How much longer will sledging be tolerated in sport?

It is not true that your correspondent organises his entire life around the assembly of material for his column.

Mon, 21 Mar, 2016 - 00:00

Michael Moynihan is an associate editor and columnist with the Irish Examiner. He is also a best-selling author and documentary maker.

I reject utterly the cruel suggestion that had I been standing on the deck of an ocean liner in 1912 in the North Atlantic, as an iceberg loomed out of the darkness, I would have said: “There’s definitely 600 words in this, you know.”

Similarly, there is nothing to prove the allegation that if I had overheard P. H. Pearse giving his spiff, as they say in Blackpool, a hundred years ago my response would have been: “If I write about this will it stay fresh ‘til Monday?”