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Continue reading →: World Cup 2019 Malaysia – Day 1Nottingham 2018 – End of blog 15. AND NOW Where next? Will I lead? Be led. Want to be involved. Will I be part of the solution? End up drinking bottles of whiskey alone?
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Continue reading →: Euros 2018 Nottingham – Final Postscript: Newton, Ibsen, Scorpions, Cultural Self-Stereotypes, Jerks & Good Fellas15 things I heard, read or reflected on in the days following the Euros. 1. Billy Jean is not my lover… This I heard former World Number 1 tennis player Billy Jean King say on a Desert Island Discs podcast and I like it. ‘Three of my principles in life…
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Continue reading →: Euros 2018 Nottingham – Day 3/4 ‘The familiar ebb and low and unfamiliar rise’
So, a week late. An account of the last two days of the tournament. There are reasons. Always reasons.
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Continue reading →: Euros 2018 Nottingham – Day 2 ‘Herding Cows’
Three seemingly unconnected things happened around the 1870s. Food refrigeration techniques for food were vastly improved. Transatlantic boat crossings became faster and safer with the advent of steamships. And, crucially, barbed wire was invented in the USA.
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Continue reading →: Euros 2018 Nottingham = Day 1
‘Adversity is the first path to truth… Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.’ Lord Byron, writer, native of Nottingham. Out of the chaos of the playing gear fiasco,
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Continue reading →: Euros 2018 Nottingham – If you shave a tiger, does it still have stripes?
Remember Andy Townsend? Chelsea and Aston Villa midfielder who played for, and captained, Ireland under the grandparent rule. He is actually to blame.
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Continue reading →: ‘Tom Hanks, Avengers, Philosophers & Gladiators’ – Senior Touch Championships, 2017: PostscriptScorned and covered with scars, we strove with our last ounce of courage, to reach the unreachable star… to right the unrightable wrong… to fight the unbeatable foe… to run where the brave dare not go… to ride into hell for a heavenly cause… And lose. Again. We did.
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Continue reading →: Day 2 – Senior Touch Championships, Edinburgh 2017I’ve read a lot of sports psychology over the last year so I know this is basic stuff and I just have to accept I got it badly wrong. I should know better. I built things up too much in my head, put too much pressure on myself, and got…
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Continue reading →: Day 1 – Senior Touch Championships, Edinburgh
Game 1 vs England First match up was against England on the pitch I made my Ireland debut on in 2011… against England. This was the advice I got from a friend by text before that game. ‘Everything is going to happen at such speed you won’t realise what’s happening to…
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Continue reading →: Senior Touch Championships Edinburgh, 2017
https://www.facebook.com/seniortouchchamps/ This time last year we had just lost in a drop off (extra time – each team down to 4 players) in the European Championship final to England…
Hello,
I’m Ian
I am a writer and educator.
I’m the author of the The Irish Culture Books series, activity books aimed at language students studying English in Ireland, a novel ‘God on a Bicycle’. and a short story ‘Speech! Speech!’ (read story here) which was published in the short story collection, ‘A Pint and a Haircut‘.
I have worked as a teacher, as a content creator, Academic Director of educational organisations, an examiner, teacher trainer. From Ireland, I have also lived in Spain, Italy and Switzerland.
I’ve also worked in no particular order as a furniture mover, security guard, barman, in a garage, in fast food restaurants and as a life-model.
I have represented both Ireland and Switzerland in Touch Rugby at World Cups and European Championships.
I have masters in English literature and English linguistics.
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