WHEN Henry Shefflin went to Galway, I thought of Martha Wainright’s great line in her song Factory, ‘These are not my people, I should never have come here.’ Brian Cody’s iron handshake that drew the blood from Henry’s hand and face suddenly became his legacy. Cody did not say a word to Henry that day, […]
DURING the coronavirus pandemic, Monday nights meant one thing – ‘The Last Dance.’ Like the vast majority of people I know, especially sports enthusiasts, I was hooked by this incredible docu-series that focused on the American basketball team, the Chicago Bulls. As a young teenager growing up and playing for the St Pat’s Armagh school […]
A good work ethic, and eagerness to improve are more important than stats according to Fionnuala Carr.
