This week’s guest is Kieran Cunningham, chief sports writer with the Irish Daily Star. We talk about how he got his start in the game and the stand-out nights he has covered - from Sonia winning silver in Sydney to Liverpool’s miracle in Istanbul - and take a wider look at the industry as a whole.
Kieran talks of the transformative effect Magill magazine and the Sunday Tribune had on Irish sportswriting, and whether we speak with too much reverence of the American tradition of longform writing. (Guilty.)
He deliberately picked four Irish pieces of writing, all but one of them written recently:
“Gut yer man” by Patrick Kavanagh ; “The Irish running rivalry fueled by hate” by Cathal Dennehy; “Life under Trapattoni” by Stephen Hunt; “Spurned, bombed and maimed by his own kind” by Joe Brolly
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