Category: ARCHIVES
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Gutting end to a rollercoaster week
What a day. What a week actually. In the closing lines of last week’s ramble, mention was made of the fact that, at the time of going to print yours truly was still sans ticket for Sunday’s All Ireland Ladies Finals day. Well, after a voluminous amount of phone calls and emails, Jackie Cahill, former…
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Any achievement merits acknowledgement
Filed For Meath Chronicle – 24/5/25 (Unused) Little fish are sweet. Or, put another way, every journey has to start somewhere. No doubt you’re probably thinking the two Meath football teams in championship action on Saturday last had got their respective odysseys under way long before then. While technically correct, for both our minor and…
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Self analysis is one thing but outside noise must be silenced
(Filed for Meath Chronicle but unused) Less than two weeks after stating that he was taking a break from football having completed six years as Meath senior football manager, Andy McEntee caught a lot of people – maybe even himself – off guard, by accepting a request to be Antrim manager. When questioned by Mark…
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Fields of Gold – Previously posted in 2006
FOGRA: The below was the first non-GAA related piece I ever sent to the late Liam Cahill for his much loved and sadly missed website http://www.anfearrua.com Never for a minute thinking he would print it. But he did, and not only did it open up a whole new avenue of writing for me, it stands as a…
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Rolling Down Memory Lane – Ep. 1
For the day that’s in it…
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The Comeback!
Hello and welcome to the new Boylan Talks Sport. I would like to thank people for their patience and understanding over recent weeks and months as I’ve juggled physical and mental health problems with trying to keep working. At this time I would like to thank David Reddy, without whom BTS would never have been…