‘These two puppies walk around the house, shoulder to shoulder, like cops on the beat. Feeding time is chaos. But we don’t care. We remember the silence’

Paul Howard hails a frank and revealing book that achieves the rare feat of being worthy of the brilliant career that preceded it

This was number one on the writer’s bucket list, but a lifelong fascination culminates in a tour that leaves him ‘dark and depressed’

As all dog lovers know, our lives are so very long by comparison, making it always feel too soon to say goodbye

Athlete went in a year from being barely known outside of Cork to preparing for the 2004 Athens Olympics as the fastest non-African in the world over 10,000m. It really was too good to be true

Paddy Costello was a shot putter, an international rugby player and an inspiration to his son, to whom he conveyed tips through his deeds, notes and pipe

He was an Olympic medallist, but that was only one side of Sutherland. Fifteen years after his death, his family continues to remember him as the ‘amazing man’ he was outside the ring

It’s such an eclectic mix of material – from an ode to Smithfield, to the sporting Tallafornian

Book review: ‘She is hands down the funniest writer in the business,’ says Paul Howard

I’ve been drawing up a list of all the things I plan to eat after my operation has been completed

‘In this pandemic, music seems to have been shuffled right down to the bottom of the pile’

I have changed Ireland in one small way – causing the demise of the name Ross

My lockdown project has been to catalogue my experiences of excruciating embarrassment

Paul Howard remembers meeting the man on the other side of Ireland’s greatest moment

The club’s glory years in my childhood have proved frustratingly elusive ever since