When Ireland win, Dunphy and Giles grumble ineffectually, pointing out the shortcomings of the manager’s tactics – which are either ‘negative’ or ‘positive’ to Dunphy and Giles, who disdain all that ‘false nine’ shite. But when the national side lose, they come into their own – Dunphy pursing his lips, preening like a tit, and gleefully pushing a big red button marked ‘your own nihilism’.
Dead Air and Circuses: Punditry in Ireland
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I’ve been running for years – but on and off, always for fitness, never as a way of life. I can always quit – and do – but always come back to it.
My short essay, Running the streets
