Paul Rouse: More important than medals, Teddy McCarthy had a truly unique spirit in how he played

The greatest sports people are often defined by how they make you feel. They have to have something that is unique unto themselves.

TAKING FLIGHT: Cork's Teddy McCarthy wins possession from Kerry's Ambrose O'Donovan in the 1987 Munster SFC replay. Examiner Photo

Nobody wrote quite like Natalia Ginzburg. She was born in Sicily in 1916 and, as well as being a great writer, she was a political activist who ended up being elected to the Italian parliament in the 1980s.

Daunt Books put out a new collection of her work a few years ago. It is a beautiful book called The Little Virtues. The stories run from Second World War through to Ginzburg’s time in the 1960s in London.