Football League (3): 1988, 1990, 1994 Meath management roll of honour 1983 – O'Byrne Cup 1984 – Centenary Cup 1986 – Leinster SFC 1987 – Leinster SFC, All-Ireland SFC 1988 – Leinster SFC, All-Ireland SFC, NFL 1990 – Leinster SFC, NFL 1991 – Leinster SFC 1992 – O'Byrne Cup 1994 – NFL 1996 – Leinster SFC, All-Ireland SFC 1999 – Leinster SFC, All-Ireland SFC 2001 – Leinster SFC, O'Byrne Cup 2004 – O'Byrne Cup International rules football Boylan coached the Ireland team against Australia in the 2006 International Rules Series in two games in Pearse Stadium, Salthill, Galway and Croke Park, Dublin in October 2006. Australia won the series by 30 points but the game was overshadowed by violent incidents in the first quarter of the second test match, including a serious injury sustained by Graham Geraghty. He also admitted that he brought his players off at the end of the first quarter in protest and did not want them to return, later saying: "I said I'd do it. Only the players themselves changed my mind. They said they wanted to go out and give it a go, they wanted to play football." Boylan coached the international side again in the 2008 International Rules Series. Ireland won on an aggregate score of 102–97. Outside Gaelic games Boylan's late father, also called Seán, was a leader of the Irish independence movement in the early twentieth century, being a prominent member of the IRA in Co. Meath during the Irish War of Independence. Like another Meath football icon, Colm O'Rourke, Boylan has strong Leitrim connections as his late mother hailed from near the small village of Cloone near Mohill. Boylan is a traditional medical herbalist, practicing out of his home at Edenmore, Dunboyne. He had prostate cancer in 2009. In January 2021, he gave an interview to RTÉ Radio, during which he said he had tested positive for COVID-19 the previous March, lost ten kilograms in six days, and was in Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown until the 31st of the same month. Less than three months later, Boylan said he was "shocked" after photographs circulated of Dublin secretly training during Level 5 restrictions, breaching both GAA rules and Government regulations. See also List of Irish sportspeople References External links Hoganstand Meath GAA 1949 births Living people Coaches of Gaelic football teams at Irish universities Gaelic football managers Ireland international rules football team