# EXTRACT

Extract: 'Gently paced and physically undemanding, the voyage was the essence of slow travel'

Explorer, artist and ecologist Gwen Wilkinson shares an extract from her book The Waters and the Wild.

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May 2023

Extract: Colman Noctor's 4-7 Zone - 'it turns out moderation is key'

The psychotherapist shares an extract from his new book, which encourages the reader to sit with their stress, understand it and re-wire their responses.

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May 17th 2023, 7:00 PM

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2023

Nutritionist: 'I'm calling BS on toxic diet culture'

Niamh Orbinski’s new book, No Apologies looks at the power of diet culture to negatively affect how we see ourselves.

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Apr 27th 2023, 7:00 PM

Extract: 'Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover shows we badly need a new future for social media'

In an extract from her new book, Social Capital, author Aoife Barry looks at the early days of Twitter and what it has morphed into since Musk took over.

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Apr 21st 2023, 6:30 PM

Last year

2022

'March 2nd, 2014 was one of the most important days of my life'

Read an extract from ‘Ian McKinley: Second Sight: Rugby and Redemption.’

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Dec 28th 2022, 5:00 PM

'Charlton’s team sure set a mighty bandwagon in motion'

Paul Doyle recalls the circumstances surrounding Ireland’s famous 1994 World Cup clash with Italy.

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Dec 27th 2022, 5:00 PM

# Anecdotes

'So, what’s your best Phil Mickelson story?'

Read an extract from ‘Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf’s Most Colorful Superstar.’

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Dec 24th 2022, 5:00 PM

# Irish writing

The Irish Read: David Hayden writes about boyhood and home

This week we have an extract from Hayden’s essay from ‘well I just kind of liked it’, a collection of writing on art and the home.

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Dec 18th 2022, 7:30 PM

'Football was a diversion. I was a doctor'

A look at how Tostão and other members of the Brazil 1970 World Cup-winning team dealt with their success.

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Nov 24th 2022, 6:15 AM

Extract: A pot of boiling water can lead to a glorious, simple and cheap meal

Tamar Adler shares an excerpt from the new hardback edition of her book, An Everlasting Meal.

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Nov 12th 2022, 8:00 PM

The Irish Read: 'Summers were for plants and foolishness, autumns for oblivion'

Read an extract from Andrew Meehan’s latest novel, Instant Fires, published by New Island.

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Sep 18th 2022, 7:00 PM

Extract: What it was like to negotiate the Good Friday Agreement

The head of the Irish delegation at the Anglo-Irish Secretariat in Belfast, David Donoghue, writes about the experience.

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Sep 15th 2022, 7:00 PM

Extract: Making sense of a united Ireland - which was long deemed impossible

Brendan O’Leary’s new book looks at how a united Ireland might happen and how it might work best.

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Sep 13th 2022, 7:00 AM

Extract: I was in the prison when the call came through: 'We have a situation'

Former prison officer David McDonald has written a book about his career – in this extract, he writes about the beginning of a riot.

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Jul 16th 2022, 7:30 AM

# Irish writing

The Irish Read: An extract from Aingeala Flannery's debut - inspired by life in Tramore

Read an extract from Aingela Flannery’s new book, The Amusements.

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Jun 26th 2022, 9:30 AM

'I heard 5 explosions' - When an English footballing legend came to Sligo

Remembering Dixie Dean’s stint at the Showgrounds.

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Jun 2nd 2022, 7:00 PM

# homegrown writing

The Irish Read: Cristín Leach shares the story of getting her first tattoo post-divorce

Read an extract from the art critic’s first book, a memoir.

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May 29th 2022, 10:00 AM

Extract: Clothing doesn't just tell us about ourselves - it tells us about the beauty and cruelty of the world

Writer and artist Sofi Thanhauser has written a people’s history of clothing, and in this extract she writes about what clothing can teach us about the world and history.

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Jan 29th 2022, 7:00 AM

Extract: 'I knew that it was too dangerous to bicycle down O’Connell Street, for fear of being shot'

An extract from the memoir of Republican Máire Comerford, about an incident during the Civil War.

