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This week’s guest is writer and editor Ger Siggins.

Ger is a former sports editor of the Sunday Tribune, and has been mentioned as an influence by many of our guests thus far. We discuss how he ran the Sunday Tribune’s truly innovative sports department, and the one common characteristic shared by all of his best writers.

We also talk about the ‘genius’ of Vincent Browne, and the origins of Ross O’Carroll Kelly.

Elsewhere, there’s lots of cricket talk, as Ger recalls the remarkable life story of John Mooney and explains how cricket was once the most dominant sport in the country...and why it has been making a revival.

Ger’s picks were:

• The cricket writing of Mike Atherton
• “If You’re Expecting One-Liners, Wait, a Column” and "She Took the Magic and Happy Summer With Her” by Jim Murray of the LA Times
• “At Lord’s”, a poem by Francis Thompson
• "Scarlet and Gold" and "Let it Be Told" by Phillip Greene.

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