BOYLAN TALKS SPORT

Tag: IRFU

  • It’ll be up to the others to Stand Up And Fight

    Every sport has its standout figures. Those who, to someone with no interest in or knowledge on a given discipline will still be recognisable. Think Tiger Woods in golf, Phil Taylor in times past relating to darts or Lewis Hamilton on the Formula 1 grid. Turn attention to rugby and ‘BOD’ and ‘Paulie’ and ‘ROG’…

  • Superman will have to go shopping again!

    At various times over the years, the fact there’s a fairly extensive video library in Boylan Talks Sport HQ has surely got a mention. That and match programmes. The latter are actually quite the big deal. As was discovered when attempts were made at re-arranging storage of same. People so set in their ways they…

  • Red Alert! The Shannon tide is murmuring

    In some ways, things in sport are cyclical. Unless of course there happens to be an all-dominating force at the head of affairs. Manchester United in the early years of the Premiership, Dublin currently in Gaelic football, Willie Mullins in National Hunt racing. Now read on… Examine rugby through that lens and you get both…

  • Red is the rose in yonder sporting garden above

    “My father he gave me the love of it all, when he guided my arms to strike that first ball. A hurley, a football it’s the same thing to me. It’s playing the game that matters, you see”. Those couple of lines are from the GAA incarnation of The Beautiful Game. They surely could be…

  • Altered perspectives on many fronts

    In times of greatest strife, the greatest buffers against ill winds have always come via sport and farming. And, in the course of the one week lately, quantities of resilience were tested to the end of elastic point. Owing to a trying shift in personal circumstances and, equally as profoundly, the almost indescribable grief and…

  • A pillar of certainty has been demolished

    Dealing with certain aspects of the hand which life dealt from the pack causes an indescribable amount of angst. So indescribable, in fact, that in terms of comment thereon, the area tends to avoided. In terms of dealing with such circumstances, some years back, what’s now considered a blessing was arrived at when the concept…

  • How far can you push your own boundaries?

    Elation and dejection are interwoven into the fabric of all sport.  Joy and despair. Good and bad. After nearly a quarter of a century attending events, they’ve all been encountered. Perhaps the troughs more easily recalled than the peaks. Meath losing Leinster and All Ireland finals, when Dunboyne lose a final in anything or don’t…