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Not so quiet on the Western Front

This story begins with a map which used to hang in our hallway when I was a small […]

October 1, 2013 France, History

Book Review: The Final Whistle

Sports writing – and rugby in particular – has been guilty over the years of overborrowing phrases or […]

September 24, 2013 Belgium, Book reviews, Books, Culture, Dublin, France, History, Olympics, Rugby union, Sport

The Short (and Curly) Tale of the Submariner Pig

Everyone is aware of the phrase “and pigs can fly” or its many variants to denote a general […]

September 12, 2013 History

“So, er, do you like poetry?”

My children refuse to believe that there was a time before mobile phones and the internet. “Was it […]

September 3, 2013 Books, Culture, Dublin, Ireland, Trinity College

Mickelson inspires O’Hurley to Swing Away

There is a pause on the end of the telephone line as John O’Hurley, breakfasting at home in […]

August 8, 2013 Culture, Film, Golf, Greece, Sport, USA

Crazy Horse – and Uwe too

Let’s just get it out there at the start: Neil Young is a pain in the arse. I […]

July 30, 2013 Culture, France, Music, USA

Kampmann shooting high with Swing Away

Steven Kampmann is a busy man. On the one hand, casting for the movie Swing Away, which is […]

June 30, 2013 Culture, Film, Golf, Greece, Sport, USA

George’s Greek Golf Dream

Golfers are a peculiar breed. They live and breathe the game, curse it, hail it, read every book […]

June 20, 2013 Culture, Film, Golf, Greece, Sport

Mottled Greens and Hoopoes in Glyfada

In 2008 I wrote a series of articles for the magazine Athens Insider about the sporting life in Greece. […]

June 17, 2013 Golf, Greece, Sport

My Big Fat Greek Golf Movie

There is a moment in the movie Big Fat Greek Wedding when Gus Portokalos, the father, explains how […]

June 14, 2013 Culture, Film, Golf, Greece, Sport

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