Columns - Irish Examiner

Michael Moynihan

Skins chief executive: GAA the 'last bastion of the absolute true spirit of sport'

Achat with the chief executive of a sportswear company didn’t seem that enticing ahead of time, which goes to show the danger of presumption.

Wed, 21 Oct, 2015

Glen Rovers’ success bridges nations and generations

A couple of weeks ago I spoke to Fr Pat Barry ahead of the Cork senior hurling final. He wasn’t ecumenical about the game and he didn’t try to be, as befitted a former Glen Rovers county-winning captain, but the conversation roved away from sport when he leaned on a career largely spent in Africa.

Mon, 19 Oct, 2015

Politicians should be wary of football fever

If you thought there was a chance of Enda Kenny calling a snap election in the euphoria that followed Shane Long’s goal last Thursday evening, you weren’t alone.

Mon, 12 Oct, 2015

Management sagas always play out on side of players

Oh, the heart sank with the news coming out of the west, or the northwest, last week.

Mon, 05 Oct, 2015

Chasing sport’s impossible dream

The race is on to become the first marathon runner to break the two-hour mark

Wed, 30 Sep, 2015

What makes a good Irish sports book?

Already they fall through letterboxes and pile up on desks; see them fill out brown paper bags and bulk out briefcases; here they are in the million hordes (thanks, David Bowie).

Mon, 28 Sep, 2015

Where did all those summer fun days go?

The Worst in Living Memory?

Wed, 23 Sep, 2015

What’s with all the prejudice against rugby?

SOME events are a gift to a columnist, others are a curse. Somebody with a large blank space to fill every week doesn’t drop to his knees in thanks when Kilkenny win another All-Ireland hurling title, but the Rugby World Cup is a gift that keeps on giving.

Mon, 21 Sep, 2015

Lessons to be learned from Kiwi ‘schooling’

The rapidly approaching Rugby World Cup is causing media outlets everywhere to break out in supplements and previews — I can only hope you made the effort to collect last Friday’s newspaper, which had the pick of those supplements accompanying it.

Mon, 14 Sep, 2015

Diarmuid Connolly call harms game’s integrity

The sanction was opposed on technical issues, with the substantive matter left to one side. 

Mon, 07 Sep, 2015