Decent Journalism

Apparently yes.

[QUOTE=“the mixer walsh, post: 972291, member: 245”]I don’t 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 you’d swear he was best mates with this Suarez character. How a fella from Cork can claim to know what’s 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.
I’ve 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. They’re only expressing an opinion.
Almost all these columns by former sports people are ghost written. Presume cusack’s is too it’s very well written even if you don’t agree with it in fairness.

Kimmage interviews Froome in tomorrow’s Sindo. It’d better be decent…!

[QUOTE=“Tabby, post: 972309, member: 2142”]But sure you could say the same about any columnist writing on sport. Or almost any subject for that matter. They’re only expressing an opinion.
Almost all these columns by former sports people are ghost written. Presume cusack’s is too it’s very well written even if you don’t agree with it in fairness.[/QUOTE]
Why do you presume it’s ghost written? That’s a ridiculous presumption.

Fucking hell. That’ll be something. I’ll 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 aren’t. Think Colm O’Rourke writes his own but can’t think of too many more.

Listening to Cusack speak he is clearly very articulate and intelligent. I would see no reason why he wouldn’t write the article himself. As opposed to, say, Lar.

Anyway, I just read his piece on Suarez and think it’s very good. He doesn’t presume to know him better than anyone else, he just looks at the situation with a bit more depth and compassion than most have. He’s spot on.

[QUOTE=“glasagusban, post: 972320, member: 1533”]Listening to Cusack speak he is clearly very articulate and intelligent. I would see no reason why he wouldn’t write the article himself. As opposed to, say, Lar.

Anyway, I just read his piece on Suarez and think it’s very good. He doesn’t presume to know him better than anyone else, he just looks at the situation with a bit more depth and compassion than most have. He’s 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? They’d often get the job with the column then.

Very odd that a settlement of just €1,250 is published. It’s pittance in the context of tax defaulting.

[QUOTE=“the mixer walsh, post: 972291, member: 245”]I don’t 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 you’d swear he was best mates with this Suarez character. How a fella from Cork can claim to know what’s 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.
I’ve 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 don’t and he is a wonderful yang to the gutter press ying.
What’s 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. It’s extremely narrow minded of you.
Maybe his view is beyond your comprehension.

Jesus whoever ghost writes Daragh O Se’s should hand back their degree.

[QUOTE=“glasagusban, post: 972320, member: 1533”]Listening to Cusack speak he is clearly very articulate and intelligent. I would see no reason why he wouldn’t write the article himself. As opposed to, say, Lar.

Anyway, I just read his piece on Suarez and think it’s very good. He doesn’t presume to know him better than anyone else, he just looks at the situation with a bit more depth and compassion than most have. He’s spot on.[/QUOTE]
It’s 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. He’d have a fair grasp if what’s going on, as well as a great grasp of mental health.

Ewan MacKenna

Friend of the forum, Ewan MacKenna.

[QUOTE=“caoimhaoin, post: 972256, member: 273”]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]

I’m robbing this from someone else on here but if you liked Donal Og’s article have a read of this one;

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/10984370/portrait-serial-winner-luis-suarez-soccer-most-beautiful-player

It’s very long but well worth it

what stars would he have met?

[QUOTE=“the mixer walsh, post: 972291, member: 245”]I don’t 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 you’d swear he was best mates with this Suarez character. How a fella from Cork can claim to know what’s 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.
I’ve 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=“Fran, post: 972338, member: 110”]I’m robbing this from someone else on here but if you liked Donal Og’s article have a read of this one;

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/10984370/portrait-serial-winner-luis-suarez-soccer-most-beautiful-player

It’s 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?