Tadhg Coakley

Five Moments In Sport

Sport is admirable and sport is deplorable. It is an innocent pastime and a pernicious addiction. It means nothing and it means everything. It can be a force for good and for evil.

Tadhg Coakley Essay Issue 40/Volume 2: Summer 2019

Tadhg Coakley is a writer from Cork. His debut novel, The First Sunday in September, was published by The Mercier Press in 2018. He has just completed a crime novel set in Cork city and is currently working on a book of essays about his lifelong intimacy with sport.