Cork City’s One City One Book was launched by Deputy Lord Mayor Cllr Kieran McCarthy in Cork City Library on 14 August. A discussion on the book with myself was led by poet and writer Thomas McCarthy, behind closed doors. Click here to watch the discussion
I was very honoured to be chosen as Cork Person of the Month for October, 2020, along with the great writer William Wall. While there was no official ceremony, due to Covid-19, my name and Bill’s go forward to the selection of the Cork Person of the Year for 2020.
I was delighted to be interviewed by the wonderful champion of the arts in Cork, Elmarie Mawe for her show The Arts House on Cork’s 96fm and C103. We had a great chat without giving too much away about the plot of Whatever It Takes!
I was thrilled to see the book on the list of top selling Irish sports books. It reached number four on the list on The Sunday Independent on October 18th.
I’m thrilled to announce the publication of Everything, the Autobiography of Denis Coughlan by Hero Books. I was honoured to work on the book with Denis and it’s something I’m really proud of. More information about the book here. The book is on sale in all good bookshops or you can buy it online here.
I was delighted to feature in Episode 17 of the Leeside Lives Podcast with Jordan McCarthy. We talked everything to do with writing and sport in a really interesting interview.
I featured as part of the 2020 Bray Literary Festival with Madeleine D’Arcy and Mary Morrissy. Our event (on Zoom) revolved around books of linked shorts stories and we all read from our books. I read from the origin story of The First Sunday in September which is called ‘Dúchas’.
Whatever It Takes has been chosen as the Irish Independent Book Pick of the Week. The review refers to the book as an ‘explosively exciting thriller’. Click here to see the piece.
I was delighted by be Number 40 in the brilliant Behind The Lines Podcast with Gavin Coooney of The42.ie. We had a wide ranging conversation involving donkey jackets, Nicky English, and sports fiction. My 4 picks for the episode were: “Sport”, a poem by Paul Durcan; “Prosinecki”, a short story by Adrian Duncan in a 2018 edition of Stinging Fly; A Natural, a novel by Ross Raisin; The Throwback Special, a novel by Chris Bachelder.
Interview with The Echo I was interviewed by Chris Dunne of The Echo about Whatever It Takes. “Growing up, I would have loved an Irish sports fiction book. In the same way I would have loved a crime novel set in Cork city.”
