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.

Dublin's financial advantage has echoes in US baseball

Imagine a national sports body at odds with its constituent parts about money.

Mon, 25 Apr, 2016

Learning from the death of Joao Carvalho

The terrible death of Joao Carvalho last week after an MMA event in Dublin dominated many sports conversations in recent days. 

Mon, 18 Apr, 2016

Sports coverage goes from the sublime to the superfluous

Eventually you’re moved to action.

Mon, 11 Apr, 2016

OBITUARY: Davy Walsh, former Irish soccer international

Davy Walsh was the first Catholic to play for Linfield, in the 1940s, before moving to West Brom, writes Michael Moynihan

Fri, 08 Apr, 2016

A frozen heartbeat from half a century away

One of your columnist’s (many) obsessions is the pre-game team photograph.

Mon, 04 Apr, 2016

Dick Hodgins: 'Between April and July, he’d be on the phone all night'

Dick Hodgins, former athlete and Cork City Sports administrator

Fri, 01 Apr, 2016

Four horsemen of New Camp

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, if they have been named, have never been described. — Susan Sontag.

Mon, 28 Mar, 2016

How much longer will sledging be tolerated in sport?

It is not true that your correspondent organises his entire life around the assembly of material for his column.

Mon, 21 Mar, 2016

Fox-Tossing and Octopus Wrestling - Sports too cruel and crazy to be true

Last week I threatened you with Ed Brooke-Hitchings and if I have my faults, no-one has ever accused me of welshing on my threats.

Mon, 14 Mar, 2016

OBITUARY: Danny Bowe, first aid man with Mount Sion GAA club

’He checked himself out of hospital to attend those funerals. That’s the kind of person he was’ - Michael Moynihan looks at the life of Danny Bowe, first aid man with Mount Sion GAA club in Waterford

Fri, 11 Mar, 2016