Sunday Times jnlst. Wrote The Bloodied Field, Kings of September, Harte, The Children of Croke Park. Co-host of Over the Bar, a GAA history podcast.
Joined August 2012
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24 Sep 2025
GAA History Podcast Alert📣! Starting a new series with Ciaran O'Hara called Over the Bar, exploring hidden and half-forgotten GAA stories. Today: why did the GAA take an All-Ireland final to New York?Listen, share, subscribe, follow @gaaoverthebar. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/show/0yPSnM…
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The World Cup arrives in...sunny?....Seattle. I presume these chaps got good tickets.
youtu.be/sNGp38j_CcU?si=FrcQ…
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An awful lot of Cork fans worried about the prospect of facing Kerry in the q/f (if they beat Armagh) @thefasleniall - doesn’t look like it can happen 👇
Can Cork play Kerry again in the quarters if Kerry win?
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Depending on how the results fall, Kerry or Armagh could be roaring favourites to win the AI by Sun evening. Its a classic yr where lots of teams can beat each other, but how many can string enough wins together? Could get a previously unlikely AI final pairing out of all this.
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Now this is a very spicy edition of the Be the CCCC. Its home draws for the first teams out, but one prickly venue choice for the Dubs and big scheduling calls for the people at GAA . Have at it!
Dubs v Donegal
Kerry v Armagh
Mayo v Meath
Mon v Westmeath
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Monaghan v Westmeath
Dublin v Donegal
Mayo v Meath
Kerry v Armagh
The perfect draw
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Jun 14
Another wee nudge for this @GAAOverTheBar Bitesize sprint through the stories behind this wkend's cship games. Including bits on @TyroneGAALive, @MayoGAA, @CavanCoBoardGaa & @DubGAAOfficial from today's lineup. Link below.
Jun 13
NEW @GAAOverTheBar PODCAST ALERT!📢📢 Another Bitesize edition telling some ripping old yarns behind the wkend's @officialgaa cship fixtures. Listen at http://
linktr.ee/overthebarpod.
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Jun 13
NEW @GAAOverTheBar PODCAST ALERT!📢📢 Another Bitesize edition telling some ripping old yarns behind the wkend's @officialgaa cship fixtures. Listen at http://
linktr.ee/overthebarpod.
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Jun 12
One more nudge for this before the weekend. Jersey talk but also Sligo's hidden history as one of football's most unlucky nearly men. Could have won All-Ireland and league titles in the space of a few years but for some dastardly boardroom shenanigans.....
Jun 10
NEW @GAAOverTheBar PODCAST ALERT📢📢📢 Black or white? The dramatic story of the @sligogaa jersey, 2001, and the forgotten controversies that denied them All-Ireland and league titles that could have changed their story forever. Listen linktr.ee/overthebarpod
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Michael Foley📚🖊 retweeted
Damien Duff is back in English football after agreeing to become the assistant head coach at Brentford working under Keith Andrews
Deal agreed last week after talks across past month. Just announced by club.
Story coming shortly on @IndoSport with the background to the deal
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Absolutely crazy, and very sad, fact that Sir Geoff Hurst is the only member of the 1966 World Cup winning team who is still alive.
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Lads...
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🗣️ 'We would have topped this group!'
🗣️ 'It is tough thinking of the parallel world we could be in right now!'
The (lack of) quality on display in the opening game of the World Cup has Dion Fanning and Eoin Sheahan wondering what could have been... | ⚽️
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Jun 12
Oh my God, just hook it to my veins. I'd watch these clips from the Azteca all day.
Jun 11
Nada se compara al aura del Estadio Azteca!!! 😱😱😱
El único en el mundo tres veces mundialista 🇲🇽❤️
Vivir esto fue brutal 😍🔥
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Jun 12
Oh dear. Their Bill O'Herlihy is scrambling...
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Jun 12
What a place...
The Azteca brings me right back to 86 and playing in the garden trying to be Maradona. The World Cup still awakens the child in me
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Jun 11
Magnificent to see a @MallowUnited graduate playing a starring role at the Azteca. Good lad @Desicurran!
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Jun 10
What Irish team travelled with no gear, a trainer who knew zero about the sport, a bus driver who didnt know the way to the venue, and the wrong set of playing rules? Meet the Irish olympic basketballers/gaelic footballers of 1948. Subscribe @GAAOverTheBar linktr.ee/overthebarpod
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Jun 10
NEW @GAAOverTheBar PODCAST ALERT📢📢📢 Black or white? The dramatic story of the @sligogaa jersey, 2001, and the forgotten controversies that denied them All-Ireland and league titles that could have changed their story forever. Listen linktr.ee/overthebarpod
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Michael Foley📚🖊 retweeted
Irish Olympic runner Ciarán Ó Lionáird dies suddenly aged 38 dlvr.it/TSyT85
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Exactly 30yrs since Avondhu won their last county title. Very disappointing.
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Unfortunalty, we are unable to field for tonight’s @CoOpSuperstores @OfficialCorkGAA PSHC game between ourselves and @SeandunGAA. This is very disappointing for us as a Division.
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