O’Donoghue’s Living Golf and the dream

I was aware of the programme, like everyone who travels abroad. It’s a magazine show really and like anyone I’d think ‘how did your man get that job’?

WHEN Tiger Woods trudged off the course at Augusta last year, having made a disappointing comeback to the game that put his name in lights, one of the first faces he saw framed under the peak of his swoosh-emblazoned cap was an Irishman.

Shane O’Donoghue has been here many times before through the years with RTÉ and then the BBC. He offered the mic to the most notorious man this side of Tripoli or Charlie Sheen... and threw him a soft ball.