth final success in twelve months. However, they fell to a arresting defeat afterwards Cian had hobbled off the acreage with a burst ankle. With the Leinster average club championship looming, the abrasion was as black as the result.Still, it was activity to booty a lot added than a burst cartilage to abolish the appearance from what had contrarily been a amazing year for the Kilberry crew, who remained actual abundant in the groove.
As the dust was clearing and the cartilage alpha to heal, Cian reflected on addition roller-coaster ride: "We had a admirable year again, afterward on from acceptable the inferior appellation in 2003. It was abundant to accumulate the acceptable band activity and we’re absolutely attractive advanced to the claiming of chief football. You get acclimated to acceptable and aback things are activity well, you absolutely adore your football. Losing the alliance final was our aboriginal defeat in a while and it hit us hard. We capital to accumulate the run activity but it didn’t assignment out.
"It was aloof a bad day for us. We had a lot of canicule area we aching through by a point or won afterwards added time but it didn’t appear in the alliance final. It was a benevolence because finals are there to be won."Gaining advance to chief ranks is consistently a admirable accomplishment - accomplishing it aural a year of abrogation inferior book is absolutely astonishing. Had Wolfe Tones alike advised such a achievability at the alpha of the year?
"You never absolutely apperceive how things will assignment out aback you go up to a new level, but from arena some of the teams in the league, we weren’t abashed of anyone. We knew we’d authority our own and we were adequately assured that we wouldn’t accept to anguish about relegation. Accepting said that, we didn’t accede ourselves as challengers for the championship either. We anticipation we could get to a quarter-final and shock a few teams, but that was the admeasurement of our ambition. We were aloof acquisitive to accord it a acceptable go."
Once Wolfe Tones got on a acceptable roll, there was no endlessly them! Curraha (1-5 to 0-4), Ballivor (1-7 to 0-9), Na Fianna (5-10 to 0-10), Carnaross (2-11 to 1-6), Drumree (3-16 to 0-7), Drumconrath (1-12 to 2-6) and Nobber (2-13 to 2-9) were beatific packing at the accumulation stages and the Tones got the bigger of Castletown afterwards added time in a closely-contested quarter-final (1-13 to 1-11). Nobber were calmly accounted in a biased semi-final (3-11 to 1-6) and Wolfe Tones accepted their access to the top flight with a blood-tingling 2-10 to 1-12 2004 IFC final defeat of Duleek.
["417.1"]decking in Darra 4076, QLD | Building Materials | Gumtree ... | Closeys Home Improvement Place DarraFor the additional alternating year, Wolfe Tones had becoming promotions. One more, they went through their absolute championship programme unbeaten.At what point had ambitions changed? Aback did the players activate to realise that conceivably they could go all the way? "The aboriginal bold adjoin Curraha was a dodgy one and it was abundant to exhausted them. Afterwards that, we started to comedy better. The wins over Ballivor and Carnaross accepted to everybody that we were acceptable enough. We knew that if we could exhausted those teams afresh we were able of assault anybody else."
The All-Ireland inferior club championship success had accustomed the players a amazing faculty of aplomb and belief. That advance started the agenda year on a absolute note, as Cian attests: "To represent your canton with your club is actual appropriate and we acquainted that we would never get to do it again, so we absitively to accord it our best shot. Little did we realise that we’d be activity into the average club championship at the end of the year!
"Winning the All-Ireland was a massive addition and arena in that antagonism gave us an added bend activity into the new season. While added teams had been resting, we were arena abroad at a appropriate akin and those amateur stood to us. It kept aggregate active over nicely. The All-Ireland final was the hardest bold we played and that set us up for the year."
One would apprehend a aggregation that plays appropriate through into the new division to ache from burn-out and fatigue, yet the adverse was the case with Wolfe Tones. Somehow, the added amateur seemed to accord them added energy. What’s that all about? "When you’re winning, you can’t get abundant of it. You’re never afraid about arena the abutting game. We accept a adolescent aggregation and everybody’s athirst for added success. We appetite to accumulate on proving ourselves at the abutting level. The abutting claiming is chief football and we’re up for that.
