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A piece I never thought I'd get to write about my beloved Mayo. The weight lifted, the wait over. www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Colin Sheridan: For Mayo and its people, nothing will ever feel like this again
After 75 years of longing, Mayo's triumph was a collective exhale for the generations gone who never knew an All-Ireland victory over their own
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"Longing on a large scale," DeLillo wrote in the immortal opening lines of Underworld, "is what makes history." The Knicks winning a championship is a reminder that, for all America's warts, sport remains its last shared religion. www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Latest podcast is a primer on what’s happening in the Middle East, with our correspondent former UNIFIL officer Colin Sheridan, and Dubai based reporter John Hayes. A good starting point for anyone who doesn’t know where to start! Find it at the link in bio #trump #netanyahu #iran #dubai #war
And thanks to @docrevan.bsky.social for sharing it and giving it oxygen. It wouldve been just another monday morning column otherwise, forgotten by the time the kids got home from school
@colinivan.bsky.social · 9mo agoThanks to everybody who read this piece. Its intimidating writing about somebody elses sport, so to have so many read it and not be apalled meant something. Ive been writing about a lot of heavy things lately. This world series made me reconnect with the poetry of sport in a way i never expected
Thanks to everybody who read this piece. Its intimidating writing about somebody elses sport, so to have so many read it and not be apalled meant something. Ive been writing about a lot of heavy things lately. This world series made me reconnect with the poetry of sport in a way i never expected
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 10mo agoDid not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Learning nothing from Gaza, we ignore the West Bank & peddle Israeli tropes of "terrorists" & "prisoners" to justify. Instead, every conversation about Palestine should begin acknowledging their legal right to resist occupation. todays @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Western reporting fails to include right to resist Israeli occupation
Journalists who, one can only assume, entered the profession inspired by a motivation to tell the truth are repeatedly failing in their duty — not even to pick sides, but to simply call things what th...
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