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Michael Moynihan

Points scored in Munster training base debate

It’s always reassuring when the reaction you expect comes along right on cue, isn’t it?

Mon, 25 Jan, 2016

Munster Rugby drop ball on Limerick ‘base’

Oh dear. As if the defeats and general gloom surrounding Munster Rugby in recent weeks wasn’t bad enough, I see the dreaded call for ‘root and branch’ reform and review has now been issued, to general nodding of heads.

Mon, 18 Jan, 2016

Sport and art no simple mix and match as TV rights deals skyrocket

I had occasion to rock up to the Irish Book Awards before Christmas, a good evening in what used to be known as the Burlington, even if it ended long before the usual evening finish, or even morning finish, you’d traditionally associate with the old Burlington.

Mon, 11 Jan, 2016

Poetry and sport: Well versed in a game of inches and meters

A few years ago, someone suggested to me that sportswriters would be better advised to read poetry, specifically lyric poetry, rather than some of those vast, mannered chunks of American sportswriting that get cheered from the rafters (with relief, maybe, when the reader gets to the end).

Mon, 04 Jan, 2016

Even ducks drowning as climate change hits sport

I think it was the forlorn tweet from Garryspillane GAA that put it into my head.

Mon, 28 Dec, 2015

Taking pity on the Munster bandwagon boo-boys

It is now some years since I stood at the back of a large social gathering, glass in hand, listening to a character from the higher reaches of the FAI talk about a very special time in the life of a young boy.

Mon, 21 Dec, 2015

Westmeath v Dublin - Bord na Mona O'Byrne Cup Group D Round 1

It's all just a question of sports (reporting)

As this is the time of year, when everybody feels justified in settling back to cast a lazy eye back over the last 12 months, I thought I’d do the same, and give readers a chance to walk in my Chelsea boots by offering them a selection from the questions I faced in the last year.

Mon, 14 Dec, 2015

Why sorry remains the hardest word

IN THE depths of a mid- career slump, the great baseball player Babe Ruth was taken to task in public. Jimmy Walker, a New York politician, pointed some cutting remarks at Ruth when both attended a social function in Manhattan.

Mon, 07 Dec, 2015