The Grand Passion Of Con Houlihan
Even the great Kerry football team of the Seventies and early Eighties only considered an All-Ireland truly won when Con delivered his seal of approval in the following day’s Evening Press
More Daddy Fool Than Daddy Cool
Even the great Kerry football team of the Seventies and early Eighties only considered an All-Ireland truly won when Con delivered his seal of approval in the following day’s Evening Press
The muse chooses her own time and this particular visit just happens to be at about 4pm on a school Monday. I’m just glad she did call
(MAGILL, November 1989)
Some of us turned back to our typewriters and the other implements of our labours and pondered again the Kodachrome gloss that sporting combat and skill of the highest order occasionally visits upon otherwise routine lives
(WOMAN’S WAY, circa 1992)
There was also the chastening realisation that I had become the dreaded PlayStation dad I had often scoffed at; trying to direct their on-field reincarnation
Each incoming wave a new beginning, each retreating wave another present joy turned to irretrievable past. The same but always changing . . . fresh grains swooshing in and old ones swishing out all the time
(IRISH INDEPENDENT, March 4th, 2016) Is there anything quite like the breathtaking view on a clear day from the top ofContinue Reading