Tag: #BoylanTalksSport
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Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 28th 2025
12.10: LAZARE DE STAR (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.45: LAMBAY ISLAND – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 1.20: SHUFFLE THE DECK – EW – (MARK WALSH/TED WALSH) 1.55: BOB OLINGER – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.30: AFFORDALE FURY – EW – (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 3.05: JORDANS – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.40:…
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Selections for Limerick – Dec. 27th 2025
12.17: CRYSTAL GOLD – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/J. W. KENNY) 12.52: DECIMATION (CALUM HOGAN (7)/ERIC MCNAMARA) 1.27: THE BIG WESTERNER (MIKE O’CONNOR/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.02: PARNELL STREET (ADAM RYAN (5)/ANDY SLATTERY) 2.37: KANOG BAY – EW – (CARAGH MONAGHAN (7)/IAN DONOGHUE) 3.11: BIG DEE – EW – (GARY NOONAN (3)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 3.41: HARRY’S DREAM –…
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Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 27th 2025
12.05: OLE OLE – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 12.37: LOVELY HURLING – EW – (MARK WALSH/COLM MURPHY) 1.12: MARINE NATIONALE (SEAN FLANAGAN/BARRY CONNELL) 1.47: LOVE ME TENDER (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.22: EN OR – EW – (DAN KING/TONY MARTIN) 3.00: WILL THE WISE – EW – (EOIN STAPLES (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.30: ARCADIAN EMPORER (PADDY…
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Speed, horsepower and Razzmatazz
After a trying day and a bit on a personal level when everything that possibly could go wrong did so, time for another in the series of articles looking back on what has transpired at the PDC World Championship in the Alexandra Palace, London, since last time the keyboard last took a tapping on the…
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Selections for Naas – Dec. 15th 2025
11.50: FUNNICULI FUNNICULA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.20: BALTINGLASS HILL – EW – (DYLAN ROBINSON/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 12.50: RITZ PLAN (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 1.20: SUSIE LENGLEN – EW – (IVAN RYAN (7)/NOEL MEADE) 1.50: LINCALL (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.20: BAMBINO FEVER (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.50: TITANIUM – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN/CIARAN MURPHY) 3.20: BURNING ABILITY – EW…
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A Lim and a prayer proves there’s always hope!
Is there one sport in the world at which absolutely anybody, able-bodied or otherwise, can have a go? If pressed to nominate an answer, yours truly would probably plump for darts. The cruel irony being that, from a personal perspective, the singed wires in the engine department up top mean that one’s attempts at pegging…
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Smudger has his copybook blotted out as R and V find a way
It’s probably fairly safe to assume that, for players and/or their entourage and next of kin, waiting to ‘tog out’ for your seasonal debut in the World Darts Championship must be the same as what it’s like prior to a club or county championship match. For them, it may be butterflies in the stomach whereas…
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Dec. 13th 2025
11.30: JACOB’S LADDER (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.02: THE ENABLER (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.32: BEN HUR (DONAGH MEYLER/NOEL MEADE) 1.05: DRIVEONWILL – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 1.40: MELBOURNE SHAMROCK – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 2.15: TED’S CORNER – EW – (DAN KING/TONY MARTIN) 2.50: KOOLIO KATE – EW – (ALEX HARVEY/PAT FOLEY) 3.25: SPRING…
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Selections for Dundalk – Dec. 12th 2025
4.45: AMIATA – EW – (NICOLA BURNS (5)/GER LYONS) 5.15: MISS ABBEY JOOLS – EW – (NICOLA BURNS/TIM DOYLE) 5.45: LIBRRATION DATE (LUKE MCATEER/JACK FOLEY) 6.15: GONNA BE GOLDEN (CHRIS HAYES/ANDY OLIVER) 6.45: MVEVE – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.15: INISHFALLEN – EW – (JACK KEARNEY (3)/STEPHEN THORNE) 7.45: BOWMAN – EW – (SEAMIE…
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A Constitutional Conundrum
The prolific racing blogger Stephen Power (@racingblogger) posted a very simple question in the immediate aftermath of the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle: “If you owned Constitution Hill, what would you do now?”? First, the back story. From the first time Michael Buckley’s animal was seen on a course, he was seen as one of…