Tag: Covid-19
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Watch “A Jab Lift Of A Different Kind” on YouTube
Being primarily a sports writer/content producer has been challenging to say the least amid the chaos of Covid-19’s infestation of the world. However, there may be light at the end of a very dark tunnel. Both on a personal level and on a broader scale. Firstly as getting the initial stage of the antidote will…
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It’s GAA Larry but not as we know it
“We come in peace, shoot to kill/only going forward ’cause we can’t find reverse” went the whimsical yet strangely apt ditty pertaining to the adventures of Captain James T. Kirk et al aboard the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek. Presuming newly-installed GAA Larry McCarthy has at least one PA he could do far worse than…
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Boylan Talks Sport Weekly Brain Workout – No. 2
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A leader’s most important job is to provide hope – Act II
If not exactly word-for-ford, that was the gist of the most important line in Colm O’Rourke’s Sunday Independent column on St Valentine’s Day. The Simonstown Gaels manager’s piece was not only enjoyed by yours truly, but needed. Desperately. I am under no illusions that there will be those, cognisant of my fondness for and the…
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It’d make for great television if it wasn’t real
The following line has got a few spins around the track here over the years, each of them justified. What you will read hereafter is like nothing that has appeared in this space previously. Now read on… Yes we’re on the Covid-19 trail once more. Again, let it be admitted here that at times one’s…
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Echoes of the past pointing to a bright future
In an article in this space not so long ago, surprise and no little jealousy was expressed at seeing Sean Boylan attending the National League meeting of Dublin and Meath at Parnell Park. Owing to the Covid-19 restrictions and the perception – back then at least – that it was predominantly people of certain vintage…
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BREAKING NEWS: Navan off
Though hardly a surprise, regrettably today’s Irish racing at Navan has been abandonned due to a frozen track. As if sport hasn’t been thrown into chaos enough owing to the dastardly Covid-19, the weather is now throwing its iron into the fire to disrupt matters just a little bit more. Local trainers Noel Meade, Gordon…
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A comforting voice but still an emotional storm
It had to be him. His comforting voice, which had seen myself, my family and so many others through and over so much. Now read on… No secret has been of the fact that at times I haven’t reacted well to all of the restrictions forced upon us by Covid-19. At all. And yes, I…
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Matchsticks and memories
The first time these wheels docked in Brady’s after the initial lockdown a quiet tear was shed. There’s nothing unusual about that now. But what many mightn’t cop or understand would be the reason(s). It’s always the simplest things. Now read on… Actually on reflection, the first evening wasn’t too bad. It being about a…