Big thank you to the42.ie for including my Irish Examiner Tribute to Canon O’Brien in its Best Sportswriting of the Week. I’m in some amazing company here. You can read the full selection here.
Big thank you to the novelist and sportswriter Eimear Ryan who included my next book The Game from Merrion Press (May 2022) in her list of sports books, Netflix series, films, and video games to watch out for in 2022. Her kind words were a lovely boost. Read all her recommendations here.
I was delighted to have my short essay: ‘Celebrating the Return of Hurling in a Strange Time’ in Cork Words 2: An Anthology of Contemporary Cork Writing among so many great Cork writers. It’s about the return of hope in a dark time. The book is available in Waterstones Cork and Cork City Libraries. The piece was previously published in The Irish Examiner.
I was delighted to have my short essay: ‘Celebrating the Return of Hurling in a Strange Time’ in Cork Words 2: An Anthology of Contemporary Cork Writing among so many great Cork writers. It’s about the return of hope in a dark time. The book is available in Waterstones Cork and Cork City Libraries. The piece was previously published in The Irish Examiner.
I was delighted that my piece Boring pubs, jumpy legs, Midleton and Glen Rovers: A boy watches his first county final was picked by those lovely people at The42.ie as one of their Sportswriting of the Week choices – in some heady company. You can read the four selections here.
I wrote a piece for The Irish Examiner on the event of the 2021 Cork hurling club final between Glen Rovers and Midleton from the point of view of a boy attending his first final. You can read it here.
I really enjoyed my visit to Temple Hill to watch Cork Constitution against Dublin University for an Irish Examiner piece. Great to see a great club in action. You can read it here.
On the fifth anniversary of Anthony Foley’s passing I write in the Irish Examiner why his loss affected so many people so much. You can read it here.
May, 2021 I wrote a piece for the Irish Examiner welcoming hurling back again for 2021. ‘I wanted to celebrate the return of hurling but behind a sense of juxtaposition. The one Martin Scorsese created when he overlaid the sublime music of the ‘Intermezzo’ from Cavalleria Rusticana on Jake LaMotta’s brutality and violence in Raging Bull.’
May 2021 I wrote a piece for the Irish Examiner about my longing to go to matches again as part of the crowd. ‘As we face into a new GAA season with uncertainty about fans at games we’re all wondering: will sport ever be normal again? And what will that normal be?’
