CÚIRTÉAS BOYLAN

Tag: PDC World Championships

  • Irish eyes are smiling as Limerick’s wonderful week continues

    There are times as a sportsperson, or fan, that you expect to wake up and realise what you just experienced was all just a dream. Like Tom Jones “And then I awake and look around me, at four grey walls that surround me, and I realise, yes, I was only dreaming”. On rare occasions though,…

  • No place for romance at the top table

    To again wheel out a quote often utilised here previously, Just as quickly as it started, the firing stopped… And with it went the dreams of a village, a county, a country and a supremely talented young man. For now at least. With it came a stark reminder that very often there’s no place for…

  • Just when we thought it was safe to feel normal…

    Never in my near four decades on this big round ball was it ever envisaged the following words would be uttered here, but, I cannot wait for the GAA season to be over. And I couldn’t care less if it never re-started. Look, it’s only a phase. I know that, and anybody who has spent…

  • Even a genius is only human

    Two ballads by well known Irish performers are reverberating in my head. One very well known, the other possibly not as much so as could be the case. The first being One Day At A Time by Gloria and the other being Christy Moore’s version of Viva Le Quinta Brigada – relating to Irish involvement…