Tag: Russia
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A Lim and a prayer proves there’s always hope!
Is there one sport in the world at which absolutely anybody, able-bodied or otherwise, can have a go? If pressed to nominate an answer, yours truly would probably plump for darts. The cruel irony being that, from a personal perspective, the singed wires in the engine department up top mean that one’s attempts at pegging…
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The unseen cost of Putin’s war relights my fire
What way do you view war? I don’t mean as in is it good or bad. Rather, what catches your attention first and/or holds onto it the longest. Not being old enough to remember the ins and outs of the original Gulf War in 1991, it was obvious oil was at the heart thereof. Aside…
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Boylan Talks Podcast – March 11th 2022
My first Podcast in a ridiculous length of time, detailing my own mishaps, my thoughts on the situation in Ukraine from a sporting perspective and a quick look forward to the best and most important four days sport of the year.
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Blood, war and horse racing
My first video in a ridiculous length of time, detailing my own mishaps, my thoughts on the situation in Ukraine from a sporting perspective and a quick look forward to the best and most important four days sport of the year.
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The Russians forgot the number one rule when in a hole
For kids of today, or even those slightly for whom the war in Ukraine is their first experience of such atrocities in the world, it may come as a surprise to know that there was a time when GAA – and presumably most other sports – were put into hiatus by the world being at…
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Back, out or sideways?
At some stage in our lives, we’ve probably all been told two topics never to enter discourse about in a pub were politics and religion. The latter is not something yours truly would be bothered about anyway. Simply because, if there really was a God, what is currently transpiring in the world wouldn’t be, would…
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Things you don’t expect to see
Mention has often been made in this space previously of the fact that when this writer was growing up, we only had RTE 1 and 2 on the television at home. Now read on… Thus, it was only when going with Anna and her now husband Kieran to the home of his parents, Denis and…
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Selections for Thurles – Feb. 24th 2022
1.55: DOLCITA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.30: THAT’S LIFEBOUY – EW – (LIAM QUINLAN (5)/JOHN RYAN) 3.05: FOUR COUNTRY ROADS – EW – (HARRY SWAN (7)/BRIAN MCMAHON) 3.40: THE LITTLE YANK (LIAM QUINLAN/JOHN RYAN) 4.15: RAJSALAD – EW – (CHARLIE O’DWYER (7)/CONOR O’DWYER) 4.50: SEFTON WARRIOR – EW – (AINE O’CONNOR (5)/JOHN HANLON) 5.20: BROOKLINE (PATRICK…
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Sideline Cuts – 18
LANDO SIGNS ON AS BLAME GAME RUMBLES ON It only seems like the blink of an eye ago that Max Verstappen was crowned Fomula 1 World Champion in dramatic and highly controversial circumstances, but the real life Batmobiles are being fired up again as the chequered flag prepares to fall on another season. If you…
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Selections for LEOPARDSTOWN – mAY 9TH 2021
1.45: EAGLEFIELD (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER) 2.15: ACE AUSSIE (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 2.45: ACCANELLA (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 3.15: BOLSHOI BALLET (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 3.45: SUNNIYRA – EW – (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD) 4.15: MOSALA – EW – (WAYNE LORDAN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.45: LOS ANDES – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 5.15: KING OF THE CASTLE – EW…