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Jan 25th 2022, 7:00 PM

# Faith

'Each morning, I pause here beside Michaela and pray'

Read an extract from Mickey Harte’s book ‘Devotion’.

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Jan 3rd 2022, 3:03 PM

# Recovery

'All the energy that I had devoted to racing, I now had to redirect into getting better'

Read an extract from ‘Champion’ by Pat Smullen.

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Jan 3rd 2022, 7:30 AM

# Advice

'Losing weight is a lot like baking a cake'

Read an extract from ‘The Keane Edge’ by Brian Keane.

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Jan 2nd 2022, 9:00 PM

'Christy Ring unleashed a devastating display of hurling to score 3 goals in a 4-minute spell'

Read an extract from Semple Stadium: Field of Legends by Liam Ó Donnchú.

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Jan 2nd 2022, 7:30 AM

# rebirth

'When everything else goes to s**t you’ve still got your team... Until it gets taken away'

Read an extract from Michael Calvin’s ‘Whose Game is it Anyway?’

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Jan 1st 2022, 7:30 AM

All time

# Influence

'Rashford had helped raise around £20million for FareShare, shattering his initial target of £100,000'

Read an extract from ‘The Dream Factory’.

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Dec 31st 2021, 3:00 PM

'We wouldn’t wear the club colours and if the ‘parkie’ came along we’d disappear'

Terry Palmer remembers his time at Shamrock Rovers.

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Dec 30th 2021, 7:30 AM

# moments in time

'48 metres out, just off-centre of the posts, the pressure of four nations on his shoulders'

Read an extract from ‘Legacy of the Lions’.

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Dec 29th 2021, 7:30 AM

# Best Laid Plans

'Eriksson accepted the position of United manager, and had even signed a contract'

Read an extract from ‘Sir Alex: Simply the Best’.

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Dec 28th 2021, 9:00 PM

# Grief

'I wasn’t told about his death until immediately after the game'

Read an extract from Willie Anderson’s ‘Crossing the Line’.

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Dec 28th 2021, 6:03 PM

# Diagnosis

'He wondered if rugby was responsible, blamed himself for letting me play'

Read an extract from ‘Too Many Reasons to Live.’

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Dec 27th 2021, 9:00 PM

# Star

''Once the term ‘Dublin footballer’ was mentioned, people looked at and treated me differently''

Read an extract from Shane Carthy’s ‘Dark Blue’.

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Dec 27th 2021, 7:30 AM

# Upset

The story of the Irish duo that helped pull off a famous college basketball victory

How Michael Bree and Conor Grace contributed to Davidson College’s shock win over North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

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Dec 26th 2021, 9:00 PM

# pain

'I would go and spar sometimes with the worst headaches but I was too proud'

Read an extract from ‘Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing.’

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Dec 26th 2021, 7:30 AM

# perspective

'I stopped worrying about rugby after Axel died'

Read an extract from Keith Earls’ book ‘Fight or Flight’.

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Dec 25th 2021, 9:00 PM

# Tips

GAA stars reveal tips that helped them make it to the top

Read an extract from ‘The Players’ Advice’.

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Dec 25th 2021, 7:15 AM

# Shock

'I saw 89 missed calls...You’ll be named today as failing a drugs test'

Read an extract from Unbroken’ by Aidan O’Mahony.

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Dec 24th 2021, 9:30 PM

'I was never afraid to go abroad, thinking it was going to damage my Ireland chances'

Read about Cilian Sheridan’s globetrotting career in our extract from Emerald Exiles: How the Irish Made Their Mark on World Football by Barry Landy.

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Nov 21st 2021, 7:15 AM

# Prodigy

'The scribes wrote about the arrival of the complete footballer, a boy capable of excellence in all positions'

Read an extract from ‘Tales From The Debenhams Picket Line’.

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Nov 14th 2021, 7:30 AM

Extract: 'Thanks to climate change, Ireland's coastlines won't be in the same place'

What does the future look like for Ireland’s coasts? Two of the authors of the An Post Irish Book Awards-nominated Coastal Atlas of Ireland explain.

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Nov 13th 2021, 7:00 AM