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Carabao Cup Quarter Final Draw
The similarities between Arsenal’s elimination from the FA Cup at the hands of Wrexham in 1992 and their defenestration from the Carabao Cup earlier this week are striking. Now read on… Swap Fleetwood Town for Wrexham and thereafter the two occasions have many mutually identifying factors. Both of their conquerors wear red and white like…
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Whatever about a storm, Andy’s arrival will certainly cause a stir in the midlands
Is it just me or are there an phalanx of former footballers after getting management jobs at inter county level. Yes, to a certain extent all managers tend to be former players at a very high level but there have been very notable exceptions too. None greater than our own Sean Boylan. Who was lest…
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Podcast Episode Oct 24th 2026: Irish Rugby Provincial Momentum
Pip: The tenth anniversary of Anthony Foley’s passing, a GAA ground in Cork hosting European rugby, and a Prendergast brother situation that requires a family seating chart — Boylan Talks Sport had a weekend. Mara: Brendan covers all of it: Munster channeling grief into a statement win, and then Leinster and Connacht both making noise…
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Selections for Navan – Oct. 21st 2026
1.02: PRINCE OF PEPPARD – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 1.32: CARRIGANS GROVE – EW – (ROBYN DONAGHUE-LEAHY (7)/PAT FLYNN) 2.07: NEW WORLD ORDER – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 2.42: DREAMINTHEJUNGLE – EW – (ADAM B. SOUZA (7)/CLAIRE O’CONNELL) 3.17: BAD BOY RIZZ – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 3.52: NAUTIC STAR (SHANE FOLEY/JESSIE…
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Podcast Episode: Oct. 16th 2026
Pip: Meath club football, horse racing tips, and enough GAA semi-finals to fill a weekend you weren't planning to lose — welcome to Boylan Talks Sport. Mara: Brendan has been covering the Meath intermediate and senior club football championships this week, plus a card at Naas. We'll work through the football first, then close out…
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Noise cancelling headphones with Jim Gavin’s mantra on repeat
Anyone from a county with realistic ambitions of doing well in top level Gaelic football who claims to have enjoyed Dublin’s utter dominance during their six in a row spell is either not being true to themselves or delusional. By the way, that observation is not in any way meant a a slight on the…
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Podcast Episode – Sept. 24th: Meath Football Championship Drama
Pip: Welcome to Boylan Talks Sport — where the GAA weekend is never quite over until someone's pondered every last what-if from a parish that probably shares a post office. Mara: Brendan has been across a full slate of Meath SFC action this week — relegation drama, a quarter-final thriller, the defending champions flexing, and…
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The place will certainly be painted red as Fleetwood nab plum draw
Some of you of similar vintage to myself might recall a television advert of a good while back went something along the lines of ‘Would Fleetwood wood, would Fleetwood’? You can be damn sure they would – have taken your hand off for the draw they have nabbed in the fourth round of the Carabao…
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Top operators shouldn’t need to act the bo****
To study the early stages of the fourth and final match of the unforgettable saga between Meath and Dublin in 1991 is to engage in an examination of a masterclass of how to succeed against adversity. Now read on… Consider that, before the ball was thrown in even, Sean Boylan’s side had lost Terry Ferguson…
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Lynch pins last eight spot as Trim topple Tara
Trim…0-19 Skryne…1-13 Coming into the final round of group games in the race for the Keegan Cup, Trim’s Aaron Lynch had nabbed top spot in the scoring charts in the Fairyhouse Steel Meath SFC. Now read on… Here, the diminutive corner fo