As the doors on the hearse closed his best friend made for the entrance, not running but walking at an exaggerated pace so that he got there before anyone else.
The silence had gone on so long that even in the strange reflections of a mind dealing with grief and its tragic circumstances, the silence had [...]
“That’s a fine set up in there but half of them aren’t journalists,” Gerry says, leaning across the barrier.
“I hate in here to be honest, sure half of them are in here on a freebie,” I told him as Gerry looked up to take in the vastness of the press area in the Hogan Stand [...]
Supersimbo feels sorry for Jade Goody. Am I the only one who doesn’t, I know I probably should, it’s an awful ordeal, but I just can’t help feeling that I couldn’t care less.
Maybe I’m just a bad person.
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Well wasn’t that great? Waterford beat Tipp in a superb game of hurling to reach their first All-Ireland final in half a century after years of heartbreak and tales of being oh so close. No matter what your sport or your creed, you can only enjoy the journey of Waterford because it is filled with [...]
The Irish media are at it again; trying to convince us that bookmakers are good guys.
This week it’s the Irish Examiner, who are not content with Padraig Harrington’s great victory in the USPGA last Sunday without letting us know there were more losers than Spain’s Sergio Garcia and America’s Ben Curtis, who finished tied second.
Yet [...]
Splintered Sunrise is right, the Olympics are the greatest show on earth but only because we’ve started to invest in our athletes and it’s no surprise that the boxers are doing so well when they’ve been involved with the High Performance Unit for the last few years, building to Beijing all the time in the [...]
Christie Hennessy is an artist who lives forever
There are two problems with the way in which we consume the arts in Ireland. We’re either so snobbish about the whole thing that we automatically dismiss our own creations as inadequate and only those artists who have been vindicated and recognised elsewhere are worthy of our time. [...]
A long time ago I was told that Barry George wasn’t Jill Dando’s killer, an English journalism lecturer said that the way in which she killed had the hallmarks of a hitman, not the questionable mental state of a character like Barry George. Twenty Major has his own suggestion but I think it’s enough to [...]
