Tag: #BoylanTalksSport
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Eze to forget about loyalty or is it common sense?
No matter how many straws one attempts to clutch at, sometimes you’ll never find the one you’re looking for. Or the one you’re hoping might be there somewhere, buried in a stockpile. Go back to a piece on these pages within the last week, and you will find reference to the fact that Dermot McCabe…
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The annual six week obsession
The sporting calendar is, I suppose, identical to the ‘normal’ one, in that, it’s a matter of ticking off milestones on the annual schedule. Instead of Christmas think Cheltenham, for Easter see Fairyhouse, Listowel Writers Week = Listowel Harvest Racing Festival. Similarly, for me, the commencement of a new soccer season in Britain is also…
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Brennan gets the blue baton
And so, the worst kept secret in Irish sport is out. Ger Brennan has indeed succeeded Dessie Farrell as Dublin senior football manager. The St Vincent’s man – a two time Celtic cross winner in 2011 and 2013 – has initially been handed a three year term in charge of the metropoles. You’d have to…
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Selections for Sligo – Aug. 6th 2025
4.50: TARTARAGHAN (KEITHEN KENNEDY (5)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 5.20: THATWILLDOSO (RORY CLEARY/KEVIN COLEMAN) 5.50: RAPHELLO (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.25: AWARD CEREMONY – EW – (JACK CLEARY (5)/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 7.00: ANNIE LAVINIA (CHRIS HAYES/EDDIE LYNAM) 7.35: TRUBSHAW (GABRIELLA HILL (10)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 8.10: CHOPSTICKS (CHRIS HAYES/JOHN MCCONNELL)
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Thurles thunderbolt leaves Irish racing in a spin
Do you ever think of friend, departed for the bigger world and it just knocks you for six? I’m not talking in terms of immediate family or other relatives. Just somebody whom you perhaps didn’t realise the impact they had on your life until they’re not there anymore. On Friday morning last, the late Derrick…
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Meath men on the move
The wheel of the sporting year turns again as one segment closes off with the playing of the All Ireland SHC Final, and those in men’s and Ladies football and Camogie imminently awaited, while in other sports things haven’t even kicked off. Quite literally. In recent week’s we’ve seen the brightest star in Irish Basketball,…
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I still won’t eat the cheese
Irish sports fans have grown so accustomed to our nearest neighbours trying to claim our stars as their own, it wouldn’t be a massive shock to see them claim to have ‘invented’ Hurling or Gaelic Football! That said, it has been pleasantly surprising that there hasn’t been much sneery lampooning of the celebrating of Ben…
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Horner told to hit the road
In a drastic illustration of the old adage that you’re only as good as your last performance, Christian Horner was this morning relieved of his duties as Team Principal with Red Bull Racing with immediate effect. Those of the sugary drink backing have been but a pale shadow of their dominant selves this year, but…
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Tom Dunne – A Tribute
Take your parachute and jumpYou can’t stay here foreverWhen everyone else is goneBeing all alone won’t seem that cleverTake your parachute and goThere’s gonna have to be some dangerTake your parachute and jumpYou’re gonna have to take flightIf the wind don’t catch you, I will, I willIf the wind’s not there, I’m here Coincidentally or…
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The Dublin job and the four faced auld clock
Ger Brennan’s decision to step down as Louth senior football manager may have caught a lot of people cold. Nowhere more so than in the Wee County. However, while folk in Louth might have their own theories – some of which may seem blatantly obvious – but it might not be as simple as that.…