BOYLAN TALKS SPORT

Tag: Current Affairs

  • When there are no leaders the tail wags the dog – Act I

    There are seminal moments in life whch, if you’ve witnessed or been around for, you will never forget where you were when the occurrance took place. Like, as has often got a spin in this space, for the Omagh Bombing, 9/11 and the subsequent American invasion of Iraq, wheels transporting yours truly were parked in…

  • Trump used sport for his own benefit

    Roy Keane has had many famous utterances throughout his playing, management and subsequent media career. “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail” may be the most famous thereof, but, for me, his correct excoriation of the “Prawn Sandwich Brigade”. Those corrosive pests are in every sport. The suits in Croke Park on an All Ireland weekend…

  • Closing the stable door when the ginnit has long bolted

    You’ve often heard mention of Maurice Healy’s wonderful documentary Waiting For Houlihan which was basically the mountain of a man from the mountains of Kerry telling his own story in his own words. Interspersed therein also, mind you, were tributes to the great man from such contemporaries as Tony Meade of The Kerryman and Eoghan…

  • Land of the brainwashed and home of the gullible

    During my time in secondary education, there was very little mention of politics. For a political nerd and/or history junkie like myself, that was a major disappointment. Notwithstanding the fact that I detested the history teacher for deeply personal reasons, we were weighed down with talk of the Stone Age and the Romans and Pompeii.…

  • Turkeys devouring the feast oblivious to the guillotine above their heads

    Though this might seem preposterous, this corner has managed to derive some positives out of the ongoing chaos laying siege to the world. It was a case of having to or allow oneself to become snowed under in a blizzard of bad news, poor outlooks and, most dangerous of all, very little hope left in…