Dion Fanning

5 days 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.

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Dion Fanning

At nine o’clock last Monday morning, Colm O’Gorman received a text telling him that Bishop Brendan Comiskey had died. O’Gorman’s life was entwined with the former Bishop of Ferns in many ways, even though the pair had never met. “I’ve actually never met the man. Never had any direct contact with him at all,” O’Gorman tells me. Yet, there was a lot more to it than that. Anyone who knows O’Gorman’s life will understand.

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Dion Fanning

Are you not entertained? If you have spent the last few months hoping that Liverpool would step on a rake or fall into a manhole just to make the Premier League more interesting then this success might leave you cold. Liverpool are champions without waking up screaming in the night. Where were the squeaky bums? Could one manager not just say I would love it if we beat them, love it? Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.

2 weeks ago | thecurrency.news | Dion Fanning

While Muhammad Ali was in Dublin for his fight with Al ‘Blue’ Lewis — “They’re coming to see me and part of you,” Ali had told Lewis  — he struck a deal with the founder of Quinnsworth, Pat Quinn. For £500 — which Ali donated to St Raphael’s School for mentally handicapped children in Kildare — Quinn got his photo taken with Ali.

2 weeks ago | thecurrency.news | Dion Fanning

Ask a Jesuit a question, Fr Ricardo Da Silva says, and you’ll be met with another question. Fr Da Silva is an associate editor with America – The Jesuit Review — and also hosts a podcast called ‘Preach’ while producing another ‘Inside the Vatican’. He is a Jesuit priest and when discussing many of the aspects of Pope Francis’s papacy, he stresses the importance of his Jesuit background.