Tag: Feis Cup 1958
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Learning from the past to avoid similar hardships
Amongst what is a fairly vast memorabilia collection in Boylan Talks Sport HQ, it’s presumably only natural that some artefacts therein command greater reverence than others. In no particular order, Brendan Reilly’s jersey from the 1990 All Ireland SFC Final, the replica of the Feis Cup presented to the late Tom Yourell by St Peter’s…
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Mick Reilly – A Tribute
At what point did you notice yourself getting old? Or older at least. Personally, seeing ‘older’ relatives pass away back in the years probably have had a different effect than is now the case. You know the way it is when you’re a youngster, ‘grown ups’ seem eons older when the reality may in fact…
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Sean Conroy – A Tribute
Do you ever find yourself wishing you could turn back time? Go back to the way things used to be. I know that could mean 100,000 different things. With me, it would hardly come as a shock that a lot of such thinking pertains to farming. Specifically, to having cattle and/or hay at the back…
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Healing hands and words that gave us faith in ourselves
Be honest, were any of you ever caught with drink on you in school? In your possession, not actually on board? This corner was, now read on… A bottle containing poitin was once domiciled in my schoolbag for a few hours. And of course it had to fall out. Before the gaskets in your mind…