A force of chaos

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

ShareOddly menacing. That’s the best way to describe what I saw this evening at the Smithfield Luas stop. At around 7.30pm this evening three of the Joker’s hench-people came cycling, very casually, towards me. It was a trio of what looked like Spanish students all with face-paint, but of an age a little too old [...]

Find the upside

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

ShareI could very easily have been in a rather bad mood today. RTE confirmed to me that the slot I recorded for the Mooney programme won’t be airing at all, despite them dragging me into their offices wasting an afternoon. Instead I’m feeling pretty good and it’s entirely down to reading this article by Sports [...]

Post race interview

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

ShareIreland’s favourite freelance sports journalist Cóilín Duffy caught up with me to see how I’m holding up as I recover from the walk. In addition to giving the low-down on how I’m holding up we look at what happened the first time we tried to do this interview and preview the remaining events in this [...]

The finish video

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

ShareIt’s finally here, video footage from the finish in Goleen mixed in with some stills from the walk.

Come back on Wednesday to see the video of the post-walk interview I did with Cóilín Duffy.

Trying to avoid falling apart

Monday, September 7th, 2009

ShareThis post takes a wee while to get going but work with me here. While I was on the road my opportunities to go the cinema were limited, indeed the only film I caught during the walk was The Hangover. So last Friday I finally went to see Inglourios Basterds. During a particularly violent scene [...]

Raidio Na Life interview

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

ShareThe first post-walk interview was on Raidio Na Life on Sunday evening. It’s in Irish by the way!
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