Beginner’s pluck: Journal.ie columnist Carl Kinsella

This collection of funny, thought provoking essays investigate the way millennials relate to the world

Carl Kinsella says he has a totally unrealistic wish to have been a professional footballer: 'Nothing would compare with the exhilaration footballers must feel.' Picture: Ciara Quinlan

As a child, Carl assumed he could be whatever he wanted.     

“I was egotistical,” he says. “But I wanted to be a writer more than anything. I loved the written word.”