March, 2019. Piece about a very moving fund-raising match between Kilkenny and Cork for Kieran O’Connor a former Cork Gaelic footballer, who is seriously ill. Published in the Irish Examiner. Piece online here.
I was delighted to read at Waterstones, Cork, for World Book Day with Thomas McCarthy and Danielle McLaughlin. My next planned reading is at the West Cork Literary Festival in Bantry in July 2019, I will give more details when they are available.
It’s been a great few weeks for UCC and for sport in the college. It’s wonderful to see photos of young people with smiles on their faces and silverware in their hands. As someone who was once lucky enough to have my hands on such silverware (The Fitzgibbon Cup, many moons ago), it’s bringing back a lot of memories. I know I’m not the only one thinking back, and I know I’m not the only one remembering old team mates and friends. I know too that I’m not the only one remembering one special person in particular these days – that special person being Paul O’Connor, whom we lost in 2012.
