Boyle GAA Blog ...by Tony Conboy

Fri./Sat.am (late /early). I am not long after arriving home from a really spectacular Boyle musical, 'Beauty and the Beast'. If you read this, and have not been to see it, you really should go. It is probably the best show by B.M.S. yet. An added element is that kids should love it.

On my travels tonight/last night I was made aware of a fund-raising challenge which will take place on Sunday next, in Boyle, starting at 3.30 at the Abbey Bar. It is in aid of the Coombe Hospital Neo-Natal unit. Nigel Clancy, former Sligo full back, proprietor of the Abbey Bar, will compete with Boyle legend, Liam Conroy, in a kind of Irish construction worker's 'Duathlon' around a circuit of Boyle town. It will involve running from the Abbey Bar via Main St/Abbey Terrace/ Shop St. to the Royal Hotel where the final leg will involve taking a wheelbarrow with an individual in situ and ending at the Abbey Bar. Liam Conroy's second, in the wheelbarrow, will be, I am told, Damien Tiernan, while Nigel Clancy's will be Colin Garvin. It looks like a pretty even challenge at this point in time and I witnessed both principals in training in the Abbey Bar on Friday night. So if you see crowds assemble, on Sunday, at various elevated vantage points along the circuit, it is not a Formula One test but just an old fashioned Irish/Camden Town 'Duathlon'.
Goodnight. (American Papers please don't copy).

Fri. 4 pm.The McGovern Directional Drilling Intermediate team will play St Barry’s in the North-West Championship in Tarmonbarry on tomorrow Saturday at 2.30pm.
The big game on Sunday is St. Brigid's v Corofin in the Connacht Club Final. the weather is promised good so there should be a good crowd and atmosphere there.
Karl, I haven't heard from you in a while. Cen fath?
Kyle, if you are reading this, we wish you well with your recovery and to let you know that you are in the thoughts of all of us here in Boyle GAA.