Dion Fanning
Co-Host at Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning
Journalist - @freestateirl podcast
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2 weeks ago |
thecurrency.news | Dion Fanning
When Mick O’Dwyer made his championship debut for Kerry in 1957, some said he drove to the game in a Buick. Others who were part of the South Kerry contingent heading to the game in Dungarvan insisted it was a Baby Ford. “Micko was a man for the Babys,” Ned Fitzgerald would tell the authors of Princes of Pigskin, Joe Ó Muircheartaigh and TJ Flynn. There was something fitting in these recollections of O’Dwyer’s Kerry debut centring around cars.
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3 weeks ago |
thecurrency.news | Dion Fanning
On 29 July 2013, Austin Stack’s quest for justice for his murdered father took him on an extraordinary journey. Together with his brother, Oliver, he headed for the Regency Hotel in North Dublin. At the end of this day, he hoped to have answers to the questions about who murdered his father. “1983 was not a nice time in Ireland,” Austin Stack says. Don Tidey was kidnapped, there was an attempt to kidnap the businessman Galen Weston and Shergar was also taken.
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1 month ago |
irishexaminer.com | Dion Fanning
A second can shape a story. When Evan Ferguson shot early and from distance in the 55th minute on Sunday night, the Lansdowne Road crowd appeared to come to an immediate and collective understanding of his thinking. He lacked confidence in himself, we concluded, so he had shot speculatively to keep the defender — and the doubt which is even more persistent — at bay.
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1 month ago |
irishexaminer.com | Dion Fanning
In the late spring of 1986, the new Ireland manager Jack Charlton went to watch the League of Ireland champions Shamrock Rovers at Glenmalure Park. Rovers were on their way to winning a third championship in a row under Jim McLaughlin. They had a team of accomplished League of Ireland players but there was one many hoped would catch the eye of the new Ireland manager. Charlton was as impressed by the performance of Liam O’Brien in the Rovers midfield as those spectators had hoped.
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1 month ago |
thecurrency.news | Dion Fanning
The collaboration between former Irish international Gordon D’Arcy and Paul Howard, creator of Ross O’Carroll Kelly among many other things, has always been an interesting one. D’Arcy was capped more than 80 times by Ireland and was part of two British and Irish Lions tours, but he has been a central figure in the Ross ecosystem too.
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