We’ve reached our 100th episode and so we are joined by one of Ireland’s greatest writers, Colm Tóibín.
Colm talks about the one sport he loves: tennis, recalls his recent meeting with Roger Federer and tells us why he actually likes Novak Djokovic. Colm has written very little about sport but he has penned one of the great pieces about Diego Maradona: he recalls his trip to Argentina to report the story.
He also remembers his days editing Magill magazine, and his friendship with Eamon Dunphy: which led him to the coalface of Italia 90 and the remarkable national scorn Dunphy attracted.
There’s also chat about sport in fiction: who has written it well, and why hasn’t it happened yet with the GAA?
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