Paul Rouse: There was nobody in this world like Manchán Magan 

Manchán himself has pointed out that he had no real interest in sport, but the way that TG4 presented Gaelic games from the late 1990s offered an entirely new dimension to Irish life.

Manchán Magan at Lough Lene, Westmeath. Pic James Crombie, Inpho

It was a morning in springtime, back in 2010 or 2011, and the world was tumbling into the abyss, untethered by the greed and fraud of men who presented themselves as all-knowing titans of finance and commerce.

The avalanche of high-end sewage that had drowned good reason and critical thinking for more than a decade – nationally and internationally – was upturning many lives.