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Ollie Nolan (Snr) – A Tribute
I would like to this opportunity to express my Deepest Sympathy to the Nolan family on the occasion of Ollie’s passing. A dear friend for many years. He was an immense help to me during his time over the C.E. scheme in Dunboyne when life in St Peter’s College was difficult for me, to say…
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Breakthroughs, consolidation and a great pity
Sometimes, how you get there doesn’t matter as long as you reach the intended destination. For example, Irish soccer fans would gladly have put up with the snore fest scoreless draw against Egypt in order to secure safe passage to the knockout stages of the 1990 World Cup. Likewise, those Meath supporters who braved the…
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Rehabilitation, not retribution
As is the case with any facet of life, being ensconced in the sporting world on an almost constant basis, it very quickly becomes apparent that the day you don’t learn something is a day wasted. That said, one never envisaged having to engage in a crash course of the rudiments of the disciplinary processes…
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A day split between the expected and not so much
Having become involved in small scale racehorse ownership in the last few years, there is now a much greater understanding of something my late father once said to me at the time of his own foray into similar territory. “A middling one will break you”. Translated – a horse that runs a good race every…
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Kenyan meme makers may get busy again
Do you remember Bebo? Jazus, it seems like a lifetime ago. Sharing the love, your Top Friends and, of greatest interest to the next lines here, the Flashbox. The Facebook/Instagram Reels of its day. Following the Thursday afternoon session of the 2025/’26 World Darts Championship, one was reminded of the best Flashbox video I ever…
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Single session Wednesday heralds the newcomers
Sometimes, something you think must be a misprint or a wind up turns out not to be so. Of course such can be the case with the most serious issue in life too. With regard to what you will read hereafter, what appeared to be unbelievable was the fact that there was only one session…
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History Maker and Hop recapture the class of old
In a post pertaining to the ongoing PDC World Championships earlier this week, the point was made that darts was one of the few sports where almost anyone can have a go. It’s also one of the rare examples of a discipline where competitors can keep going as long as they like. Right, so you…
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Forget The Power – Look out for The Tower
Did something or somebody, sporting or otherwise, ever randomly pop into your head from seemingly absolutely nowhere? Now read on… For what has felt like an age, I’ve wondered what ever became of Willie Boreland. A lanky, languid Scottish darts player who exploded into the bigtime when winning his first ever outing at Alexandra Palace…
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He’s not unbeatable but it will take something extraordinary
How the world rankings in darts are arrived at and collated is indeed a curious system. The best guess yours truly can hazard at an explanation is to reckon that rankings are determined via a players’ total prize money accumulated over a two year cycle. That is the only plausible conclusion as to why Luke…
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Selections for Dundalk – Oct. 29th 2025
2.00: FLEETFOOTSOLDIER – EW – (BEN COEN/NATALIA LUPINI) 2.32: COMFORT LINE – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY/ADO MCGUINNESS) 3.01: SIERRA DE GREDOS (GARY CARROLL/ANDY OLIVER) 3.31: ANUSHKA – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.01: IRON LILY – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 4.35: NIKKI SWANGO (ADAM CAFFREY/ADO MCGUINNESS) 5.05: WHATCHADOIN (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/JOSH HALLEY) 5.40: LADY…