Person: Jimmy Breslin

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columnists

The next sports column promises to be better

“The column is where the stars of the 20th-century sports page usually conducted their business, and even with longform now in flower, there are still those scribes who feel the column’s magnetic pull.

WhatsApp, Ivan, and the need to hack

sport

Jimmy Breslin: Columns so good nobody had thought of anything like them

news

Kerry-born captor of Son of Sam dies, aged 99

Resisting urge for intergalactic gag

You don’t need Jimmy Breslin to know fun is only beginning

A final pairing nobody could have predicted

A long time ago Jimmy Breslin wrote a baseball book entitled Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? Don’t get offended, people of Clare. I refer to those of us in the pontification game, and in particular those of us who were in Limerick last April for the relegation play-off.

Mon, 19 Aug, 2013

Baseball novice recalls 50 years in the big leagues

Pete Flynn is firmly ensconced in retirement now so I decided to reconnect with him on Monday.

Wed, 11 Apr, 2012

Magnificent Seven and the Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight under fire

IS Eamon Dunphy grateful to Gay Mitchell? He should be. He should be SO grateful. There Dunphy was yesterday, in the Newstalk studios, having been turned down by a bunch of presidential hopefuls he had invited onto the programme.

Mon, 03 Oct, 2011

You hear about the fella who searched for 32 beers – one from every World Cup country?

AN Irishman, an Englishman and a master brewer from a Dutch-owned beer company walk into a bar. And as Con Houlihan used to say: now read on.

Fri, 11 Jun, 2010

Don’t mention the dog

‘THERE is always the shock in seeing him again. Women draw an audible breath. Men look down. They are reminded again of their lack of worth.’

Fri, 16 Nov, 2007

Looking past the obvious for the limelight

JIMMY BRESLIN had a problem in November 1963. A young reporter, he was in the middle of the biggest news story of his life — of anyone’s life — but he couldn’t get a handle on it.

Fri, 02 Mar, 2007

Police probe sniper link to petrol station shooting

Police were today trying to determine whether a man shot dead while pumping petrol in Virginia was the latest victim of the sniper who has terrorised the Washington area for a week.

Thu, 10 Oct, 2002