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Dame Vera Lynn on overdrive!
The iconic late singer’s hopeful prophecy was very much an anthem for British troops going into battle at the time of World War II. As if to say to themselves We’ll Meet Again by way of convincing themselves it would be so. Of course, with actual armed conflict, there are no such guarantees, as the…
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Podcast Episode: Paul B. Garvey Naulswood and New Inn – A Tribute
Pip: There are tributes, and then there are tributes that make you wish you'd known the person being written about. Brendan has written one of the latter. Mara: This episode is one long piece — a tribute to a man named Paul B. Garvey, covering friendship, loyalty, and the kind of adventures that only happen…
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Podcast Episode: June 5th 2026
Pip: It is a Thursday evening in early June, and Brendan has opinions — on horses, on managers, on GAA presidents, on the general direction of sport as a concept. Mara: This is Boylan Talks Sport. Today we are moving through racing selections for two Irish meetings, then into a wide-ranging look at football governance,…
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Serena taking sport’s greatest gamble
In relation to sports stars, either human or equine, the one cautionary tale you often hear is “They never come back”. Usually, the assessment is meant after coming through a serious injury. To look at that in a human context first, personally, I have to begin with the case of former Meath footballer Colm Brady.…
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Podcast Episode: GAA Drama And Fine Margins
Pip: Boylan Talks Sport — where the margins are razor-thin, the heartbreak is detailed, and someone is always four points up with two minutes to go. Mara: Brendan covers a lot of ground this week — a senior football defeat that raises uncomfortable questions, a penalty shootout that he thinks never should have happened, and…
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Selections for Leopardstown – May 15th 2026
5.05: WEST OF EDEN (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.40: SUSPICIOUS MINDZ (SHANE FOLEY/JESSIE HARRINGTON) 6.12: FAOLADH – EW – (ADAM BROWNE-SOUZA (7)/ANDY SLATTERY) 6.47: GREAT MOVER – EW – (BILLY LEE/WILLIE MCCREERY) 7.22: SCANDINAVIA (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 7.57: TRISHULI RIVER – EW – (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/SHANE CRAWLEY) 8.30: DRUCKER (ORLA TYNAN (7)/ANDY SLATTERY)
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Primal instincts drive Meath to another Leinster Final
MEATH…2-14 DUBLIN…2-08 I was going to use another word at the very beginning of the above headline but for one thing the young men involved would be too young to get the reference and for another, it may not be the right side of the watershed. Suffice to say, the sight of and wholesome challenge…
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The most important grade is being treated like dirt
In writing the piece in tribute to the late Mick O’Brien of Walterstown and Meath in this space a short time ago, mention was made of the revolutionary work carried out by the legendary schoolteacher with regard to organising underage football within his beloved Blacks. Now read on… In all the wholly deserved pieces produced…
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Mick O’Brien – Walterstown and Meath GAA – RIP
With profound sadness last Tuesday evening I learned of the passing of the great Mick O’Brien, the Godfather of Walterstown GFC and Meath GAA. There could be no better war to describe the octogenarian legend. For is not the role of a godparent to step in in times of strife when things go wrong? That…
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Years come and go but there’s one question there’s still no answer to
It is said that fair play is good sport. So doesn’t it stand to reason that unfair play makes for bad sport? But where does reality stop and unfairness begin? With the exception of the hooter in its current form, there’s no debating that the reforms brought in by Jim Gavin’s committee have transformed football…