Senior football league v Na Fianna at DCU St Patricks College on 3 March 2024 Ballyboden St Endas 1 – 7 Na Fianna 4 – 13 Report by Paddy Walsh With more players missing for various reasons, this was always going to be a difficult assignment. And so it proved. Na Fianna had three points…
Adult Football Match Reports
Senior football league v Skerries Harps, Sancta Maria on 18 February 2024 BBSE 1-12 Skerries Harps 0-11 Report by Paddy Walsh. With injuries, emigration and Dublin commitments, numbers were tight for this first game of the new season. Boden were on the scoreboard after three minutes when Ciarán O’Reilly tested the Skerries goalie with a…
Gizmo reports in novissimo tempore BBSE 0-16 Ballymun 1-1 “VICTORI SPOLIA” (to the victor, the spoils), roared a pissed-up Donagh O’Farrell as he made his way home from Coppers, after spending the night celebrating with the Under 21 footballers, following their victory in the County Final. “Carpe Diem (seize the day), is what I said…
U21D Championship semi-final BBSe 1-09 Whitehall 3-05 The Rubber Bandit reports The old adage that goals win games came back to haunt our U21 B’s on Saturday last when Whitehall Colmcille’s visited Sancta Maria for the U21 D Football semi final. Ballyboden were slow to settle into this game and the visitors had 1-2 scored…
Gizmo reports from PUM If it “takes a village to raise a child”, then it takes a club to reach a 21’s football final……………. “Painkillers. Has anyone got any pain killers?” roared a dishevelled Maguire as he ran the line of supporters looking to acquire drugs of any description. Nothing new there, I hear you say. But…
Senior football league semi final v St Judes in Páirc Uí Mhurchú on 18 November 2023 Ballyboden St Endas 2 – 11 St Judes 1 – 10 On the eve of this match, we learned that Colm Basquel won his first All Star, which was a big boost to the team before this important match….
Ballyboden St Endas 6:08 Kilmacud Crokes 3:07 Report: Connell McGlynn; Pics. Dave Rusk [more here] The final of all finals, the Ballyboden Boys Minor took to the field in O’Toole Park on Sunday morning with strapped ankles, wrists and knees, all the scars of a hard championship journey – away to Thomas Davis, St Sylvesters and…
Lucan Sarsfields 0:13 BBSE 2:11 Match Report: Connell McGlynn, Pics: Dave Rusk [more here] Semi-finals in the Minor A Championship don’t get any better than a trip away to Lucan Sarsfields GAA, by far the biggest game of the year for the Boden Boys where everything would be left on the pitch and the winner takes all….
Gizmo reports from the County Final “It will be a slow weepy slide down the shower wall for me”, said an emotional Declan Maguire immediately after a heartbreaking loss to Kilmacud Crokes in the 2023 County Final. The stress of the occasion was evident, as Maguire looked like he had a stroke on both sides of…