Tag: Con Houlihan
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Some class, some crass and some undone by the final pass
SIDELINE CUTS -35 Rep. Of Ireland…0 England…2 It had to happen, didn’t it? Not so much that England won, that much was a given before a ball was kicked. But, in another way, so too were the chances of Declan Rice and/or Jack Grealish – two Irishmen who jumped ship on a glory hunt which…
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Going back to what we know best
June is a strange month. Which stirs more emotions in yours truly than you could shake a stick at. Obviously, in terms of sadness, nothing will ever surpass the 10th. Da’s anniversary. On the opposite end of that scale, June 2nd was the start of the four match saga between Meath and Dublin of 1991.…
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Selections for Listowel – Sept. 22nd 2022
1.25: LARK IN THE MORNIN (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.00: SHEILA (SEAN BOWEN (7)/DENIS HOGAN) 2.35: WESTERNESSE (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 2.10: THE BLUE PANTHER – EW – (GARY CARROLL/MICK MULVANY) 2.45: BUTTERFLY GARDEN – EW – (JESSICA O’GORMAN (10)/KEVIN PRENDERGAST) 3.20: FLYING DOLPHIN (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 4.55: THE VERY MAN – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON)…
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Selections for Listowel – Sept. 19th 2022
2.35: CARRIGMOORNA QUEEN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.05: NEPHIN BEG (JORDAN GAINFORD/SEAN DOYLE) 3.35: PRAIRIE DANCER – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.05: CHURCHTOWN RUBY – EW – (JAMES KIRWAN/DECLAN QUEALLY) 4.35: ROCK ON SEAMIE – EW – (TOMMY BRETT (7)/RAY HACKETT) 5.05: GRAND ROI (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.35: BUKHILL (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Left wondering how Con would have portrayed it all
Kerry…1-14 Dublin…1-13 If something looks too good to be true, it generally is. Against that, however, the simplest and most obvious explanation is indeed often the correct one. Such was the case in Croke Park on Sunday last. The meeting of Kerry and Dublin was indeed the game of the season, so far, or, for…
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Selections for Gowran – April 7th 2022
3.55: KARKIYNA (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 4.30: LEVEL PITCH (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER) 5.00: DROMBEG DUKE – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/EOIN MCCARTHY) 5.30: MISE LE MEAS (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 6.00: BARRETSTOWN – EW – (CHARLIE O’DWYER (7)/CONOR O’DWYER) 6.30: WORDSWORTH (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 7.00: FREE ROYAL – EW – (ROBBIE COLGAN/SHEILA LAVERY) 7.30: BREFFNI GIRL – EW…
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ROLLING DOWN MEMORY LANE
ANNOUNCEMENT It gives me great pleasure and no little pride to announce that my second book Rolling Down Memory Lane is hot off the presses and available to pre-order now. This book is the product of the first Covid-19 Lockdown of March 2020. With the world at a standstill, something had to be done to…
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Boylan Talks Sport Weekly Brain Workout – No. 19 (Meath/Dublin Special)
Recalling the best, worst and funniest of one of the GAA’s greatest rivalries
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Pride in whatever shade it is
No secret has ever been made of the fact that being able to write about sport is the nearest I will ever get to filling the void left by not being able to partake therein. Especially in more recent years when being involved in team management was no longer an option. Now read on… The…
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Selections for Listowel – June 7th 2021
1.35: DARRENS DIAMOND – W/O FAV – (AMBROSE MCCURTIN/ROBERT MURPHY) 2.05: DIGBY – EW – (ADAM SHORT/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 2.35: PYTHION (DONIE MCINERNEY/MICK WINTERS) 3.05: LOST OSCAR (SIMON TORRENS/PETER FAHEY) 3.35: MINDSMADEUP – EW – (LUKE DEMPSEY/MATT SMITH) 4.05: SAMCRO (BARRY BROWNE (3)/DENISE FOSTER*) 4.35: WARRIORS TALE – EW – (MAXINE O’SULLIVAN (5)/EUGENE O’SULLIVAN) 5.05: BARDENSTOWN…