Thrilling to see The Game on the Irish Bestseller lists this weekend. Ranked first in the Sports Books category. Ranked fifth in the general non-fiction category. Thanks so much to everyone who bought The Game.
Big thanks to Gráinne McGuinness for her piece in ‘The Echo’ about The Game, it was lovely to chat with her. You can read it in full here.
Big thanks to Patrick Donoghue for interviewing me on his show Beyond The Back Page on Near FM. You can listen back to it here.
I had a great chat with Damien O’Meara about The Game on the 2FM sports show ‘Game On’. You can listen back here, my interview takes place at 40 minutes in.
Thanks to John Greene and The Sunday Independent for publishing this piece today about the darkness in sport and how we need to moderate our behaviour and manage our consumption: ‘Sport has given us so much, but maybe it’s time we thought more about what we watch.’ Here it is.
I was delighted to see an excerpt from my essay ‘Kisses’ from The Game in The Irish Times. Great photos by Daragh McSweeney and lovely illustrations by Fuchsia MacAree. You can read it here.
The launch of The Game was a wonderful event. Thanks so much to Waterstones Cork for hosting and Danny Denton for doing the honours. Some photos here.
I really enjoyed my chat with PJ Coogan of Cork’s 96fm talking about the Game and the importance of sport in our lives. You can listen back here.
I really enjoyed my interview with Oliver Callan on the Ryan Tubridy Show about The Game. Oliver, producer Jack Murphy and everyone at Cork RTÉ studios couldn’t have been more professional and nicer. You can listen back to it here (18 minutes).
Big thanks to The Journal and The42.ie for publishing an extract of The Game. It’s from the essay ‘Ekstatsis’. You can read it here.
