There's something about Mayo. Wrote this for The Currency. An Irish Odyssey: Kieran Cunningham on how Mayo changed its ending - The Currency :The Currency share.google/0Lg7lEIFJKrd...
An Irish Odyssey: Kieran Cunningham on how Mayo changed its ending - The Currency
Even the walls were sweating – and it was a Saturday evening, so formal dress protocols normally don’t apply. But things are different when you’re a former Taoiseach of a certain generation. It was th...
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Hubris brought John Delaney down. It will account for Gianni Infantino too. The Greeks had it all figured out.
Just went to see The Odyssey. Chap who played Michael Cusack was good.
Latest substack post. A personal piece on Realizing what matters in life and music. The Flaming Lips Battle The Forces Of Darkness open.substack.com/pub/saturday...
The Flaming Lips Battle The Forces Of Darkness
Casting a warm eye on life and death with Wayne Coyne and his merry crew.
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MACKEY & RING There was hurling before Mick Mackey and after Christy Ring, but perhaps no two people have exacted such a lasting influence on the game. Thanks to Gill Books for encouraging me to tell that story. Out August 27th - pre-order now: linktr.ee/arthurjodea
Dana White thinks Conor McGregor may have torn his ACL. That's an extremely painful injury so let's hope he's right.
American Embassy invited a woman who claims that upholstery on seats in Crumlin Children's Hospital contains secret paedophile symbols to 4th of July party. And we're supposed to bow and scrape before this dumbass country.
Been thinking a lot about Ciara Mageean and it pushed me to write this personal essay on life, loss, illness, grief and survivors' guilt. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2026/06/30/9...
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In a contemplative guest post, Kieran Cunningham reflects on his personal journey following major life changes, including open-heart surgery and a cancer diagnosis. He expresses deep grief over the…
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Been thinking a lot about Ciara Mageean and it pushed me to write this personal essay on life, loss, illness, grief and survivors' guilt. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2026/06/30/9...
96 TEARS
In a contemplative guest post, Kieran Cunningham reflects on his personal journey following major life changes, including open-heart surgery and a cancer diagnosis. He expresses deep grief over the…
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Everyone who walks away gets praised but Johnny Watterson deserves it more than most. His work on exposing sexual abuse in Irish swimming is a powerful legacy. More power to him.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2mo ago‘It was a lifestyle, not a job’: Confessions of a sports writer who mostly saw it all
I am supporting England because we grew up as a nation when there was a rugby game in Croke Park or maybe it was when the Queen spoke Irish to the peasants
So much ugliness and hatred and bile around, and then there's Ciara Mageean. The best of us.
There will never be another Ciarán Ó Lionáird. Codhladh sámh, mo chara.
Peter McKenna of Croke Park on RTE's This Week. It's so unusual - and refreshing - for someone involved in a boxing promotion to say this. Fair play.
Wrote this for The Currency on Katie Taylor's story, one of the most remarkable in sport history. thecurrency.news/articles/229...
From box-office takings in a biscuit tin to a sweet Croke Park farewell – Katie Taylor's remarkable road - The Currency
Croke Park is never quiet. Even on bleak November midweek mornings, you see people heading through its doors, either to various conferences or functions, or to do the Skyline tour, or to visit the GAA...
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Katie Taylor getting Croke Park over the line isn't a shock because she's the ultimate game changer. Podcast series on the most significant figure in the history of Irish sport. open.spotify.com/episode/0zoH...
Episode 1: A Cold House
Untouchable: How Katie Taylor Changed The World · Episode
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Katie Taylor getting Croke Park over the line isn't a shock because she's the ultimate game changer. Podcast series on the most significant figure in the history of Irish sport. open.spotify.com/episode/0zoH...
Episode 1: A Cold House
Untouchable: How Katie Taylor Changed The World · Episode
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To mark Ken Doherty's retirement, another spin for a piece on his relationship with Eamon Dunphy. medium.com/@KCsixtyseve...
Eamon Dunphy and Ken Doherty’s old pals’ act — April 2010
SMOKE-FILLED rooms with no natural light. Shady characters lurking in every corner. That delicious feeling that you’re somewhere you…
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This is a little self-indulgent and very personal but it's been a long old time for me and Arsenal: from apartheid to Budapest, Swindon to Soweto and somehow ending up here, in Hungary for the CL final tonight, with my Arsenal-crazy son @jackimmcrae.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
My Arsenal devotion began with watching them lose in a South African cinema
As a boy in the apartheid era I saw footage of the Gunners getting beaten in the 1969 League Cup final by Third Division Swindon – on Saturday I will be in Budapest with my son for the Champions Leagu...
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