Declan Lynch (born 1961) is an Irish columnist who works for the Sunday Independent , a newspaper in Ireland.
Declan Lynch was born in Athlone, Ireland, He attended Coosan NS and Marist College, Athlone. [1] He graduated from Marist College secondary school in 1978. Lynch dropped out of law school after one year and began writing for the music magazine Hot Press . He did this for a number of years before leaving to work for the Sunday Independent. Lynch writes a weekly opinion column that is published in the Sunday newspaper.
Lynch also has a number of other works to his credit. He helped John Giles with his autobiography. [2] In recent years he helped a postman called Tony O'Reilly write a book called Tony10, which was published by Gill Books.
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Eamon Martin Dunphy is an Irish media personality, journalist, broadcaster, author, sports pundit and former professional footballer. He grew up playing football for several youth teams including Stella Maris. Since retiring from the sport, he has become recognisable to Irish television audiences as a football analyst during coverage of the Premier League, UEFA Champions League and international football on RTÉ.
Alan Coren was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of Punch magazine.
Michael John Giles is an Irish former association football player and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s. After retiring from management in 1985, Giles served as the senior analyst on RTÉ Sport's coverage of association football from 1986 until 2016. The FAI voted Giles as the greatest Irish player of the last 50 years at the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004.
Hugh Leonard was an Irish dramatist, television writer, and essayist. In a career that spanned 50 years, Leonard wrote nearly 30 full-length plays, 10 one-act plays, three volumes of essay, two autobiographies, three novels, numerous screenplays and teleplays, and a regular newspaper column.
Martyn Turner is an English-born Irish political cartoonist, caricaturist and writer, working for the Irish Times since 1971. His cartoons appear four times a week in the newspaper, parodying current events.
Hot Press is a monthly music and politics magazine based in Dublin, Ireland, founded in June 1977. The magazine has been edited since its inception by Niall Stokes.
Matt Cooper is an Irish journalist, author and broadcaster who presents news review show The Last Word on Today FM.
Declan Buckley is an Irish television personality and drag queen from Dublin, Ireland, going by the persona Shirley Temple Bar. This name is a play on both Shirley Temple and a cultural area of Dublin city called Temple Bar. He also writes a weekly column in national newspaper, The Star on Sunday. He has a business degree from DCU. He featured on several documentaries for Irish and British television, an Irish language programme by broadcaster TG4 was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award in 2003.
Charlie Connelly is an author of popular non-fiction books. In addition to being a writer, Connelly also appears as a presenter on radio and television shows.
Tom Humphries is a former sports journalist and columnist who wrote for The Irish Times while volunteering at a North Dublin Gaelic games club. His career as a leading sportswriter was ended after his history of child sexual abuse emerged in 2011. In 2017, he pleaded guilty to a number of child sex offences and received a 2+1⁄2 year imprisonment sentence. Maeve Sheehan, writing in the Sunday Independent, noted as his prison sentence concluded in 2019: "As one of the off sex offenders who was famous before he went to prison, his crimes ensure his name will stay on the public radar for years to come".
John Connolly is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker.
John Boyne is an Irish novelist. He is the author of fourteen novels for adults, six novels for younger readers, two novellas and one collection of short stories. His novels are published in over 50 languages. His 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was adapted into a 2008 film of the same name.
Marist College is a secondary school for boys in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland.
Seán Dunne (1956–1995) was a poet born in Waterford, Ireland.
Anne Teresa Enright is an Irish writer. The first Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015–2018) and winner of the Man Booker Prize (2007), she has published seven novels, many short stories, and a non-fiction work called Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, about the birth of her two children. Her essays on literary themes have appeared in the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books, and she writes for the books pages of The Irish Times and The Guardian. Her fiction explores themes such as family, love, identity and motherhood.
Norman Giller is an English author, a sports historian and television scriptwriter, who in October 2015 had his 100th book published. His 101st book, July 30, 1966 Football's Longest Day, was published in 2016 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of England's World Cup final victory at Wembley. With 121 books to his name, Norman Giller is a prolific author who began as a Fleet Street journalist. He was chief football reporter with the Daily Express in London, and has been a freelance writer since leaving Fleet Street in 1974. He spent 14 years as a member of the This Is Your Life scriptwriting team, and devised several television series including Who's the Greatest?, The Games of 48 and Over the Moon, Brian, with Brian Moore and Brian Clough, Petrolheads ; he co-produced 63 editions of Stand and Deliver, and was scriptwriter and co-producer with Top Gear director Brian Klein of more than 50 sports-based videos/DVDs, featuring celebrities such as Alan Hansen, Ray Winstone, John Motson, Dickie Bird, Frank Bruno, Frankie Dettori, Lawrence Dallaglio, Harry Carpenter, and Jimmy Greaves.
Jason O'Toole is an Irish author, filmmaker, and playwright. He is a former print and magazine editor, journalist and Sunday newspaper columnist.
The Queen Anne Press is a small publisher.
Autobiography is a book by the British singer-songwriter Morrissey, published in October 2013.
"Step It Out Mary" is a traditional Irish ballad. In 1999, The Companion to Irish Traditional Music credited Sean McCarthy with penning the song.
