Tag: Podcast
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Podcast Episode: June 5th 2026
Pip: It is a Thursday evening in early June, and Brendan has opinions — on horses, on managers, on GAA presidents, on the general direction of sport as a concept. Mara: This is Boylan Talks Sport. Today we are moving through racing selections for two Irish meetings, then into a wide-ranging look at football governance,…
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Podcast Episode: GAA Drama And Fine Margins
Pip: Boylan Talks Sport — where the margins are razor-thin, the heartbreak is detailed, and someone is always four points up with two minutes to go. Mara: Brendan covers a lot of ground this week — a senior football defeat that raises uncomfortable questions, a penalty shootout that he thinks never should have happened, and…
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Nominations for the CICO Sports We Are Meath Club All Stars are revealed
What has become a valued and much anticipated event on the local sporting calendar moved a little bit closer with the announcement of the nominations for the 2025 CICO Sports We Are Meath Club Football All Star Team Of The Year Awards. The winners of which will be announced at a special event at The…
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O’Bric repeats the same trick – simple but effective
In a development as obvious and unsurprising as ice cream selling well on a hot day, Meath manager Cathal O’Bric has announced the same starting 15 and extended matchday panel ahead of tonight’s final of the Dalata Hotels Group Leinster U-20 FC in Cedral St Conleth’s Park in Newbridge. That means that Dunshaughlin’s Fiach Hartigan…
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Selections for Dundalk – Jan. 14th 2024
2.30: ICE OPERA – EW – (NICOLA BURNS (7)/SHEILA LAVERY) 3.00: NEDITA – EW – (DARRAGH O’SULLIVAN (7)/DAVID MARNANE) 3.30: LOST PRESIDENT (DONOGH O’CONNOR/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 4.00: DEVIL’S ANGEL – EW – (NICOLA BURNS (7)/KEVIN COLEMAN) 4.30: TOMMY MCJOHN – EW – (JACK KEARNEY (3)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.00: BEAUTY BELLA – EW – (NICOLA BURNS (7)/ADO MCGUINNESS)…
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Grande outcome for Martin as Alphonse gets big pot back
Those of us who reckon Tony Martin was due a change of luck and indeed the man himself finally got a ball to break in the right direction. With today’s news that the decision to strip Alphonse Le Grande of the Cesarewitch Handicap was overturned on appeal earlier this week. The progressive handicapper was first…
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Selections for Dundalk – Nov. 8th 2024
5.00: BEATRIX POWER (BILLY LEE/EDDIE LYNAM) 5.30: GLYDE RANGER – EW – (JAMES RYAN/TOM MCCOURT) 6.00: CHOCALHO – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 6.30: SAKTI (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 7.00: FIVEFORTWO (COLIN KEANE/CONYNGHAM LODGE) 7.30: SAYIFYOUIWILL – EW – (JOEY SHERIDAN/STEPHEN THORNE) 8.00: JALO – EW – (JAMES RYAN (3)/TOM MCCOURT) 8.30: DAONEDATGOTAWAY – EW –…
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Selections for Dundalk – Nov. 6th 2024
1.55: SPORTING HERO – EW – (NICOLA BURNS (10)/DENIS HOGAN) 2.25: TOMARLO (LUKE MCATEER/DAVID MARNANE) 3.00: DECLAREE (DANNY SHEEHY/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 3.35: DEVIL’S ANGEL – EW – (COLIN KEANE/KEVIN COLEMAN) 4.10: NAKASERO (RONAN WHELAN/CONYNGHAM LODGE) 4.45: BARRETTSTOWN – EW – (BILLY LEE/CONOR O’DWYER) 5.15: THEGOOSEISCOOKED – EW – (JAMES RYAN (3)/GERRY KEANE)
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Keane cool as ice as Magnum is the cream of the crop
There are very few current jockeys who could replicate Paul Carberry in terms of riding style. In terms of other things, that’s probably a good thing, but, as for the rudiments of the day job, only Keith Donoghue goes anywhere close. And he was moulded by ‘Alice’ himself. There was also something Carberry-esque about Padraig…
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Meath SFC and IFC knockout draws.
Following another hectic weekend’s action which saw the last round of the regulation fixtures in adult football championships in Meath, the runners and riders for the last eight in the races for the Keegan (SFC) and Mattie McDonnell Cup(s) – Meath IFC – are now declared. Having survived an almighty scare against Donaghmore/Ashbourne on Saturday…