When you’re 5 years old and you’ve just been bought your first pair of football boots by your equally eager, if not more eager, parents and you’re brought down to your local clubs grassroots set up , everybody’s dream is the same. Everyone thinks they’re a forward, that the role of the main man wasContinue reading “Where Do We Belong”
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Friday Night Fright for Fortunate Ireland
Match Reporting assessment as part of my sports journalism course. An Aviva international test match for the ages this was not, but for Andy Farrells’s Ireland it was job done against a stubborn Argentina and the November series back on track after last weeks defeat to New Zealand. An opening half blitz saw Ireland build a healthy 22-9 halftime lead through tries from JackContinue reading “Friday Night Fright for Fortunate Ireland”
Rebel Representation
The following opinion piece was an assessment in a sports journalism course to be completed by 08/12/2024. Everyone wants to feel represented, to see someone from their homeland strive and succeed amongst the world’s elite, to bask in the secondhand pride of one of your owns success. Ireland of course is a small island found in the heart of the world and on itsContinue reading “Rebel Representation”
Football : Foreign&Familiar 