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All-Ireland performance of poem A Man’s Game

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:29:46 +0000

Paul Mescal recently won the All-Ireland Scór Recitation title with a performance of my poem A Man’s Game. Click here to hear Paul’s performance in the final at the INEC, Killarney.

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And here to see Paul’s All-Ireland final performance at the INEC, Killarney: http://bit.ly/aMjeXC

The Championship Man song

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:40:26 +0000

Track Listing

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:47:51 +0000

1. Introducing Championship Man [Listen Here]
2. The hanky on the head
3. Championship Man – still there, still hoping, still July
4. The Tash
5. The Third-Man Tackle
6. The top-of-the-Toe kick-out
7. The Seven-a-Side
8. The Pitch Invasion
9. Championship Man says summer is finally here – thank God
10. The man with the radio to his ear
11. Home from America [Listen Here]
12. Getting out early to beat the traffic
13. The Public Address Man
14. Championship Man on the Message Boards
15. The great man to get a goal
16. Bandwagon Man
17. Championship Man comes out
18. Championship Man’s broken heart

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Contact Championship Man, himself

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:20:51 +0000

Email Himself

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Listen to Audio

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:57:59 +0000

Your anytime-of-the-year present problems solved

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Listen to Championship Man

Click on the Play Buttons below to hear the man himself–or right click here and here to download.

Better yet,

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Kindly sponsored by Cooper Helmets, the perfect fit.
With strong, coming-off-the-shoulder support too from Mercedes-Benz

Introducing Championship Man

Home From America

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Meet Championship Man

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:02:26 +0000

Your anytime-of-the-year present problems solved

Who is Championship Man?

“He’s you, he’s me, he’s your brother, he’s your father,
he’s your sister, he’s your mother, he’s your second cousin once removed.”

Championship Man* lives:

A couple of miles outside the town
With his wife and four children
A bit in off the road
In the shadow of a medium-sized hill
In the house he built himself in the ’70s
Beside the home place
On the land he farms part-time
Two miles from the school where he serves as caretaker, part-time too
A simple existence where his children want for nothing, but get nothing over and above either
With a permanent dream of seeing his own crowd win the All-Ireland

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Championship Man is:

A true Gael
The owner of a 1992 Toyota Carina he keeps in immaculate condition
Thinking about Sunday
Thinking about spreading their backs out wide
An ordinary, decent pilgrim
Excitable
A small bit star-struck, but not too shy all the same to put talk on a county player if he happened to meet him leaning on the wire at a club match
A collector of match programmes, many of them autographed by the referees
Getting the car washed and the oil checked Saturday
Commentating to himself right now as he drives home the short-cut from the school where he works as the part-time caretaker
Prone to believing too much of what he sees in tournament matches
Going early Sunday to get in ahead of the crowd
Delighted that he finally got to fill in the Wallchart last Sunday, though he felt sorry for New York

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Championship Man is not:

Going to give up on the dream
Likely to sleep from now until Sunday, and maybe not for a few days after that either
One for the after-match banquets in Dublin
Sure where he’ll park the car on Sunday, but thinks he won’t go in too close

Championship Man was:

A virgin when he got married, and for a good while afterwards too
Not much of a player himself, but stood in goal when the club were stuck
Cranky as a cut cat the evening they lose in the championship
Easily convinced they will come back aain
The first man out on the field to hug the manager

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Championship Man will be:

At all the league games again next year, regardless of how this year goes
At the Kilmacud Sevens
Watching for omens at the Kilmacud Sevens
Inconsolable until Christmas whether they lose a 4-19 to 4-18 thriller, or a drab 0-1 to 0-0 affair
Home early enough Sunday night because cows don’t milk themselves
Praying the new SkyPlus yoke gets the whole match

Championship Man believes:

Kilkenny are not as good as people say
The economy was bunched before the last election and Bertie knew it
In buying a raffle ticket to support the county board
He’ll die happy if they could just win it once

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About Liam Horan

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:53:18 +0000

Liam Horan is a freelance journalist and broadcaster. He is a former Gaelic Games correspondent of the Irish Independent (1995-2000), and has twice been honoured in the GAA’s McNamee Media Awards scheme.

He lives in Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, and is honest enough to admit he shares many of Championship Man’s traits. As do many belonging to him.

Niall Scully recently wrote: “Liam Horan’s humorous essays have certanly hit the spot. They are now compulsive listening on Des Cahill’s Drivetime sports show every Thursday evening….they reflect scenes that you’d see, Sunday after Sunday, in venues throughout the country. And there’s a chuckle in every line….Read MORE of Evening Herald Review [PDF]

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