Dion Fanning

5 days ago | thecurrency.news | Dion Fanning

When Chris Moore launched his new book, he told the guests who had gathered there that it might have taken some of them a couple of hours to get there, it had taken him 45 years. It might even have been a little longer. Chris Moore’s first day at the BBC was August 27, 1979. It was a Bank Holiday Monday, and he was told to start work on the Tuesday instead. So Moore took his family for a picnic in the Mourne Mountains.

2 weeks ago | thecurrency.news | Dion Fanning

The way Senator Aubrey McCarthy tells it, when his mother met his father she thought she was “marrying Gatsby”. “My father was a bit of a character, a bit of a playboy,” McCarthy says on the weekend podcast. “He was fairly impressive. He used to fly planes, used to race cars and all of that.” McCarthy explains: “Their first date was in a place called Stonebrook Estate, a big stately home. There was a party on there and my mum was invited, my father? He flew up.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Dion Fanning

As the Dubliner looks to claim the Hungarian league with Ferencvaros this evening, we ask why his standing in the public’s affections doesn’t match his undoubted achievementsThe first time I spoke to Robbie Keane, it didn’t go as I had anticipated. I was a young journalist who had just moved to London and he was a 17-year-old Irish player making an impression at Wolverhampton Wanderers.

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Dion Fanning

One last drama awaits. More than ten years ago, Richard Arnold, who was then Manchester United’s commercial director, found an upside to the club’s downturn in fortunes. In November 2014, Arnold spoke at a conference in Dublin and asked, “Why do people watch soap operas?”. He explained why he felt they did. They want to know, he explained, “what will happen next? – the hanging music and then the next episode”. Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.

4 weeks ago | thecurrency.news | Dion Fanning

As a historian, and a historian with a particular interest in sport, Mike Cronin understands something about tribes. They are as important as fact and scholarly study in understanding the world around us, he believes. They are as important in the popular understanding of our past as the work historians do. Cronin’s most recent publication, written with Mark Duncan, Revolutionary Times – Ireland 1913-23: The Forging of a Nation is a wonderfully produced book, which tells the story of that decade.