Tag: #BoylanTalksSport
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The best for last but all in vain
St Peters…2-15 Kilbride…0-11 Whilst writing the match report for Dunboyne’s SFC opening round draw against Rathkenny the point was made that their failure to close out the job on that evening would come back to bite them in the backside. And, though they produced their best display of the entire season against the other side…
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Selections for Downpatrick – Aug. 31st 2026
2.12: EURO AGENT (DANNY GILLIGAN/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.47: GRANLAHAN – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/ADO MCGUINNESS) 3.22: CODED WELDER (KEVIN HEALY (7)/CIAN COLLINS) 3 52: BRUANT – EW – (KEVIN SEXTON/TONY MARTIN) 4.29: ROBBIE’S ROCK (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.04: THE COBBLERS WIFE – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/TONY MULLINS) 5.39: RIGHT FOLKS PLEASE (KEVIN HEALY (7)/DECLAN QUEALLY)
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Are there rebellious rumblings by the Lee?
Team management has changed beyond recognition since the days of Sean (Boylan) with Meath or Billy Morgan in Cork and ‘Babs’ Keating’s reign over Tipperary. There are few if any capable of embarking on stints of the longevity of those like Kieran McGeeney or Mickey Harte or John Kiely. Even allowing for that, though, the…
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Sport poignantly does its thing yet again
A guess would be hazarded with a fair degree of confidence that this corner is not alone in admitting that, aside from Al Paccino’s Inches speech, not a thing is recalled of the American Football based movie, Any Given Sunday. That’s all a soul would need though. Not only to get a proper grasp on…
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Donegal All Ireland winner tragically passes away
BREAKING NEWS Some desperately sad news emerging tonight – former Donegal footballer James McHugh has tragically lost his life in a road traffic accident in Co Cavan. His wife Noreen has been airlifted to Beaumount Hospital in Dublin, such were/are the seriousness of her injuries. A third person involved in the collision was brought to…
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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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Dunboyne rise and follow Charlie to scrape late draw
St Peter’s Dunboyne… 1-14 Rathkenny… 1-14 Charlie Gallagher’s booming free two minutes into stoppage time rescued a draw for Dunboyne at the end of this exciting Fairyhouse Steel SFC encounter at Dunsany on Thursday evening. The towering teenager was his side’s principal source of scores throughout the contest, but, having burst into a 1-04 to…
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Selections for Naas – Aug. 3rd 2026
2.17: FOCACCIA (GAVIN RYAN/FOZZY STACK) 2.47: SPODO KOMODO – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/JOHNNY FEANE) 3.17: TAWAAZON – EW – (TERRY CASEY (7)/ANDREW KINSELLA) 3.47: DYNAMIC FORCE – EW – (SADHBH TORMEY (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 4.17: HAMIYAN (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 4.47: LIVENKA (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 5.20: NEVER THE SAME (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN)
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Glen Hansard – RIP
“Imagine, it’s your last day on earth, it’s a Paddy’s Day, and you might have had a drink, just the one”! “Then, Brendan Behan’s song strikes up and you’re reminded you’re in the most special place on earth”. That was my introduction to Glen Hansard. On a YouTube video of a concert at the Royal…
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Selections for Galway – July 29th 2026
5.05: JEROBAUM MACHIN – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 5.35: HEES DYNAMITE – EW – (PADDY O’BRIEN (5)/ERIC MCNAMARA) 6.05: TWO PAIR – EW – (CONOR STONE-WALSH/PAUL NOLAN) 6.40: JESSE EVANS – EW – (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 7.15: ABBOTSFORD (FINNY MAGUIRE/DERMOT WELD) 7.50: JOHNNY SODA – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY/ADO MCGUINNESS) 8.20: RAKKI – EW…