Colm recently reviewed ‘The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1. 1969 – 1973’, written by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair, for the literary section of The Irish Examiner. We’re glad to be able to re-publish the piece here. Ian MacDonald’s ‘Revolution in the Head’, published in 1994, and ‘Shout’, Philip Norman’s 1981 biography of The Beatles, are... Continue Reading →

The Blackpool Sentinel was delighted to be asked to contribute to The Irish Independent’s recent attempt to name the fifty best Irish albums of all time. Ambitious projects about music and records are food-and-drink to those of us in the anorak classes, even if lists of this kind inevitably raise more questions than they answer.... Continue Reading →

The report of the McNamee Commission, a body that looked at how the GAA conducted its affairs and outlined a possible future for the association, was published in December, 1971. At the GAA’s annual Congress eight years later, Director General Seán Ó Síocháin, told delegates that ‘the McNamee Commission had crystallised much of the new... Continue Reading →

Many of the summers I put down as a child were spent in the small village of Union Hall, then a bendy ninety minute drive from my home in the city and into the belly of the beast in West Cork. It’s a tradition that’s proudly preserved in my family to this day and we’re... Continue Reading →