Tag: #BoylanTalksSport
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Selections for Cork – Nov. 2nd 2025
12.10: MISTER PESSIMISTIC (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.40: HARTY CUP – EW – (MARK WALSH/ROBERT TYNER) 1.10: EASTMORE (PHILIP BYRNES/CHARLES BYRNES) 1.40: ZANOOSH – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/COLM MURPHY) 2.10: CARDCOUNTER (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.45: MOSSY FENN PARK (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.20: A PENNY A HUNDRED – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.55: HIS…
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Selections for Down Royal – Nov. 1st 2025
11.50: MANGE TOUT (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.25: THE GUINNESS BOYS – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 1.00: BLAKE – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/NOEL MEADE) 1.35: LIEBER NICC – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.10: CEANDANNA – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 2.40: FOUND A FIFTY (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.15: FIREFOX (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.50:…
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Two more great advertisements for Meath hurling
In the immediate aftermath of Stephen Masterson blowing the full time whistle at the end of another epic between Ratoath and Kiltale in the Meath SHC Final replay, temptation was to headline this piece ‘Podge and Rog lead Ratoath to title retention’. But that would have only told a fraction of the story… Not only…
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In Memory Of Pongo
If you’ve been frequenting this piece of webspace for any length of time, firstly thank you, but if have, you will also be aware of the amount of occasions upon which yours truly was docked in Brady’s in Dunboyne when major world events were going down. From the Omagh bombing to the Iraq war starting…
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Intermediate camogie final: Dunboyne bridge 19 year gap
St Peter’s, Dunboyne…1-15 Drumree…2-07 Dunboyne came out on top in a closely fought Intermediate Camogie final against Drumree on Saturday in Dunganny, stating an eight point turnaround in doing so. Dunboyne started well going into a four point lead in the early stages but were stopped in their tracks when Drumree hit the net twice…
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Genoa or Pairc Tailteann or Kilbride – it’s all the same
KILBRIDE…0-20 CASTLETOWN…1-16 “David O’Leary of Arsenal…This kick could decide it all…Yes! We’re there.” George Hamilton’s immortal utterance on the midweek afternoon during which the nation did indeed hold its breath in the midst of the penalty shootout between Ireland and Romania at the 1990 World Cup in Genoa, Italy. . Even the haymaking stopped. It…
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Trevor never giving up on Meath
There are few things which can be taken for granted in life. Death and taxes being most of them according to Mark Twain. One thing that is by no means guaranteed is good players becoming good managers. Yes a plethora have, like Kevin Heffernan, Mick O’Dwyer, Brian McEniff, ‘Babs’ Keating, Brian Cody, JBM and Billy…
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Falling for the bait of commercialisation in sport
A study of Wexford hurling from perhaps an obscure angle reveals that folk in the Model County have never been afraid to go their own way about things. For better or worse. For example, to the best of my recollection, they were the first county this writer can recall appointing an outside manager when they…
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Do Not Poke The Bear
There’s episode of what I think was the Tom & Jerry Kids spin off of the beloved cat and mouse cartoon in which the two feature characters were on an outing to the zoo. Wherein Tyke the lovable but disaster prone dog was on security duty. For which his simple mantra was DO NOT FEED…
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Thanks ‘Hoggy’ the pleasure has been all ours
I’ve no connection to Co Cork. Save for being transported there while still in the Moses Basket because my sister was competing in athletics in The Mardyke. Also competing on same ‘card’ that day was one G. Geraghty (Kentstown AC). Isn’t it funny the way the wheels of life turn? Other than that, the other…