The Mentor

Excerpt of A Day in the Life submission to MBA Quarterly Magazine: 4.44am: I wake to the sound of breaking…

Mayo and the Crack Up

In the spring as 1936, just as the Mayo senior footballers were preparing to win the first half of a…

Spring not yet Sprung

In a way, it seems trite and even a little inappropriate to consider writing anything original on the weekend after…

Leitrim Rising

When the rare opportunity drops to write about Leitrim, you might think the starting point would be John McGahern, and…

Self Help Guide to NFL

January is the month many turn to celebrity self-help gurus to improve their lives in the hope of making this…

The Balled of Joey Carbery

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired” — Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby Midway through 2018…

Alphabet Soup

We get it. Yiz are good at football. But this is getting ridiculous. So ridiculous that Damien Dempsey is struggling…

The End of the Empire

Jim Gavin’s men may be targeting yet more glory but success is not necessarily a given A few years ago,…