Columns - Irish Examiner

Michael Moynihan

Michael Moynihan is an associate editor and columnist with the Irish Examiner. He is also a best-selling author and documentary maker.

A penny for our athletes’ thoughts after Pat Hickey soap...

Perhaps something along the lines of the Pat Hickey soap story was inevitable in Brazil, where the telenovela is a TV staple.

Thu, 18 Aug, 2016

Nissan ‘Road to Rio’ film series puts Rob Heffernan’s Olympic dream into the spotlight

Games need equal reporting. Here you go...

There’s been a sharp reaction to some of the commentary on the Olympic Games in Rio, and I don’t mean the astonishment that people from Skibbereen speak like people... from Skibbereen.

Mon, 15 Aug, 2016

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