
Sean McGoldrick
Sports Journalist at Sunday World
Now a Hurler on the Ditch. Author of 'The Dublin Marathon Celebrating 40 Years' and 'Punching Above their Weight: The Irish Olympic Boxing Story.'
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Sep 2, 2024 |
independent.ie | Sean McGoldrick
Seán McGoldrick: Thanks for all the special memories – it’s time to pen my farewells!After 45 years of covering everything from Papal visits to All-Ireland finals, I’m finally calling it a day. Here's to the next generation ... Sean McGoldrick reporting at the Grand Palais. Photo: Stephen McCarthy/SportsfileI took my first faltering steps in journalism in December 1978 when I joined The Sligo Champion as a trainee reporter. I was the proverbial rookie.
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Sep 2, 2024 |
sundayworld.com | Sean McGoldrick
Between January and May he had Covid, the flu, a back injury and most worryingly of all, a persistent chest infection which kept sidelined him for two weeks at the end of April“Being away for two weeks is kinda unheard of in rowing,” he says. “You might take two weeks off at the end of the season. To be honest I did worry [about the Olympics]. It was probably irrational but when you are in the middle of it the road back seems long.”The chest infection meant he missed the European Championships.
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Sep 2, 2024 |
sundayworld.com | Sean McGoldrick
I was the proverbial rookie. On my first day in the cramped newsroom in Wine Street, a colleague painstakingly showed me how to put paper into the typewriter. Thankfully, the late Séamus Finn, editor of the paper, was willing to take a gamble on a 19-year-old greenhorn with no formal training. Within a year, I had the opportunity to report on two of the biggest news stories in the history of the paper.
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Aug 31, 2024 |
independent.ie | Sean McGoldrick
Eight years after he was an onlooker, Olympic hero Fintan McCarthy is now a main attraction — the circle is complete2 August 2024; Fintan McCarthy of Team Ireland celebrates winning the men's lightweight double sculls finals A at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France.
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Aug 27, 2024 |
independent.ie | Sean McGoldrick
The 42-member Asian Boxing Confederation is holding an extraordinary congress at which delegates will vote on joining World Boxing, the new organisation which will shortly seek recognition from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the de facto world international federation for amateur boxing.
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