Tag: Rory McIlroy
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Taylor takes top gong again but there were unlucky ones
Katie Taylor was crowned RTE Sportsperson Of The Year for the third time on Saturday night as another terrific twelve months of sporting success at local, national and international level was rightly commended. The history-making Bray lady remains undefeated 22 bouts into her professional pugilism career, adjacent to spectacular success in the amateur ranks which…
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Sideline Cuts – 21
Managers don’t concede goals Dundee United and Bournemouth shared an unwanted statistic at the weekend. Both shipped nine goals against Celtic and Liverpool respectively and both clubs currently find themselves managerless after the services of both Jack Ross and Scott Parker were defenestrated with by their respective employers. Utterly ridiculous and another shameful illustration of…
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Sideline Cuts – 13
Back To Basics Approach Works Mention has often been made in this space on numerous occasions of how reading habits are sporadic at best. As if to underscore that fact, a sizable chunk of Davy Fitzgerald’s autobiography was ingested in a fairly quick time, only for the excellent collaboration with Vincent Hogan to be parked…
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Trump used sport for his own benefit
Roy Keane has had many famous utterances throughout his playing, management and subsequent media career. “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail” may be the most famous thereof, but, for me, his correct excoriation of the “Prawn Sandwich Brigade”. Those corrosive pests are in every sport. The suits in Croke Park on an All Ireland weekend…
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Augusta always pulls a rabbit out of a hat
Former Meath Gaelic football manager Sean Boylan always maintained that you needed to pull a rabbit from the hat to beat Dublin. In a similar situation, Augusta National is notorious for throwing curve balls at those chasing the Green Jacket in the US Masters. Yesterday was no different but those in whom a vested interest…
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BOYLAN’S LOADED BULLETINS
Another attempt at producing fresh and varied content in striving to appeal to as wide and diverse an audience as is possible. Fur this maiden round, focus is on the ongoing U. S. Masters in Golf at the Augusta National G. C. in Georgia