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Selections for Wexford – Oct. 25th 2026
12.50: CAHER ROES DEN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.25: THE GREAT NUDIE – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/COLIN BOWE) 2.00: THE TWO DEGREES (SEAN FLANAGAN/PAUL NOLAN) 2.35: SOUL ASYLUM (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.07: CATHRYNS RUBY – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/PAT FOLEY) 3.40: SQUARE NECKER (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 4.10: DUNSY ROCK (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.40: PAYSLIP (DECLAN…
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Selections for Galway – Oct. 25th 2026
12.32: CHART TOPPER (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.07: JUPITER DU GITE – EW – (MICHAEL KENNEALLY (3)/TOM HOGAN) 1.42: SPRINGBOARD (MARK WALSH/MICHAEL MCDONAGH) 2.17: LIGHT UP THE DARK (HARRY COBDEN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.50: INTHENICKOFTIME (PETER SMITHERS (5)/ENDA BOLGER) 3.20: OLE OLE (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.56: BULGADDEN CASTLE (HARRY COBDEN/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 4.30: MOSCOVITE (DEREK O’CONNOR/GAVIN CROMWELL)
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Whatever about a storm, Andy’s arrival will certainly cause a stir in the midlands
Is it just me or are there an phalanx of former footballers after getting management jobs at inter county level. Yes, to a certain extent all managers tend to be former players at a very high level but there have been very notable exceptions too. None greater than our own Sean Boylan. Who was lest…
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Podcast Episode Oct 24th 2026: Irish Rugby Provincial Momentum
Pip: The tenth anniversary of Anthony Foley’s passing, a GAA ground in Cork hosting European rugby, and a Prendergast brother situation that requires a family seating chart — Boylan Talks Sport had a weekend. Mara: Brendan covers all of it: Munster channeling grief into a statement win, and then Leinster and Connacht both making noise…
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Donal to don the green again as focus switches to Regionals
It was only hearing Robbie Brennan reply to David Sheehan’s tentative opening query with “God it feels like so long ago” that the realisation dawned that, Jazus, it is heading for five months ago. ‘It’ being Meath’s elimination from the 2026 All Ireland SFC. June 21st. The longest day of the year. Though it was…
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Selections for Dundalk – Oct. 23rd 2026
5.15: RIVER TRIEUX (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 5.45: EICHAN SAN (TERRY CASEY (7)/DANNY MURPHY) 6.15: BLUE ANTHEM (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.45: PREMIER VIEW (ADAM GRANT (7)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 7.15: SIR LES PATTERSON – EW – (JACK KEARNEY/STEPHEN THORNE) 7.45: BOBARDI (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 8.15: SAKOKU (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH)
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Selections for Sligo – Oct. 23rd 2026
12.50: BABY PEARL (SEAN FLANAGAN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 1.25: PUPPET MASTER (EOGHAN FINEGAN (5)/CIARAN MURPHY) 2.00: BEAT THE DEVIL – EW – (EOGHAN FINEGAN (5)/PADDY MAGEE) 2.35: ANDYOURBIRDCANSING – EW – (CONOR SMITHERS (7)/JOHN RYAN) 3.10: GUNNERY SERGEANT (TOMMY HALFORD (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.45: LARKIN’S LANE – EW – (ROSS SUGRUE (7)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 4.20: UNION STATION (KEITH…
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One day it was always going to come together
MUNSTER…33 RACING92…25 There are seminal moments relating sport, but which often occur away from it, that can leave marks on people which mean they will never be erased or forgotten. Allow me to explain. Take for example the Hillsborough Disaster or Tyrone Gaelic footballer Paul McGirr and/or Tipperary hurler Dillon Quirke passing away following on-field…
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Selections for Clonmel – Oct. 22nd 2026
1.35: DETROIT MAVERICK (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.10: VOULEZ VOUS – EW – (PHIDELMA ELVIN (7)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 2.46: KATIE CAN’T COUNT – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.21: SILLY MONGOOSE – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/PAT FOLEY) 3.56: LA NOTRE VERT (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.30: NED IN THE PARK – EW – (DAVID DOYLE (5)/TIM DOYLE)…
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Same as it ever was but Sam’s up the order
LEINSTER…48 CLERMONT AUVERGNE…23 A long way away from the Stade Marcel Michelin in France, Cian Prendergast produced such a display of dominant brilliance in Connacht’s magnificent victory over the serially decorated Saracens at the Sportsgrounds on Saturday evening. As impressive and important is that undoubtedly was, there was quite possibly even greater glee in the…
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