Month: December 2023
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Selections for Down Royal – Dec. 26th 2023
11.40: MOSSY FEN PARK (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.13: BLEU DENFER (BEN BROMLEY (5)/STUART CRAWFORD) 12.48: ST DENISS WELL – EW – (CARAGH MONAGHAN (4*)/IAN DONOGHUE) 1.23: JOSHUA WEBB – EW – (LIAM MCKENNA (5)/NOEL MEADE) 1.58: SHES SOME DOLL – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/TOM GIBNEY) 2.33: FERNS LOCK (BARRY O’NEILL/DAVID CHRISTIE) 3.08: MONGIBELLO (SIMON…
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Boylan Talks Sport Brain Fitness Test – No. 29
Sure it wouldn’t be the Christmas if I didn’t put some bit of a test of all your sporting knowledge.
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You can throw the form book in the furnace
When Meath football was at its zenith in the late 1980s and early to mid ’90s, they must have been a nightmare for anybody attempting to preview matches going on what sort of form teams had been in leading up to the fixture in question. Furthermore, oddsmakers must thank their lucky stars in-running betting wasn’t…
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Seeds falling quicker than leaves in Christmas painkillers
Anyone who has been perusing content in this space for any length of time will know that this time of year is far from the favourite portion of the 12 month cycle. Equally, however, it’ll scarcely shock anybody to realise sport is generally the best medication for such ills. Yes, there are a plethora of…
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Selections for Dundalk – Dec. 22nd 2023
4.25: FAIR TAXES (DONOGH O’CONNOR/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 5.00: CROSS BORDER (COLIN KEANE/EDDIE LYNAM) 5.30: SKONTONOVSKI – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/ADO MCGUINNESS) 6.00: BARBAPAPA – EW – (JAMIE POWELL/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.30: RED SECRET – EW – (COLIN KEANE/KEVIN SMITH) 7.00: PINBALL WIZARD – EW – (SEAN BOWEN (5)/JOHN NALLEN) 7.30: SKY LEGEND (SEAN BOWEN (5)/DENIS HOGAN)…
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Plenty of problems but a shortage of solutions
Sport never loses its ability to amaze. No matter how much of it you look at. In fact, maybe the more of it you observe, the more confusing it becomes. How else to explain Manchester United holding Liverpool to a draw? At a time when the form of the two sides was about as polarised…
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Selections for Dundalk – Dec. 20th 2023
4.15: LOMA LARNEE – EW – (COLIN KEANE/ANDY OLIVER) 4.45: ALTO SAX (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 5.15: HIGHTIMEYOUWON – EW – (JAMES RYAN (5)/ADO MCGUINNESS) 5.45: CHERRY BLOOM – EW – (SEAN BOWEN (5)/GILLIAN SCOTT) 6.15: FASTMAN – EW – (JOEY SHERIDAN/JAMES MCAULEY) 6.45: BERGAMASCO (JAMES RYAN (5)/JACK DAVISON) 7.15: HIGHER KINGDOM – EW – (DONOGH…
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Selections for Thurles – Dec. 17th 2023
12.15: LEISH OSCAR’S SON (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 12.50: NEVERADULLMOMENT (AIDAN KELLY (5)/PHILIP DEMPSEY) 1.25: JIMMY DU SEUIL (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.00: FUN FUN FUN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.35: CLEVER CURRENCY – EW – (BEN KENNEDY (7)/PAUL FLYNN) 3.10: BOB CIGAR (DANNY GILLIGAN (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.45: FEMME MAGNIFIQUE (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Selections for Navan – Dec. 17th 2023
12.00: TEUCHTERS GLORY (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/LIAM BURKE) 12.35: NAS NA RIOGH – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 1.10: CARNAFUNNOCK – EW – (DARYL JACOB/STUART CRAWFORD) 1.45: UPTHEREFORTHINKIN – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.20: JOYEAUX MACHIN (SEAN FLANAGAN/PAUL NOLAN) 2.55: POUR PAVORE – EW – (KIEREN BUCKLEY (3)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.30: THE ENABLER (HARRY SWAN/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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Pursuit of ‘keeper trio underlines the competition
Never is, I think, one of those trick words put into the English language that none of us like using but not doing so is quite literally impossible. To put a degree of context on the rest of what will appear, many moons ago, it would have been said in this corner that there were…