Tag: Podcast

Pip: If you ever wondered what the off-season in Gaelic games actually looks like, the answer is: exactly like the season, but with more resignations and fewer referees. Mara: Brendan has been watching closely, and this episode covers two distinct territories — the friction building inside county setups and the broader circus of management moves…

Pip: Boylan Talks Sport this week is the kind of reading that stops you mid-scroll — the sort where you realize pretty quickly that sport is just the frame, and the people inside it are the whole picture. Mara: That's exactly the territory Brendan covers here — tributes to Irish sports figures who shaped their…

Pip: Mayo end a seventy-five-year wait, Eddie Howe exits on his own terms, and Glen Hansard leaves a silence that no one quite knows how to fill — Brendan has been busy. Mara: This episode moves through two stretches of territory: sporting legacy and what happens when a good manager gets caught in someone else’s…

Pip: Mayo. All-Ireland champions. Sentences I genuinely thought I’d be filing under “theoretical” for another decade at least. Mara: Brendan has been writing about exactly that — the weight of what just happened, what it means for a county that’s carried this particular burden longer than most of its supporters have been alive. That’s the…

Pip: Limerick just won their sixth All Ireland hurling title in a decade, and apparently the secret is wearing last season’s jerseys to the final. Mara: That is actually one of the details Brendan unpacks on Boylan Talks Sport — how the small, barely visible choices a team makes reveal exactly where their heads are.…

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…

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…

Pip: It is a Thursday evening in early June, and Brendan has opinions — on horses, on managers, on GAA presidents, on the general direction of sport as a concept. Mara: This is Boylan Talks Sport. Today we are moving through racing selections for two Irish meetings, then into a wide-ranging look at football governance,…

Pip: Boylan Talks Sport — where the margins are razor-thin, the heartbreak is detailed, and someone is always four points up with two minutes to go. Mara: Brendan covers a lot of ground this week — a senior football defeat that raises uncomfortable questions, a penalty shootout that he thinks never should have happened, and…