An Irishman’s Diary: what Freud taught me about putting
Those tears and admonitions were not for scuffed golf shots, they were for myself, for all that was happening, or rather not happening for me in the world
Category: Sporting
Articles with a sporting theme
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
An Irishman’s Diary: when Tiger Woods was king
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
Darkness On The Edge Of The Square
Maybe we should look a little deeper into this disparity between our more fanciful notions of noble sporting engagement and the reality. We’re talking ambiguity, or the lies we tell ourselves even when he think we are telling the truth.
The sideline epiphany of a soccer dad
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
Fingers Philly and Badass Costa
Different sports, same ambivalence towards macho antics The TV cameras seemed to show Philly McMahon’s hand had made contact with the areaContinue Reading
Ayrton Senna’s final lap
(Written in the immediate aftermath of Ayrton Senna’s death at Imola on May 1st, 1994)
A Trip Around Mount Houlihan
(EVENING NEWS, 1989)
