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Continue reading →: Touch Euros 2016, Postscript 1Quoting Legolas (referring to one of the incidents mentioned below) ‘For me the grief is still too near’ (in my case, to talk about losing in the Final of the Euros.) I’ll write something tomorrow. In the meantime, to cheer myself up, I made my Top 12 List of Sporting & Other Emotional Traumas. These…
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Continue reading →: Day 4 Touch Euros, 2016
We lost the final to England 6-5 in a drop off… (Basically, when it’s a draw at the end of full time, each team goes down to 5 players, after another two minutes, each team drops to four players and then to 3 players each and the first to score…
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Continue reading →: Day 3, Touch Euros Jersey 2016
First game up vs France this morning. We had to win this game to have any chance of making the final. Remember how we lost to them 8-7 on Day 1… Remember too if any extra motivation was needed how we lost to France in the football Euros a couple of…
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Continue reading →: Day 2, Touch Euros Jersey 2016
England 8 Ireland 8 ‘2 minute warning…’ says the announcer. What runs through your mind as you stand on the pitch before the start of an international game? I’d decided that my only pre-game thought for today to get me in a proper mindset would ‘This is a final. I…
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Continue reading →: Day 1 Touch Euros 2016, Jersey
Game 1 vs the hosts Jersey. Won 9-4. Game 2 vs France. Lost 8-7. Game 3 vs Wales. Won 9-7. I scored 2 tries. Those are the facts of how the day went.
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Continue reading →: Touch Euros 2016, Jersey – Intro
The night before another Touch Euros, Jersey 2016 and the build up to this goes back to the end of Euros 2014 in Swansea and waiting for another go at this. The physical preparation for me goes back to Manchester in the mud in February when I was such pain I…
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Continue reading →: God on a Bicycle – NovelDebut novel now available from Amazon, Kobo, Apple IBooks and Lulu. Opening passage from GOD ON A BICYCLE… In the darkness, the man picked his way along the riverbank. He stopped, turned his head sideways and listened. Then he heard again a low, breathy whinnying ahead of him. The moonlight glinted…
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Continue reading →: Touch Euros 2014 – PostscriptA few days after the tournament… It’s strange to come back down from the emotional height. I didn’t want to come down. I don’t want to come down. The first thing I did when I got back home to my house in Dublin was open the fridge and it was…
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Continue reading →: Day 4 Touch Euros 2014
Just a very short post because we’re heading out to celebrate… I’ll write properly tomorrow. Ireland Senior Mixed Open – European Bronze Medalists!
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Continue reading →: Touch Euros 2014 – Day 3
vs France 11.30am Drew 8-8 I’m writing this straight after the game still in sweaty shorts and jersey. It’s weird. We threw this game away. We basically let in 8 versions of the same try… how poor is that. There were other flaws in our game too obviously,
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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