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Question from a non-Meath man: What is the biggest rivalry in Meath going back the years? The one that stands out above all others. Just from looking at roll of honour would it be Navan OM and Skryne? Or are there more enduring rivalries that could take this claim? Scealta (Clare) - Posts: 17 - 17/04/2019 20:15:30 2179357 Link
Back in the sixties I think kilbride and kells were the best of enemies and late seventies/ eighties skryne and Walterstown wernt good neighbour's royler (Meath) - Posts: 199 - 17/04/2019 21:50:26 2179376 Link
Judging by how upset some posters on here get when theres a ratoath player picked to play for meath i would say ratoath v everyone. Personally I think pats v colmcilles in north meath is a bitter one. Royal.Legend (Meath) - Posts: 461 - 18/04/2019 11:08:41 2179418 Link
Replying To Royal.Legend: "Judging by how upset some posters on here get when theres a ratoath player picked to play for meath i would say ratoath v everyone. Personally I think pats v colmcilles in north meath is a bitter one." Royal. Legend you mean east Meath? Cilles v Pats, Cilles v Duleek/Bellewstown and Pats v Duleek/Bellewstown all tasty matches in east Meath. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 18/04/2019 13:40:14 2179438 Link
Replying To OLLIE: "Royal. Legend you mean east Meath? Cilles v Pats, Cilles v Duleek/Bellewstown and Pats v Duleek/Bellewstown all tasty matches in east Meath." Ok north east meath if you want to be precise Royal.Legend (Meath) - Posts: 461 - 18/04/2019 14:11:52 2179446 Link
Replying To Royal.Legend: "Ok north east meath if you want to be precise" Ah I have more Slane and Syddan to be North East if you want to precise. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 18/04/2019 14:26:22 2179451 Link
Dunshaughlin and Ratoath always tasty affair, then the Navan derbies also big GhaothDobhair123 (Meath) - Posts: 6 - 18/04/2019 14:48:08 2179453 Link
The fiercest rivalry is Meath football is Drumconrath and Meath Hill. ISupposeSoSheehan (Meath) - Posts: 85 - 18/04/2019 15:23:37 2179457 Link
Blackhall gaels fighting with themselves is always a good battle bobjaffacake (Meath) - Posts: 1398 - 18/04/2019 16:05:20 2179460 Link
Replying To royler: "Back in the sixties I think kilbride and kells were the best of enemies and late seventies/ eighties skryne and Walterstown wernt good neighbour's" For example in clare newmarket clarecastle is still seen as the most powerful rivalry even though it fizzled out 30 odd years ago. There was a lot of interest in it from outside the county because it was a tense, often bitter, lots of humour too - would there be one like that in Meath that would stand out ahead of other fleeting or minor local rivalries? Scealta (Clare) - Posts: 17 - 18/04/2019 19:10:33 2179487 Link
Replying To OLLIE: "Ah I have more Slane and Syddan to be North East if you want to precise." Fair enough ollie I'd always had it in my own head anything above navan to be north meath and below to be south. Who be the biggest rivalry up in louth ? Royal.Legend (Meath) - Posts: 461 - 18/04/2019 19:14:06 2179488 Link
Replying To Royal.Legend: "Fair enough ollie I'd always had it in my own head anything above navan to be north meath and below to be south. Who be the biggest rivalry up in louth ?" Sure Meath is a big oule county. It's the second biggest in Leinster after Wexford. Anytime I am driving west and I go through the Royal County it takes me about an hour to go through it. Traditionally in Louth the Newtown Blues v Cooley Kickhams would be the big one. These two are the most successful clubs in Louth. It is North Louth v South Louth and Urban club v Rural club. No two clubs have faced each more in Louth Senior finals than the Blues v Cooley. The Blues are the most successful club in Louth with 22 Senior titles. St Mary's and Dundalk Young Ireland's are next on the list with 11 Senior titles each and then Cooley is next on the list with 9 titles. Cooley have not won it since 1990 and are currently spending their second season in the Inter Championship. The Blues are going for the three in a row in Louth this year. The last club to this in the Wee County were Cooley in 1970's. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 18/04/2019 21:30:33 2179503 Link
omahonys v skryne and kilmessan v trim dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 532 - 18/04/2019 22:51:38 2179519 Link
Great idea for a thread interesting to see some rivalries you'd maybe unaware of in different parts of the county. O'Mahonys v Skyrne - Traditonally the big one in football, most successful and most finals against each other. I think realistically though it doesnt burn as intensely as it once did. They play tomorrow night and i wouldnt think it will have the feel of a massive derby, although maybe that comes with group stage football instead of knockout. O'Mahonys V Senechlstown - another good rivalry, seems to be a bit of bitterness in this one, neither club likes the other. always an edge in these games. Drumcondrath V Meath Hill - The North Meath Derby. a massive derby up in bandit country, amazing to think both teams the same small parish. Always a massive crowd at this game that really captures the imagination. Cortown V St Ultans - The Bohermeen derby . Another unique rivalry , Families split in two over this one. heard stories of brothers marking each other too! It would be great to see these two back strong again and playing regulary against each other. Walterstown V Skryne- Two clubs that do not like each other. Sad to see walterstown gone down , be great to have this derby back and competive. Simonstown V O'Mahonys - The Navan Derby. The north side against the town, Probably at present the biggest meatch in Meath club football. 4 of the last 5 Keegan cups between them. Two big town teams. O'Mahonys the most successful club in meath and simonstown who were once the laughing stock of navan who have came alive the last few years. Unique rivalry in that lads go to the same primary schools, secondary schools and even live in the same housing estates. Interesting to hear about some other rivalries. Who are Kells biggest rivals? Didnt know about the cilles and pats one either. Also out of the 3 dunboyne,ratoath and ashobourne which would be the big one there ? Summerhill are a fantastic club with great history but who are there big rivals? South meath ahs so many clubs neighbouring but is there much biterness? Meathmaverick (Meath) - Posts: 95 - 19/04/2019 10:11:33 2179544 Link
