BOYLAN TALKS SPORT

Category: Darts

  • Even a genius is only human

    Two ballads by well known Irish performers are reverberating in my head. One very well known, the other possibly not as much so as could be the case. The first being One Day At A Time by Gloria and the other being Christy Moore’s version of Viva Le Quinta Brigada – relating to Irish involvement…

  • The Special One II lights up darting world

    BREAKING NEWS Move over Mourinho. Portugal has a new Special One. Jose De Sousa. No, up to a week or so ago, I didn’t know who he was either. However, with hotshots like Michael Van Gerwen, Gerwyn Price, Gary Anderson and defending World Champion Peter Wright out of the equation, naturally, it opened the door…

  • The old and the kind of new!

    The old and the kind of new!

    This corner wasn’t old enough to properly take in the particulars of when last Liverpool had a perch all of their own. Aside, that is, from the likes of Steve Staunton, Ray Houghton, Ronnie Whelan and John Aldridge being involved. Likewise when Kerry and Dublin appeared to have the Gaelic football almost exclusively to themselves.…

  • Looking through a different lens

    Not for the first time, unfortunately, this is a piece which should’ve been produced weeks ago. Or at the very least in the last seven to ten days. As has often been said here before, however, when under the black cloud that is depression, best laid plans can often be not so much kicked to…

  • Style goes out the window if substance speaks for itself

    What is a scary number of years ago now, Meath played Laois in the first round of the Leinster SFC at O’Moore Park, Portlaoise. Sean Boylan’s side won the game in a canter, but what stands out, even now, was the sending off of Colm Coyle. Or more accurately, the reaction of sections of the…

  • A brilliantly unusual event with a very familiar outcome

    At a certain point during each sporting year, Johnny McEvoy’s beautiful rendition of The Ballad Of Michael Collins gets a spin out on this machine. For the citation at the start thereof will forever strike a chord: ‘Just as quickly as it started the firing stopped, and a terrible silence hung over the valley’. Now…

  • Mrs Boylans World Famous Soup

    Mrs Boylans World Famous Soup

    So that was Christmas. Another year over. And before we go a step further – never mind the next part of the John Lennon song – an admission: it is not my time of year. In fact, negotiation of same becomes more difficult with every year that passes. Partly due to what was meant as…

  • Class is often non-conformist

    Class is often non-conformist

    In a sporting context, Colm O’Rourke’s final salvo against Dublin is easily recalled. Indeed, his entire farewell season was outstanding – as were most of the 19 which preceded it! I can still remember feeling totally dismayed when Sean Boylan left him out for the opening joust of that 1995 campaign against Offaly.

  • Skill needed to negotiate different species

    The idea of bucket lists doesn’t sit well here. Whatever about having lists of ambitions one wishes to accomplish, in the aforementioned form they smack of too much finality. One can entirely see what some people might think of such a viewpoint, however, even though there have been numerous times when such a stance on…

  • Working class heroes still have a space

    #Darts One of the many consequences of the better prevailing economic conditions prior to 2008 was that – to some degree at least – the simple things which to that point had been staples of life for so long were foregone as (admittedly some) sought and indeed splashed out for the more lavish option.