OFFALY produced their best and most compelling performance of John Maughan s reign to secure a semi-final berth in Division 3 of the National Football League th.
Make or break time for Maughan as Offaly set sights on promotion
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WITH Dublin in a knockout Leinster Senior Football Championship, Offaly s prospects of a successful season rest on promotion from Division 3 of the National Football League.
The targets for manager John Maughan and his squad of players are fairly straightforward: win promotion and beat Louth in the first round of the Leinster championship.
They are not simple ambitions but they are very achievable and Offaly have reason to be optimistic. With Tyrone folk hero Mickey Harte now at the helm, Louth should be a more difficult task than they would normally be. And Offaly have often found it difficult to beat them – they lived dangerously before beating them in the league last year, and Louth were on their way to Division 4. Offaly lost to Louth in the league in 2019 and 2017 and this game is very much a banana skin for them.
Man hides up a tree after taking cops on dangerous 90mph chase
“The manner and the speeds that Perks drove at were irresponsible and put many innocent members of the public lives at risk
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A banned motorist hit speeds of 90mph, drove on the wrong side of the road, and overtook another vehicle after his car s tyres were shredded by a stinger during a police chase.
A DANGEROUS driver from a village near Northwich has been jailed for 22 months following a police pursuit from Liverpool into Cheshire. William Perks, 31, of Churchill Drive, Tarporley, was sentenced at Chester Crown Court on Tuesday, April 27, after pleading guilty to dangerous driving. The court heard how, on Sunday, March 28, officers from the Roads and Crime Unit became aware of white Mazda which was being driven by Perks, who had previously been disqualified from driving in October 2020, travelling from Liverpool into Cheshire West and Chester. Patrols saw the vehicle travelling at recklessly high speeds through Runcorn towards Frodsham, before it began driving on the wrong side of the carriageway on Clifton Road.
William Perks has been jailed. A DANGEROUS driver from a village near Chester has been jailed for 22 months following a police pursuit from Liverpool into Cheshire. William Perks, 31, of Churchill Drive, Tarporley, was sentenced at Chester Crown Court on Tuesday, April 27, after pleading guilty to dangerous driving. The court heard how, on Sunday, March 28, officers from the Roads and Crime Unit became aware of white Mazda which was being driven by Perks, who had previously been disqualified from driving in October 2020, travelling from Liverpool into Cheshire West and Chester. Patrols saw the vehicle travelling at recklessly high speeds through Runcorn towards Frodsham, before it began driving on the wrong side of the carriageway on Clifton Road.