Tag: North Melbourne Kangaroos
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Eating cake and having it do not compute
“You can’t stop young people having the opportunity to have a career in sport because there’s not many as sports here in Ireland where there’s that chance as there are in Australia”. Cora Staunton And there you have it. Somebody finally puts it in black and white. Even if the person in question loves talking out…
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Doing it in such a way that people cannot but notice
In honour of International Womens Day, we here and BTS head office look at some of those who have made sporting strides on the local, national and international stage… NINA CARBERRY (WALSH) MEP: The only possible place this celebratory journey could begin. Enshrined her name in Irish sporting history when becoming the first lady rider…
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Surprises aplenty as Meath reveal hand for trip to Tralee
There are bound to be more than a few raised eyebrows after manager Shane McCormack revealed his Meath Ladies selection for tomorrow’s (Saturday) All Ireland SFC quarter final against last term’s beaten finalists Kerry in Tralee. Throw in at Austin Stack Park is scheduled for 5.30pm on an epic sporting Saturday. That the inclusion of…
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Sport doesn’t need the 25th to bring gifts
It’s 11.41pm on Christmas Eve and here I am starting a post. Christmas means different things for different people. For some, cough, it can be an endurance test. That said, there are silver linings to it, as were alluded to here earlier in the week. An abundance of horse racing, soccer, darts and, eh, yeah,…
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Selections for Dundalk – Nov. 25th 2022
5.00: PUB TALK (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.30: SMULLENS PRIDE (SHANE FOLEY/JOHNNY FEANE) 6.00: NO SPEED LIMIT – EW – (WAYNE LORDAN/PAT MCKENNA) 6.30: CHATEAU MUSAR (TOM KIELY-MARSHALL (4)/JOHN GEOGHEGAN) 7.00: WAJAAHA (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/CHARLES BYRNES) 7.30: SOILSE (RORY CLEARY/JIM BOLGER) 8.00: DANDYVILLE (WAYNE LORDAN/NATALIA LUPINI) 8.30: GIBRALTAR (WAYNE LORDAN/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Forget Milwall, we need that chant for ourselves
It’s an unfortunate back handed compliment that, when you’re the best at what you do, there’s always somebody waiting to knock you off your perch. When you don’t disappear fast enough, they get ratty and try to dislodge you by nefarious means. As my late father correctly observed about a certain political party, if they…
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Boylan Talks Sport Brain Fitness Test – No. 25
After far too long of a hiatus and within winter closing in we’ve belatedly gone into Quiz mode!
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Irish eyes smiling with longing happiness!
It’s almost impossible to quantify the magnitude of what Meath undertook in 1968 when – as ‘outgoing’ All Ireland Champions – the headed for Australia. To be honest, not a whole lot is known about the expedition but – and if the following is incorrect please advise – what is known (I think!) is that…
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No victory for Vikki but it’s only just begun
If you subtract the fact that, as I write this, Manchester United have just beaten Arsenal, recording their fourth consecutive victory after their abomination of a beginning to the season, in sporting terms, the last few days have been pretty horrendous for yours truly. At the outset here, it is imperative to state that, obviously,…