Apparently yes.
[QUOTE=âthe mixer walsh, post: 972291, member: 245â]I donât get this rush to award Cusack with a Pulitzer prize after every article than he has written. Granted he is an experienced Gaa player and has gravitas when it comes to comment on Gaa matters but from reading this latest piece youâd swear he was best mates with this Suarez character. How a fella from Cork can claim to know whatâs happening in the mind of a Uruguayan footballer during the biggest competition on the world stage is a fairy story made up to impress those who appear to be easily impressed.
Iâve read most of his articles now and enjoyed most of them if for no other reason that they are thought provoking and generate debate.[/QUOTE]
But sure you could say the same about any columnist writing on sport. Or almost any subject for that matter. Theyâre only expressing an opinion.
Almost all these columns by former sports people are ghost written. Presume cusackâs is too itâs very well written even if you donât agree with it in fairness.
Kimmage interviews Froome in tomorrowâs Sindo. Itâd better be decentâŚ!
[QUOTE=âTabby, post: 972309, member: 2142â]But sure you could say the same about any columnist writing on sport. Or almost any subject for that matter. Theyâre only expressing an opinion.
Almost all these columns by former sports people are ghost written. Presume cusackâs is too itâs very well written even if you donât agree with it in fairness.[/QUOTE]
Why do you presume itâs ghost written? Thatâs a ridiculous presumption.
Fucking hell. Thatâll be something. Iâll actually buy the rag for the first time in my life for that.
Almost all former sports stars columns are ghost written. The rarity are ones that arenât. Think Colm OâRourke writes his own but canât think of too many more.
Listening to Cusack speak he is clearly very articulate and intelligent. I would see no reason why he wouldnât write the article himself. As opposed to, say, Lar.
Anyway, I just read his piece on Suarez and think itâs very good. He doesnât presume to know him better than anyone else, he just looks at the situation with a bit more depth and compassion than most have. Heâs spot on.
[QUOTE=âglasagusban, post: 972320, member: 1533â]Listening to Cusack speak he is clearly very articulate and intelligent. I would see no reason why he wouldnât write the article himself. As opposed to, say, Lar.
Anyway, I just read his piece on Suarez and think itâs very good. He doesnât presume to know him better than anyone else, he just looks at the situation with a bit more depth and compassion than most have. Heâs spot on.[/QUOTE]
I only meant I presume as nearly all are. In fairness Cusack does seem like one of the few who could. Who ghost wrote his auto biography was it Tom Humphries or Kieran Shannon or someone like that? Theyâd often get the job with the column then.
Very odd that a settlement of just âŹ1,250 is published. Itâs pittance in the context of tax defaulting.
[QUOTE=âthe mixer walsh, post: 972291, member: 245â]I donât get this rush to award Cusack with a Pulitzer prize after every article than he has written. Granted he is an experienced Gaa player and has gravitas when it comes to comment on Gaa matters but from reading this latest piece youâd swear he was best mates with this Suarez character. How a fella from Cork can claim to know whatâs happening in the mind of a Uruguayan footballer during the biggest competition on the world stage is a fairy story made up to impress those who appear to be easily impressed.
Iâve read most of his articles now and enjoyed most of them if for no other reason that they are thought provoking and generate debate.[/QUOTE]
So they are good?
I am not nominating him for any awards. He broaches subjects others donât and he is a wonderful yang to the gutter press ying.
Whatâs amusing is you are too stupid to see what he is saying and you undermine him because you think he has to know Suarez personally to have any kind of insight. Itâs extremely narrow minded of you.
Maybe his view is beyond your comprehension.
Jesus whoever ghost writes Daragh O Seâs should hand back their degree.
[QUOTE=âglasagusban, post: 972320, member: 1533â]Listening to Cusack speak he is clearly very articulate and intelligent. I would see no reason why he wouldnât write the article himself. As opposed to, say, Lar.
Anyway, I just read his piece on Suarez and think itâs very good. He doesnât presume to know him better than anyone else, he just looks at the situation with a bit more depth and compassion than most have. Heâs spot on.[/QUOTE]
Itâs not that hard to project what Cusack will have gone thru to Suarez. Plus Cusack would have met a lot of stars and he has been to a lot of disadvantaged areas. Heâd have a fair grasp if whatâs going on, as well as a great grasp of mental health.
Ewan MacKenna
Friend of the forum, Ewan MacKenna.
[QUOTE=âcaoimhaoin, post: 972256, member: 273â]http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/columnists/donal-og-cusack/donal-og-cusack-suarez-is-just-another-crazy-mixed-up-kid-not-a-bad-person-273535.html
Outstanding again from Donal Og[/QUOTE]
Iâm robbing this from someone else on here but if you liked Donal Ogâs article have a read of this one;
Itâs very long but well worth it
what stars would he have met?
[QUOTE=âthe mixer walsh, post: 972291, member: 245â]I donât get this rush to award Cusack with a Pulitzer prize after every article than he has written. Granted he is an experienced Gaa player and has gravitas when it comes to comment on Gaa matters but from reading this latest piece youâd swear he was best mates with this Suarez character. How a fella from Cork can claim to know whatâs happening in the mind of a Uruguayan footballer during the biggest competition on the world stage is a fairy story made up to impress those who appear to be easily impressed.
Iâve read most of his articles now and enjoyed most of them if for no other reason that they are thought provoking and generate debate.[/QUOTE]
+1 , the tax cheat is a woeful journalist
[QUOTE=âFran, post: 972338, member: 110â]Iâm robbing this from someone else on here but if you liked Donal Ogâs article have a read of this one;
Itâs very long but well worth it[/QUOTE]
Read it. Good article alright
Should have known.
Would you reckon Cusack would know more people than you, Kev?