A year with the Dubs – Daire Whelan
The title could suggest a lot of things. Me, I thought I was going to be riding shotgun with a fly on the wall in Paul Caffrey’s dressing room.
I hoped the title referred to the Dubs that matter to the ever growing GAA media - the players [...]
No matter how bad things get there’s always something to smile about.
When news of the current economic recession began to concretise in the minds of everyone there was a large degree of panic because for a long time people had been in denial about the sorry state of the country’s finances. All those firms that [...]
IT was a summer evening a few years ago. Nothing significant about it, just a fine evening to play hurling and our group were strung out across the half of the field that housed our games of backs and forwards.
Except I was out in the middle, one of three that weren’t picked among the 12 [...]
It was a conversation with a greyhound man that got me thinking.
Like fishing it’s one of those sports with a popularity that’s never really reflected in any form of media save the dedicated magazines and papers you see stock piled in the your favourite bookshop. Popularity doesn’t determine how the sport is treated by the [...]
An interesting interview with former Irish soccer player Phil Babb in today’s Irish Times. Babb, who’s best days in an Irish jersey were probably the 1994 World Cup when he was a rock at the heart of the Irish defence when Ray Houghton’s goal led to a famous win over Italy, had a rather slow [...]
