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Podcast Episode: Put the word ‘Cup’ in the description and excitement is guaranteed
Pip: There is a four-letter word that turns a midweek fixture into a national event, and no, it is not "free." It is "Cup." Mara: Brendan has been thinking about exactly that — the strange alchemy of tournament football, the upsets it produces, and the Irish memories wrapped up in World Cup summers. Let's start…
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Selections for Bellewstown – July 3rd 2026
5.00: ALEX BELARDO – EW – (DONAGH O’CONNOR/JOHN MCCONNELL) 5.35: HIGH MORALS (COLIN KEANE/BILL DURKAN) 6.07: BUCCANEER’S SPIRIT – EW – (GARY CARROLL/IAN DONOGHUE) 6.37: TRADEWINDS (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 7.10: SPARKY SPARKY (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 7.44: BYE BYE NOW – EW – (SIOBHAN RUTLEDGE/JOHN MCCONNELL) 8.17: JAZZ FOREVER – EW – (ROBERT WHEARTY/PAUL FLYNN)
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Selections for Wexford – July 3rd 2026
4.47: SEVEN TOWERS (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.20: OH SO CHARMING – EW – (KEVIN HEALY (7)/DECLAN QUEALLY) 5.50: BELLA UNION – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/JOHN MCCONNELL) 6.20: DOCTOR ELVIS (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 6.52: DONNIE DEVITO – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 7.25: NOUVOTIC (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 8.00: A SNOW WHITE PARK – EW –…
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Put the word ‘Cup’ in the description and excitement is guaranteed
Life is predicated on a never ending cycle of swings and roundabouts. Sporting or otherwise. For example, if the appointment of Harry Whelehan hadn’t brought down Albert Reynolds’s Government, John Bruton never would have been Taoiseach. If the Irish World Cup squad of 2002 had had the balls to stand behind their captain instead of the…
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Podcast Episode June 30th 2026: Irish Racing And GAA Stories
Pip: The Curragh, Roscommon, Wexford, Naas, Ballinrobe, Down Royal, Limerick, Leopardstown — Brendan has been busy enough this week to make a racecourse timetable look like a light schedule. Mara: Busy is right. This episode covers horse racing selections across nearly a fortnight of Irish racing, a deep dive into Meath's All-Ireland exit and the…
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Selections for Roscommon – June 30th 2026
5.30: SEA OF RAIN (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JIM BOLGER) 6.00: ELUSIVE ECHO (SHANE FOLEY/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.30: MEDIEVAL NIGHT – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DENIS HOGAN) 7.00: NERMAL (BEN COEN/ANDY SLATTERY) 7.30: SIR JEREMY – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY/NOEL MEADE) 8.00: STARFORD (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 8.30: ASHIKITA (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH)
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Selections forn Wexford – June 30th 2026
2.20: SCALPNAGUN (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.50: FEMME MAGNIFIQUE – EW – (CIAN QUIRKE/HARRY KELLY) 3.20: SEA OF DOUBT (KEITH DONOGHUE/IAN DONOGHUE) 3.50: RUE TAYLOR – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (2*) /PAUL NOLAN) 4.20: ARUNTOTHEQUEEN – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/JESSIE HARRINGTON) 4.50: SOPHIA ROSE – EW – (CONOR STONE-WALSH/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.20: COSTACURTA (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD)
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Criticism of Ulster duo is irrational
Jarlath Burns may have been away with the fairies – as usual – when claiming comparisons between the storms in egg cups involving Ger Brennan and Jim McGuinness was “Irrational”. If anything the McGuinness incident was worse in that he actually confronted a Kerry player. But sure the Ulster old boys club looked after each…
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Selections for Curragh – June 28th 2026
1.10: ALPHA (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 1.40: TOCO MADERA (DANNY TUDHOPE/DAVID O’MEARA) 2.10: SILK BRAID – EW – (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 2.45: ZARATHOS – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/DYLAN CUNHA, IN GB) 3.20: PURVIEW (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD) 3.55: ZODIAC BEAR (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 4.35: CHRISTMAS DAY – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.15: BOBBY MCGEE –…
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Selections for Curragh – June 27th 2026
1.45: GIANT SEQUIOA (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.15: CONFUCIUS (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.45: FINGERPAINT – EW – (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD) 3.20: VELOZEE – EW – (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 3.55: THUNDERING ON (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.30: CLEAR QUARTZ – EW – (NIAMH FAHEY (7)/MARK FAHEY) 5.05: REAL ENCOUNTER – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSIE HARRINGTON) 5.40: SOLANA…