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Seeing too much of yourself in others
My mind often fluctuates in thought regarding how Meath’s greatest ever team – that at their zenith between 1986 and 1991 – would fair out in the Gaelic football of today. Part of me thinks they wouldn’t last jig time owing to a combination of snowflakes having the game sanitised to a point of no […]
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Selections for Roscommon – May 9th 2022
4.25: COMHRA (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER) 5.00: THE PARGEY BEE (SIOBHAN RUTLEDGE (5)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 5.30: TIMOURID (LUKE MCATEER (3)/PAUL FLYNN) 6.00: GOOD HEAVENS (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.30: THE MODEL KINGDOM (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 7.00: HARRIETS FORCE – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/KEITH CLARKE) 7.30: LOOM LARGE – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/ANDY OLIVER)
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Selections for Leopardstown – May 8th 2022
1.50: ZONIK – EW – (CILLIAN MCCONNELL (7)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 2.25: ARK (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 3.00: WATERVILLE (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 3.35: GLOBAL EQUALITY – EW – (ROBBIE COLGAN/SHEILA LAVERY) 4.05: HISTORY (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 4.35: FRENCH CLAIM (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 5.05: IVY LEAGUE (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.35: HELL BENT – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON)
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Selections for Naas – May 7th 2022
1.40: LITTLE BIG BEAR (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.15: GEGANPRESSING – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/E&P HARTY) 2.50: SHARTASH (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 3.25: TOSEN LYDIA (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.00: QITAAL – W/O FAV – (BILLY LEE/KEN CONDON) 4.35: NARLITA – W/O FAV – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 5.05: KARLSBERG – EW – (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/SHANE CRAWLEY) 5.35: MAGNIFICO – […]
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Selections for Cork – May 7th 2022
2.00: GENTLEMAN JOE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.35: NOS NA GAOITHE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.10: CAESAR ROCK – EW – (RICKY DOYLE/MICHAEL MORRIS) 3.45: PADDY’S PLANET – EW – (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN (7)/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 4.20: CHIRCAHUA (SEAN O’KEEFFE/PAUL NOLAN) 4.55: COMMAND CHAIN – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/JOHN MCCONNELL) 5.25: DOYEN TO WIN – EW – (PAT […]
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Boylan’s Sporting Wordle No. 31
In Cricket the idea is to knock these down but in any other field they need to be stacked up https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=xochd
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Selections for Downpatrick – May 6th 2022
5.20: OTTOMAN STYLE (TOM REILLY (7)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 5.50: LAKE CHAD – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/PHILIP FENTON) 6.20: SO SCOTTISH – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 6.50: MISS POLLY SHELBY – EW – (A. N. OTHER/RONAN MCNALLY) 7.20: WALK THE WALK (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 7.50: FOUR COUNTRY ROADS – EW – (MARK MCDONAGH (7)/BRIAN MCMAHON) 8.20: […]
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Selections for Cork – May 6th 2022
5.30: FURNACE CREEK (LUKE MCATEER (3)/JAMES BARRETT) 6.00: LADIES CHURCH – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 6.30: POLAR BEAR (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 7.00: CARRYTHEONE – EW – (SCOTT MCCULLAGH (5)/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 7.30: BRIGHTBURN – EW – (CIARA FLYNN (7)/PAUL FLYNN) 8.00: CHICAGO BEAR – EW – (JAMIE POWELL (4)*/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 8.30: POINT GALLIBRAND (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH […]
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The unseen cost of Putin’s war relights my fire
What way do you view war? I don’t mean as in is it good or bad. Rather, what catches your attention first and/or holds onto it the longest. Not being old enough to remember the ins and outs of the original Gulf War in 1991, it was obvious oil was at the heart thereof. Aside […]
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Selections for Tipperary – May 5th 2022
5.15: MUSIC OF TARA (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.45: GROZNI – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/DENIS HOGAN) 6.15: I’LL BE THAT LADY (PHILIP ENRIGHT/BRIAN MCMAHON) 6.45: SIBERIAN PRINCE (JACK KENNEDY/NOEL MEADE) 7.15: ITS ON THE LINE (CHARLIE MULLINS (7)/EMMET MULLINS) 7.45: SUSIE MILLER (DEREK O’CONNOR/SAM CURLING) 8.15: JOE’S TURN (HARLEY DUNNE/RICHIE RATH)