Royaldunne v Jack Goff is another big rivalry in Meath. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 19/04/2019 11:14:47 2179550 Link
There were some tough hurling matches between Killyon and Kildalkey, none more fierce and to show that all is fair in love and war the team up together and kick with Ballivor. MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 742 - 19/04/2019 14:16:16 2179573 Link
There's a few rivalries around Kells. Gaeil Cholmcille being the large, urban club tend to not get much plaudits from the teams just outside town, they dont meet the rural clubs very often and as a result the Gaels are often seen as being out on their own. The Carnaross v. Moynalty, Moynalty v. St. Michaels, Drumbaragh v. Kilmainham derbies are all very localised but can be hotly contested at all levels. All of the above clubs along with many players from St. Ultans and Cortown and Ballinlough/Kilskyre would have went to school in Kells town and know each other. Young_gael (Meath) - Posts: 391 - 19/04/2019 16:14:40 2179583 Link
Replying To Meathmaverick: "Great idea for a thread interesting to see some rivalries you'd maybe unaware of in different parts of the county. O'Mahonys v Skyrne - Traditonally the big one in football, most successful and most finals against each other. I think realistically though it doesnt burn as intensely as it once did. They play tomorrow night and i wouldnt think it will have the feel of a massive derby, although maybe that comes with group stage football instead of knockout. O'Mahonys V Senechlstown - another good rivalry, seems to be a bit of bitterness in this one, neither club likes the other. always an edge in these games. Drumcondrath V Meath Hill - The North Meath Derby. a massive derby up in bandit country, amazing to think both teams the same small parish. Always a massive crowd at this game that really captures the imagination. Cortown V St Ultans - The Bohermeen derby . Another unique rivalry , Families split in two over this one. heard stories of brothers marking each other too! It would be great to see these two back strong again and playing regulary against each other. Walterstown V Skryne- Two clubs that do not like each other. Sad to see walterstown gone down , be great to have this derby back and competive. Simonstown V O'Mahonys - The Navan Derby. The north side against the town, Probably at present the biggest meatch in Meath club football. 4 of the last 5 Keegan cups between them. Two big town teams. O'Mahonys the most successful club in meath and simonstown who were once the laughing stock of navan who have came alive the last few years. Unique rivalry in that lads go to the same primary schools, secondary schools and even live in the same housing estates. Interesting to hear about some other rivalries. Who are Kells biggest rivals? Didnt know about the cilles and pats one either. Also out of the 3 dunboyne,ratoath and ashobourne which would be the big one there ? Summerhill are a fantastic club with great history but who are there big rivals? South meath ahs so many clubs neighbouring but is there much biterness?" Great post - i think o'mahonys v Skryne sounds like the big one even if its not what it was. These things are hard to gauge but if there are more stories from one rivalry than any other, both were in the running for titles that will do. it would have caught the imagination and endured. Some of the rivalries you see only last a few years. Scealta (Clare) - Posts: 17 - 19/04/2019 17:13:43 2179592 Link
Replying To OLLIE: "Sure Meath is a big oule county. It's the second biggest in Leinster after Wexford. Anytime I am driving west and I go through the Royal County it takes me about an hour to go through it. Traditionally in Louth the Newtown Blues v Cooley Kickhams would be the big one. These two are the most successful clubs in Louth. It is North Louth v South Louth and Urban club v Rural club. No two clubs have faced each more in Louth Senior finals than the Blues v Cooley. The Blues are the most successful club in Louth with 22 Senior titles. St Mary's and Dundalk Young Ireland's are next on the list with 11 Senior titles each and then Cooley is next on the list with 9 titles. Cooley have not won it since 1990 and are currently spending their second season in the Inter Championship. The Blues are going for the three in a row in Louth this year. The last club to this in the Wee County were Cooley in 1970's." It takes awhile to go across Meath especially from East to West the roads are bad. The M3 and M2/N2 Run from north to south nobody bothered with a decent East to West road. I dont think many people in Louth are mad about the Blues that's yibe I get :) I think with rivalry its generally biggest between neighboring Villages, towns or county's. I always think of a episode of Family Guy, they did a episode in Ireland and some says 'He is from one village over so I hate he guts " I think that sums it up :) . I wonder dose local rivalry stem from faction fighting where villages used to beat the lard out of each other with sticks. Something that I think the English rule used to encourage to keep everyone from uniting and fighting the common enemy. Lets blame the English anyway :) bobkarlgees (Meath) - Posts: 1192 - 20/04/2019 09:36:00 2179639 Link
Although they came together at some age levels, you would always get a bruising match ( literally ) between ballinabrackey and clonard. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 17035 - 21/04/2019 07:56:55 2179708 Link