27 - 30 June 2024

Paul Kimmage

‘The joys of the ghost’: writing your own—and someone else’s— sporting biography

Venue: Kells Theatre - Creative Ireland Stage

Paul Kimmage is one of Ireland’s best known and most passionate sports journalists.

He is best known for his award-winning sporting autobiography Rough Ride, published in 1990, which laid bare the issue of drug-taking in the professional cycling peloton and won the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. In 2011 Paul’s collaboration with the tetraplegic English rugby player, Matt Hampson, Engage, won Paul a second William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. He will talk about ‘The joys of ghost writing’.

In conversation with Myles Dungan
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