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Bombshell result or tactical downtime?
One of the many great things about leading a life which, to the largest extent, revolves around sport – almost any sport – means you’re never short of something to watch or scribe about. However, gut feeling suggests this corner may not be alone in getting hard to zone in on the ongoing travelling circus…
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Selections for Curragh – June 26th 2026
4.33: TREAN (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 5.05: BANG BANG – EW – (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.35: TOFINO – EW – (JACK KEARNEY (3)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 6.10: SMOKE THEM OUT – EW – (SADHBH TORMEY (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 6.45: NODOFAPPROVAL – EW – (KEITHEN KENNEDY (5)/JESSIE HARRINGTON) 7.20: TOKYO TOWER – EW – (OISIN MURPHY/JACK FOLEY) 7.55: KILMEADEN –…
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Selections for Ballinrobe – June 22nd 2026
5.25: FEMME BEAUTY (MAX POPAN (7)/KEN CONDON) 5.55: NERMAL (ANDREW J. SLATTERY/ANDY SLATTERY) 6.25: HARANA (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 6.55: MARMALEDOVA – EW – (BILLY LEE/KEN CONDON) 7.27: FLAGSTONE LADY – EW – (COLIN KEANE/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 8.00: SONIC INVADER (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 8.30: SWITCH FROM DIESEL (COLIN KEANE/ROSS O’SULLIVAN)
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Podcast Episode: Mobility matters under the spotlight with proposed new scheme
Pip: Welcome to Boylan Talks Sport — where the remit stretches, as it should, well beyond the final whistle. Mara: Brendan is writing today about something that sits right at the intersection of lived experience and policy — disability mobility supports, and what a proposed government scheme could mean for the people who depend on…
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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)