This week’s guest is Kieran McCarthy, sports editor of the Southern Star and author of the acclaimed Something in the Water, which lifts the lid on the O’Donovan brothers and Skibereen’s rowing miracle.
We chat about the importance of local and provincial news, the ways in which it differs from and trumps national reporting, and the threat posed to it as Covid-19 exacerbates an already fragile industry.
There’s plenty of chat about the O’Donovan brothers, of course, and we also dig into a couple of great GAA stories: the sometimes-too-fierce rivalry between Castlehaven and O'Donovan Rossa in Cork, and the Kerry school that produced a bewildering number of Gaelic football legends.
Kieran’s picks were: Larry Ryan’s 2016 interview with Gary O’Donovan for the Irish Examiner; his own feature on the 1994 Cork football final and the intense rivalry between O’Donovan Rossa and Castlehaven, which he was warned not to write; and Paul Brennan’s McNamee Award-winning piece on St Brendan’s College in Kerry for The Kingdom newspaper.
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