Nobody has moved us like Colm Cooper

Colm Cooper’s audacity, fearlessness, and selflessness all combined to make his a genius that could be appreciated on many levels, according to Dara Ó Cinnéide

Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform — and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled.

— David Foster Wallace, Federer as Religious Experience