It’s time to write a new chapter in Irish sportswriting

After all the months hearing about them, reading about them and buying them, finally, over the last few days, we’re guessing you got round to actually reading some sports books.

You should have been duly entertained. This past year was a particularly good as well as a big one for Irish sports books. One overriding trend and concern though was the predominance of autobiographies.

While there were some terrific books of this variety in 2014, the fact such an inoffensive one as Brian O’Driscoll’s walked away with the Sports Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards underlined how flawed that scheme is and how urgent and important it is that the old William Hill scheme is revived or replaced.