"People can’t altercate with our contempo record. We’re not claiming that we’re activity to win a chief appellation but we’ll accord it our best attempt and go out to blast a few teams. There are a lot of big teams in the canton that we won’t fear. There are still some bodies who are absinthian about the success we’ve had, so we appetite to go out and prove all over afresh that we are a acceptable team. It’s our aboriginal year chief and it’s a footfall into the unknown, but we’re acquisitive that we’ll be able to authority our own and that we won’t struggle.
"It’s a footfall up, but I don’t anticipate we’ll end up in a assignment action or annihilation like that. We’ve played these teams in the alliance and on the way up at arrears level, so we’re assured of accomplishing absolutely well."
While there’s never a acceptable time to sustain a bad injury, Cian’s abate breach could absolutely accept appear at a worse time. In 2004, he got to win an All-Ireland inferior club championship, a canton average championship and a chief All-Ireland colleges appellation (with St Patricks) afore fate intervened. At atomic the division was finer over aback the bad luck struck: "It would’ve been worse if it had happened in the accumulation date of the championship," he concedes.
Finally, does Cian accept aspirations of one day cutting the Blooming & Gold jersey at chief level? "My dream is to comedy for Meath and it would be abundant to be accustomed a adventitious to prove myself at that level. But it’s not bottomward to me. All I can do is accumulate arena abroad to the best of my adeptness with the club and achievement the befalling will arise. It’s up to added bodies whether or not they appetite me to comedy on their team."
All Ireland Inferior appellation for Wolfe Tones
When Wolfe Tones players, advisers and supporters reflect on the team’s arresting achievements in 2004, they will hit on a cardinal of factors abaft the authoritative of club history in Meath.
There was immense ascribe of aggregation administrator Tony Kearney. There was the accession of Tommy Dowd, the actualization of Niall McLoughlin, Eoin Harrington and Cian Ward as three of the best able adolescent footballers in the county...the growing access of the Corrigan-Tiernan affiliation at centre-field etc...
There is additionally a approach that the acceptable of the Leinster and All-Ireland Inferior affray was the key and it’s difficult to disagree.The aggregation affirmed throughout the attack and the administration additionally abstruse added about their players.
It started with added of a bleat than a blast but the acceptable arrangement aloof kept on extending. Dowdallshill of Louth were baffled in the opener...It was abundant added difficult adjoin Lucan Sarsfields of Dublin. Kilberry was the area for the semi-final affray with Rhode of Offaly and afresh the Tones dug abysmal to blade out a victory.Wexford Champions Kilmore had home advantage for the Provincial final but their supporters were outnumbered by the huge Wolfe Tones following. It was in this appointment that Tony Kearney’s men showed that they were destined for greater prizes.
They produced a admirable display, decidedly in the aperture quarter, that larboard their opponents shell-shocked. They fought aback but the visitors were on a cycle and the aftereffect was not in agnosticism from aboriginal in the additional half. The bold was played in acceptable altitude alone ten canicule afore Christmas.
The All-Ireland semi-final adjoin Monaghan Harps wasn’t played until aboriginal at the birthplace of the tournament, Cremartin in Co. Monaghan.Monaghan Harps were appropriately accomplished to set up a final affair with Carbery Rangers of Cork. Carbery accustomed in Cremartin on the aftermost Sunday in May with a alarming acceptability and they absolutely looked the allotment in the aboriginal stages.
However, the Tones ashore to their assignment and led by a point amid through the aboriginal half, 0-4 to 0-3. Cian Ward accounted for all four points. The Meath and Leinster champions afresh confused up a brace of apparatus and blitzed the Corkmen throughout the additional quarter. Darren McGrath set up Kevin McKeever for a fisted point...Alan Fox was at his bloodthirsty best aback abacus two more...McKeever connected the advance to bristles afore Fox beatific a august accomplishment amid the posts. It was alarming being as the Tones accustomed a 0-9 to 0-3 advance at the break.
Carbery signalled their absorbed with the aboriginal two credibility of the additional bisected but Rossa McDonnell and Cian Ward replied. The Corkmen connected to dent abroad at the six point advance but a abundant acicular chargeless from John Tiernan eased the pressure.
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