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There was a time when it wasn’t unusual for a journalist to walk into a dressing room moments after the final whistle, the joy of victory or sting of defeat hanging in the air. A time when journalists could ring up a player days before the big match … and get an answer. This was the world that existed when Vincent Hogan entered the press box.
In The Lost Sportswriter, Vincent Hogan recounts and reflects upon a 43-year career at the heart of Irish sport. From the never-ending presence of newspaper deadlines to the golden era of open dressing rooms, Hogan charts and laments how sportswriting transformed – from intimate, personality driven storytelling to today’s sterile, PR- managed exchanges. Funny, engaging and unflinchingly self-reflective, The Lost Sportswriter notes a changing game for heroes, matches and the words that outlast them.
Author biography -
Vincent Hogan is an acclaimed sports biographer and an award-winning sports journalist who recently retired after a long career with the Irish Independent. Books he has ghostwritten include Paul McGrath’s Back from the Brink (British Sports Autobiography of the Year, William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year and Boyle Sports Irish Sports Book of the Year 2006), Joe Canning’s My Story, Eddie O’Sullivan’s Never Die Wondering and the memoirs of the GAA’s Nicky English, Davy Fitzgerald, Henry Shefflin and Colm ‘the Gooch’ Cooper.
