Tag: Television
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Saturdays, cross of the stations and JV’s trickshots
While it is known only too well that repitition is one of the great foibles in this trade, it would always be contended that if a point still carries credence, it’s worth mentioning again. So we duly find ourselves back in the late 1980s or early 90s. Saturday afternoons in my brother-in-law Kieran’s family home…
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Rolling Down Memory Lane – The Audiobook
March 2020, by way of maintaining some degree of sanity during the lockdowns necessitated by the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic, I wrote and published my second book, Rolling Down Memory Lane though for a thousand reasons and yet, we never got it distributed to anywhere near the levels which would have been intended or…
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Those crying ‘Woke’ at latest historic Ladies First need a good poke
Just because you may be braced for an incoming negative occurrence doesn’t make the impact thereof any easier to absorb when it does hit. Trust me, as somebody who fell with walking aids and out of wheelchairs more times than I care to painfully remember, you can think you are as ready as you like,…
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Something new in every interview
The question has often been fired in this direction, like a curve ball shooting out of a scrum – at which point did the realisation dawn that Colm O’Rourke was my favourite player and my hero? Who blessedly over the years has become a treasured friend. It’s a valid and interesting query, but one which…
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There’s loyalty in them there hills
“Sam’s for the Hills” were the immortal words uttered by Anthony Molloy and now etched into Irish sporting folklore after he lifted Sam Maguire on behalf of Donegal for the first time in 1992. It also went on to be the title of a book co-written by Damien Dowds thereafter. The victory, sensationally fashioned by…
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200,000 Thank Yous
June 9th past marked three years since the Boylan Talks Sport website was re-launched and around that time we passed the slightly surreal landmark of having had 200,000 views. That is the exact amount of thanks I offer to each and every one of you and many, many more, because without the support and encouragement…
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Sports Wordle No. 12
Former Snooker player, permanent star. https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=rwijz
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ROLLING DOWN MEMORY LANE
ANNOUNCEMENT It gives me great pleasure and no little pride to announce that my second book Rolling Down Memory Lane is hot off the presses and available to pre-order now. This book is the product of the first Covid-19 Lockdown of March 2020. With the world at a standstill, something had to be done to…
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The Cottage remains shrouded in mystery
Covid-19 has done many things to many people. Around the world, families have lost loves ones, those who survived their tangle with the dastardly thing remained ill for months thereafter. Businesses have gone under, entire business sectors narrowly avoided doing so. Yet for all the challenges it has drummed up for so many, it has…
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Boylan Talks Sport – Weekly Brain Workout – No. 18
A nice variety in this week’s edition, including a couple that are sure to require the thinking caps!