‘For people my age in Mayo, this is all it’s been, losing every which way’

Mayo don’t always come back from the big show empty-handed.

‘For people my age in Mayo, this is all it’s been, losing every which way’

Two years ago, Colin Barrett collected plenty of silverware for his first collection of short stories, Young Skins, including the Guardian First Book Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

Judging by his Twitter activity alone, the Mayo native takes a keen interest in sport:

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