BOYLAN TALKS SPORT

Tag: Racing

  • Horses to Follow 2017 / ’18

    Horses to Follow 2017 / ’18

    RED JACK (NOEL MEADE) – Below STONEFORD (NOEL MEADE) KIRWANS LANE (NOEL MEADE) NEXT DESTINATION (WILLIE MULLINS)

  • The opposite of what we’re used to around here

    The opposite of what we’re used to around here

    #RACING With exactly 12 minutes to go in what turned out to be the middle of three championship clashes between Meath and Westmeath in 2001, a group of supporters from another county – who shall remain nameless – were heard to observe: “It’s great to be here to see the end of (Sean) Boylan”. Now…

  • Pride and Heartbreak entangled for away from home

    Pride and Heartbreak entangled for away from home

    #RACING The abundance of land that goes for sale these days often causes a sentimental sadness. Partly out of farming instinct, more so, however, on seeing a chapter in a locality’s history ending. Traditions and country customs have to count for something and must be maintained. November 1st is always a big day in these…

  • Cheered up by local successes – from a distance!

    Anyone that has visited this outlet over a period of time – and specifically the horse racing content therein – might be aware that the occasion of Bobbyjo’s conquest of the Aintree Grand National was the first time your columnist placed a bet by himself. Admittedly, the transaction only came about after being tipped off…

  • Meath’s Golden Mile – Part 1

    After St Peter’s, #Dunboyne won the #Meath Intermediate Football Championship in 1992, the first outing in the primary competition at the top table was against Moynalvey. Obviously, this was a fairly big deal and – as far as I was concerned – a stiff task given that the maroon and whites had an iconic figure…

  • Pendleton’s pursuit highlights folly of Olympic proposals

    #Racing #Boxing While circumstances have, naturally, dictated a large part of life’s path for me, it’s still a source of great pride and satisfaction that many long held dreams and ambitions have been achieved. Some haven’t, and most likely never will be, but that’s a story for a different day.

  • 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…

  • Grateful to witness history again

    What’s your earliest #Cheltenham memory? For me, that’s a bit of a tricky question. In one sense, it was the unforgettable day that #DawnRun did indeed begin to get up and claim the #GoldCup. Your columnist hadn’t yet turned five years old, but, Sir Peter O’Sullevan’s dulcet tones conveyed utter drama as one was stricken…

  • Reassurance in a world of contradictory logic

    It’s hard to reconcile that, in terms of sport, where such inspirational feats as those achieved by Ireland’s magnificent participants in the Special Olympics and other wonderful people often alluded to here before shine like beacons, there co-exists a world of deceit and mistrust which tugs at the very fabric of what sport should be…

  • Ruefully regretting not being ruled by sentiment!

    Becoming PRO of the local GAA club nigh on 20 years ago was one of the luckiest developments ever to have befallen this wordsmith. It became far more than a hobby, even surpassing what could be described as a passion, to actually morph into the very fabric of what made life worth living.