Life And Sport From An Armchair View
Some people cannot equate the situation whereby a person can be an animal lover and still enjoy hunting and/or fishing. Yet for a huge number of people - including some very close to home - the two facts co-exist without so much as a whim. On foot of same, I ended up being in a... Continue Reading →
No matter what sport it may be, there will be competitors who stand out like a lighthouse. More than that, in a team environment, there will be players who will set pulses racing that bit faster than their contemporaries. In basketball you have Stephen Curry and LeBron James. Switch to soccer and you're talking Lionel... Continue Reading →
Former Meath and Dunboyne dual player Paul Fagan is now domiciled in Kildalkey. Soon, he will line out for TG4's Underdogs against Davy Fitzgerald's Waterford hurlers. Now read on... As far as hurling in Meath goes, P. Fagan has seen and done it all. Indeed, he did his bit for the GAA in London when... Continue Reading →
Ulster... 36 Munster... 17 Graham Rowntree must be wondering is he insane. One of the most decorated players in rugby, you'd imagine he could have plumped for any coaching job he wanted in the game. But spare an even bigger thought for Denis Leamy... The former back row forward only during the week moved back... Continue Reading →
ANNOUNCEMENT It gives me great pleasure and no little pride to announce that my second book Rolling Down Memory Lane is hot off the presses and available to pre-order now. This book is the product of the first Covid-19 Lockdown of March 2020. With the world at a standstill, something had to be done to... Continue Reading →
In some ways, things in sport are cyclical. Unless of course there happens to be an all-dominating force at the head of affairs. Manchester United in the early years of the Premiership, Dublin currently in Gaelic football, Willie Mullins in National Hunt racing. Now read on... Examine rugby through that lens and you get both... Continue Reading →