Hon the Meath Minors.

This coming Sunday Meath face Dublin in a double football feast,minor and Senior Leinster finals.We have four members on the minor panel.three who play with Dunderry and one who is directly descended from the best of Dunderry stock,a daughter of Tony Newman,judged by the experts to have been one of the best players ever to grace the Dunderry jersey.He currently plies his trade with Scryne.
Natives will recognise the names of Coogan and Garry,and Stephen,Christy's son and Alan ,a son of the "Bear"who are involved.Are they the first of their Clans to play for the County??Which or whether they deserve what comes their way and their families fully deserve the honour bestowed on them.They have been bedrocks of the Gaelic Game in this Parish for generations.
Emigrants might find it harder to recognise the name of Paddy Kenneally,a devout Dundrry man ,who is fielding at a wing back position.This is because he is of Kerry stock and a son of Stan,a great Clubman and a relative of the famed Kerry Kenneallys.In a few years perhaps Kerry people will refer to that branch as related to the Dundery clan.
All in Dunderry are very proud of our lads and wish them the very best on Sunday.
Being a Dub.I am in somewhat of a dilemma.As I know the young lads so well and as I don't know any of the Dubs.I have no option but to support Meath in the game and gladly do so.
To retain some vestige of dignity I am supporting Dublin in the Senior ,even though a grandson and son of proud Dunderry men,Stephen Bray ,fields with the Royals.
Apologies to the mothers involved who I didn't name .You would swear that these lads were motherless which they certainly aren't. Another article on another day.
 The members of the 1991 epic Dublin/Meath clash are being n honoured at the game.Watch for the Dunderry men involved.
On a totally different tack it really is a very small country.It transpires that Kevin Colgan,a former Dunderry great was a workmate and close friend of Tom Kilcooley.father in law of my daughter Mags,and at his funeral I met Don O Mahony who I hurled with in Brigids for years,who told me that he was a flat mate of Tom's when they first came to Dublin.You couldn't,t make it up.