This week’s guest is Dion Fanning, now the Associate Editor at The Currency having covered football with the Sunday Independent before joining Joe.ie, where he covered politics and sport along with presenting the award-winning Ireland Unfiltered podcast.
We chat about his early days in journalism, his decision to move to London, and, of course, his experience of covering Roy Keane. He also argues back against the notion (pedalled largely by me) that Jack Charlton’s Ireland team has been freighted with too much meaning over the years.
We also talk about John Delaney and the Irish legal environment which allowed him weather so many damaging stories about the FAI before he was finally brought down by the Sunday Times in 2019.
Dion’s picks were: _Dead as Doornails _by Anthony Cronin; _American Pastoral _by Phillip Roth; The work of cricket writer Martin Johnson.
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