Sean Boylan
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Brian Cody will lead Kilkenny for a 23rd season in 2021
- Hurling
- January 11, 2021, 22:30
The last thing Brian Cody will either care or fret about is the fact he’s now the longest-serving manager in the intercounty game by some considerable(...)

Tom Parsons thankful for the journey as he bids goodbye to the big stage
- Gaelic Football
- January 9, 2021, 06:00
In the end, Tom Parsons got to call his own way out. He got to sit down and type up a statement and put it out into the ether, happy that the road ahe(...)

Worst sporting moment: Decline of the International Rules series
- Gaelic Games
- August 17, 2020, 06:00
In the RTÉ studio during half-time Colm O’Rourke, who had managed Ireland to back-to-back series wins in 1998-99 said in aghast tones that he had just(...)

How Seán the enchanted-cauldron keeper herded all the wild Connells of Meath
- TV, Radio, Web
- August 6, 2020, 23:15
The GAA coach Seán Boylan is the subject of a new documentary that correctly abbreviates his name to Seán (Thursday, RTÉ One), in the manner of Cher o(...)

Seán Moran: Boylan documentary offers a compelling insight into former Meath boss
- Gaelic Games
- August 5, 2020, 06:30
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. ‘Seán’ Alan Bradley’s compelling documentary on the life and times of Seán Boylan is an elegy for an er(...)

Seán Boylan documentary goes well beyond the football to explore the man
- Gaelic Games
- August 5, 2020, 06:00
“A Cavan man with no success whatsoever in Gaelic football,” Alan Bradley tells me, as if perfectly on cue. Because there is no scarcity of contradic(...)

Final attack on day of War of Independence truce aborted
- Heritage
- October 15, 2019, 00:00
County: Westmeath Incident: Assault on Castlepollard Barracks Date: July 11th, 1921 One of the last incidents in the War of Independence took place i(...)

Meath All-Ireland winner Frankie Byrne dies aged 94
- Gaelic Football
- February 9, 2019, 12:06
The death of Frankie Byrne at the age of 94 means that the last of Meath’s first All-Ireland winning team of 1949 has passed away. A long-time residen(...)

Aidan O’Rourke’s appointment as Roscommon manager delayed
- Gaelic Games
- October 22, 2018, 22:04
Roscommon county board were unable to ratify a new football manager on Monday night. According to a statement, it had been “hoped to put the name of t(...)

Priced out of Dublin? Consider Dunboyne
- Homes & Property
- January 20, 2018, 06:00
Just inside the Meath border, Dunboyne is a popular village that has grown consistently over the last 15 years. It is right on the fringes of Dublin, (...)