Tag: #BoylanTalksSport
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Selections for Down Royal – Jan. 20th 2026
12.50: STAR OF THE WEEK – EW – (RICKY DOYLE/ARTHUR MOORE) 1.20: SPINOLA BAY (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.50: BEAUTIFUL CHAOS – EW – (SCOTT MARKEY (7)/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 2.20: BOSTON BOBBY – EW – (TIERNAN POWER-ROCHE (3)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 2.50: ANOTHERWAY (JJ SLEVIN/TOM GIBNEY) 3.20: TELL NOBODY NOTHIN – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/NOEL MEADE) 3.50: LUCKY LYREEN…
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A Lifetime in The Pairc – Part 2
In the opening instalment of this sojourn down memory lane, no secret was made of the fact that my ‘relationship’ with Pairc Tailteann got off to the most disastrous start possible. Between ‘Gate gate’ in 1991, my own personal flag disaster of county final day of 1990 and my initial viewing of a Meath match…
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JP catches racing clan cold with Cobden call
There is a sneery element of Irish society and, it pains me to say, the media, whose greatest function in life seems to be bandwagoning on people’s misfortune. Or at the very least finding fault with every scintilla of what they do in life. Now read on… There’s one particular hack at national level –…
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Did nobody tell Gary about glass houses?
There was something nauseating about listening to Gary Neville eviserating Gabrielle Martinelli shunting Jeremy Frimpong out over the sideline towards the end of the Arsenal-Liverpool game. Now, I would consider myself as big a Roy Keane fan as there is, but, Gary is in no position to have a barb at anybody over skating the…
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Auditions begin for season two of Robbie’s Royals
Conor Gray, Daithi McGowan and Diarmuid Moriarity provide a smidgeon of experience as Robbie Brennan unveils a largely experimental side for his team’s season opener against Wicklow in the resuscitated Dioralyte O’Byrne in Aughrim’s Echelon Park. Throw in among the Wicklow hills is at 1.30pm and the match will be shown live on Clubber TV.…
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Eagle and the Hood stay in title race as legends turn back time
In a piece in this space immediately prior to what you will ingest hereafter, mention was made of the fact that, at that point, for certain players, their victories were of the breakthrough variety. Well, as much as that truly was the case, the next stages have provided inclinations that those advancing from same can…
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Selections for Punchestown – Dec. 31st 2025
12.35: SLADE STEEL (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 1.05: CASEY WEST – EW – (TIERNAN POWER-ROCHE (3)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 1.35: SARATOGA – EW – (MARK WALSH/PADRAIG ROCHE) 2.05: SPILLANE’S TOWER – EW – (MARK WALSH/JIMMY MANGAN) 2.35: KLAS LANGY – EW – (HUGH HORGAN (5)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.05: SPACE WARRIOR – EW – (ANNA MCGUINNESS/TOM MULLINS) 3.35: SOUND…
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Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 29th 2025
11.40: KILBARRY LIZZY – EW – (MICHAEL KENNEALLY (7)/CON O’KEEFFE) 12.12: JALON DOUDAIRIES (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.47: SUNNY SOUTH WEST – EW – (EOIN STAPLES (7)/EDDIE POWER) 1.22: WODHOOH (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.57: MYSTICAL GODESS – EW – (PADDY O’BRIEN (4*) /HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.32: LOSSIEMOUTH (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.05: BLUE MOSQUE – EW –…
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The Eagle hangs out with The Shed as The Ferret burrows through
Whether in sport or any other facet of life, everybody has their own individual way of doing things. Salt and vinegar or not on chips, either reading newspapers in ‘hard copy’ form or on some sort of device. Darts is no different to anything else in life within those parametres. At one end of the…
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Danish Tasty evokes memories of battles past
MANCHESTER UNITED…1 NEWCASTLE UNITED…0 Several times over the years in this space, mention has been made of the fact that yours truly was in the very fortunate position of having Sky Sports in at home before it became commonplace for that to be the case. Prior to that, being carried up the stairs in Mulvany’s…