Columns - Irish Examiner

Michael Moynihan

Hurling thunder and lightning: And a storm’s on the way

Forked and playful as the lightning, crested as the serpent. Hazlitt wasn’t talking about the weekend’s All-Ireland semi-finals, though he might as well have been. 

Mon, 15 Aug, 2016

When all else fails — blame the media

It all goes back to Flann O’Brien, of course, as most column-related innovations do.

Mon, 08 Aug, 2016

OBITUARY: Limerick GAA stalwart and former West Board chairman, Gerry Molyneaux

The secretary always gets the tough jobs. Just ask Mike O’Riordan in Limerick.

Fri, 05 Aug, 2016

It’s time for cliches to adjust to the new realities

Every year, it happens. You hear comments spewed out without correction or clarification, and pretty soon they calcify into cliche.

Mon, 01 Aug, 2016

They’ll recall this one as the Austin Gleeson final

Call it the Gleeson final, because last night’s Munster U21 final in Walsh Park will be linked always to one name.

Thu, 28 Jul, 2016

Elite sport costs money - a lot of money

This is the height of the GAA season, with the proof visible all over. All-Ireland semi-final slots are filling up, heroic comebacks and stunning defeats are heralded on the back pages, the sun’s out, costs are rising...

Tue, 26 Jul, 2016

The little things that make Big Sam a master

It’s funny, all those references that slip past you as white noise.

Mon, 25 Jul, 2016

What did you do for your sport today?

The great Gloria Steinem was in these pages recently, and she had this to say about action and activism, or maybe their opposites.

Mon, 18 Jul, 2016

Cork people no longer animated by hurlers’ defeats

“ . . . one vast impacted havoc which the years accrete And slowly heave up, fused and wrecked . . .” Maybe we should get Stephen Edgar to write about Cork hurling, though the first thing to realise about Cork hurling is that the whole problem can’t be taken in at one glance.

Mon, 11 Jul, 2016