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Podcast Episode: Aug. 16th – Tributes And Tragedy In Irish Sport
Pip: Boylan Talks Sport this week is the kind of reading that stops you mid-scroll — the sort where you realize pretty quickly that sport is just the frame, and the people inside it are the whole picture. Mara: That's exactly the territory Brendan covers here — tributes to Irish sports figures who shaped their…
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Mr Liam O’Neill – iar Uachtarain C. L. G. (RIP)
Co bhron a chroi orm nuair a fuair me an nuacht ar bas an tUasal Liam O’Neill, iar Uachtaran Cumann Luthcleas Gael i rith na seachtaine. It was with very deep sadness I learned of the passing of former GAA President Mr Liam O’Neill during the past week. He was 70 and his death came…
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Mrs Margaret McConville – RIP
I have very mixed feelings about Lourdes, the place of Holy pilgrimage in France. At least partly down to my own youthful (as it was then!) naievity. Having been there twice, certainly the second time, when I was just turned 13, muggins here had himself fully convinced there was going to be a miracle and…
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Selections for Roscommon – Aug. 4th 2026
5.25: TUMBLING IN (GARY NOONAN/ERIC MCNAMARA) 6.00: CLAY PIGEONS (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.30: MR DIBBS – EW – (EOIN STAPLES (5)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 7.00: HASHTAG PRETENDER (SEAN FLANAGAN/BARRY CONNELL) 7.30: ANOTHER CHALLENGE – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 8.00: KILKEE BAY (JOEY DUNNE (7)/ERIC MCNAMARA) 8.30: ROCKY ALFONSO – EW – (DAVID DOYLE (7)/SAM CURLING)
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Podcast Episode: Aug. 3rd 2026
Pip: Mayo end a seventy-five-year wait, Eddie Howe exits on his own terms, and Glen Hansard leaves a silence that no one quite knows how to fill — Brendan has been busy. Mara: This episode moves through two stretches of territory: sporting legacy and what happens when a good manager gets caught in someone else’s…
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Good guy Howe deserved to step off stage before being pushed
Apart from my own GAA club here in Dunboyne (Ireland) who haven’t won the Meath Senior Hurling Championship in 112 years, it’s quite likely that one of the longest chasms anywhere between sporting successes came to an end when Mayo won the All Ireland SFC on Sunday last for the first time in 75 years.…
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Podcast Episode: July 29th 2026
Pip: Mayo. All-Ireland champions. Sentences I genuinely thought I’d be filing under “theoretical” for another decade at least. Mara: Brendan has been writing about exactly that — the weight of what just happened, what it means for a county that’s carried this particular burden longer than most of its supporters have been alive. That’s the…
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Only a stone wouldn’t cry as faith restored in life
I don’t know if (m)any of the Mayo entourage would ever have heard of the legendary American colleges basketball coach, the late Jimmy Valvano, but, they are the living epitome of his mantra – “Don’t give up, don’t ever give up”.
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Selections for Wexford – July 23rd 2026
4.00: GAME POINT (DONAGH MEYLER/RAY CODY) 4,35: ARE YOU AROUND (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.10: COSTANUCI – EW – (OLIVE QUEALLY (7)/JOHN QUEALLY) 5.45: JURY FOREMAN – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/PAUL NOLAN) 6.20: CLEVER COURT – EW – (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN (3)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 6.55: HATTFIELD HAMMER – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/PAUL NOLAN) 7.30: SYOSSET –…
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Podcast Episode: July 21st 2026
Pip: Limerick just won their sixth All Ireland hurling title in a decade, and apparently the secret is wearing last season’s jerseys to the final. Mara: That is actually one of the details Brendan unpacks on Boylan Talks Sport — how the small, barely visible choices a team makes reveal exactly where their heads are.…