Tag: Marty Morrissey
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Spuds are only as good as what you serve with them
Meath…1-11 Dublin…2-19 When Sean Boylan took over as Meath manager in October of 1982, the Royal County hadn’t beaten Dublin in quite some time. Whether it was quite as long as is the current chasm I am unsure, but, in an effort to re-invigorate his then charges in readiness for the battle with the two…
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Heroics and heartache for battling Ratoath
On numerous occasions over the years, this writer has referred to Al Paccino’s Inches speech in Any Given Sunday. Mostly because it’s something I defer to very regularly. As a means of keeping the wheels turning. On a more fundamentally sporting level, not only did it get me properly ‘into’ American Football but, even more…
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Sports Wordle No. 5
This Cork camogie player had a glittering career on the pitch and has developed an equally successful one off it. https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=csruj
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Inspired by the best to emulate them
Dunboyne……3-23 Seneschalstown……1-09 During the early part of the summer of 1990, myself, ma, da and my eldest brother Des were on holiday in Co Kerry. It was the ideal time for a break, wheels carrying yours truly had just started rocking up at GAA matches. Meath had just won the National Football League – defeating…
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Boylan Talks Sport Weekly Brain Workout – No. 9
With the draws for the 2021 All Ireland Championships taking place throughout the week and in so doing offered glimmers of hope on the horizon, what could be beter than to stir memories of summers past.
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The debate is part of the attraction
If you click into the ‘Categories’ tab, head for GAA and go through my Football Team of the Year (posted December 26th) there’s not a whole pile of differences between what appeared here and the ‘official’ lineup announced on Friday. But differences there were. In the old world, where we had at least some control…
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A different flavour to Mayo but they’re still too generous
“There won’t be a cow milked in Clare for a week” is surely one of the most famous lines ever uttered during a sports commentayy in this country. So much so that it is regularly trotted out in the most ill-fitting of scenarios going. The quip has aged much better than he who spoke the…