Tag: Covid-19
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Meath’s season opener called off
Saturday’s O’Byrne Cup clash between Wicklow and Meath, scheduled for the Bray Emmets club grounds, has been postponed. Leinster Council has confirmed this morning that the opening round clash has been postponed, with a combination of injuries and Covid close contacts in the Wicklow squad understood to be the reason. With both teams set to play…
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Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 26th 2021
12.00: HIAOU – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.35: WHOWONTHETOSS – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/ARTHUR MOORE) 1.10: FIL DOR (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.45: BANBRIDGE – EW – (SHANE FITZGERALD (5)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.20: FERNY HOLLOW (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.55: DEFAN – EW – (DYLAN ROBINSON/ HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.30: COOL SURVIVOR – EW – (TOM HAMILTON/GORDON…
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Tis the night before Christmas and Covid has gone rogue again
BREAKING NEWS Though it could scarcely be termed a shock, in desperately disappointing developments, it has just been announced that Leopardstown’s four day Christmas Festival will once again take place behind closed doors. Curiously though, Limerick’s event, which in terms of race programme, is practically the same as that slated for the Foxrock venue, have…
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Boylan Talks Podcast – Nov. 29th 2021
An absolutely packed show this time around. Documenting the latest chapter in the remarkable story that is Dunboyne Ladies GAA, a look back at an outstanding weekend’s National Hunt racing in Fairyhouse and the latest chaos with Manchester United and Rugby fixtures.
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Nov. 28th 2021
12.00: HURRICANE GEORGIE (LUKE DEMPSEY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.35: FIL D’OR (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.05: THREE STRIPE LIFE (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.35: CAPE GENTLEMAN (BRIAN HAYES/EMMET MULLINS) 2.05: COKO BEACH (JACK FOLEY (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.40: HONEYSUCKLE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.10: LIGHT BRIGADE – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/CHARLES BYRNES) 3.40: ROYAL ROMEO (PAT TAAFFE (7)/NOEL MEADE)
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Boylan Talks Sport Brain Workout – No. 21
Back with another tester which hopefully fits in with the changing of the sporting seasons
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Breaking News: Tyrone Pull Out Of Kerry Re-fixture
The immediate future of this season’s All Ireland SFC has been cast into doubt with the revelation that Tyrone will not be fulfilling their already re-fixed All Ireland SFC semi final against Kerry. The O’Neill County camp has been ravaged by cases of Covid-19 in the last couple of weeks, with reportedly only 11 members…
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Our tower of strength could take no more
When news broke in September 2005 that Sean Boylan wouldn’t be seeking a 24th term as Meath senior football manager, the venerated local sports writer Noel Coogan, who’d covered the near quarter-century era and much more besides, wrote of “The cursor flashing blankly on the screen” as he struggled to know even where to begin…
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Meath face familiar foes as ‘normal’ appears on the horizon
It will be a case of familiarity prompting caution when Meath take on either Longford or Carlow in their opening joust of the 2021 Leinster SFC. The road map for a return to the playing fields became a modicum clearer this week with the staggered roll out of the Championship draws in both football and…
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Jab lift has hope in sight if we don’t self-destruct
Occasionally in life we encounter people, places or things which impact upon us far more than any of us realise. Or at least it takes a long time for the full effect thereof to fully dawn. What’s coming to mind in this instance – and not for the first time in this space – is…